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Israeli drones bound for TurkeyAnkara, Turkey (UPI) Feb 15, 2009 A controversial order of Israeli-made Heron unmanned aerial vehicles passed critical performance tests in Israel and will soon be delivered, Turkey's top procurement official says. "Six of the aircraft have successfully passed the tests inspected by a delegation of Turkish officials," Murad Bayar, head of the government's defense procurement agency, the Under Secretariat for Defense Industries was quoted telling local media. "We are expecting their deliveries in the weeks ahead. And this closes ... read more |
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Seoul (AFP) Feb 15, 2010China is arranging a huge foreign investment deal to revive North Korea's faltering economy amid an international drive to coax Pyongyang back to nuclear disarmament talks, a report said Monday. Beijing is helping the communist state obtain more than 10 billion dollars in investment from Chinese banks and multinational firms, the South's Yonhap news agency said. The deal was discussed a ... more  
London (AFP) Feb 15, 2010The death of 12 Afghan civilians in rocket attacks during a major US-led offensive is a "very serious setback," the head of Britain's armed forces admitted Monday. But Jock Stirrup, the chief of the defence staff, said NATO forces could overcome the incident while warning that the success of Operation Mushtarak could not be judged for about a year. "It is a very serious setback. It is no ... more  
Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Feb 15, 2009 The reported hunt by U.S. authorities for English-speaking terrorists purportedly planning attacks on American cities underlines what Western intelligence services fear most: al-Qaida's recruitment of native Westerners who can slip easily into their societies and become invisible. Despite the ability of such threats to evade detection, U.S. and Western intelligence services have caught ... more |
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Countries send joint A400M funding bid to EADSBerlin (AFP) Feb 15, 2010 The seven countries that ordered the Airbus A400M military transport plane have submitted a joint proposal on how to cover extra costs, a German defence ministry spokesman said Monday. The state secretaries of Germany, France, Britain, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and Turkey have submitted a proposal to the Airbus parent company EADS, which must now respond, the spokesman said at a regular briefing. "The state secretaries last week worked to adopt a joint position on funding the project. This posi ... read more |
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