News Source: Japan Times
| 2 months ago
President Barack Obama has decided to abandon plans to deploy a missile defense system in Europe to counter an Iranian missile threat. The way it was carried out raises questions about U.S. commitments to its allies. The missile defense program is a...
News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| 2 months ago
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the Obama administration's decision last Thursday to scrap missile-defense deployments in Poland and the Czech Republic is that it was so long in coming. The handwriting has been on the wall since February,...
News Source: Jerusalem Post
| 2 months ago
Defense officials said the exercise would not begin for a few weeks, but that the ships were already arriving to begin preparing the infrastructure for the joint drill, the largest since Israel and the US began holding the biennial Juniper Cobra...
News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 2 months ago
A few hours before raising the curtain on its 234th season, Russia's famed Bolshoi Theatre revealed the latest addition to its team: new music director Leonid Desyatnikov. The staid old Metropolitan Opera had a surprising season opener Monday night:...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 2 months ago
Officials in Moscow could be celebrating Washington's recent decision to overhaul the U.S. missile defense plan � or they could be lamenting the fact that they have been deprived of an important foreign policy bargaining chip. On the first ever...
News Source: Kiev Post
| 2 months ago
Now, �Reset� With the Poles and Czechs Today, 21:11 Mark Brzezinski writes: President Obama�s decision to revise the Bush administration�s plan for missile defense in Europe has been greeted with anxiety and alarm in the Czech Republic and...