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Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 07:00
Egypt is looking to buy $100 million worth of surveillance and monitoring equipment from the United States in order to monitor is volatile border with Libya, according to the US government.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 06:57
President Obama’s decision to open a new base for an additional 450 American military trainers and other personnel in Anbar Province in Iraq is designed to give a badly needed lift to the Sunni tribes and Iraqi troops who have been struggling to hold their own against the Islamic State.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 06:51
Kuwait is lining up a purchase of 24 Airbus Helicopters H225M Caracals, with a deal to be signed "as soon as possible".
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 06:50
The forthcoming film, A Bold Peace: Costa Rica’s Path of Demilitarization, should be given every possible means of support and promotion. After all, it documents the blatant violation of laws of physics, human nature, and economics, as understood in the United States—and the violators seem positively gleeful about it.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 06:44
The House rebuffed an attempt late Wednesday night to eliminate funding for the Obama administration's program to train and equip Syrian rebels to fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 06:43
The shooting of a travel agent, prosecutors believe, links the luxury lifestyles of officials with the theft of hundreds of millions from the social security system in a scandal threatening President Juan Orlando Hernández’s hold on power.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 06:40
As Azerbaijan’s government prepares to host the first European Games in Baku starting June 12, it is hoping once again to paper over its paranoid authoritarian rule with a lavish display of wealth and international prestige.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 06:36
South Sudan is running out of money, which along with a civil war and mass food shortages is putting the world’s youngest country at risk of becoming its youngest failed state.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 06:34
Guatemala's Supreme Court has approved a request for congress to decide whether to strip President Otto Perez Molina of his immunity. The president has refused to resign amid a corruption scandal.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 06:33
Armenians hold complex, at times contradictory views toward the Russian military base in their country, a new opinion poll has found.