Later, state media said air defences were responding to a new Israeli assault and air defences had thwarted attacks on military positions in southern Syria.
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As legal defences go, it seems a shaky one. ■
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Despite the presence of anti-missile defences—both American Patriot missiles and Taiwan's own systems—the island's air bases and many of its other defences might be quickly destroyed by all that firepower.
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Russia's planned upgrade of Syria's air defences complicates that understanding.
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Mr Moon is far more likely to boost conventional defences.
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Yet it has certainly helped raise America's defences against them.
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That has left Taiwanese leaders rushing to rethink their defences.
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One question is who should pay to strengthen these defences.
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In Britain barristers have developed several defences against open competition.
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But a failure would damage the credibility of American defences.
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Quantifying the effect of the corporate America's defences is tricky.
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"The VDA is getting its defences in position," he said.
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Russia's missile defences denied Turkey access to the airspace over Syria.
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The cases add to concerns about Europe's defences against money-laundering.
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It endangered troops and agents overseas and undermined defences against terrorism.
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Both countries have condemned Japan's plans to upgrade its missile defences.
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For Benn, two more successful defences followed before the McClellan fight.
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A strengthening of missile defences would ramp up tensions with Russia.
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I think that can only really happen when defences dissolve away.
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They have built a formidable array of defences against their rivals.
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Russia says Syrian air defences shot down most of the missiles.
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This could become a clever way of bolstering Unilever's takeover defences.
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The government has spent millions on anti-shark defences, with limited success.
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But democracy's defences in Latin America are relatively frail, as Venezuela shows.
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Turpin made successful defences of both titles over the following 12 months.
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Governments have strengthened the defences of obvious targets, starting with airline cockpits.
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However, Sadler told the outlet that neither of these defences hold up.
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On May 3rd jihadists counterattacked, breaking through Kurdish defences, killing an American.
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Unfortunately, cyber-attacks seem to be developing faster than defences against them.
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India said it needed the weapons to bolster its defences against China.
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Asked why Saudi defences did not intercept Saturday's attack, coalition spokesman Col.
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And to combat such a scourge, they know they'll need stronger defences.
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The company says it has since taken steps to strengthen the app's defences.
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Russia's military also announced plans to strengthen air defences at Syrian government positions.
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The gaps in America's economic defences are not so hard to foresee, however.
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Protesters ripped up median barriers and fences to set up roadblocks and defences.
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If you press right, resources go to your defences, developing tech, and weapons.
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The LNA has not been able to breach defences in southern Tripoli suburbs.
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Cruise missiles can fly along low, erratic paths capable of skirting those defences.
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EU TRADE COMMISSIONER HOGAN SAYS EUROPE HAS TO STRENGTHEN ITS OWN TRADE DEFENCES
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That could leave disputes in legal limbo and undermine global defences against trade protectionism.
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Under the cover of darkness, thousands of Allied paratroopers jumped behind Germany's coastal defences.
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From the start he knew that Credit Suisse's defences against disaster were uncomfortably thin.
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Yet instead of retreating from the remarks, she doubled down with increasingly sanctimonious defences.
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As well as focusing on its strengths, America needs to shore up its defences.
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A deal would also fortify its defences against a hostile takeover attempt from Broadcom.
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Yet since a massive cyber-attack on Estonia in 2007, cyber-defences have stiffened.
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Point defences, which guard individual sites against shorter-range missiles, might have more luck.
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Israel has toughened its border defences on the Golan, with new fences and sensors.
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As the threat grows, so does the case for beefing up defences against disease.
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Regular inspection of their defences, both internally and by central banks, has become routine.
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Hypersonic missiles built in large numbers could pose a serious challenge to missile defences.
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But in between audits, agents will test the facility's defences with such unannounced shenanigans.
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Governments are scrambling to raise their defences with border closures, entry bans and lockdowns.
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Singapore completed 75 projects to mimic such natural flood defences between 2010 and 2018.
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And his defences, in the face of rare but legitimate criticism, are increasingly threadbare. ■
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The MEADS system would help Germany extend its defences and enhance air and missile defences from a range of threats at a time when fears of a greater military threat from Russia have prompted NATO to beef up its presence in eastern Europe.
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Besides, institutional changes have provided the euro with far stronger defences than it had before.
