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Moscow, Dec 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia became the world?s second largest arms exporter after the US in 2011, said Igor Korotchenko, the head of the Moscow-based arms think tank Centre for Analysis of World Arms Trade (CAWAT), Friday. The CAWAT ranking revealed that Russia occupied the second position for world arms sales in 2011 with $11.29 billion in revenues, which [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) India is all set to induct the last of the six C-130J Super Hercules cargo plane for its Special Forces this weekend, with the US major Lockheed Martin flying out the aircraft from its Marietta facility near Atlanta in US on Dec 15. The aircraft fleet of six was bought by India in January 2008 [...]
Washington, Dec 23 (IANS) Alan D. Bersin, commissioner of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), says he will quit at the end of the month. Bersin, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in March, 2010, said in a statement that he notified the president Thursday that he would be leaving December-end. ‘My service as commissioner has been one [...]
Washington, Dec 23 (IANS) Even as a Pentagon report sought to split the blame for last month’s deadly NATO strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, Washington refused to apologise for the incident that had plunged US-Pakistani relations to a new low. The US military report released Thursday concluded that US forces ‘acted in self defence and with appropriate force after [...]
London, Dec 23 (IANS) Britain has announced an equipment package worth 400 million pounds (around $627 million) for its troops in Afghanistan. The equipment include protected vehicles and technology to counter improvised explosive devices. The announcement was made Thursday by defence secretary Philip Hammond, Xinhua reported. Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were the ‘single greatest threat’ to British forces in Afghanistan, [...]
Abu Dhabi, Dec 22 (IANS/WAM) UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has withdrawn citizenship from six naturalised people for posing threats to the country’s security, it was announced Thursday. They carried out acts that threatened the national security, an official of the General Administration for Naturalisation, Residency and Ports Affairs said. They were suspected to have links with [...]
Washington, Dec 22 (IANS) A probe by the Pentagon has concluded that the NATO bombing on two Pakistani border posts last month was unintentional and stressed that ‘inadequate coordination’ between the US and Pakistani security forces was to be blamed for the air strikes. The alliance forces have ‘acted in self defence’, the Pentagon said Thursday. ‘The investigating officer found [...]
Colombo, Dec 22 (IANS) The Sri Lanka government Thursday said it will take the help of the military to fight poverty. The military will be used to fight the ‘economic war’ in the country that was devastated by the nearly three-decade-long war with the Tamil Tiger rebels, Information Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said. Some of the senior army officers after the [...]
Washington, Dec 22 (IANS) A US arms control expert has made the astonishing claim that India may have been the mysterious fourth customer of Pakistan’s notorious nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, dubbed father of Islamabad’s nuclear bomb. Journalist Joshua Pollack, a US policy wonk who has done work on nuclear proliferation, makes the assertion of all places in Playboy that [...]
Wellington, Dec 22 (IANS) New Zealand’s special forces will leave Afghanistan in March next year, Prime Minister John Key confirmed Thursday. ‘The SAS has achieved the job they were sent to do with Kabul’s Crisis Response Unit, and they have done that job to the very highest of standards,’ Xinhua quoted the New Zealand prime minister as saying in a [...]
Moscow, Dec 22 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The Russian military will not abandon the legendary Kalashnikov assault rifles, the defence minister has said. Nikolai Makarov, chief of the General Staff, had said the defence ministry has stopped procuring AK-47 rifles because of oversupply, indicating that new models of small arms and light weapons would replace it. But Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov dismissed [...]
Colombo, Dec 22 (IANS) Eighteen Indian fishermen whose boats were caught in rough sea were rescued by the Sri Lankan navy, an official said. The navy rescued 12 fishermen off Delft island while six others were rescued off Analative island. They were later handed over to the police after being provided food and medicine, navy spokesman Kosala Warnakulasuriya told Xinhua. [...]
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) India’s air chief Wednesday flew a one-hour sortie in a Sukhoi combat jet in a bid to restore his pilots’ confidence after doubts were raised over the aircraft’s safety following a crash Dec 13, the third since the plane was inducted in 1997. After the flight, Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne told the [...]
Bhubaneswar, Dec 21 (IANS) India Wednesday postponed the test of its nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile from a test range in Odisha due to a technical snag, a defence official said. ‘The test was postponed due to a technical snag,’ S.P. Dash, director of the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur in Balasore district, told IANS. The medium-range missile, which can carry a [...]
United Nations, Dec 21 (IANS) Iraq will have a new opportunity to prove that it can put past troubles behind it with the full withdrawal of US forces from the country, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said. ‘The completion of the withdrawal of the US military forces marks a new moment in Iraq’s recent history,’ Xinhua quoted a statement from [...]
Moscow, Dec 21 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia has carried out a successful test of a short-range interceptor missile as a part of its effort to develop a domestic missile defence shield, the defence ministry said. The missile was launched Tuesday from the Sary-Shagan shooting range in Kazakhstan, a spokesperson said. The goal of the test was to confirm the technical characteristics [...]
Tbilisi, Dec 21 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Georgia’s parliament has voted in favour of a plan to send more troops to Afghanistan as part of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The initiative by President Mikheil Saakashvili was backed by 103 votes out of 150 seats in parliament. Georgia joined the international US-led coalition fighting the Afghan insurgency in August 2009. More [...]
Brussels, Dec 21 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The NATO has defended its mission in Libya, saying it saved lives and was strictly in line with the UN mandate. ‘We took every precaution to minimise the risk to civilians with solid intelligence, a very strict target selection and precision-guided munitions,’ NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu said Tuesday. ‘And we repeatedly warned civilians to stay [...]
London, Dec 20 (IANS) British Prime Minister David Cameron paid a surprise visit to the British troops in Afghanistan Tuesday, the government said. Cameron said the main purpose of his trip was to say ‘a big thank you’ to British service personnel and their families and wish them a merry Christmas. Speaking to reporters in Kandahar, Cameron repeated his commitment [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) In a major embarrassment, a lieutenant colonel from the Indian Army was reportedly caught in a ‘honey trap’ by Pakistani intelligence agencies that forced him to spy for them against Indian interests, sources in the army headquarters said here Tuesday. The officer, from an infantry unit, is now facing a court of inquiry to ascertain [...]
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