Albania to open its port to Kosovo

www.chinaview.cn  2009-02-24 03:41:01
     
TIRANA, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) — Albania is ready to open its northern port of Shengjin on the Adriatic Sea for the use of the landlocked Kosovo, Albania’s Prime Minister Sali Berisha said on Monday.
“Albania is ready to provide Kosovo with a port, which would meet its needs,” a press release on the government’s [...]

The Long Retreat

Βy Patrick J. Buchanan
“The situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating,” said President Obama, as he announced deployment of 17,000 more U.S. troops.
“I’m absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the Taliban, the spread of extremism in that region, solely through military means.”
“(T)here is no military solution in Afghanistan,” says Secretary of [...]

World defence developments

USAF considers a less ambitious F-22 proposal
The US Air Force’s (USAF’s) top general says the service needs more F-22 Raptor fighters but that he is not opposed to a scaled-back proposal to purchase just 60 additional aircraft beyond the 183 already ordered. USAF Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz said at a 17 February [...]

Taliban forces students out of schools into madrasas

The closure of schools and continuing attacks on students in the southern Helmand Province forced Abdul Wakil’s parents to send him to a madrasa (Islamic school) in neighbouring Pakistan.
Almost two months later, Abdul Wakil [not his real name] quit the school outside Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s Baluchistan Province, and returned home.
“In the madrasa we were [...]

US, EU, Russia: A Future “Northern Alliance”?

Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, February 2009 The North Worth Saving By Srdja Trifkovic “Defeat in detail” is a military concept that denotes the rout of an enemy by dividing and destroying segments of his forces one by one, instead of engaging his entire strength. A brilliant example was Stonewall Jackson’s 1862 Shenandoah Valley [...]

Global defence update

UAE requirement breathes new life into Raytheon’s LGR
 
The development of Raytheon’s 70 mm laser-guided rocket (LGR), originally proposed for the now-abandoned US Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS II) project, is continuing under a partnership with Emirates Advanced Investments (EAI), headquartered in Abu Dhabi. The semi-active LGR successfully completed a series of live fire [...]

Kosovo economy bleak, year after independence move

By Ivana Sekularac -FORBES-
 
 
In the dusty Kosovo town of Malishevo, Avni Kafxhalli is one of the lucky ones — he has a job.
More than 50 percent of local people are unemployed and for them and Kafxhalli, who earns 10 euros ($13) a day as a builder, little has changed since the former Serbian province declared [...]

Britain under attack from 20 foreign spy agencies

Russia and China have been identified as having the most active spy networks operating in the UK but it is understood that some European countries are also involved in espionage attacks against Britain. Details of the spy plots were revealed in a government security document obtained by The Sunday Telegraph which states that Britain is [...]

Talking Turkey

By Steven Plaut
Professor at the Graduate School of the Business Administration at the University of Haifa and a columnist for the Jewish Press.
A collection of his commentaries on the current events in Israel can be found on his “blog” at http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/www.stevenplaut.blogspot.com.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a temper tantrum at [...]

Διεθνής οικονομική κρίση και «αλλαγή υποδείγματος»

Του Χρύσανθου Λαζαρίδη, αντιπροέδρου του ΔΣ/Δ21
2α Φεβρουαρίου 2009
 
Σε προηγούμενο σημείωμά μας, επιχειρήσαμε μιαν αποτίμηση των συνεπειών της πρόσφατης διεθνούς οικονομικής κρίσης.
Θα επιμείνουμε στο ίδιο θέμα, προσπαθώντας να αναδείξουμε τη «βέλτιστη διέξοδο». Και θα ξεκινήσουμε με δύο παρατηρήσεις:
* Πρώτον, η σημερινή κρίση – σε ό,τι αφορά τα οικονομικά της αίτια και τις οικονομικές επιπτώσεις της – [...]