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Until adequate defences are in place, then, guerrilla drone swarms will be a real danger.
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Though they had the majority of possession, they struggled to break down three organised defences.
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One therapeutic option this might open up is drugs that bacterial defences cannot cope with.
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It will also regard with alarm America's willingness to improve South Korea's anti-missile defences.
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Meanwhile trust is highest, and defences against chicanery lowest, within some of world's wealthiest countries.
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Stoltenberg listed military exercises, surveillance and air and missile defences as ways to deter Moscow.
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That is one of two main defences of President Donald Trump offered by congressional Republicans.
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And its air defences seem to be just as inept at fending off conventional threats.
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Adaptation, including sea defences, desalination plants, drought-resistant crops, will cost a lot of money.
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The attack exposed gaps in Saudi air defences despite billions spent on Western military hardware.
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A series of storms over the winter raised questions about the adequacy of flood defences.
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But our defences are lacking when it comes to speculative roaches of the mutant kind.
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Syrian state media said Syrian air defences intercepted "hostile targets" over Damascus, the capital, Saturday night.
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He embarked on a still unmatched record of 16 straight wins and 10 middleweight title defences.
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But China has been scared by its past and needs good defences at sea, he added.
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This time the troubles have built up gradually, giving the government time to ready its defences.
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Yet even that might require significant muscle, including the destruction of Venezuela's air defences and aircraft.
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The European Union has ramped up trade defences in steel over the past couple of years.
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Additionally, the company said on Monday it would introduce strong takeover defences together with the listing.
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For months it has bullied the South for installing American anti-missile defences known as THAAD.
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If Neymar unlocks new markets as well as defences, then PSG may have backed a winner.
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It seems like an elegantly simple (and cheap!) solution to the problem of localized flood defences.
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In a May interview, Assad also said Syria had improved its air defences with Russian help.
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Its fourth attempt on March 14 was rebuffed and DHT bolstered its defences a week later.
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But, ultimately, Faber ended his WEC run with the promotion's most title defences before its close.
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Security company Palo Alto Networks stressed the need for robust defences and precautions to deter criminals.
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Huge sums were pumped into Katanga to facilitate uranium export and to prop up Belgian defences.
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"We don't know whether today's coastal defences will be sufficient for tomorrow's sea levels," Strauss said.
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TWELVE years ago Hurricane Katrina exposed the flood defences in New Orleans as a cruel joke.
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Singapore authorities on Tuesday advised other telecom firms to strengthen defences to protect against similar disruptions.
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New air defences would "be very expensive and it will be of no use", he said.
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In the US, genetically modified crops have been used to combat them, although they have developed defences.
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Mr Baghdadi has emulated the Prophet Muhammad's defences of Medina from pagans, digging a trench around Mosul.
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Mr Weber's persistent defences of, and excuses for, Viktor Orbán, Hungary's authoritarian leader, could queer his pitch.
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Whatever the precise figure, IS has had the best part of two years to build multilayered defences.
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Henoko is central to Mr Abe's plans to boost military defences across Okinawa's 160-island Ryukyu chain.
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British banks that fail to beef up their defences may even be forced to hold extra capital.
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Their successor is now having to rebuild the old fortress, and struggling to shore up its defences.
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Frequent Houthi attacks have revealed troubling gaps in Saudi air defences, none more so than this weekend's.
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The agenda will include a debate on strengthening the EU's defences against so-called "hybrid warfare" attacks.
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Poland is also due to host defences from 2018, with construction on a site starting this year.
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India, which signed the deal last year, says the weapons are necessary to bolster defences against China.
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The office of Canadian Justice Minister David Lametti said it could not speculate on Meng's possible defences.
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Years of talk about an integrated GCC missile-defence command has led nowhere, and individual defences are spotty.
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Likewise, if big floods are more frequent, water-handling systems need to be expanded and flood defences raised.
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Even after planning permission is granted, there are conditions to meet, such as outlining plans for flood defences.
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Building seawalls and other defences to protect important stretches of shoreline from rising tides could cost £6.4bn-9.2bn.
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Sweden is strengthening defences on Gotland, an island close to Kaliningrad, a Russian military enclave on the Baltic.
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To make those deep defences accessible to a wide public takes breadth of view and skill at summary.
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Practicing knife defences against unresisting opponents going through set, pre-arranged motions is not going to help you.
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Russia and China claim that CPGS could be highly destabilising if used in conjunction with advanced missile defences.
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Without the external discipline provided by the dollar, they had to build their own institutional defences against inflation.
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That Iran was able to shoot it down suggests its air defences may be better than America thought.
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Any moves to boost missile defences could inflame growing military rivalry between China and Washington and its allies.
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For weeks, commanders have talked about opening a new front in southwest Mosul to stretch Islamic State defences.
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Few airports, save Israel's Ben Gurion, have the kind of layered defences that might have thwarted such tactics.
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Those crumbling defences face a stern test this weekend, when United host Arsenal in Saturday's early kick off.
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Is it his 20-fight run off successful middleweight title defences—an all-time best, by the way.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Syrian air defences intercepted "hostile targets" over the capital Damascus late on Sunday, state media reported.
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Saudi Arabia's military said on Tuesday its air defences intercepted a missile fired towards the city of Najran.
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But the rest of Asia, with far less to spend on colossal flood defences, will surely follow suit. ■
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Trim spent 15 years working for the British government, where helped create online defences for national digital infrastructure.
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That the missiles were reportedly able to evade Saudi air defences by flying behind them demonstrates striking sophistication.
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Sanctions over Ankara's purchase of S-400 defences could prompt another selloff in the currency, pushing inflation higher.
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Brazil is home to approximately 60 percent of the Amazon, one of nature's best natural defences against climate change.
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Many hosts' defences are unprepared for such big shifts, which happen, on average, three or four times a century.
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The accused in Guantánamo, he claims, have sturdier legal defences than those at Nuremberg after the second world war.
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Spurred on by Russian internet attacks against the West, defence departments are considering spending far more on cyber-defences.
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It meanders past civil-war defences with commanding views over the city and across the Potomac river into Virginia.
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Next month the Trump administration is expected to publish a review of the nation's defences against ballistic-missile attack.
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After Syrian air defences downed one of the Israeli jets, Israel retaliated with strikes against Syrian anti-aircraft batteries.
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It was unclear where another 36 had landed, it said, promising Syrian air defences would now be beefed up.
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An opposition candidate, Sulu Sou, accuses Mr Chui of failing to plan adequately and invest enough in flood defences.
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Luckily, Yorta Yorta rapper/actor Adam Briggs has broken down just how invalid all defences of the practice are.
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Now, centuries later, Russian leadership is once again flexing its brawn and systematically testing the defences of its rivals.
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The powers include an ability to write down bonds and mandate cash calls to bolster a clearing house's defences.
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Since its introduction over 20 years ago, the Termination of Pregnancy (Medical Defences) Act 1995 has not been challenged.
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U.S. officials said on Thursday that the plane had most likely been brought down accidentally by Iranian air defences.
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Even rudimentary American missile-defences would then be able to mop up the "ragged retaliation" from China's surviving nukes.
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Chinese missiles are also being stuffed with more warheads, which makes it easier to overwhelm and bamboozle missile defences.
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The biggest ticket item is 23 billion yen to reinforce defences against a possible North Korean ballistic missile attack.
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That makes them much harder to detect early with radar, giving missile defences less time to respond, say researchers.
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"Several explosion sounds were heard in Damascus suburbs ... as air defences were launched" close to the airport, it said.
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Syrian state media said air defences confronted the "aggression" and the army said most of the Israeli missiles were destroyed.
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Unqualified defences of globalisation by Western leaders feel as archaic as the self-indulgent guitar solos of hair metal past.
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Air defences also repelled missiles fired at the southern Saudi cities of Najran, Jizan and Khamis Mushait, the coalition said.
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America's government, rightly, justifies some of its gene-drive research as a way to develop better defences against harmful uses.
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Some of their defences against the buffeting of geological time were revealed during your correspondent's ascent of the Munz tree.
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Syrian state media said air defences confronted the attack and the army said most of the Israeli missiles were destroyed.
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This lowers the target's defences, because they can — in theory — view documents on Google Drive without having to download anything.
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The rest of the time is taken up with exercise, dance and "group work" (on, for instance, lowering emotional defences).
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The plane will be the cornerstone of Western air defences for decades, and could sell as many as 3,000 units.
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They could also distract NATO's attention from the things it needs to focus on, such as improving its cyber-defences.
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But Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said the department was working on U.S. ballistic missile defences to be prepared.
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How to use a half-court set, how to read defences, know everyone's position, where they'll be on the court.
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Puntland forces and al Shabaab have fought in the town, which has ditch defences, several times in the past [L8N1LI34H].
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"The Israeli airforce conducted new aerial aggression and immediately our air defences confronted the enemy missiles," an army statement said.
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U.S. drones that have operated with impunity for almost two decades would struggle in the face of sophisticated air defences.
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"It's always the most important part of the game," Croatian goalkeeper Bijak said of his team's superior defences on Thursday.
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Were he to be permitted to strike an Indian city once more, India's only partly patched defences would be sorely tested.
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The other tech giants have their own reasons to be worried about Amazon—though they may also have the best defences.
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I was shocked to discover in "Steely defences" (February 18th) that the OECD had temporarily become "a club of rich countries".
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Money-launderers target countries where defences are weak, says Bill Browder, the chief executive of Hermitage Capital Management, an investment fund.
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He bemoaned the Soviet system's imperfections while mounting rose-tinted defences of its achievements and wince-making attacks on the West.
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Speaking on March 1st, Mr Putin brandished exotic new nuclear weapons he would soon deploy to counter future American missile defences.
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Machine defences filter those down to 200,000, before a human team cuts that to 200 "real" events a month, he added.
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In both countries these fringes of legal finance are the last defences against a scary, unregulated world of illegal loan-sharking.
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Congress should take stock of its defences against bad leadership and strengthen them, as in the 1970s after Richard Nixon's resignation.
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America should formally extend its nuclear guarantee to South Korea and Japan, and boost the missile defences that protect both countries.
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Symptoms such as rashes, fevers and pain are understood to be consequences of, or defences against, illness, not the illness itself.
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Faroe has hired Rothschild to prepare defences for a possible bid, which will include discussions with investors, three sources told Reuters.
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A suave French general, Jean Baillaud, talks to the troops and to Congolese officers about the state of defences and patrols.
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The SoP required the government to invest in flood defences in order for the insurance industry to make flood cover available.
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The bill could weaken sovereign-immunity defences, leading to a possibility that a listed Aramco could be exposed to legal action.
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The episode highlights the inadequacy of the city's ancient flood defences and the negligence of its officials in looking after them.
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Business minister Greg Clark told a different committee on Wednesday that Britain would need to maintain trade defences for some industries.
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Murray has struggled to create easy looks for teammates because he doesn't quite have the north-south burst to collapse defences.
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Romero relies heavily on his speed of hand and foot and on his power, rather than his placement and sound defences.
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An army spokesman told state media that four Israeli missiles did reach the base, but said air defences intercepted several others.
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The government in May split off its purchase of new fighter jets from its order of new surface-to-air defences.
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Republicans, they say, abetted by Fox News and others, have thrown sand in voters' eyes by mounting shifting and inconsistent defences.
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The Crown has considered the nature of the allegations before the Court, the anticipated evidence and the nature of possible defences.
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At the same time, the U.S. and South Korean militaries are looking for ways to deter Pyongyang, and bolster its defences.
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The clash between Mr Trudeau's new-age liberalism and Mr Scheer's conservatism may test Canada's defences against immoderation, but they should hold.
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Japanese banks themselves escaped relatively unscathed, owing to defences built during the 1990s, when the country struggled with deflation and excessive debt.
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Israeli jets had earlier carried out air strikes on Syria's territory and appeared to be the intended target of its air defences.
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Having conceded two early goals away to Juventus, they needed to score twice on the road against one of Europe's best defences.
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To do so they have to penetrate a bacterium's cell wall and then subvert its internal defences, of which there are several.
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Since the 1980s America has pursued a "forward presence" doctrine, meaning that its forces were confident about operating close to enemy defences.
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Officials say the new defences will keep out the drug barons and the risk of a spillover of Morocco's growing Berber unrest.
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An expected quake off the coast of Guerrero, some 250km from Mexico City, would be a sterner test of the capital's defences.
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An American navy budget document describes the navy as "scrambling to improve defences against the rapidly evolving capabilities of remote-controlled devices".
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A similar problem applies at sea, where billion-dollar ships might have their defences overwhelmed by squadrons of cheap, jerry-built drones.
