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It would be good money, and i think the ruling christ-democrats (CDU) would be in favor of it too, but not the social-democrats (SPD), who will form a grand-coalition with the CDU in a few weeks. They want a stricter regulation of defense-deals.

French far-right candidate wins key local by-election National Front candidate Laurent Lopez won a hotly-contested local council by-election in the southern town of Brignoles on Sunday, in a vote seen as a test of the far-right party's popularity ahead of the 2014 municipal elections...

Moscow police arrest 1,200 migrants after riots 'Pre-emptive raid' after ultranationalists trash vegetable warehouse in unrest sparked by murder of ethnic Russian Moscow police rounded up and arrested more than a thousand migrant workers at a vegetable warehouse on Monday morning, hours...

French polls show surge in support for far-right National Front Quarter of French voters polled said they would vote for party at 2014 European elections, with 19% for Socialists One in four French voters are ready to support the far-right National Front in next year's European elections, a...

Happy Independence day to to all Saudis around the world. Plus a happy Celebrate Bisexuality Day for all Bisexuals too, especially Bi Saudis.

The pressure for PC was too strong. Birmingham college reverses decision to ban Muslim face veils after protests PM asserted Birmingham Metropolitan College's right to make its own policy, but local protesters labelled ban disproportionate Read: Birmingham college reverses decision to ban...

Probably popped his wife. Notice to myself: Don't have a personal dispute with Arabs, especially Jordanians.

Japan considers stationing workers on disputed islands China says it will not tolerate 'any provocative acts of escalation' in dispute over uninhabited islands in East China Sea China and Japan have exchanged fiery diplomatic rhetoric about a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea...

The Saudis, Qataris, Turks & probably Israelis will curse Kerry & Lavrov for this.

Well, the Korean government should be careful & control such institutions. Here in Germany we had some problems with the Saudi King Fahd-academy, teaching the children some Islamist stuff.

Israel strikes back... Israel freezes co-operation with EU in Palestinian territories Move follows European Union directive banning funding for bodies linked with Israeli settlements. Israel has frozen co-operation with the European Union on work in the Palestinian territories in...

EU takes tougher stance on Israeli settlements 'Earthquake' directive will prohibit EU states from signing deals with Israel unless settlement exclusion clause is included. Future agreements between the European Union and Israel must include the explicit exclusion of Jewish settlements...

First they must accept Rupee as payment, now wheat. What's next?

Well. it isn't clear if this deal, if even truth, would be realized. If a left/green-coalition comes to power, the chances would be minimal.

So we can expect Hollande decline to arm the rebels too.

Well, maybe. I don't know. But you could still say that this would be some kind of defense/protect-mechanism in its one way. Smart Jews. :smart:

Maybe you mean the deal with Spain. Spain produces the Leopard 2 under license as the Leopard 2E. The number of tanks ordered is between 200-300. They will be produced by General Dynamics Santa Bárbara. Here a link to a German source.

Israel just showing what it can do & what many of it's enemy's don't, a reminder who's boss. And it's show's the Israeli public that the IDF prepares to defend it from as many threats as possibly. Anyway, good for Israel.

Couldn't find it already reported here, so here it is: General Dynamics to beat out Germany for Saudi tank deal-report U.S. defence firm General Dynamics is in talks to deliver battle tanks to Saudi Arabia, beating out German rival Krauss-Maffei Wegmann for the lucrative deal, a...

Hmm, this could be tricky. Many oppose to sell advanced weapons to some countries, like our leftist/green opposition. Look at the deals with Saudi Arabia. And unfortunately our defense-industry hasn't a strong lobby. So we will have to see.