By Associated Press Years before F-22 pilots began getting dizzy in the cockpit, before one struggled to breathe as he tried to pull out of a fatal crash, before two more went on television to say the plane was so unsafe they refused to fly it, a small circle of U.S. Air Force experts knew something was wrong with the prized stealth fighter jet. Coughing among pilots and fears that contaminants were leaking ...

Martin Murphy This, at least, is how Wang Yilin, Chairman of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), chooses to view them. He reportedly told an audience at CNOOC’s headquarters in Beijing in May that ‘large-scale deep-water rigs are our mobile national territory and a strategic weapon’. This writer is no Sinologist and lacks the qualifications to parse his words for hidden meanings. At the sam ...

  [caption id="attachment_2915" align="alignright" width="300"] US threaten Attack on Iran[/caption] Netanyahu: Iran six to seven months from nuclear bomb capability The Israeli premier called the U.S. to spell out limits that Tehran must not cross or else face military action - something Obama has refused to do. By The Associated Press and Reuters September 16, 2012 "Haaretz" -- Israeli Prime Minister ...

 BY C. RAJA MOHAN As the United States and China circle each other in Asia, many in Washington hope and some in Beijing fear that India might become a military counterweight to the middle kingdom. However, two recent visits to Delhi by U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie suggest that India's prudent approach is likely to disappoint some of its American supporters ...

By George Friedman For the past several months, the Israelis have been threatening to attack Iranian nuclear sites as the United States has pursued a complex policy of avoiding complete opposition to such strikes while making clear it doesn't feel such strikes are necessary. At the same time, the United States has carried out maneuvers meant to demonstrate its ability to prevent the Iranian counter to an at ...

By Sinan Salaheddin, Associated Press BAGHDAD — A wave of insurgent attacks Thursday killed at least 22 people and wounded dozens in central and northern Iraq, the latest series of persistent strikes aimed at undermining the government’s authority. One of the bloodiest blows came around midday, when a car bomb struck near the local security forces headquarters in the northern city of Daqouq. As police rushe ...

  By Deb Riechmann, Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan — Asadullah Ramin has lost all hope in his homeland – he's so worried about what will happen when U.S. and international troops leave that he is ready to pay a smuggler to whisk his family out of Afghanistan. It would cost the 50-year-old, self-employed electronics engineer tens of thousands of dollars to leave his middle-class life in the Afghan ...

BANGALORE, India — Thousands of panic-stricken Indians from the northeast were fleeing the southern city of Bangalore on Thursday, spurred by rumors they would be attacked in retaliation for communal violence in their home state. Hundreds of students and workers from Assam state crowded Bangalore’s main railway station to try to board trains heading out of the city, while officials tried in vain to assure t ...