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Colombia army kills 35 rebels in new offensive
Colombian troops killed at least 35 suspected Marxist rebels and captured four in an army offensive in the east-central department of Meta, President Juan Manuel Santos said Monday. Santos made the announcement in a meeting of his security council in Villavicencio, 110 kilometers (68 miles) south of Bogota, less than a week after troops killed [...]
Syrian forces on offensive as Annan pursues peace
Syrian forces pressed their assault across the country as international peace envoy Kofi Annan stressed that there could be no deadline to ending the year-long crisis. A UN official meanwhile said they were investigating reports that Syrian rebels were using child soldiers in their battle against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. Clashes were reported in the [...]
China’s Huawei hits back at Australian cyber fears
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei on Tuesday hit back at claims it was a security risk following its barring from Australia’s broadband rollout, with one director labeling it “complete nonsense”. Huawei, among the world’s top makers of telecommunications equipment, has been blocked from bidding for contracts on Australia’s ambitious Aus$36 billion (US$38 billion) broadband plan due [...]
Afghan security forces kill three ISAF soldiers
Two British and one American soldier were killed by Afghan security personnel Monday in two separate shootings, officials said, bringing the number of such deaths to 16 this year. An Afghan soldier said to be an officer shot dead the Britons in the southern province of Helmand, while the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said [...]
Europe’s armed forces team up on refueling aircraft
European defence ministers facing shrinking budgets agreed Thursday to join forces to get more air-to-air refueling planes, deploy extra field hospitals and exploit “green” energy. The projects are part of the European Union’s efforts to pool and share military resources as the debt crisis and a US strategic pivot towards Asia forces Europe’s armed forces [...]
Swedish prosecutor probes Saudi arms deal
A prosecutor in Sweden has opened a preliminary inquiry into a controversial defence deal to help Saudi Arabia build an arms factory, defence officials said Thursday. Earlier this month public broadcaster Swedish Radio revealed the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) had secret plans since 2007 to help Saudi Arabia build a plant for the production [...]
Dassault says profit rises 10%, confident on fighter sales
France’s Dassault Aviation posted on Thursday a 10-percent rise in net profit to 407 million euros ($536 million) and expressed confidence about foreign sales of its Rafale fighter plane. “Concerning military aircraft, there are decisive opportunities … concerning the Rafale and drones,” the company said in presenting its 2011 results. Dassault chief executive Charles Edelstenne [...]
New device invisible to magnetic fields: study
European researchers said Thursday they have created a device invisible to a static magnetic field that could have practical military and medical applications. Fedor Gomory and colleagues in Slovakia and Spain designed a cloak for a direct current, or dc, magnetic field that is static and produced by a permanent magnet or coil carrying a [...]
US soldier to be charged with 17 Afghan murders
A US soldier will be charged with 17 counts of murder stemming from the killings of civilians in a shooting rampage in southern Afghanistan, a US official said Thursday. The official, confirming the murder charges on condition of anonymity, also said Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales would be charged with six counts of assault and [...]
