A top American defense official says she sought to reassure her Chinese counterparts that U.S. moves to strengthen its military ties in Asia are not aimed at containing China. U.S. Undersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy told reporters in Beijing, Thursday, she and Chinese military officials discussed a wide range of issues in their annual meeting. [...]
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December 8, 2011
November 21, 2011
US pepper spray police suspended
20 November 2011 Last updated at 22:27 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. An officer appeared to spray the protesters at close range A US university has suspended two campus police officers over the use of pepper spray on students at a peaceful protest on Friday in support of the Occupy [...]
November 20, 2011
US campus pepper spray outcry
20 November 2011 Last updated at 11:47 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. An officer appeared to spray the protesters at close range A US university says it is launching an investigation into the use of pepper spray by riot police trying to clear a demonstration. Video of the incident at [...]
October 31, 2011
Murray Arbeid obituary
Murray Arbeid, who has died aged 76, was a “garmento”, as they are called in New York, immersed in the garment trade from childhood and never more content than when solving a three-dimensional problem in cloth. An Arbeid evening gown – he didn’t do clothes that had to get up, go out and earn a [...]
October 31, 2011
Nuclear powers plan weapons spending spree, report finds
The world’s nuclear powers are planning to spend hundreds of billions of pounds modernising and upgrading weapons warheads and delivery systems over the next decade, according to an authoritative report published on Monday. Despite government budget pressures and international rhetoric about disarmament, evidence points to a new and dangerous “era of nuclear weapons“, the report [...]
October 29, 2011
Unions criticise IMDb in age row
28 October 2011 Last updated at 15:19 GMT IMDb is an online database of movies, television shows, actors and other showbiz personnel Two US acting unions have criticised movie website IMDb over its policy of giving actor’s ages and dates of birth. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio [...]
October 29, 2011
Dems: Bush-era Loan Deserves Same Scrutiny as Solyndra
October 27, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Dems: Bush-era Loan Deserves Same Scrutiny as Solyndra 27 Oct 2011 Congressional Democrats have asked House investigators to expand their probe of the Obama Administration’s ill-fated loan to Solyndra to cover another speculative federal lending effort — this one approved under President [sic] Bush. In a letter to Energy [...]