by Luca Bonsignore
Saudi Arabia is close to buying Russian arms and military equipment worth some $2 billion (€1.4 billion), a Russian defence industry source confirmed, as quoted by Interfax on Saturday.
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A video grab from French TV channel LCI shows a French intelligence agent who was kidnapped last month by hardline Islamists in Somalia, being helped out of a car after he escaped from his captors in Mogadishu.
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The French intelligence agent who escaped his Somali captors has been transferred to neighbouring Djibouti, from where he is to travel back home, a French government official said Thursday.
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More Iranian warships are to be sent to the Gulf of Aden, to protect the fifth-largest crude exporter's oil tankers from pirate attacks.
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The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has returned from the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia, after successfully guarding Iranian commercial ships in the region.
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IQALUIT, Nunavut - The more than 700 personnel involved in Operation NANOOK 2009 are heading home after three weeks of military operations and government exercises in the Eastern Arctic.
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Validating New Delhi's fears that Islamabad was using US security aid to beef up its military against it, the Obama administration has accused Pakistan of illegally modifying the Harpoon anti-ship missile and maritime surveillance aircraft P-3C for land attacks for potential use against India, as reports DD India.
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Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 0.1% in June, the first monthly increase since July 2008.
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WASHINGTON - Boosted by a few strong years of testing successes, much of the United States’ missile defense technology that once was questioned is now ready to be fielded.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with Canada's new Ambassador-designate to the United States, Gary Doer, in his Parliament Hill Office. PMO Photo by Deb Ransom OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed former Manitoba Premier Gary Doer as the next Canadian Ambassador to the United States of America.
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