Success Soyuz Landing Back on Earth

Moscow - MICOM: the Russian Soyuz spacecraft has successfully landed in Kazakhstan, with three crew members, the path of the International Space Station (ISS).

U.S. Astronaut Mike Fossum, Satoshi Furukawa of Japan and Russia, Sergei Volkov spent 165 days on the ISS.

Soyuz is the only spacecraft to reach the International Space Station, after the United States at the end of the manned space program earlier this year.

The capsule-shaped plane landed in Kazakhstan on the snow-covered runway at 8:27 pm local time Tuesday.

Television footage showed the three-man crew, smiled and covered with blankets.

U.S. space agency NASA has said the plane landed in windy conditions.

This trip is the first time when a rocket exploded shortly after launch in August last year, and delayed all flights into space in three months.

Replacing them - two Russians and one American - arrived at the ISS on Soyuz Wednesday. Soyuz rocket launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan to bring them on Monday.

NASA astronauts and Russian cosmonauts and Burbank Shkaplerov Anton and Anatoly Ivanishin will be at the space station until next March. (BBC/OL-3)

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Hypersonic Weapon Tested

Military of the United States, Thursday (17/11) tested the gun, which is the speed tercanggihnya hipersonic. A new weapon has been said up to five times the speed of sound.

The weapons were named Advanced Hyper Sonic Ease of weapon was launched from the Pacific, Pelu complete Kauai, Hawaii. The missile can reach the atoll in 2300 Kwajelein miles in just under half an hour.

Earlier this year, in a report referred to this weapon is part of a military program to develop offensive weapons in the world. With these weapons, the United States will be able to hit all parts of the world in less than an hour.

The Pentagon said Advanced Hyper Sonic Weapon (AHW) is actually designed to travel long distances at speeds five times the speed of sound.

The tests performed to collect data on the technologies used in weapons. These trials also want to see these weapons to the ability to travel long distances. (AP/OL-04)

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ASEAN Summit - Yudhoyono Invite EAS Leaders Force Economic Regions

Nusa Dua (Reuters) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called on heads of state and government of East Asia (EAS) to reflect together on efforts to strengthen the economies of East Asia at a time when the world economy is experiencing a slowdown in growth.

Invitation was given by President Yudhoyono in the East Asia Summit (EAS) -6 in Bali Nusa Dua Convention Centre (BNDCC), Nusa Dua, on Saturday.

"I invited 18 leaders of the Asia Summit to consider East Asia's efforts to strengthen the economy or the economy of the region at a time when the world economy is growing slower, has a deranged state of shock, including capital markets and financial markets, "he said.

At a meeting for the first time assisted US President Barack Obama and Russian Sergei Lavrov, who represents the Russian President, Dmitri Medvedev, who is absent due to the preparation of elections in the country, is also the President urged EAS leaders to build a foundation and concrete action to address the problems permasalahn factual basis.

He mentions a number of issues that the East Asian region, among others, food and water and climate change.

"We are also thinking about how together we can create in the EAS region is at peace as a prerequisite for economic growth, which could increase the prosperity of nations," he said.

Meanwhile, leaders of the countries of East Asia Forum adopted two statements on the 6 th Summit of the SAE SAE Declaration on fundamental principles and the Declaration of the Summit of mutually beneficial cooperation in the sixth of the EAS connectivity ASEAN.

The first statement contains the rules and principles that emerges from a series of basic documents, including the United Nations Charter Trakt, Friendship and Cooperation (TAC) and a series of other agreements between EAS member states.

The declaration will serve as a member of the EAS manners advice in maintaining and promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region.

Pending a second declaration of connectivity as a key for cooperation in five priority EAS who have been there before, namely, the prevention of avian flu, energy, education, finance and disaster management.

The statement will be the basis for any cooperation among ASEAN countries with other countries of the EAS in the areas of connectivity initiatives, regional development public-private partnerships, and efforts to promote cooperation between people.

EAS Summit-6 consisted of two plenary sessions and retirement. East Asia Summit was held in the popular tourist area in Nusa Dua, Bali, and brought together 16 heads of state EAS of 10 leaders of ASEAN and six dialogue partners of ASEAN.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key absent due to preparations for elections in the country.

The ten leaders of ASEAN countries, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of the ASEAN, the Sultan of Brunei Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Prime Minister of Laos Thingsing Thammavong, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak President of Myanmar Thein Sein, Philippine President Aquino III, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Long, Prime Minister of Thailand, and Yingluck Shinawatra.

Meanwhile, the leaders of six dialogue partners of ASEAN are Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of Japan, Yoshihiko Noda, South Korean President Lee Myung- bak and U.S. President Barack Obama.

U.S. and Russia are members of the new EAS. In addition to the 16 leaders of the country, there is also the Secretary General of ASEAN Surin Pitsuwan and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

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Arroyo Stopped at The Hospital

Former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was arrested on Friday because of fraud in the elections, the result is a life sentence in a hospital in Manila. President Benigno Aquino and the Arroyo administration has long been accused of corruption during the two terms, 2001-2010, although the government until Friday, has not formally charged.

"Now it is under our supervision, our custody," said Superintendent Franklin Bucavu Director of District Police in the South, briefly press outside the hospital of St. Luke.

"The arrest warrant was executed. We tried to read him his rights, but his lawyers have given up because of his condition. We smiled and he had predicted."

Arroyo denied the allegations.

Police said the Arroyo family, his lawyer, and several members of his cabinet with him to the hospital when the order was executed. "We placed two police officers outside his room and there are still some officials of that country to protect," said Bucavu, adding that the former president was wearing a neck brace, when the order was executed. "He just nodded and said not a word."

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