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  Netanyahu asks Putin to stop deal involving sale of advanced P-800 Yakhont supersonic cruise missiles; Israel considers this weaponry dangerous to its navy vessels in Mediterranean Sea.

 The badly decomposed body of Yuri Ivanov washed up last month on the shore of the Mediterranean, and was discovered by Turkish villagers in the province of Hatay, Turkish newspapers reported today. Reports suggest that he was quietly buried in Moscow over the weekend.

New ventilators, which will play a key role in saving the lives of soldiers injured on the front line, have arrived in Afghanistan. The Vela Comprehensive ventilators are being used in the Intensive Care Unit at the Armed Forces' hospital in Camp Bastion, providing additional hi-tech kit for doctors and nurses who work to save the lives of personnel injured on ...

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 A specially upgraded Russian Akula class submarine has been caught trying to record the acoustic signature made by the Vanguard submarines that carry Trident nuclear missiles, according to senior Navy officers.British submariners have also reported that they are experiencing the highest number of "contacts" with Russian submarines since 1987.

Captain Scott took them to the South Pole. The Royal Navy relied on them and they even played a part in the emancipation of women Samuel Muston on a humble invention that changed the way we live There are certain objects which stay the course of changing fashion, outlast the generation that conceived them and become part of our landscape ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan slapped additional sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme on Friday, following the United States and European Union in pressuring Tehran despite Tokyo's reliance on oil imports Tokyo's reliance on oil imports from the country. The sanctions that go beyond requirements in a prior U.N. Security Council resolution include restrictions on doing business with 15 Iranian ...

While many security operations in Afghanistan are joint ones between NATO and Afghan forces, in most of them, the phrase "Afghan- led" is little more than a polite fiction. This was an exception. When the governor of Kandahar Province came to this town, freshly liberated from the Taliban, his armed entourage appeared to outnumber what was left of the population. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to a series of direct talks on Thursday, seeking to forge the framework for a U.S.-backed peace deal within a year and end a conflict that has boiled for six decades. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who hosted the first session of talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President ...

THE world's finest marching bands will descend on the city for the 22nd Birmingham Military Tattoo whose final is to feature 1,500 performers. The 20,000 spectators will see bands from Poland, the Netherlands, Sweden and across the UK at the event which has earned a reputation as the ultimate armed service spectacle. And the Royal Irish Regiment will be appearing ...

7 September 1940 In the run up to 7 September, the night the Blitz began, the Luftwaffe had targeted RAF airfields and radar stations for destruction in preparation for the German invasion of the island. When these plans were put on hold, Hitler turned his attention to destroying London. At around 4pm, 348 German bombers escorted by 617 fighters blasted ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - The top US military commander in Afghanistan says the sometimes strained relationship between the US and Afghan President Hamid Karzai is solid. Gen. David Petraeus says Karzai shares US concerns about corruption in his country. Petraeus acknowledged "friction" over the case of a close Karzai aide arrested this summer in a corruption probe. The aide was released after ...

To: David Cameron, Liam Fox, George Osborne FYI and action  Argentina plans a 50 per cent increase in defense spending to make up for cuts after the Falklands was with Britain in 1982.  You may want to factor this in to your budget plans for the armed forces.  (By reviewer)

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TONY BLAIR'S book today makes unprecedented disclosures about the Queen and reveals his private dealings with the royal family. In a major breach of protocol, his memoirs relate conversations in detail, including strained discussions after the death of Diana. He describes country weekends at Balmoral as "a vivid combination of the intriguing, the surreal and the utterly freaky" which he ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials launched a broad legal offensive against Pakistan's Taliban on Wednesday, placing the group on its international terrorism blacklist and charging its leader with planning last year's suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed seven CIA employees. The Pakistani group, known as the Tehrik-e-Taliban or TTP, was officially designated a "foreign terrorist organization," a classification that imposes additional State ...

THERE was something very instructive about the state of this country's sea defences on the Royal Navy's official website last night. As you might imagine, the overall site looks very impressive, and there are lots of pictures of ships and Royal Marines and managerial buzz-phrases such as 'Modern and Relevant'. However, when I clicked on the box labelled 'Why do ...

BEIJING -- China on Thursday dismissed reports saying troops of the People's Liberation Army are in a disputed area of Pakistan. The New York Times ran an opinion piece last week which said up to 11,000 soldiers of the People's Liberation Army were in Gilgit, a northwest area of disputed Kashmir. Three Elements Dominate The Popular Image Of Pakistan In Britain ...