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Eight retired and active members of the Taiwanese military on Thursday were sentenced to prison for up to 13 years for leaking classified information to China. The Taiwan High Court said the eight defendants were handed sentences ranging from a year and a half up to 13 years for crimes including violating the National Security Law, delivering classified information and accepting bribes. They can still appeal. The case involves the Taiwanese Army's Aviation and Special Forces Command, which is Taiwan's special operations force. According to prosecutors, some defendants cooperated with China in ...
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Representatives from Polish arms company Huta Stalowa Wola and US defence contractor Raytheon signed an agreement on Monday to produce 48 Patriot launchers for the Polish army. The agreement, guaranteeing the formation of six Patriot missile batteries, was signed between company representatives in the town of Sochaczew. The contract stipulates Huta Stalowa Wola will manufacture the weaponry scheduled to be delivered starting in 2027. Poland's Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz lauded the deal as proof of "our government betting so strongly on security," he said. "We are investing in th...
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Switzerland is seeking new ideas to safely retrieve historic ammunition from the country's lakes beds through a public competition, Swiss authorities said on Thursday. The top three ideas will be awarded a total of 50,000 francs (€53,000), the statement from the Office for Defence Procurement said. Lake Lucerne, Lake Thun, and Lake Brienz contain 8,200 tonnes of ammunition dumped between 1918 and 1964, mostly at depths between 150 and 220 metres, covered by up to two metres of sediment. There are smaller amounts in other lakes. The Office for Defence Procurement assured the public that the wat...
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Construction is underway on the first phase of the 'Baltic Defence Line' in Latvia's easternmost region of Latgale. Concrete and metal constructions of various shapes have been seen being transported on trucks to the area, where they will be used to protect the external borders of Latvia and Europe. For the time being, the army is placing the obstacles together in depots owned by municipalities or state institutions near the border with Russia and Belarus. They will then be placed at intervals along the border in areas where the continuously like building a fence, but in places the National Ar...
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Ursula von der Leyen has promised to create a Commissioner for Defence as part of her plans for a second term at the helm of the European Commission. Whoever that is will have a difficult task in uniting an industry whose growth has long been splintered and spluttering. Plans to unify rules on the single market always face a wall of opposition from countries that would lose out – and still more so in this sensitive, and largely national, sector. But many argue it's the only way to build up the EU’s fledgling industry and keep the bloc secure, as Russia becomes more belligerent and US support p...
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Manila (AFP) - The United States will provide $500 million in military funding to the Philippines, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday, as Washington boosts ties with Manila in the face of China's growing assertiveness. Blinken was in Manila with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as part of an Asia-Pacific tour to strengthen Washington's latticework of alliances aimed at countering Beijing. "We're now allocating an additional $500 million in foreign military financing to the Philippines to boost security collaboration with our oldest treaty ally in this region," Blinken told a jo...
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Tokyo (AFP) - The United States and Japan issued scathing verbal attacks on China and Russia on Sunday after high-level discussions on enhancing already close defence collaboration between Tokyo and Washington in an increasingly unstable region. A joint statement issued after "2+2" talks in Tokyo between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and their Japanese counterparts said China's "foreign policy seeks to reshape the international order for its own benefit at the expense of others". They also reiterated their "strong objections" to China's "unlawful maritime...
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Almost two-thirds of citizens of EU countries are concerned about the security of the European Union, according to a newly released poll conducted on behalf of the European Commission. Around 47% of EU citizens surveyed said they were "fairly worried" about the security of the bloc over the next five years, while another 17% said they were "very worried." According to the results, people in Portugal (77%) have the greatest security concerns. In Germany, 54% of respondents said they were "fairly" or "very" concerned about the security of the EU. More than 25,000 EU citizens aged 15 and over wer...
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Almost two-thirds of citizens of EU countries are concerned about the security of the European Union, according to a newly released poll conducted on behalf of the European Commission. Around 47% of EU citizens surveyed said they were "fairly worried" about the security of the bloc over the next five years, while another 17% said they were "very worried." According to the results, people in Portugal (77%) have the greatest security concerns. In Germany, 54% of respondents said they were "fairly" or "very" concerned about the security of the EU. More than 25,000 EU citizens aged 15 and over wer...
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