MILPLEX

The Military Industrial Complex

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UK police arrest five after protesters target defence ministry
Apr 10, 2024 (AFP)
The arrests came just hours after police charged three people with public order offences for staging a pro-Palestinian protest outside the London home of opposi...
US sent seized Iran weapons, ammo to Ukraine
Apr 09, 2024 (AFP)
The transfer last week came as Ukraine suffers from significant shortages of ammunition and US Republican lawmakers block new aid funding, but it does not addre...
Norway to nearly double defence budget over next 12 years
Apr 05, 2024 (AFP)
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said that in order to take account of the "degraded security situation in our part of the world", he was proposing to devote an ...
Billions of dollars: how US provides Israel with military aid
Apr 04, 2024 (AFP)
But the civilian death toll from nearly six months of Israeli bombardment and ground operations in Gaza is rising and the humanitarian situation is catastrophic...
UK govt under pressure to suspend Israeli arms export licenses
Apr 03, 2024 (AFP)
Britain's strategic licensing criteria states that weapons should not be exported when there is a "clear risk" they could be used in international humanitarian ...
US working 'day in day out' to prevent weapons transfer to Russia
Apr 02, 2024 (AFP)
The West is concerned that the transfer of supplies such as cheap drones from Iran, artillery rounds from North Korea and the potential of deliveries from China...
Report: Biden administration makes new arms transfer to Israel
Mar 30, 2024 (UPI)
The White House has approved sending 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound bombs to Israel in a new arms transfer that it was not required to repo...
Israel's war budget leaves top scientists in limbo
Mar 27, 2024 (AFP)
Graber's research had already been hit by the war -- she had to abandon her cacao plants when the area where they were grown was evacuated after the October 7 H...
Franco-German defence group KNDS to produce arms in Ukraine
Mar 22, 2024 (AFP)
"We are going to work together to produce weapons and munitions in Ukraine", said German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius during a press conference with his Fre...
Kremlin slams Western 'pressure' on Chinese banks over Russia payments
Mar 21, 2024 (AFP)
Citing Russian financial sources, the state-owned Izvestia newspaper reported Thursday that some Chinese lenders had stopped accepting payments in Chinese yuan ...
White House warns Kyiv it cannot say when Ukraine aid will come
Mar 21, 2024 (AFP)
A fresh round of aerial bombardments by both sides left civilians dead on Wednesday as strikes escalate in the third year of the war. Kyiv's army is facing manp...
Facing Putin threat, EU pushes to arm Ukraine -- and itself
Mar 21, 2024 (AFP)
Over two years into Moscow's all-out war against its neighbour, Kyiv's troops are struggling to hold back the Russian army as Western support fails to keep pace...
EU states tell bloc's bank to lend more for defence; Russian asset profits to pay for Ukraine
Mar 21, 2024 (AFP)
The European Union has been clambering to produce more weapons in a bid to continue the flow of arms and ammunition to Kyiv and keep Europe's own stocks in good...
S. Korea's ambassador to Australia says will cooperate with graft probe
Mar 21, 2024 (AFP)
The marine was swept away while doing relief work during major floods in July last year, and Seoul's Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) is looking into wheth...
EU to table plan to use frozen Russian assets to arm Kyiv
Mar 19, 2024 (AFP)
The European Commission is set to put forward its plan to member states on Wednesday, on the eve of a summit of the EU's 27 leaders in part focused on support f...
EU states urge bloc's lender to up financing for defence
Mar 18, 2024 (AFP)
The European Union is scrambling to boost arms production as it struggles to keep weaponry and ammunition flowing to Kyiv and refill its own stocks. In a letter...
China ties with Russia set to deepen after Putin election win
Mar 18, 2024 (AFP)
Putin faced no genuine competition on the way to what state media reported was a record landslide win -- one that paves the way for the former spy to become the...
Seoul says N Korea has shipped 7,000 arms containers to Russia
Mar 18, 2024 (AFP)
Historical allies Russia and North Korea are both under a raft of global sanctions -- Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine and Pyongyang for its testing of nuclea...
EU pumps money into explosives in push to up shell production
Mar 15, 2024 (AFP)
The 27-nation bloc is scrambling to bolster Europe's defence industry as it looks to support Ukraine and build up its stocks in the face of Russia's invasion of...
Norway says to hit NATO 2.0-pct spending target this year
Mar 14, 2024 (AFP)
The 2024 defence budget, initially expected to be around 8.0 billion euros ($8.75 billion), will be revised upwards in the spring budget bill, Jonas Gahr Store ...
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