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  1. Co-operation between Arab airlines was discussed at a key meeting held in Bahrain. Gulf Air hosted the 54th executive committee meeting of the Arab Air Carriers Organisation (AACO) and its sub-group Arabesk Airlines Alliance.  
  2. Lockheed Martin is being awarded an $841.9 million contract to produce 24 F-16 aircraft for Morocco, which ordered the jets in 2008, the Pentagon said Dec. 22.  
  3. The aviation industry in the Middle East has expanded and is expected to grow further with regional airports set to pump in $86 billion as part of their massive expansion plans, said a new report from Frost & Sullivan.  
  4. Dubai International Airport registered a double-digit year-on-year increase for both passenger and freight traffic during November. The passenger numbers rose 12.6 per cent marking the sixth consecutive month of double-digit growth.  
  5. Logistics firm Agility said on Monday that US Defence Contractor DynCorp International (DI) had dropped its US unit as a subcontractor, breaching contractual terms.
  6. Emaar, The Economic City (Emaar E.C.), the Tadawul-listed company developing King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC), hosted a delegation in KAEC from Rolls-Royce (RR), one of largest aircraft engine manufacturing companies in the world. Rolls Royce is...
  7. A 'bunker buster' bomb with more than 10 times the explosive power of its predecessor is to be put into service by the United States next December, six months later than previously scheduled, the Defence Department said.  
  8. Iran is involved in production of new generations of uranium enrichment centrifuges and plans to use them by March 2011, the Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation told the semi-official Fars news agency on Friday.  
 



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