Word: standoff
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...more cooperative and warns that further sanctions may be "inevitable" if it isn't, that's the perspective of a mediator. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, still presumed to be "the decider" in Moscow, has warned that threatening new sanctions will jeopardize prospects for a diplomatic solution to the standoff, and are unlikely to work - raising the prospect of a confrontation...
...they proved ineffective," he added. Robert Putnam of American Technology Corp. of San Diego, which makes the LRAD, says it should be viewed not as a weapon but as an early-warning system. "It's an acoustic hailing device that's highly effective in determining intent and creating standoff and safety zones in piracy applications," he said.(See photos of the modern face of Somali pirates...
...sharply increased tensions between the two sides. This March, Chinese vessels confronted a U.S. Navy surveillance ship that was surveying an area about 75 miles off Hainan, an area many nations consider international waters but China claims as part of its exclusive economic zone. U.S. military officials said that standoff was a sign of increasing aggressiveness by the Chinese military...
...Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's administration must try to find the best diplomatic and military solution to the standoff, even as it deals with the fallout from a looming judicial ruling. "In capturing and extraditing those two, the government made a hasty decision," says Carlos Echeverria, professor of international relations at Madrid's National Distance University. "They didn't think of the consequences." (See pictures of the brazen pirates of Somalia...
Days after ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and interim leader Roberto Micheletti signed a U.S.-brokered accord on Oct. 30, resolution of their long-running standoff was delayed again. Under the deal, the Honduran congress must decide whether to reinstate Zelaya for the remainder of his term; a legislative committee declined to call a special session for the vote, opting to await an opinion from the Supreme Court on the matter...