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BBC News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signalled he will not support a US plan for a missile defence system in Europe, at the start of key US-Russia talks.
He urged Washington "not to force" a planned deployment of a radar in the Czech Republic and inter..
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CNN
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Pakistan, a South Asian nation with nuclear capability, says it has successfully test-fired a new missile that "can carry all types of warheads."
The army said in a statement that the country on Saturday fired an "air-launched cruise missile called Hat..
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Reuters
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Russia successfully tested its newest Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday, sending it thousands of km away from the White Sea to the Kamchatka peninsula in the Far East, Russian agencies said.
"It all went off without a glitch at all..
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Washington Post
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After days of escalating rhetoric about missile defense, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a surprise offer to President Bush on Thursday, proposing that Russia join with the United States and some of its European allies to operate a shield intended a..
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BBC News
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Moscow may target weapons at Europe if the US builds planned missile defence facilities in the region, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.
Russia has not pointed missiles towards Europe since the end of the Cold War.
Last week, Russia said it..
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BBC News
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Japan has deployed a mobile defensive missile system near Tokyo for the first time to try to protect the capital in the event of a missile attack.
The Patriot missiles have come into service a year earlier than planned, after North Korea's firing of mi..
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Yahoo News
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France successfully shot its new M51 submarine-launched ballistic missile over the Atlantic on Thursday in its first experimental test flight, the Defense Ministry said...
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ABC News
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Ayman al Zawahiri was the target of a Predator missile attack this morning on a religious school in Pakistan, according to Pakistani intelligence sources...
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SF Gate
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Senior American officials are saying that NATO leaders have agreed to fully endorse U.S. missile defense plans for Europe over Russian objections. And President Bush's plan is getting another boost, with Czech officials announcing an agreement to install..
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MSNBC
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Tensions over U.S. missile defense plans
Still, for all Moscow’s irritation over NATO expansion, it is small compared with how Russia feels about Bush’s proposal for placing missile defenses in Europe.
Bush’s national security adviser, Stephen..
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BBC News
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Pakistan has successfully test-fired a new cruise missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons, its military said.
The missile, named Hatf-VIII (or Raad, "thunder" in Arabic), has a range of 350km (220 miles), and can carry all types of warheads, a stat..
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FOX News
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North Korea fired a short-range missile toward waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, a South Korean intelligence official said Tuesday, amid signs of progress in ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
The North "fired the short-range mi..
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BBC News
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The US should halt moves to deploy a missile defence shield in central Europe, pending further talks, the Russian foreign minister has said.
Sergei Lavrov was speaking after President Bush made clear Poland and the US were committed to the plan.
Rus..
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BBC News
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Nato has reacted cautiously to a Russian offer to use a radar facility in Azerbaijan as part of a joint missile defence system with the US.
The alliance's secretary-general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, welcomed the proposal as a break with the "anachronisti..
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FOX News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, bitterly opposed to a U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe, told President Bush on Thursday that Moscow would drop its objections if the system were installed in Azerbaijan.
Putin told Bush he would not seek to retarg..
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SF Gate
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, bitterly opposed to a U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe, told President Bush on Thursday that Moscow would drop its objections if the system were located in Azerbaijan.
Putin told Bush he would not seek to retarget..
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CNN
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U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Thursday to cooperate on missile-defense systems, cooling tensions between the two leaders at the G8 summit in Germany.
They made the announcement after a one-on-one private meet..
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FOX News
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Russia test-launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile Tuesday capable of carrying multiple independent warheads, the Russian Space Forces said.
The missile, called the RS-24, had not yet reached its designated target, a space forces spokesman s..
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BBC News
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Russia has test-launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile, Russian military officials say.
The launch took place at the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia at 1420 (1020 GMT) on Tuesday.
The missile, called RS-24, can be armed with up to..
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CNN
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Russia has test-launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile that is capable of carrying multiple independent warheads, the Russian Strategic Missile Forces said.
The missile, called the RS-24, was fired from a mobile launcher at the Plesetsk laun..
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