
U.S. sales to foreign militaries top $41 billion in fiscal year 2017
Washington (UPI) Nov 30, 2017 - The United States logged $41.93 billion in military equipment and services sales to other countries in Fiscal Year 2017, according to the Pentagon.
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Washington (UPI) Nov 30, 2017 - The United States logged $41.93 billion in military equipment and services sales to other countries in Fiscal Year 2017, according to the Pentagon.
Nov 30, 2017

United Nations, United States (AFP) Nov 30, 2017 - The United States on Wednesday warned that North Korea's leadership will be utterly destroyed if war breaks out as it called on countries to cut all diplomatic and trade ties with North Korea - including Chinese oil shipments to Pyongyang.
Nov 30, 2017

United Nations, United States (AFP) Nov 30, 2017 - The United States warned North Korea's leadership will be utterly destroyed if war breaks out but its call for nations to cut ties with Pyongyang was rejected by Moscow while Beijing sidestepped talk of an oil embargo.
Nov 30, 2017

Oslo (AFP) Nov 30, 2017 - Breaking with tradition, nearly all ambassadors of the world's nuclear powers will not attend this year's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony which honours efforts to ban atomic weapons, the Nobel Institute said Thursday.
Nov 30, 2017

Buenos Aires (AFP) Nov 30, 2017 - An Argentine court sentenced 48 former military personnel to prison on Wednesday for involvement in so-called death flights and other crimes committed at a notorious torture center when a junta ruled the country.
Nov 30, 2017

Riyadh (AFP) Nov 30, 2017 - British Prime Minister Theresa May met Saudi leaders before leaving for Jordan Thursday on a Middle East tour overshadowed by a high-profile row with US President Donald Trump over Islam.
Nov 30, 2017

Beijing (AFP) Nov 30, 2017 - China's manufacturing activity accelerated in November, official figures showed Thursday, beating expectations as strengthening domestic and global demand boosted production in the world's second-largest economy.
Nov 30, 2017

Beijing (AFP) Nov 30, 2017 - The United States has renewed pressure on China to stop crude oil shipments to North Korea to close a crucial economic lifeline to the regime following its latest missile threat.
Nov 30, 2017

Washington (AFP) Nov 30, 2017 - More civilians have died in US-led air and artillery strikes in Iraq and Syria, officials acknowledged Thursday amid criticism the American military is being less cautious about killing innocents.
Nov 30, 2017

Washington (UPI) Nov 30, 2017 - The Greek poet Archilochus, before his death, said people don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
Nov 30, 2017

Washington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 - Scientists in Antarctica have demonstrated a cheaper, faster and simpler way to gauge the condition of leopard seals, which can weigh more than a half ton and reflect the health of the Antarctic eco
Nov 30, 2017

Paris (AFP) Nov 30, 2017 - Europe, like the United States, is now in reach of North Korea's ballistic missiles, French Defence Minister Florence Parly warned Thursday.
Nov 30, 2017

Washington (UPI) Nov 30, 2017 - Lockheed Martin has been awarded a modified contract by the U.S. Navy for the procurement of the UGM-133A Trident II, or Trident D5, a submarine launched ballistic missile.
Nov 30, 2017

Geneva (AFP) Nov 29, 2017 - Syrian government negotiators are expected to arrive in Switzerland on Wednesday for UN-backed talks aimed at ending the civil war, adamant that they will not tolerate any discussion of President Bashar al-Assad's ouster.
Nov 29, 2017

Riyadh (AFP) Nov 29, 2017 - British Prime Minister Theresa May landed in Riyadh Wednesday for talks with the Saudi king and crown prince, with Yemen's brewing humanitarian crisis and the kingdom's sweeping reforms topping her agenda.
Nov 29, 2017

Beijing (AFP) Nov 29, 2017 - China on Wednesday voiced grave concern over North Korea's test of a missile capable of striking anywhere in the United States and called for talks to peacefully resolve the nuclear crisis.
Nov 29, 2017