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Nearly 2 mn Chinese Communist Party members working for global companies i
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], December 14 (ANI): A recent investigation has revealed that global companies across the world, which hold billions of dollars worth of sensitive defense contracts in Australia and the US, have almost 2 million members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in their employ
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Russia registers 35 ceasefire violations in Syria, Turkey records 10 viola
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 14 (ANI/Sputnik): The Russian side of the Russian-Turkish commission monitoring the implementation of the Syrian truce has registered 35 ceasefire violations in Syria over the past 24 hours, while the Turkish side has registered 10, the Russian Defense Ministry said
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Trump vows to veto USD 740 million defense bill making China 'biggest winn
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 14 (ANI): United States President Donald Trump on Sunday (local time) claimed that China will be the biggest winner of the USD 740 million defense bill and vowed to veto it.
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Afghan Army counterattacks in Kandahar, leaves 90 Taliban killed
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Kandahar [Afghhanistan], December 12 (ANI/Sputnik): Clashes between the Afghan National Security Forces and the Taliban in the southern province of Kandahar have left 90 terrorists killed, the Afghan Defense Ministry said in a press release on Saturday.
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US military confirms retaliatory air strike against Taliban in Kandahar
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Kandahar [Afghanistan], December 12 (ANI/Sputnik): The US forces here has conducted an airstrike against the Taliban, as the terror group attacked an Afghan army checkpoint in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar earlier this week.
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NBA: Slow and steady Anthony Davis gets ready for season
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [USA], December 11 (ANI): Los Angeles Lakers fans have not even celebrated their team's record-equaling 17th NBA championship yet and their squad is less than two weeks away from embarking on their title-defense journey. Lakers' big man Anthony Davis agrees.
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Russia's Navy, Aerospace Forces crews are 1st to be vaccinated against COV
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): Crews of Russia's Navy and Aerospace Forces, combat squads of the Strategic Missile Forces, and doctors are the first in line to receive the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, the Defense Ministry's spokesman Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov said.
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Over 10,000 Russian servicemen vaccinated against Coronavirus: Defense Min
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): Over 10,000 Russian servicemen have already been vaccinated against the coronavirus, with no refusals registered to receive the Sputnik V vaccine, the Defense Ministry's spokesman, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.
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Biden, Harris formally introduce Lloyd Austin as first Black Defense Secre
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 10 (ANI): US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Wednesday (local time) formally introduced retired Army General Lloyd Austin as their nominee for Secretary of Defense during an event in Wilmington, Delaware.
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White House advised to veto National Defense Authorization Act
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 9 (ANI/Sputnik): The White House Office of Management and Budget in a letter said US President Donald Trump has been advised to veto the revised 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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Biden formally names ex-general Lloyd Austin as Defense Secretary
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 9 (ANI): US President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday (local time) formally named retired General Lloyd Austin as his Secretary of Defense nominee, reported CNN.
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Over 1,100 refugees returned to Nagorno-Karabakh in past 24 hours
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 9 (ANI/Sputnik): More than 1,100 refugees have returned to Stepanakert, the capital of the breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, within the past 24 hours with the assistance from Russian peacekeepers, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
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