Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the remarks on Tuesday to commemorate Army Day.    “Today, you are among the world’s most powerful armies because you rely on God,” Ahmadinejad told military officers before a parade of the armed forces in southern Tehran.

TALLINN, Estonia — Moscow no longer has any “rational basis” for keeping the non-Russian republics of the Northern Caucasus within the Russian Federation, according to a Moscow commentator, but “neither the Russian government nor Russian public opinion is yet prepared” to allow them to become independent.

Teodor Atanasiu, ministrul Apărarii, a declarat într-o emisiune televizată că nu exclude posibilitatea amplasării în România a unei baze sau a unui scut antirachetă al Statelor Unite. Programul de apărare antirachetă constă într-un sistem de detectare ÅŸi de distrugere a oricărei rachete cu rază lungă de acÅ£iune. Teodor Atanasiu a …