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Moscow (AFP) Feb 4, 2003 
As a Russian progress tanker shuttled another batch of food and water to the International Space Station Tuesday, three days after the Columbia shuttle disaster, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov called on Americans and Russians "to overcome the tragedy together" and keep the orbiting platform alive. The Progress rocket, which was launched Sunday and docked at 1447 GMT, just two hours before an official mourning ceremony at US mission control in Houston, Texas, has sufficient food and water to last the ISS astronauts until June. |
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Congress Never Cut Corners On NASA's Safety Budget: Lawmaker
Washington (AFP) Feb 4, 2003Congress has never pinched pennies when it comes to safety at NASA, the chairman of the House Science Committee said Tuesday. Representative Sherwood Boehlert is leading the Congressional investigation into why the US space shuttle Columbia broke up in flames over Texas minutes before its scheduled landing Saturday, killing all seven astronauts on board. Bush Leads Us In Tribute To Columbia Astronauts 
Houston (AFP) Feb 4, 2003US President George W. Bush Tuesday led national tributes to the seven Columbia astronauts at a memorial service as investigators tracked down reports debris from the doomed shuttle had been found as far west as California. Shuttle Columbia's Nose Cone Found In Eastern Texas 
Hemphill (AFP) Feb 4, 2003A sizable chunk of the US space shuttle Columbia's front section, measuring some 1.5 meters (four to five feet) long, was found near this eastern Texas town, the local emergency coordinator said Tuesday. Columbia Disaster Poses Dilemma For Spacecraft Design 
Paris (AFP) Feb 4, 2003Spaceship design is at the crossroads after the catastrophic loss of Columbia. In the coming months, NASA must choose whether to build a copy of its lost shuttle, sticking with a controversial design that is a quarter-century old, or instead leap to the next generation of renewable spacecraft. Columbia's trail of debris may have begun in California: NASA 
Houston (AFP) Feb 4, 2003Suspected debris from the doomed spacecraft Columbia has been spotted in the western states of California and Arizona, possibly offering key clues to why the spacecraft broke up, NASA said Tuesday. Store Sales Fall During Shuttle Disaster 
Washington (AFP) Feb 4, 2003Sales at major US department and chain stores slipped as people skipped shopping during the Columbia space shuttle disaster, a weekly industry poll showed Tuesday. Researchers Find Underwater Volcano Chain Off Tonga 
Kiel (AFP) Feb 4, 2003A German-led scientific team has discovered a chain of 20 underwater volcanoes off Tonga that could swamp the Pacific Ocean archipelago if they erupt, expedition leaders said Tuesday. Omani Leader Warns Of Water Shortages, Urges Lower Desalination Costs 
Muscat (AFP) Feb 4, 2003Omani Sultan Qaboos bin Said has warned of growing water shortages in Oman and elsewhere in the world and said his people should shed the notion that fresh water supplies are inexhaustible. Arianespace says makes heavy 2002 loss, warns of provisions 
Paris (AFP) Feb 02, 2003The private European rocket company Arienespace posted a heavy operating loss last year of between 50 and 60 million euros (dollars) according to chief operating officer Jean-Yves Le Gall, and he warned of provisions following the failure of ill-fated flight 157. |
Japanese Firm Exported Missile-Related Equipment To NKorea: Reports
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 5, 2003A Japanese machinery firm suspected of exporting arm-related technology to Iran has also illegally shipped to North Korea equipment capable of producing solid fuel for missiles, reports said Wednesday. Seishin Enterprise Co. Ltd. exported a Jet Mill grinder to a firm controlled by the North Korean Ministry of People's Armed Forces in 1994, Kyodo News and the Yomiuri Shimbun said, quoting sources. US Must Talk To North Korea : S Korean Envoy, Top Senator 
Washington (AFP) Feb 4, 2003President George W. Bush faced urgent calls Tuesday from South Korea's next government and a key congressional ally for direct talks with North Korea before a nuclear crisis spins out of control. A day after stoking the ire of the Stalinist state by putting heavy bombers on alert for deployment to the region, senior Bush aides were forced to defend their policy towards the Stalinist state. World waits, US mum as Powell prepares Iraq case for UN Security Council 
United Nations (AFP) Feb 4, 2003On the eve of a crucial, high-stakes meeting of the UN Security Council, Secretary of State Colin Powell silently prepared on Tuesday to deliver the US case against Iraq as an anxious world waited in anticipation. Powell stayed huddled with top aides behind closed doors at New York's famed Waldorf-Astoria hotel, rehearsing and refining the 90-minute multimedia presentation he will give to the council on Wednesday, US officials said. Advantage India As Global Arms Merchants Crowd Troubled Asia 
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 5, 2003Nuclear India's growing military needs have made it the jewel sought by Western armaments firms but Delhi is now studying offers more closely than imports it blindly ordered from its Cold War ally, the Soviet Union. Britain And France Agree To Boost Military Cooperation 
Le Touquet (AFP) Feb 4, 2003Britain and France announced an agreement Tuesday to boost their military cooperation inside the European Union, including plans for an aircraft carrier naval group on a permanent war footing. |
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