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Two Russians convicted of treason over missile data
Russia on Wednesday sentenced two professors from an engineering university to 12.5 and 12 years for handing over information about a new intercontinental missile to China, an official said. “Yevgeny Afanasyev was sentenced to 12.5 years for treason, and Svyatoslav Bobyshev to 12 years in a high-security penal colony for complicity in treason”, a court [...]
South Korea ‘could delay $6.9 bln fighter deal’
South Korea could delay awarding an eight trillion won ($6.9 billion) contract for 60 advanced fighter planes, the arms procurement agency said Wednesday after setting a new deadline for bids. The makers of Boeing’s F-15 Silent Eagle, Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II and the Eurofighter Typhoon had submitted bids when the original deadline expired Monday. [...]
US, Israel made Flame virus to thwart Iran: report
The United States and Israel collaborated to create the Flame computer virus as part of an effort to slow Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons drive, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The newspaper, citing “Western officials with knowledge of the effort,” said the sophisticated malware was designed to spy on Iran’s computer networks and send back intelligence [...]
Russia resists pleas to help remove Assad
Russia resisted Western pleas to help remove Syria’s President Bashar Assad from power despite escalating hostilities that have battered a UN peace mission. “We believe that nobody has the right to decide for other nations who should be in power and who should not,” Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters after a G20 summit at [...]
US, New Zealand sign defense cooperation accord
The United States and New Zealand signed an agreement to expand defense cooperation but the deal does not alter Auckland’s longstanding ban on port visits by nuclear-armed American warships, officials said. The accord was the latest in a series marking US attempts to shift its strategic focus to the Asia-Pacific, as Washington keeps a wary [...]
Somali pirates weakened but not defeated: EU commander
The number of successful Somali pirate attacks has fallen but international navies must not drop their guard and keep up the pressure, the commander of the EU mission said Tuesday. British Rear Admiral Duncan Potts warned that the gains made against pirates off the Horn of Africa were reversible and that the fight against piracy [...]
Iran, world powers go down to wire in nuclear talks
Iran and world powers on Tuesday return for what could be the last day of so far stormy negotiations aimed at putting a peaceful halt to the Islamic Republic’s disputed nuclear drive. Western officials said their patience was running out with Iran as its enrichment capabilities developed and the danger of it starting to produce [...]
US holds talks on arms handover to Central Asia: report
The US military is in talks with several Central Asian countries to transfer some of their military hardware to them after they pull out of Afghanistan, a Russian newspaper reported Friday. The report, in Kommersant newspaper, provoked an angry response from one Russian official. The military of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan were in “closed talks” [...]
Norway orders first two F-35 fighters as part of $10bn deal
Norway said on Friday it had authorised orders for the first two of dozens of F-35 fighter jets it plans to buy from the United States as part of its largest-ever government spending project. “Norway today commenced the largest public procurement project in its history,” the government said in a statement. Defence Minister Espen Barth [...]
