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The Pentagon has decided it’s in the national interest to keep buying MI-17 transport helicopters for the Afghan military from a Russian company that’s been scrutinized by Congress over its arms sales to Syria.
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Simon Penney, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc’s chief executive officer for the Middle East and Africa, resigned after 13 years at the bank.
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Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said the U.S. will add 14 interceptors to the 30 in its missile defense system by fiscal 2017, sending a signal to North Korea after the totalitarian regime threatened nuclear strikes.
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China criticized the bolstering of anti-missile defenses against North Korea, hours after the U.S. reaffirmed a commitment to strengthen its alliance with South Korea and deter Kim Jong Un’s regime from its nuclear ambitions.
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North Korea said it will never negotiate away its nuclear weapons in the face of hostility, after the U.S. disclosed plans to bolster missile defenses against a potential attack by the totalitarian regime.
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The Pentagon says it’s in a bind, with nowhere to turn for helicopters needed by Afghanistan’s air force except Russia, a top arms supplier to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.
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The Obama administration has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia that Congress approved in 2010 to sell Boeing Co. F-15 fighters to the Gulf ally.
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Brown University received almost 31,000 applications for undergraduate admission for the next academic year, an all-time high and part of a 50 percent increase over three years.
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The U.S. Defense Department plans to start a pilot program offering the military’s cyber security tools to Internet service providers for use in detecting and stopping attacks on their networks.
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The Obama administration will give “serious consideration” to selling Taiwan new Lockheed Martin Corp. F-16 fighter jets, a White House official said, creating a potential new flashpoint with China ahead of next week’s high- level meetings between U.S. and Chinese officials.
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