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Army kills $1 billion Raytheon-Lockheed arms program

The Army has canceled a joint Raytheon Co-Lockheed Martin Corp precision attack missile program 90 percent of the way through a six-year, $1 billion-plus development phase, Raytheon said Friday.

Army kills Raytheon-Lockheed arms program

The U.S. Army has canceled a joint Raytheon Co-Lockheed Martin Corp precision attack missile program 90 percent of the way through a six-year, $1 billion-plus development phase, Raytheon said Friday.

Kyrgyzstan: Business, Corruption and the Manas Airbase (Part 3)

Kyrgyzstan's mass anti-government protests last week were essentially the culmination of more than a decade of disillusionment and dissatisfaction that accumulated in the nation's political, economic and social spheres from the period of Akayev to his successor Kurmanbek Bakiyev, with virtually every Kyrgyz concerned about rising prices and falling standards of living, both issues of little concern and dimly understood in Washington.

WHO admits shortcomings in handling flu pandemic

(Reuters) - The World Health Organization conceded shortcomings on Monday in its handling of the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, including a failure to communicate uncertainties about the new virus as it swept around the globe.

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Witness: Battlefield dead haunt U.S. Marines and Afghans alike

Corporal Jacob Turbett gave out a single groan of pain before the Taliban bullet, which had pierced his heart, ended his life.

Iraq's election race tight as results delayed again

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had a modest lead over rival Shi'ites, partial results from Iraq's tight election race showed on Friday, but a secularist challenger remained far ahead among Iraqi Sunnis.

Obama donates $1.4 M Nobel Prize to charities

President Barack Obama announced Thursday he will donate $1.4 million from his Nobel peace prize to ten charities.

Pakistani Taliban militants may be down, but not out

Pakistan's unprecedented crackdown on its homegrown Taliban may have weakened the militants but the insurgency is still a threat to the unpopular U.S.-backed government.

Ahmadinejad, Gates trade barbs in Afghanistan

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Defense Secretary Robert Gates traded barbs on Wednesday during briefly overlapping visits to Afghanistan, where Washington has troops at war but Tehran has growing clout.

UK's Miliband urges push for Afghan peace deal

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taliban insurgents and said Afghanistan's neighbors must support such an agreement.

Brown says UK to maintain AAA credit rating

Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top credit rating and announced a pay freeze for senior civil servants and military officers to help tame a record deficit.

Two NATO soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan

Two NATO soldiers were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military base in Afghanistan, the alliance and local government sources said.

Top Pakistani Taliban leader may be dead: minister

Pakistan said a senior Pakistani Taliban commander with al Qaeda links may have been killed when helicopter gunships attacked a building he was in, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday.

Iran's Ahmadinejad calls Sept 11 big fabrication

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the September 11 attacks on the United States a big fabrication that was used to justify the U.S. war on terrorism, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Singapore, shippers raise security over Malacca threat

Singapore raised alert levels on Friday in the Asian financial centre and beefed up security at its airport and new casinos after a warning by its navy of possible attacks on oil tankers in a key shipping lane.

NATO chief sees no threat from Russia-France deal

Russia will not use a warship it agreed to buy from France last month against any NATO ally, the military alliance's Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday after some eastern European states expressed concern.

UK PM Brown says Iraq War was justified

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told an official inquiry into the 2003 invasion of Iraq on Friday that going to war had been the right decision and that he had provided the necessary funding for military action.

German court jails Islamists for foiled U.S. attacks

Four Islamist militants who admitted planning a monstrous bloodbath with foiled car bomb attacks on U.S. targets in Germany were convicted on Thursday of conspiracy to murder.

Afghanistan to block some Internet sites: minister

Afghanistan will block Internet sites with sexual or violent content, a minister said on Thursday, but the government denied the ban was another attempt at censorship or would include the Taliban's website.

Dutch anti-Islam leader is major winner in polls

Dutch anti-Islamist leader Geert Wilders scored major gains in local authority polls on Thursday, making him a serious challenger for power in a June national election, preliminary results showed.

U.S. military questions Karzai's steps on corruption

Afghan President Hamid Karzai must take significant steps to fight corruption, the U.S. military's top officer said on Wednesday, suggesting Washington was concerned inaction could undercut the campaign against the Taliban.

Afghanistan bans coverage of Taliban attacks

Afghanistan on Monday announced a ban on news coverage showing Taliban attacks, saying such images embolden the Islamist militants, who have launched strikes around the country as NATO forces seize their southern strongholds.

Two blasts hit Afghanistan's Kandahar, six dead

Four Afghan civilians and one foreign soldier were killed on Monday when a suicide car bomber hit a convoy of NATO-led troops near the southern city of Kandahar, officials and witnesses said.

Military allows Twitter, other social media

The Pentagon announced on Friday it has authorized the use Twitter, Facebook and other so-called Web 2.0 sites across the U.S. military, saying the benefits of social media outweighed security concerns.

MTN says Nhleko to step down as CEO by 2011

Phuthuma Nhleko, Chief Executive Officer of South African mobile phone group MTN (MTNJ.J), will step down as CEO and group president in March 2011, the group said on Monday.

U.S. floored by Crosby show stopper

Sid the Kid became the Man by scoring what will be forever remembered as Canada's golden goal in a 3-2 Olympic final overtime win over the United States on Sunday to cap one of the most compelling sporting showdowns ever seen on a sheet of ice.