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BAE profits collapse after �278m corruption fines

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:01:06 GMT

BAE Systems feels the impact of two big corruption fines and the loss of a contract to supply US army trucks as annual profit plummets 88% to �282 million

France panics Nato with Russian arms deal

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:51:12 GMT

US calls for Iran sanctions over nuclear bomb fears

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:51:00 GMT

India on alert for plane hijack terror plot

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:31:08 GMT

Indian airports are on high alert after intelligence services received information that al Qaeda-linked militants were plotting to hijack a plane

Pentagon boss Robert Gates on Pakistan mission

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:32:50 GMT

Obama tells the troops: I won�t risk your lives

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:01:51 GMT

Barack Obama has pledged not to 'rush the solemn decision' to send more troops to Afghanistan as he weighs military options on what to do next in the eight-year-old war

Obama holds 'war council' as pressure grows on US strategy

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:21:40 GMT

BARACK OBAMA has held his first "war council" meeting as he seeks to change the US strategy in Afghanistan.

Iran flaunts its strength with new missile test

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:35:12 GMT

Iran today test-fired a long-range missile capable of reaching Israel, it was reported

Dave disappoints at Blenheim Palace

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:19:32 GMT

Some of the biggest names in corporate life were at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire on Friday night for the closing black-tie banquet at the annual Oxford Analytica conference, a big pow-wow on global politics and business

Sending more troops now could see them return sooner

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:16:23 GMT

The outline of a new co-ordinated action plan for Afghanistan is emerging from the shadows - and it is likely to mean that British fighting troops leave the country much sooner than most have been predicting.

Afghanistan to take years, says US chief

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:02:01 GMT

US defence secretary Robert Gates has presented a grim picture of the war in Afghanistan and admitted he cannot say when US troops will be able to leave

WORLD: Obama�s warning to Saudis: Stop cash to terror groups in Pakistan

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:36:03 GMT

Barack Obama begins his tour of the Middle East today with an appeal to Saudi Arabia to help curb the growing instability in Pakistan

US admiral warns Iran has nuclear fuel to make bomb

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:32:28 GMT

Iran has stockpiled enough nuclear fuel to make a bomb, America's most senior military chief has warned

US combat troops to pull out of Iraq by next year

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:24:00 GMT

President Barack Obama will announce combat operations in Iraq will end on 31 August 2010

EU not sending enough troops to Afghanistan, says minister

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:38:39 GMT

Britain has criticised European countries for not providing a fair share of troops for the battle in Afghanistan

Presidential helicopters plan may be downed

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:55:02 GMT

Defence: One of the biggest US orders for British military equipment is under threat as the Obama administration has called for a full review

Obama holds fire on more troops to fight the Taliban

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:51:31 GMT

Barack Obama said he would "shortly" make a decision over whether to pour thousands more US troops into the Afghan conflict

Miliband and Clinton discuss Afghan 'surge'

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:24:06 GMT

Foreign Secretary David Miliband was meeting new US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington amid speculation that Britain will join a "troop surge" in Afghanistan

Now it's straight to work: Obama halts Guantanamo trials

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:50:55 GMT

Barack Obama has set out to confront the twin crises facing America: economic meltdown and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Who's who in president's inner circle

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:55:20 GMT

Bush flies in to rouse US troops

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:06:56 GMT

George Bush saw the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan at first hand as he flew into a US air base to rally the troops

Obama's new regime - it's too old school for my taste

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:54:14 GMT

There's a strange sense of political limbo here in America at the moment

Hillary's first job will be to tackle India

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:51:43 GMT

Hillary Clinton became the most powerful woman in the US government when she was appointed Secretary of State

Bush's defence chief to stay on under Obama

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:40:53 GMT

Robert Gates will continue as American defence secretary under Barack Obama as the president-elect prepares to bolster troops in Afghanistan and oversee a withdrawal from Iraq

Sarkozy keeps the new president on line for 30 minutes

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:23:03 GMT

Nicolas Sarkozy stole a lead on other world leaders in the race to build closer ties with president-elect Barack Obama

The president�s key men and women wait for call to office

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:20:09 GMT

Barack Obama lost no time in planning the key appointments that will shape his presidency

US troops in Iraq 'may have to halt operations'

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:31:28 GMT

The US Defence Secretary gave warning of "dramatic consequences" if Washington and Baghdad failed to agree a security deal for American forces in Iraq

Obama 'might favour' Boeing over Airbus

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:27:41 GMT

Engineering: Analysts are trying to second-guess US presidential candidates' positions on the disputed US Air Force tanker deal

Russians ease grip on Georgia

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:22:13 GMT

Russia was under mounting pressure from the West today to honour its promise to start pulling its troops out of Georgia

Rice flies in to underline US support for Georgia

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:49:47 GMT

The US Secretary of State was flying into the Georgian capital as international efforts to end the escalating conflict with Russia were stepped up