Israel is seeking to buy three more advanced submarines from Germany at a combined price of $1.3 billion, an Israeli newspaper reported Friday. The planned purchase aims to replace within the next decade the oldest vessels in its existing Dolphin fleet (pictured), which began entering service in 1999, the Maariv daily reported. Contacted by AFP, […]
Vladimir Putin has said there was nothing bad about the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the non-aggression treaty which led to the carve-up of Poland at the outset of the Second World War, suggesting Britain and France were to blame for Adolf Hitler’s march into Europe. The Russian president made the comments at a meeting with young historians […]
Iran's spy chief accused German and French intelligence agencies on Friday of involvement in assassinations of its nuclear scientists, sticking to a hard official line as sanctions imposed over its disputed atomic ambitions bite harder.The Islamic Republic has previously accused Israel, the United States and Britain of plotting the killings to set bac…
The world's biggest arms exporters GLOBAL transfers of large conventional weapons such as tanks and planes were 24% higher in 2007-2011 than in 2002-2006, according to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Deliveries to South-East Asia rose particularly steeply, jumping by 185% as tensions mounted over territorial claims…
Two people were shot and killed Wednesday in an incident involving a U.S. military bus at Frankfurt Airport in Germany, a police spokesman said.Another person is severely wounded, Juergen Linker told CNN, and one person is in custody.A U.S. military official said initial reports were that two people had been killed, including the driver of the bus.It is n…
OSLO, Norway (AFP) – Three people with links to Al-Qaeda were arrested Thursday in Norway and Germany for planning terror attacks, Norway's security police service said."Three people suspected … of preparing a terrorist act and who have links to Al-Qaeda have been arrested today," Janne Kristiansen, the head of Norway's Police Security S…
A man with dual German-Iranian citizenship has been arrested in Berlin on suspicion of smuggling nuclear material to Iran, Germany’s federal prosecutor said on Wednesday.The 52-year-old businessman is believed to have tried to send a consignment to a company linked to Iran’s disputed nuclear programme, the office of prosecutor Monika Harms said.The man’s…
BERLIN – Three suspected Islamic terrorists from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing “profound hatred of U.S. citizens” were arrested on suspicious of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday.German Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms said the three, two of whom were German converts to Islam, had train…
Germany has expanded an inquiry into illegal exports of parts for a nuclear power station in Iran. In defiance of a ban on nuclear trade, German firms exported equipment to the Bushehr atomic reactor on the Persian Gulf.Some experts fear that Iran might use these reactors in the future to build a nuclear bomb. They say the Bushehr reactor could produce a…
Germany will on Wednesday adopt the most radical restructuring of its military since 1945, turning the Bundeswehr into an international intervention force, according to an internal cabinet strategy paper obtained by the Financial Times.The paper, which will be endorsed at a special cabinet meeting in the defence ministry, is the product of a review – the…