July 3, several Internet publications reported a meeting of SBU board which examined compromising video materials allegedly showing Yury Kushkaruk, SBU Liuboml station head, distributing among his personnel kickbacks from illegal contraband.
The Defense Department today announced new standards for cluster bombs to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure from the unintended consequences of unexploded munitions. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates signed the policy that aims to reduce collateral effects of cluster munitions
Commander of IRGC Airforce Brigadier General Hossein Salami said on Wednesday that the IRGC missiles have been loaded on launching pads and are ready to target enemies at any time. As per the IRNA report, IRGC's Public Relations Office, the
The French defence procurement agency (DGA) has ordered 35 additional DRAC (Drone de Renseignement Au Contact) mini-UAV close-range reconnaissance systems for the French Armed Forces from EADS Defence & Security (DS).The new orders were notified on 30 June, after delivering
The General Delegation for Armaments (DGA) has on 1 July 2008, qualified Rafale standard "F3 . The first aircraft produced in standard F3 will be delivered to forces from early 2009. The aircrafts already in service will be upgraded to
The Vanguard class submarine HMS Victorious has left Plymouth today, Thursday 10 July 2008, after completing her three and a half year multi-million pound overhaul at Devonport Royal Dockyard. Victorious is heading to Scotland for sea trials that mark the
Two weeks before the suicide bombing at the Indian Embassy in Kabul that killed 41 people, Indian intelligence agencies had alerted Afghan authorities of the possibility of such an attack by the Taliban.
Ukraine's Transport and Communications Ministry initiates introduction of an international ecological standard for automobile transport Euro-3 from July 1, 2009, the ministry press-service announced
The International Conference "European Commission and Civil Society: Acquired Experience and New Opportunities in Ukraine" opened in Kyiv today is dedicated to opportunities of expansion of cooperation
According Ogadenian [Radio Freedom] who Aires the reports from southeastern Ethiopia] at least 33 Ethiopian soldiers have been killed and 36 others have been wounded in the latest battles between ONLA [Ogaden National Liberation Army] and the troops.
At least 2 people have been killed and 2 more others wounded after heavy rocked a residential area in Garowe the provincial capital of Puntland region, north-eastern Somalia Thursday morning according to eyewitnesses.
Is the pen mightier than the panga? This was the question confronting Kenya's literary establishment in the opening days of 2008, as war spread throughout Kenya's urban centers and across the fertile Rift Valley in the nation's heartland. As belligerent
PROGRESSIVE Africans and all Zimbabweans agree that there has been enough political bickering over the past eight years and it is time Zimbabweans sat down to talk over their differences.
Movement for the Return of Peace to Rivers State, yesterday said except leaders come together and work for peace, it might be difficult to achieve peace in the state.
Only a month ago, he was entrusted to bringing home the body of a colleague, slain in Sudan's volatile Darfur region. Little did he know that a few days after his return, he would suffer the same fate.
Millions of civilians were displaced during more than two decades of civil war in Sudan. Now, three years after the North and South signed a peace accord, many are returning home, including tens of thousands of Southern Sudanese who had
Adan Malin Omar, 78, who fought for Somalia's independence from Italy in the 1950s, survived the 16-year civil war and did not leave his home in the Abdiaziz district of north Mogadishu, even at the height of the violence.
The following is the text of a memorandum sent yesterday by Omer Ismail and John Prendergast of the ENOUGH Project and Jerry Fowler of the Save Darfur Coalition to UN/AU Joint Mediator for Darfur Djibril Bassolé:
