Haiti holds 10 US citizens
Suspected of child trafficking:
Haitian police were holding 10 US citizens late
Saturday on suspicion they tried to slip out of the country with 31
Haitian children in a trafficking scheme, a government minister
said.
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Libya strikes billion-dollar Russian arms deal
Libya has struck a deal to buy Russian arms
worth almost two billion dollars, Russian news agencies quoted Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin as saying Saturday. “Yesterday (Friday), a
contract worth 1.3 billion euros (1.8 billion dollars) was signed.
It does not only involve firearms”, Putin was quoted as saying by
Ria Novosti and Interfax. Putin was speaking following a meeting
with the head of the Izhmash factory, which manufactures Kalashnikov
rifles.
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US, China locked in dispute over Taiwan arms sale
China and the United States were Sunday locked
in an escalating dispute over US arms sales to Taiwan, with
Washington rebuffing Chinese protests and insisting the deal will
add stability in the Taiwan Strait. The Pentagon Friday sparked the
latest challenge to China-US relations under President Barack Obama
when it approved the 6.4-billion-dollar sale of Patriot missiles,
Black Hawk helicopters, mine-hunting ships and other weaponry.
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