Top China state-run think-tank warned over ideology: media
Beijing (AFP) June 16, 2014 -
A Communist official has issued a "high-profile warning" about ideological problems at China's top think-tank, domestic media said Monday, as the party leadership exerts its authority over state-run institutions.
Experts at the state-affiliated Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) are spreading false ideas online and allowing foreign "infiltration" in its work, warned Zhang Yingwei, a s ...
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Top China state-run think-tank warned over ideology: media
Beijing (AFP) June 16, 2014 -
A Communist official has issued a "high-profile warning" about ideological problems at China's top think-tank, domestic media said Monday, as the party leadership exerts its authority over state-run institutions.
Experts at the state-affiliated Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) are spreading false ideas online and allowing foreign "infiltration" in its work, warned Zhang Yingwei, a s ...
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Companies join forces for new weapon system variant
Paris (UPI) Jun 16, 2013 -
Development and production agreements have been entered into by Raytheon and Thales of France for a new variant of the TOW weapon system.
TOW, or tube-launched, optically-tracked, wireless-guided weapon system, is a long-range, precision anti-armor, anti-fortification and anti-amphibious landing weapon system used throughout the world and expected to be in service with the U.S. military ...
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Capabilities of unmanned ground vehicles on display
Oshkosh, Wis. (UPI) Jun 16, 2013 -
Unmanned ground vehicles by Oshkosh Defense are being put through their paces in Paris this week at Eurosatory 2014 in Paris.
The vehicles, which are navigating a course that simulates military route clearance, as equipped with Terremax, the company' s modular, multi-sensor appliqué kit that can be integrated into new vehicles or retrofitted onto earlier ones.
Vehicles equipped ...
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Break over, Obama returns to Iraq nightmare
Washington (AFP) June 16, 2014 -
Barack Obama returned to Washington on Monday after a brief family break in California to find himself confronted once again by the nightmare from which America thought it had escaped: Iraq.
Obama ran for the White House as a young leader who opposed the 2003 US invasion, and then won re-election as the steady hand who had finally withdrawn American troops eight years later.
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Saudi, Qatar blame 'sectarian' policies for Iraq unrest
Riyadh (AFP) June 16, 2014 -
Saudi Arabia and Qatar have blamed "sectarian" policies by Iraq's Shiite-led government against the Sunni Arab minority for the unrest that has swept the country.
Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia, whose relations with the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have been strained, also warned against foreign intervention in Iraq.
In March, Maliki accused both Saudi Arabia and Qatar of su ...
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US, Iran may use nuclear talks to discuss Iraq
Vienna (AFP) June 16, 2014 -
Washington said Monday it might use a critical fifth round of nuclear talks between Iran and world powers to discuss with Tehran possible cooperation on tackling the crisis raging in Iraq.
The United States and Iran, which have been bitter foes for more than 30 years, are both deeply concerned by a major insurgency by Sunni militants who have overrun swathes of Iraq over the past week.
A ...
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