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watch in bribes from vendors seeking contracts opportunities to resume engaging with Fiji’s about peacetime losses of Russian troops in
in Afghanistan.
military, including in training exercises and in “special operations.”
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visor in Afghanistan was Army MSgt. Jimmy W. base permanent Ukraine recently captured two men who it said Aerotech News and Review
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airfield by issuing contracts to local Afghan for the U.S. to station up to 3,000 troops at the
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cessed approximately 217 contracts worth about Moron air base, up from a current 850. The num- NLRB dismisses Machinists’ complaint
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U.S. rescinds ban on military sales to Fiji time engineers. AP camps on land. Malaysia was exhuming remains
The United States has rescinded a ban on sales
Intruder possible foreign submarine May 26 from graves at a suspected transit point
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nation of Fiji.
water object” the navy chased last month in ter- China downplays South China Sea island
An announcement Friday in the Federal Reg- ritorial waters and dropped several depth charges development
ister said the shift in defense trade policy is in could have been a foreign submarine.
response to credible, democratic elections in Fiji China is comparing its controversial island
last September. The U.S. had restricted its assis- A navy investigation released May 28 says reclamation project in the South China Sea to
tance following a military coup in 2006. WKDWWHFKQLFDODQDO\VLVGLGQRWSURYLGHVXI¿FLHQW ordinary construction going on in other parts of
proof of the presence of a submarine during the the country, such as the building of roads and
Voreqe Bainimarama, who launched the coup April 27-28 search off the coast of Helsinki with apartments.
and served as military ruler for eight years, won inconclusive sound data, but that the existence of
a decisive victory in the election and is now “of a submarine, or underwater activity” could Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun
prime minister. not be ruled out. May 26 said the issue has been exaggerated by
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The Obama administration has stepped up The incident followed a lengthy hunt for a tions in response—a clear reference to the United
foreign submarine in the waters of neighboring States.
2 Sweden in October during a period of growing
military activity in the Baltic Sea region, with Yang’s comments follow an incident last week
several reports of airspace violations by Rus- in which a Chinese navy dispatcher warned-off
sian military aircraft and an increased presence a US Navy P8-A Poseidon surveillance aircraft
of Russian military vessels. AP DVLWÀHZRYHU)LHU\&URVV5HHIZKHUH&KLQD
has conducted extensive reclamation work. The
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peacetime airspace.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed Yang said surveillance activities have been
a decree to make losses of Russian troops in growing in frequency but declined to say what ad-
peacetime a secret. ditional measures China might take in response. AP
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