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- Exclusive: Pentagon budget eyes $178.8 bln for R&D, procurement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon's $525 billion budget plan for fiscal 2013 calls for spending of $178.8 billion to develop and buy new warships, fighter jets and other major weapons, a 7.5 percent drop from the level initially projected for the coming year, according to a detailed budget document obtained by Reuters. The total acquisition spending amount is about 12.2 percent down from the ... - Arabs pledge support for Syria opposition
AMMAN/CAIRO (Reuters) - Syrian forces resumed their bombardment of the city of Homs on Monday after Arab countries called for U.N. peacekeepers and pledged their firm support for the opposition battling President Bashar al-Assad. Opposition campaigners said tank fire was concentrated on two large Sunni Muslim neighborhoods that have been at the forefront of opposition to Assad. They said 23 ... - Chambers preparing for London Games despite ban
LONDON (Reuters) - British sprinter Dwain Chambers is preparing for London 2012 despite a lifetime Olympics ban for doping. Chambers won the 60 metres at Sunday's British trials for next month's world indoor championships in Istanbul and said afterwards that he was training hard for London in the hope that his ban would be overturned. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) meets on March 12 to ... - Tough calculus for Obama in Chinese leader's election-year visit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even as he greets China's vice president in the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Barack Obama is quietly overhauling U.S. economic policy toward Beijing, looking for new ways to extract results on issues such as market access and currency manipulation that have bedeviled him and his predecessors. Obama's need to boost U.S. exports and show he can be firm with China, and ... - Novelists open new chapter for China film industry
Acclaimed Chinese novelist Geling Yan has become accustomed to reaching a wide audience both at home and abroad. - Music world prays for Whitney Houston at Grammys
The Grammy awards show opened on Sunday with a prayer for legendary US singer Whitney Houston, whose death cast a cloud over the event, due to feature a comeback performance by British soul diva Adele. - Satellites for Climate Checks Get Boost After Durban Talks
Brazilian deforestation and melting polar ice caps are feeding a boom in demand in the $2.1 billion market for satellite data, images and services used to monitor the planet. - Southern Africa to lobby for Dlamini-Zuma as AU chief
Southern African countries have vowed to lobby hard for South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who on Sunday was again backed as the region's candidate for African Union chief after a recent polls deadlock. - A year on, only brief home visits for Japan nuclear evacuees
OKUMA, Japan (Reuters) - Back home for just three hours, a tearful Miyoko Takeda sorted through her belongings. She left behind the kimonos she once wore as a traditional dancer, fearful they might be contaminated by radiation. Nearly a year has passed since a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan, Okuma town, but the site of the reactors at the centre of the Fukushima nuclear crisis ... - Zambia prepares heroes' welcome for Cup winners
Celebrations were still running on Monday morning as ecstatic Zambians prepared a heroes' welcome home for their national team after the country lifted its first Africa Cup of Nations title.