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U.S. dominates Middle East arms marketDubai, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Dec 28, 2010 The United States-dominated defense sales in the Persian Gulf in 2005-09 and delivered 54 percent of the Middle East's military hardware, including advanced systems that had been denied Arab states because of Israeli objections, analysts say. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which monitors global arms sales, said in a recent study that the United Arab Emirates was the largest market for conventional arms in that time frame. SIPRI reported that U.S. defense companies ... read more |
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 Albanian PM cited as key arms dealer during Kosovo war The influential Serbian daily Politika on Monday cited legal documents identifying Prime Minister Sali Berisha of Albania as one of the key arms traffickers during the 1998-99 war in Kosovo. ... more |
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 Istanbul talks can resolve nuclear row: Iran A senior Iranian official said in Damascus on Monday that next month's talks in Istanbul between world powers and Tehran could resolve their dispute over Iran's nuclear programme. ... more | .. |
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  China in 2010: economic power, but more diplomatic isolation China solidified its financial might in 2010, becoming the world's second-largest economy, but it was often inflexible and isolated on the political stage - an intransigence typified by the Nobel peace prize drama. ... more | .. |
N.Korea can build a nuclear bomb a year: ex US defence chief Former US defence chief William Perry said North Korea was capable of producing one nuclear bomb a year and that Washington should consider high-level talks to defuse tension, in an interview published Wednesday. ... more | .. |
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 US Navy awards Lockheed, Austal 20-ship contract The US Navy said Wednesday it has awarded contracts to Lockheed Martin and Australia's Austal USA to build 20 coastal warships by 2015 for a combined total of more than seven billion dollars. ... more |
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N.Korea adds more special troops, tanks: S.Korea North Korea has added 20,000 soldiers to its feared special forces over the past two years and deployed an unspecified number of new battle tanks, South Korea's defence ministry said Thursday. ... more | .. |
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