DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Netanyahu To Mubarak: Israel And Egypt Must Stand United Against Terrorism....NSI News Source Info # 1387

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Netanyahu To Mubarak: Israel And Egypt Must Stand United Against Terrorism....NSI News Source Info # 1387

**PM reacts to church bombing in Alexandria which killed 21 people; Netanyahu to meet with Egyptian president next week to discuss deadlock in peace process.

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources By Barak Ravid and News Agencies - haaretz.com

(NSI News Source Info) Tel-Aviv, Israel - January 1, 2011: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday following the deadly church bombing in Alexandria, saying that they must stand as a united front against the war on terror.

"All nations which support freedom stand as a united front against the war on terror," Netanyahu told Mubarak regarding Saturday's bombing which killed 21 people and wounded at least 97.

A car bomb exploded outside a church in the early hours of Saturday, targeting worshippers who gathered to mark the New Year in Egypt's northern city of Alexandria. Reports have relayed Egypt's suspicion that "foreign hands" were behind the attack.

Earlier Saturday, Mubarak, in a televised address, vowed to put a stop to terrorism, saying that the terrorists would fail in any plans to destabilize Egypt or divide Muslims and Christians.

	PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo on July 18, 2010
	Photo by: Moshe Milner

Moreover, Netanyahu is due to arrive in Cairo on Thursday to meet with Mubarak and discuss the deadlock in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.

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DTN News - 2011 NEWS: It Is The First Day Of The New Year, Hope And Pray For Prosperous Global Economy Year....NSI News Source Info # 1386

DTN News - 2011 NEWS: It Is The First Day Of The New Year, Hope And Pray For Prosperous Global Economy Year....NSI News Source Info # 1386

Source: DTN News - - K. V. Seth

(NSI News Source Info) SINGAPORE - January 1, 2011: It is the first day of the New Year! This day of celebration dates back over 4,000 years to ancient Babylon, though on their calender it was celebrated in correlation with the first day of spring.The Roman Senate changed the date for New Year's Day in 153 BC to January 1 for military reasons. Today, New Year's Day signifies a year of new beginnings and resolutions.

There are various traditions and festivals that take place on New Year's Day around the world. In California, people decorate carriages with flowers during the Tournament of Roses Parade in order to celebrate the ripening of their orange crops.

In the Netherlands, people eat donuts because they believe it will bring them good fortune. Another popular tradition found around the world is the making of New Year's resolutions. What's your New Year's resolution this year?

Happy New Year!

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DTN News - GREETINGS: Happy New Year 2011 - Let There Be Peace On Earth, In Perfect Harmony....NSI News Source Info # 1385

DTN News - GREETINGS: Happy New Year 2011 - Let There Be Peace On Earth, In Perfect Harmony....NSI News Source Info # 1385

Source: DTN News - - K. V. Seth

(NSI News Source Info) SINGAPORE - December 30, 2010: We thank you for your patronage on DTN News, please continue to do so. In the interim, we wish you Season's Greetings and God Bless you All!

Some of the world will be able to greet the first part of the new year with a solar eclipse. On the morning of Tuesday, January 4, 2011, an eclipse of the Sun will be widely visible across Europe and as far east as India. The eclipse won’t be visible in North and South America, however. Jay Pasachoff of Williams College in the US is the Chair of the International Astronomical Union’s Working Group on Eclipses, and says that even at a maximum, this eclipse will be only partial, with some of the Sun always visible. Because the Sun is too bright to look at safely, Pasachoff stresses that special solar filters or projection methods should always be used to protect the eyes.

Pasachoff will be in Tel Aviv to view the eclipse, and since partial eclipses are usually not very scientifically useful, he is looking forward to just enjoying the eclipse instead of scrambling to set up various scientific equipment.

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DTN News - SPECIAL ARTICLE: Kashmir’s Forever War By Basharat Peer - Granta 112: Pakistan....NSI News Source Info # 1384

DTN News - SPECIAL ARTICLE: Kashmir’s Forever War By Basharat Peer - Granta 112: Pakistan....NSI News Source Info # 1384

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith, Recommended & courtesy of Raj Seth, By Basharat Peer - Granta 112 Pakistan

(NSI News Source Info) SINGAPORE - December 29, 2010: On an early December morning in 2009, I was on a flight home to Kashmir. It doesn’t matter how many times I come back, the frequency of arrival never diminishes the joy of homecoming – even when home is the beautiful, troubled, war-torn city of Srinagar. Frozen crusts of snow on mountain peaks brought the first intimation of the valley. Silhouettes of village houses and barren walnut trees appeared amid a sea of fog. On the chilly tarmac, my breath formed rings of smoke.

