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Washington Post
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Iraq has ordered $100 million worth of light military equipment from China for its police force, contending that the United States was unable to provide the materiel and is too slow to deliver arms shipments, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said yesterday...
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www.dailystar.com.lb
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced a new $30 billion US defense package to Israel Sunday and voiced satisfaction over Washington's plan to supply state-of-the-art weapons to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states as a counterweight to Iranian influence. The..
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Yahoo News
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Forty-six nations adopted a declaration Friday calling for a 2008 treaty banning cluster bombs, saying the weapons kill and maim long after conflicts end and inflict "unacceptable harm" on civilians, particularly children. Some key arms makers — incl..
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Yahoo News
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It was the ancient version of a last stand: Twelve clay bullets lined up and ready to be shot from slings in a desperate attempt to stop fierce invaders who soon would reduce much of the city to rubble...
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BBC News
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Israel's leader has played down what is being seen as an embarrassing slip when he appeared to admit the country had a nuclear arms capability...
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Yahoo News
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Robert Gates, the incoming U.S. secretary of defense, won plaudits in Washington this week for his candor on the Iraq war...
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Yahoo News
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Egypt moved 5,000 more security forces near the Gaza Strip border on Saturday after an Israeli report said Israel may bomb tunnels used for smuggling weapons into Palestinian territories, an Egyptian official said...
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USA Today
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Nearly one of every 25 weapons the military bought for Iraqi security forces is missing, a government audit said Sunday. Many others cannot be repaired because parts or technical manuals are lacking...
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BBC News
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Iran has welcomed a major US intelligence report which suggests its government is not currently trying to develop nuclear weapons.
The latest National Intelligence Estimate says it is now believed Iran stopped its weapons programme in 2003.
Tehran h..
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BBC News
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New Zealand police have arrested 17 people and seized a number of weapons during a series of anti-terror raids.
More than 300 police were involved in the operation, reportedly targeting Maori sovereignty and environmental activists - not foreign groups..
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Reuters
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Iraq closed its borders with Iran and Syria as U.S. and Iraqi troops tightened their grip on Baghdad on Thursday, setting up more checkpoints that stopped and searched even official convoys for weapons. An Interior Ministry official, who spoke on condi..
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Independent
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Britain has been accused of kicking negotiations aimed at banning cluster bombs into the long grass as a group of 25 countries called for talks to agree curbs on the deadly weapons...
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Sydney Morning Herald
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North Korea has agreed to return to stalled six-party talks on ending its nuclear programs, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said yesterday, three weeks after Pyongyang staged its first nuclear test...
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Guardian Unlimited
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Doctors in Gaza have reported previously unseen injuries from Israeli weapons that cause severe burning and deep internal wounds often resulting in amputations or death...
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Washington Post
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Families fled in search of safety Monday as open warfare raged for a fourth day between Shiite militias and armed Sunni men in Tigris River towns north of Baghdad. Militias allied with Iraq's Shiite-led government held sway in Balad city, forcing out Sun..
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