Turkish army kills Kurdish fighters

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:47:50 MDT | source: mwcnews.net   Turkish troops have killed 11 fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in clashes in the Turkish province of Sirnak, near the border with Iraq, according to the Turkish news agency Dogan. A government-paid village guard, who was assisting the Turkish soldiers, was injured in the fighting on Wednesday. Two of the PKK men were killed after an unmanned air vehicle detected a small group of fighters in the area. READ MORE...

What's on your mind? Neuroscientists may one day find out

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:47:15 MST | source: citizen.co.za   Venturing into the preserve of science fiction and stage magicians, scientists in the United States claim to have made extraordinary progress towards reading the brain. The researchers said they had been able to decode signals in a key part of the brain to identify images seen by a volunteer, according to their study, published by the British journal Nature. The tool used by the University of California at Berkeley neuroscientists is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a non-invasive scanner that detects minute flows of blood within the brain, thus highlighting which cerebral areas are triggered by light, sound and touch. READ MORE...

NASA Orbiter Reveals Avalanches on Mars

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:31:39 MST | source: pbs.org   The images, taken Feb. 19, show clouds of dust and ice billowing away from a 2,300-foot slope near the planet's north pole. Capturing the pictures was a fortuitous accident, according to project scientist Candice Hansen, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter had been doing routine imaging of seasonal changes on the planet when it caught the avalanches in progress. READ MORE...

Kurdistan MP Raps Turkish Raid

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:26:33 MST | source: alalam.ir   "Iraq's government should resort to the United Nation to complain against raid of Turkish troops into Iraq's territories," Nouri Talabani a member of Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament said Alalam News Network. He said that this operation has been planned a long time ago and some other reasons including internal differences between political parties involved it. Regarding Turkish Foreign Minister's statement, Ali Babacan, saying that the incursion aims PKK hideouts in Iraqi Kurdistan, Nouri Talabani said,"The main reason behind the Turkish offensive lays in Turkey's internal political crisis, its political motivation toward Kirkuk in northern Iraq and Turkey's fear of political developments in Iraqi Kurdistan. READ MORE...

Google, X Prize Foundation Attract 10 Teams For Moon Race

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:05:35 MST | source: informationweek.com   Google and the X Prize Foundation have announced that 10 teams will compete to put a privately-funded robotic spacecraft on the Moon. The Google Lunar X Prize, announced six months ago, offers $30 million worth of prizes for the first teams to create a machine that can travel at least 500 meters on the lunar surface and send video and other images and data back to Earth. Dr. READ MORE...

Turk troops clash with Kurd security forces in Iraq

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:03:12 MST | source: reuters.com   ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Turkish troops inside northern Iraq fought gunbattles with Iraqi Kurdish security forces on Thursday, a senior Iraqi Kurdish official said. Fouad Hussein, head of the office of the president of Iraq's Kurdistan region, said Turkish troops tried to move tanks from a base that has long been inside northern Iraq, but Kurdish Peshmerga forces tried to stop them. READ MORE...

Turkey considering attack on PKK

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:05:49 MST | source: The Press Association   A ground offensive against Kurdish PKK hideouts in northern Iraq remains possible, Turkey's foreign minister has said. Ali Babacan said the timing of any operation would depend on weather conditions. Turkey has staged air attacks against suspected PKK camps in northern Iraq since December 16 after securing US promises to provide intelligence about Kurdish militants. Dogan news agency reported that 100 military vehicles, including armoured personnel carriers and ambulances, headed toward the Iraqi border from the town of Cizre on Tuesday. READ MORE...

U.S. Officials Say Broken Satellite Will Be Shot Down

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:16:27 MST | source: nytimes.com   The Pentagon plans to shoot down a disabled 5,000-pound spy satellite before it enters the atmosphere in early March, a senior Pentagon official said Thursday. The official said the operation was expected to be carried out from a Navy cruiser that would fire a missile specially fitted for the mission. Other details on the timing and location of the operation were not available, pending a Thursday afternoon briefing at the Defense Department. READ MORE...

New Iraqi flag over Kurdish Parliament

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:40:40 MST | source: presstv.ir   Kurds hoist new Iraqi flag over their Parliament The Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) has raised the new Iraqi flag for the first time on its building in a special ceremony. Regional Kurdish president Massaud Barzani and representative of Iraq's President Jalal Talabani along with regional Kurdish ministers and high-ranking officials attended the ceremony. On the occasion of the ceremony, KNA speaker Adnan al-Mufti said that "Raising the flag is a symbol of Kurdish people commitment to Iraq unity under democracy and federal system. READ MORE...

Turkish Leader Criticizes European 'Double Standard' on PKK

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:09:31 MST | source: VOAnews.com   Turkey's prime minister criticized European nations Saturday for providing sanctuary to groups that support the Kurdish Workers Party, which Turkey, the European Union and the United States have labeled a terrorist organization. VOA's Al Pessin reports from Munich, where Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke to the European Security Conference on Saturday. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at Conference on Security Policy in Munich, 9 Feb 2008 Prime Minister Erdogan called on European countries to stop allowing affiliates of the group, known as the PKK, to raise money and promote their cause. READ MORE...