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  1. The Dubai International Airport will become the second busiest international airport in the world by November 2011, according to a new study by the Centre of Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA).
  2. At DSEi Defense Exhibition (London, 13-16 September), Tognum’s subsidiary MTU will be exhibiting its 8V 199 TE21 engine which will power the Scout and Specialist Vehicles (SV), the British Army’s future generation of armored vehicles, to be built by...
  3. Abdel-Hakim Belhaj is an emerging hero of the Libyan uprising, the man who led the Tripoli Brigade that swept into the capital and captured the fortified compound that was Muammar Qaddafi’s seat of power. 
  4. Turkey expelled Israel's Ambassador and suspended all military agreements over its refusal to apologize for last year's raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.
  5. Cassidian has received a contract from the Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement (Bundesamt fur Wehrtechnik und Beschaffung - BWB) in Koblenz
  6. Defense contractors have wasted or lost to fraud as much as $60bn over the past 10 years, according to a report by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  7. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is "increasingly concerned" about possible activity in Iran to develop a nuclear payload for a missile, it said.
  8. Ten Kuwaiti lawyers will join the defense team for Egypt’s ousted President Hosni Mubarak in his trial on charges of corruption and authorizing the killing of protesters, the state news agency MENA said.
  9. Washington and Baghdad have made significant progress on a deal for Iraq to buy Lockheed Martin's F-16 warplanes but do not have a signed contract, a US military official said.
  10. Israel said it had sent two extra warships to patrol the Red Sea but it downplayed reports that they were connected to an Egyptian sweep of the Sinai Peninsula for militants.
 



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