The sense of siege outside the airport was familiar. Olive-green military trucks with machine guns on their turrets, barbed wire circling the bunkers and check posts. Solemn-faced soldiers in overcoats patrolled with assault rifles at the ready, subdued by the bitter chill of Kashmiri winter. The streets were quiet, the naked rain-washed brick houses lining them seemed shrunken. Men and women walked quietly on the pavements, their pale faces reddened by the cold draughts.

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DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Russia Agrees To Buy Two Mistral-Class Helicopter Carriers....NSI News Source Info # 1383

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Russia Agrees To Buy Two Mistral-Class Helicopter Carriers....NSI News Source Info # 1383

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith

(NSI News Source Info) SINGAPORE - December 27, 2010: President Dmitry Medvedev informed French President Nicolas Sarkozyby telephone Friday that Russia has decided to go ahead with a purchase of two French Mistral-class helicopter carriers, its biggest foreign arms purchase since the end of the Cold War.

The French reaction to the announcement was jubilant, with a banner on the Elysee's web site reading “France's naval industry has won!” — but the deal, worth up to $1.3 billion, has been greeted with apprehension by some smaller ex-Soviet states.

Lithuanian Defense Minister Rasa Jukneviciene on Monday criticized the decision to sell “extremely complex offensive weaponry to a third party, a country where the level of democracy is not one we can feel safe about,” she said, Reuters reported. “It's a big mistake.”

The Mistral-type amphibious assault ships can carry up to 16 helicopters, of which six can be on deck at any one time, and 450 troops for up to six months. For shorter periods that number rises to 700. The vessels also carry landing barges and hovercraft, allowing vehicles, tanks and soldiers to be quickly transferred ashore.

These capabilities will enhance Russia's control of its coastal regions and its striking power in conflicts like the war the Kremlin fought with Georgia in 2008.

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DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: First Chinese Stealth Fighter Ready For Takeoff?....NSI News Source Info # 1382

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: First Chinese Stealth Fighter Ready For Takeoff?....NSI News Source Info # 1382

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources By Mark Thompson - Swampland

(NSI News Source Info) SINGAPORE - December 27, 2010: Aviation buffs are buzzing over blurry photographs now surfacing on Chinese military websites purporting to show Beijing's first stealth fighter jet, the Chengdu J-20 fighter. Chinese aviation fans says they have been snapping pics of the jet during recent taxi tests, with a first flight likely still weeks away. It's the best holiday gift Western air power advocates could wish for -- or further evidence of the self-licking ice cream cone nature of defense spending. Most likely, both.

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DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Lockheed F-35 Program Faces $1 Billion Cut In U.S. Senate Spending Measure....NSI News Source Info # 1381

DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Lockheed F-35 Program Faces $1 Billion Cut In U.S. Senate Spending Measure....NSI News Source Info # 1381

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources By Tony Capaccio - Dec 16, 2010 Bloomberg

(NSI News Source Info) SINGAPORE - December 27, 2010: Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program faces a $1 billion budget cut under a bill to finance government operations that’s advancing toward a Senate vote.

The move would strip out the JSF money, eliminating seven aircraft, from a U.S. Defense Department request for $7.86 billion and 42 planes, according to the spending measure, which didn’t give a rationale for the new totals.

Savings from the JSF program, the Pentagon’s biggest arms project, would be the most among $8.4 billion in weapons- spending reductions in the 1,924-page Senate bill released Dec. 14. Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed is the largest U.S. defense contractor by sales.

The measure’s $667.7 billion defense section also provides $450 million to keep developingGeneral Electric Co.’s F-35 backup engine. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said the engine from primary supplier United Technologies Corp. is sufficient, and has vowed to advise President Barack Obama to veto any bill that funds the GE model.

Senators are proposing to drop five of the Air Force F-35s from the Pentagon’s request and two of the short-takeoff and vertical-landing models being built for the Marine Corps. The military expects the first F-35s to be ready for combat in 2016.

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