The United Nations special envoy on the Middle East today expressed deep sadness that Reham Dawabsha has succumb to the wounds she received in a terrorist attack in a West Bank village in late July that also killed her husband and infant son, calling the tragedy “a shocking example of the destructive nature of extremism.”
While the world's forests continue to shrink as populations increase and woodlands are converted to agriculture and other uses, over the past 25 years, the rate of net global deforestation has slowed down by more than 50 per cent, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report published today.
As the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) continues to face challenges in funding its emergency response in Syria, the agency's Executive Director Ertharin Cousin has thanked U2 lead singer and ONE co-founder Bono, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Ireland's Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney for their efforts to give voice and support to the world's hungry poor.
Supporting the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be a key focus for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in years to come, Director General Yukiya Amano told a meeting of the Agency's Board of Governors in Vienna today, where he also provided an update on the application of nuclear safeguards in Iran, Democratic Republic of Korea and Syria.
Winning a five-year contract for the operation and support of the NATO Submarine Rescue System has reaffirmed JFD as the global market leader in submarine rescue. Richard Scott reports
UK-based JFD - known previously as James Fisher Defence - took over the running of the NATO Submarine Rescue
The French Army continues to carry out parachute drops as part of its 'Barkhane' counter-insurgency operation against Islamist militants operating in the Sahara.
The French Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 3 September that the latest in a series of such drops had been carried out by its
The Polish Armaments Group (PGZ) unveiled several new developments and variants of the Rosomak 8x8 family at the MSPO defence exhibition held in Kielce from 1-4 September.
These included the modernised Rosomak-M, the uprated Rosomak-XP, a Rosomak direct support vehicle armed with a 120 mm cannon,
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Northrop Grumman's JSTARS offering could be delivered to the USAF and enter service by 2021
The acceleration would avoid the 2022-28 time frame when the air force is scheduled to be procuring its three most costly recapitalisation efforts
Northrop Grumman's Joint Surveillance Target
Rheinmetall has confirmed it is offering the ARTEC Boxer 8x8 multirole armoured vehicle to meet an Australian requirement under Project Land 400 Phase 2 for 225 combat reconnaissance vehicles (CRVs).
In a 3 September statement - issued the same day that tenders closed - Rheinmetall disclosed it
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If the two sides overcome the key hurdles on property, territory, and security in the next phase of negotiations, Cyprus will come closer than ever to reunification.
A solution would open the door to significant opportunities in construction, shipping, and tourism, while paving the way
Ahmet Davutoglu török kormányfő szerint Európa keresztény erődként viselkedik. Törökország fontos tranzitország a keleti országokból érkező migránsok útvonalán. Egyben kétmillió menekültet fogadott be és ütközőzónaként viselkedik a káosz és Európa között – fogalmazott a török elöljáró. Hozzátette: b...
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Nehezen visszautasítható ajánlatokkal állnak elő a bankok, hogy megelőzzék a frank drágulása miatt az adósaik által indított pereket. Vannak bankok, ahol 15 ezer hitelszerződést írtak át lejre, máshol akár negyven százalékkal is csökkentették a törlesztőrészletet. A frank erősebb volt, mint a névért...
Kiürült a Keleti pályaudvar, érkezik az újabb menekülthullám Röszkénél. Korántsem csitul a migrációs válság Európában, ez még csak az első hullám, a szegényebbek ezután jönnek Nógrádi György biztonságpolitikai szakértő szerint. Hétvégén autóbuszokkal szállították a magyar hatóságok az osztrák határh...
Russia’s oil giant head expressed no intentions of Rosneft to go into OPEC because of different methods of oil extraction between Russia and members of the Organization.
This article gives you insight into the latest development news across the biggest airborne ISR programmes currently underway in the United States. Including progress on the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS), delays to the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne
Brazil and Peru are both embarking on major Amazon surveillance and protection programmes, involving systems and subsystems that will eventually begin to integrate on a national and cross-border basis. With billions of dollars being spent over the coming years on assets ranging from sa
The market for new submarines is forecast to exceed $100 billion over the next ten years. A total of 451 submarines are in service worldwide –excluding midget/mini submarines (56) – with the fleets of the U.S.A. (72), Russia (57) and China (62) amounting to 43 percent
With technology rapidly advancing, the design and operation of the modern fighter aircraft has become simpler on the surface, and yet – in many other ways – more complex. From outfitting platforms for multi-mission capabilities to implementing a more agile logistics chain,
Es gibt eine Partei im Land, die primär mit ihrer Anständigkeit punkten will: die BDP. Doch das reicht nicht, um sich in den Wahlen zu empfehlen.
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