WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) -- Pakistan's new prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, has been plunged into the heart of the storm: U.S. President George W. Bush and front-running Democratic presidential challenger Sen. Barack Obama are both focusing on him to clean out al-Qaida and the Taliban from their strongholds.

WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- Russian policymakers Thursday boosted their threat to deploy supersonic Tupolev Tu-160 "White Swan" -- NATO designation Blackjack -- nuclear bombers in Cuba to say they might put them in Venezuela and Algeria, too.

BRUSSELS, July 28 (UPI) -- Turkey awards a $4 billion submarine deal to German HDW-MFI; Switzerland gaining ground on arms market; Hugo Chavez goes defense shopping in Russia; Saudis seek to lure Russia away from Iran with arms deals.

MOSCOW, July 22 (UPI) -- The Russian government is about to make a significant concession to resolve a decades-old frontier dispute with China.

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, April 5 (UPI) -- Russia and Kazakhstan have signed founding documents for a joint space venture, Russian space officials said Tuesday.

ALMATY, Kazakhstan, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- A commercial launch of a U.S. satellite from the Baykonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan has been postponed for technical reasons, local media reported Tuesday.