Source: Reuters * Israel aims for technological edge * Deal expected to involve 20 planes in initial batch JERUSALEM, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak approved in principle on Sunday the ... |
Source: Reuters * Military leads rescue efforts * More heavy rain forecast for next 24 to 36 hours (Refiles to remove extraneous word in paragraph three) By Faisal Aziz ROHRI, Pakistan, Aug 8 (Reuters) - ... |
Source: Reuters * Pollution levels in Moscow soar to five times normal * Planes diverted, office workers sent home * Acrid smoke blankets Red Square (Updates with Medvedev remarks, quotes, details) By Amie ... |
A judge sharply questioned the government Thursday about whether an alleged attack by six Somali nationals on a U.S. Navy ship was an act of piracy. |
Source: Reuters * Israel drops demand Turks promise not to test blockade * Navy braces for Lebanese ships, though still docked * Military auditor urges Israel reconsider water tactics (Adds details, ships ... |
USS George Washington, the U.S. Navy's only permanently, forward-deployed aircraft carrier, will visit the Korean port of Busan July 21-25, 2010, officials at U.S. Forces Korea announced today. |
Source: Reuters By Ho Binh Minh HANOI, July 18 (Reuters) - The Vietnamese navy searched for six fishermen near the Paracels archipelago, and thousands of people were evacuated in the north of the country on Sunday ... |
The global airline industry is making a robust economic recovery and will need $3.6 trillion in new aircraft over the next 20 years, Boeing Co. said Thursday in its annual long-range forecast. |
JERUSALEM -- An internal Israeli review of a navy raid on a Turkish aid ship headed to the Gaza Strip faults planners for not having alternative procedures in place and concludes that the agencies involved should have shared intelligence more efficiently before the operation, according to excerpts... Israel - Middle East - Gaza - Subsystems - Storage |
Federal aviation officials have known for years that cockpit window heaters in some Boeing planes catch fire. But they haven't required airlines to fix the problem, even after dozens of incidents that unnerved pilots and, in some cases, forced emergency landings. |
Washington (CNN) – Can the man that President Obama has tapped to formulate a long-term Gulf Coast restoration plan only work part-time on such a monumental effort? Some environmental groups say no way, and are suggesting that Ray Mabus should give up his current post of Navy secretary to focus on the Gulf full-time. The [...] |
Source: Reuters SEOUL, June 17 (Reuters) - A senior U.S. envoy held talks in Seoul on Thursday to coordinate a U.N. response to the sinking of a South Korean navy ship that investigators said was torpedoed by a North ... |
Federal regulators are considering a snack attack on the nation's airlines that would restrict or even completely ban serving peanuts on commercial flights. |
MOSCOW -- A Latvian man was sentenced to seven years in prison Friday for leading the hijacking of a Russian cargo ship that mysteriously disappeared for a month last summer . Prison - United States - Government - Navy - Piracy |
Mexican officials on Thursday rejected claims that the nation's navy had seized a cache of powerful explosives in a boarding house in the nation's capital. |
JERUSALEM -- The Israeli navy fatally shot at least four Palestinian divers on Monday off the coast of the Gaza Strip who military officials allege were en route to attack Israel. Middle East - Warfare and Conflict - Israel-Palestine - Hamas - Israel Defense Forces |
JERUSALEM -- Israeli naval commandos boarded an Irish humanitarian aid ship bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip without incident Saturday and diverted it to an Israeli port, after a similar attempt earlier in the week to intercept a ship from Turkey ended in a deadly melee at sea. Israeli Navy - Gaza - Middle East - Israel - Rachel Corrie |
For the second time this week, Israeli naval commandos seized aid headed for Gaza, but Saturday's action had a peaceful ending. |
Source: Reuters * Israeli navy shadowing Rachel Corrie in Mediterranean * Foreign minister says no ship will be allowed into Gaza * Ireland says activists prepared to accept inspection * Report says nine dead ... |
Source: Reuters JERUSALEM, June 6 (Reuters) - The Israeli navy intercepted and was shadowing an Irish-owned aid ship bound for Gaza on Saturday, but a spokeswoman for the activists aboard said an earlier report that ... |
Three Turkish Airlines planes carrying 466 activists and nine bodies landed Thursday morning in Istanbul, marking the end of the activists' involvement in a humanitarian mission to aid Gaza that went tragically awry, an official said. |
South Korea's ruling party won the key Seoul mayoral poll but suffered upsets in several other local elections held amid tensions over North Korea's alleged torpedoing of a navy ship, officials said Thursday. |
Israel says five planes have taken off for Turkey and Greece, carrying 503 activists from the Gaza flotilla and bodies of nine people killed in the Israeli raid. |
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would stay in Canada and not return home in the wake of a deadly navy raid which killed up to 19 people, a senior official with the delegation said on Monday. |
The new F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter is tardy, billions over budget and the roar of its jet engine could eclipse the older planes it's due to replace. |
MEMORANDUM FROM ROBERT F. BAUER, WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL SUBJECT: Review of Discussions Relating to Congressman Sestak Recent press reports have reflected questions and speculation about discussions between White House staff and Congressman Joe Sestak in relation to his plans to run for the United States Senate. Our office has reviewed those discussions and claims made about them, focusing in particular on the suggestion that government positions may have been improperly offered to the Congressman to dissuade him from pursuing a Senate candidacy. We have concluded that allegations of improper conduct rest on factual errors and lack a basis in the law. Secretary of the Navy. It has been suggested that the Administration may have offered Congressman Sestak the position of Secretary of the Navy in the hope... |
Source: Reuters (For full North Korea coverage, click [ID:nNORKOR] * Wen to face neighbour's disquiet over Pyongyang * China seen not blocking Security Council censure * South navy ... |
Source: Reuters * South navy drills on anti-submarine warfare * China seen rethinking ties with North * Korean won seen ending losing streak (Adds North Korea army statement) By Jack Kim SEOUL, May 27 ( ... |
Israel's navy will stop a flotilla heading for Gaza with 10,000 tons of supplies and pro-Palestinian activists intent on breaking a three-year blockade of Gaza, officials said Wednesday, in the first definitive Israeli pledge to stop the boats. |
Source: Reuters TOKYO, May 24 (Reuters) - Japan's prime minister has instructed his cabinet to consider what form of possible sanctions could be taken against North Korea after its sinking of a South Korean navy ... |
