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NATO officials talking about increasing defense spending to prove Trump wrong
Thomson Reuters Top NATO and European military officials called in Berlin on Wednesday for more military spending to deal with threats to Europe and said that would help address concerns raised by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. During his election campaign, Trump questioned whether the United States should protect allies seen as spending too...
Beware of friendly strangers: Lithuania warns citizens about Russian spies
REUTERS/Andrius SytasA single mother takes a kindly man into her confidence. A student is plied with beer by a smiling stranger. Beguiling scenes. But Lithuanians are being urged in TV adverts to be wary of the kindness of strangers and call a new ‘spyline’ to check if they aren’t, perhaps, being lured into espionage by foreign...
Norway plans to spend $1.15 billion on 5 Boeing Poseidon military aircraft
WikipediaOSLO (Reuters) – Norway plans to order five Boeing Co P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol planes to maintain its surveillance capacity and meet future security challenges, the NATO country’s Defence Ministry said. Following an agreement in Norway’s parliament to boost long-term military spending, the 9.83 billion Norwegian...
Putin just presented American actor Steven Seagal with a Russian passport
AP Images MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin presented a Russian passport to U.S. actor Steven Seagal on Friday and said he hoped it would serve as a symbol of how the fractious ties between Moscow and Washington are starting to improve. At a Kremlin ceremony where Seagal signed his new passport in front of Putin, the...
Russia detains former navy officer in Crimea for allegedly spying for Ukraine
Reuters/Maxim ShemetovRussia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a former Russian navy official, Leonid Parkhomenko, in Crimea who is accused of spying for the Ukrainian military, the FSB announced on its website on Thursday. The FSB said it detained the former Naval captain in Sevastopol on Tuesday (November 22) and that he was...
Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko to push EU leaders on Russia
President Petro Poroshenko will push the EU to maintain sanctions against Russia over the annexation of Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Business...
Watch a Ukrainian Su-27 almost crash during a stupidly low pass
Youtube Ukrainian Air Force pilots love flying low and be filmed in the process. In the last couple of years we have published several videos showing pretty dangerous low passes: a Su-25 Frogfoot buzzing a group of female soldiers posing for a photograph, another one performing a low passage along a taxiway of a military airfield in northwestern...
US-Iranian citizen convicted for trying to buy 200 missiles for Iran
US Drug Enforcement Administration/Handout via REUTERSA dual citizen of Iran and the United States was found guilty on Tuesday on charges that he tried to help acquire surface-to-air missiles and aircraft components for the government of Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. Reza Olangian, 56, was convicted by a federal jury in Manhattan on all...
Russia angered that the European Union passed a law to counter Russian propaganda
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday (November 23) said that after lecturingRussia on democracy Europe is trying to silence dissenting opinions. Putin talked to reporters in Moscow after the European Parliament called on the EU and its states to do more to counterRussian “disinformation and propaganda warfare”. With East-West...
Russia says its missile deployment to disputed Pacific islands shouldn’t hurt peace talks with Japan
Dmitry Astakhov/RIA Novosti/Poo/ReutersMOSCOW (Reuters) – The deployment of Russian missile systems on the Kurile islands should not influence efforts to settle the long-running territorial dispute between Moscow and Tokyo over the islands, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. Russian media reported on Tuesday that the Bastion and Bal anti-ship...
