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BBC News
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Libya has signed contracts with France to buy anti-tank missiles and radio communications equipment worth $405m, Libyan officials have said.
The arms agreement is Libya's first with a Western country since a European Union embargo was lifted in 2004...
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BBC News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has suspended the application of a key Cold War arms control treaty.
Mr Putin signed a decree citing "exceptional circumstances" affecting security as the reason for the move.
Russia has been angered by US plans to b..
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BBC News
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A Russian man suspected of being one of the world's biggest illegal arms dealers has been arrested in Thailand.
Viktor Bout - who has been dubbed the "merchant of death" - was picked up by police at a luxury hotel in Bangkok.
Thai police acted on an..
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New York Times
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert voiced satisfaction on Sunday over Washington's intention to offset a package of arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states with increased military aid for Israel.
He said he and U.S. President George W. Bush, in talks..
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BBC News
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A high-level US delegation is travelling to the Middle East, after confirming plans for massive arms deals for allies in the region.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates are due to meet Arab ministers at the Red Sea re..
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CNN
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Russia on Saturday suspended its participation in a key European arms control treaty that governs deployment of troops on the continent, the Kremlin said, a move that threatened to further aggravate Moscow's already tense relations with the West. Presiden..
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BBC News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has suspended the application of a key Cold War arms control treaty.
Mr Putin signed a decree citing "exceptional circumstances" affecting security as the reason for the move.
Russia has been angered by US plans to b..
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BBC News
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A Saudi prince who negotiated a £40bn arms deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia received secret payments for over a decade, a BBC probe has found.
The UK's biggest arms dealer, BAE Systems, paid hundreds of millions of pounds to the ex-Saudi ambassad..
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CNN
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Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a scathing attack on the West on Thursday, accusing Washington of imperialism and of starting a new arms race.
Speaking a week before he meets leaders of the Group of Eight (G-8) industrial nations in Germany,..
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Guardian Unlimited
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The UK is covertly trying to oust the head of the world's main anti-bribery watchdog to prevent criticism of ministers and Britain's biggest arms company, BAE, the Guardian has learned.
The effort to remove Mark Pieth comes as his organisation has step..
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