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Ukraine Plans To Nationalize Jet Engine Producer Motor Sich From Chinese Investors

Ukraine plans to nationalize Motor Sich, an aerospace manufacturer that is majority-owned by Chinese companies, due to its strategic importance to national defense. “The decision has been taken to return Motor Sich to the Ukrainian people,” Oleksiy Danilov, the head of Ukraine’s Security and Defense Council, said following a meeting …

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Is Nigeria At Risk Of Becoming A Failed State? – Analysis

The NY Times reported another kidnapping in northern Nigeria on February 26. Armed men abducted 317 girls from the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe, in Zamfara state. One police officer was killed during the attack. This was the second mass abduction in as many weeks, and part of an …

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US Approves $1.77 Billion Sale Of Advanced Boeing Spy Jets To Germany

The US State Department has approved the sale of five P-8A Poseidon planes, advertised by Boeing as one of the “most advanced” weapon systems in the world, and other equipment to Germany at the cost of $1.77 billion. On Friday, the State Department’s office of Political and Military Affairs announced …

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