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Argentina's ex-president again called to testify in espionage case
Oct 30, 2021 (AFP)
The investigation is looking into allegations that his government spied on relatives of 44 sailors who died in the sinking of a navy submarine in 2017. Macri ap...
Argentine ex-president Macri in court over illicit spying claims
Oct 29, 2021 (AFP)
The hearing in Dolores, some 200 kilometers (124 miles) south of Buenos Aires, was postponed within minutes after Macri's lawyer argued the court "does not have...
France repairs nuclear sub ravaged by fire
Oct 25, 2021 (AFP)
The blaze that broke out on the Perle in June 2020 at the Mediterranean base at Toulon needed about 250 firefighters and support crew members to put out, but th...
North Korea tested new 'submarine-launched ballistic missile'
Oct 20, 2021 (AFP)
Tuesday's test, carried out near Sinpo, the site of a major naval dockyard, came as both Koreas build up their weapons technology in what could become an arms r...
Russia says it chased out US navy ship from its waters, Washington denies that
Oct 15, 2021 (AFP)
The incident took place as Russia and China were conducting naval exercises in the area. The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that at around 5 pm lo...
EU says rift over with US on French submarines
Oct 15, 2021 (AFP)
"We are not going to be masochist and insist once again in our own problems," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on a visit to Washington. "It has been ...
Argentine ex-president to be questioned over sunk sub 'espionage'
Oct 01, 2021 (AFP)
Macri, 62, led the country from 2015 to 2019 and is now the leader of Argentina's rightwing opposition. He is in the United States, but on his return home, will...
Ex Australia PM says successor 'deceitful' on nuclear subs
Sep 29, 2021 (AFP)
Turnbull, whose government approved the submarine deal with France in 2016, was scathing about the way Prime Minister Scott Morrison handled the switch, which w...
Greece to buy French warships in boost for EU defence
Sep 28, 2021 (AFP)
The memorandum of understanding for the purchase of the Belharra frigates was inked less than two weeks after Paris was left reeling by Australia's cancellation...
U.S. Navy, Bahrain partner to ramp up unmanned systems use
Sep 23, 2021 (UPI)
Major Gen. Ala Abdulla Seyadi, Bahrain coast guard commander, and Rear Admiral Mohammed Yousif Al Asam, Royal Bahrain Naval Force commander, made the commitment...
Denmark defends Biden in submarine row
Sep 22, 2021 (AFP)
Frederiksen defended US President Joe Biden as "very loyal" to Europe even though the United States and Australia stripped European Union member France of a sub...
How the 'contract of the century' fell apart
Sep 22, 2021 (AFP)
Here is a timeline of the spat: - 'Contract of the century' - On December 20, 2016, France and Australia sign what is dubbed a "contract of the century" that co...
France wins EU backing in submarine row
Sep 21, 2021 (AFP)
German Europe Minister Michael Roth said France's diplomatic crisis with the US was a "wake-up call for all of us" on the importance of uniting an often divided...
US-Australia submarine deal: what are the risks?
Sep 21, 2021 (AFP)
The deal killed a previous French agreement to sell non-nuclear subs to Australia, and radically bolsters Canberra's ability to project military power across th...
Australia rejects French accusations of lying over subs deal
Sep 19, 2021 (AFP)
Australia's decision to tear up a deal for the French submarines in favour of American nuclear-powered vessels sparked outrage in Paris, with President Emmanuel...
USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. guided-missile destroyer completes acceptance trials
Sep 17, 2021 (UPI)
The Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey inspected the ship as it performed a series of pier-side demonstrations and underway, the branch said on Friday. The s...
USS John S. McCain heads to new home port after 24 years in Japan
Sep 17, 2021 (UPI)
Since the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer arrived in the region in the summer of 1997, it has operated independently and with carrier strike groups...
Naval power in the Pacific in numbers
Sep 17, 2021 (AFP)
Justifying ditching an earlier deal with France for conventional submarines, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said it was "not a change of mind, it's a ...
Australia enters uncharted waters with nuclear sub plan
Sep 16, 2021 (AFP)
With no public debate and little warning, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday announced Australia was going nuclear. Not developing nuclear wea...
USS Germantown returns to San Diego after a decade in Japan
Sep 16, 2021 (UPI)
The USS Germantown, which has detached from Amphibious Squadron 11, is returning to San Diego, the same port it departed from on Jan. 5, 2011 to replace the USS...
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