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...Despite the latest exchanges of fire and the scorching rhetoric on both sides, however, the fragile truce that appears to have taken hold over the past week is not necessarily over. Hamas, whose arsenal includes longer-range, more lethal rockets, refrained from joining Islamic Jihad in Thursday's retaliatory binge. And Israeli military sources say that through indirect channels - an Israeli general and Hamas officials were both in Cairo recently meeting with the Egyptians - word has reached former Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders in Gaza that they are no longer being targeted for aerial assassination...
...mile per hour bullets to the corners of the service box back into play, and used his quickness to put himself on equal strategic footing. He also took advantage of his opponent’s relatively limited agility to rack up quick points using his increasingly dangerous arsenal of groundstrokes.“You’ve just got to wait for your opportunities,” Clayton said of his service return strategy. “Sooner or later, he’s going to give you some second serves, and that’s when you?...
...China regards as a rebel province. Last year, Beijing tested an anti-satellite weapon and Pentagon officials believe it has been behind hacker attacks on Pentagon computer systems. The report says China's long-range strategic missile force - capable of hitting the U.S. - continues to grow, as does its arsenal of ship-killing cruise missiles...
...Israeli attack on Gaza came after an Israeli student was killed in a rocket blast, and the port city of Ashkelon, with 120,000 residents, came under attack, showing Israelis for the first time that the militants of Hamas and Islamic Jihad had acquired a large arsenal of accurate, longer-range rockets. One Hamas commander told TIME by telephone: "It's true that we're losing lives but we'll prove to the Arab world that we have the power to stand up to Israel." The Israeli combat brigade withdrew from northern Gaza early Monday morning, even as another rocket...
...Sure, Chavez and Uribe, two of Latin America's most outsized egos, loathe each other. Each has significantly fattened his military arsenal in recent years, and tensions have rarely been this high between their countries. Nor are they alone on the Latin street when it comes to martial upgrading: Brazil's 2008 federal budget, for example, includes a 53% increase in military spending, leading many to wonder if Latin America is undergoing an arms race not seen since the heyday of military rule across the continent. But that doesn't mean that either Chavez or Uribe can afford an armed...