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Taipei - Taiwan confirmed on Wednesday that the United States has decided to sell 60 Harpoon Air Launch anti-ship missiles to Taipei, in a move ending a de facto freeze on US arms sales to the island.
Defence Ministry Spokeswoman Chih Yu-lan told the Central News Agency (CNA) that Taipei made the request to buy the missiles, worth 90 million US dollars, in 2007, and delivery was scheduled for 2009.
"This arms sale is not among the eight items we requested this year. So why its delivery has been moved forward, we have yet to find out," CNA quoted her as saying.
The US...
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An investigation is underway into the mass flight delays caused by an electronic communication failure at a Federal Aviation Administration facility. The faults which shut down the FAA’s primary system for processing flight plans caused delays in flight departures and landings all over the Eastern U.S. yesterday. Delays of about 30 minutes and in some cases of two hours were reported in numerous airports from New York to Chicago. The glitch occurred at 1:25 p.m. Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport suffered the most as some planes took off two hours behind schedule. The same...
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New Delhi - Police found three more bodies Wednesday of people killed in clashes between Hindus and Christians in India's eastern state of Orissa, bringing the death toll to 11, news reports said.
A few fresh incidents of rioting and arson led authorities to impose shoot-on-sight orders in parts of the curfew-bound Khandamal district, where the death of a Hindu leader has sparked violence since Monday, the PTI and IANS news agencies reported.
Activists of the right-wing Vishwa Hindu Parishad and its affiliate Bajrang Dal attacked churches, torched vehicles and stopped rail and road...
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Kiev/Moscow - Elements of Russia's Black Sea fleet shifted locations on Wednesday in an possible move to avoid a confrontation with a growing NATO warship flotilla near Georgia.
Russian naval vessels operating off of Georgia's coastline had moved from a station in the vicinity of the Georgian port Poti into "Abkhazian territorial waters," said Sergei Menialo, commander of Russia's Novorossisk naval base, according to an Interfax news agency report.
The shift took a group of some six to eight Russian warships that had been patrolling near the Georgian port of Poti out of...
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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - At least 13 people died and more than 6,000 were displaced due to the effects of Hurricane Gustav on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, authorities in Haiti and the Dominican Republic said Wednesday.
Gustav made landfall on Haiti on Tuesday as a hurricane, but weakened and was downgraded to a tropical storm early Wednesday, with sustained winds of 95 kilometres per hour and higher gusts, the Miami-based US National Hurricane Centre said.
Heavy rain and squalls were still pummelling parts of Haiti, which shares the island with the Dominican...
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A supposed meteorite landed in south-eastern Peru and hundreds of locals have been ailing from...
At least six persons and another anti-Syrian MP were killed Wednesday in a Christian suburb of...
The Jerusalem government decided to respond to the repeated rocket attacks launched by Palestinian...
Thousands of Buddhist monks continued their protest marches in Myanmar against the country’s...
US diplomats and other civilian officials in Iraq received orders to remain inside the heavily...
NATO and Afghan forces launched Wednesday morning a major offensive against Taliban militants in...
China’s east coast is battered by a fierce typhoon, which killed at least two persons, destroyed...
Representatives from all 192 UN member states are due to discuss once more the stressing issue of...
The top surviving leader of the infamous Khmer Rouge regime was detained Wednesday in Cambodia and...
Madeleine McCann’s parents are the “innocent victims of a heinous crime” and the police must focus...
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