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It launched a second wave of attacks against Syrian air defences after an Israeli jet was shot down, injuring its two pilots.
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Stephen Miller, a policy adviser, and Sarah Sanders, the press secretary, have tried valiant defences, but many Republicans prefer to feign ignorance.
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It limited the defences both sides could employ so that they would remain vulnerable to a counter-attack, thus assuring continued deterrence.
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Jakarta has focused its attention on bolstering its defences with a 15-mile sea wall and refurbishing the crumbling flood canal system.
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Area defences, which guard broad swathes of territory like continental America, rely on shooting down missiles midcourse and on a straightforward trajectory.
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Glide vehicles pull up after re-entering the atmosphere, using the curvature of the Earth to delay detection by ballistic-missile defences.
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The WTO's judges have repeatedly ruled that America's trade defences are tougher than can be justified given the commitments it has made.
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As part of efforts to build defences, the Australian parliament passed new laws requiring major banks to set up comprehensive "living wills".
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North Korea and Iran could render the billions spent on Western missile defences moot by acquiring islands in the Mediterranean or Caribbean.
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Patel said India had already moved to improve its defences, through "measurable progress" in "price stability, fiscal rectitude, and sustainable current accounts".
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The attack exposed big gaps in Saudi air defences, prompting the United States to send around 3,000 more troops to the kingdom.
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To be fair, drones and cruise missiles are especially hard to stop, particularly if they overwhelm defences by arriving in large numbers.
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FM: We are taking all the steps necessary to provide defences for our data banks and for our Internet and so forth.
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Financial firms around the world have reviewed defences after a rash of cyber heists involving SWIFT, the latest targeting Malaysia's central bank.
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The first initiative of the foundation's global "campaign for democracy" is a Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity, to bolster defences against outside interference.
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The Turkish lira weakened again as U.S. officials on Wednesday asked Anakara to delay its decision to buy the S-400 missile defences.
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Hackers increasingly infiltrate large corporations by first penetrating the defences of smaller suppliers and piggybacking on the communications systems which link the two.
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Jets have indeed strayed off course because of software glitches; airliners have been taken for military probes of air defences and shot down.
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China has a lead in hypersonic glide weapons, travelling at a mile a second, against which aircraft carriers currently have no reliable defences.
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The night of the parade in Moscow, Israel launched dozens of air strikes on Iranian forces, unimpeded by Russian air defences in Syria.
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It is due to file written defences in March; any substantive admissions are likely to be followed up by America's Department of Justice.
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Another U.S. official, speaking anonymously, said Gulf states had themselves made little progress on integrating their disparate anti-missile defences despite American help.
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NATO has been upgrading its European ground-missile defences to prepare for Russian aerial attacks since Vladimir Putin annexed the Crimea in 2014.
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CAIRO, May 21 (Reuters) - Saudi air defences destroyed a ballistic missile over the southern city of Jazan, Saudi TV reported early on Monday.
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Gastelum was already improving his defences at that point, but he seemed somewhat spooked by Woodley's wickedly fast and obviously dangerous right hand.
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Around $90 million of the requested missile development funds of $160 million will go on studying hypersonic missiles to quickly penetrate enemy defences.
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Turkey's foreign minister said it will "take reciprocal steps" if the United States imposes sanctions over its purchase of Russian S-400 defences.
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The German government has warned political parties to step up their defences against hacking after last week's leak of emails from Macron's campaign.
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The Guards issued an apology for shooting down the plane, saying air defences were fired in error during a state of high alert.
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Instead Mr Sondland, looking relaxed and good-humoured, had blown up many of the defences Republicans have tried to surround Mr Trump with.
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Obviously, we've got many potential defences we can call on, but remember it's only a third of the world that has air conditioning.
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"Our air defences intercepted enemy aerial targets in the vicinity of Damascus international airport in southern Damascus," SANA said in its initial report.
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Banks generally have more robust cyber defences than other sectors, because of the sensitive nature of their industry and to meet regulatory requirements.
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In 1972 they signed an agreement capping the number of each other's strategic delivery systems, and a treaty to limit defences against ballistic missiles.
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Aware that defences are only as strong as the weakest link, the guidelines also emphasise the need for building up resilience to hackers collectively.
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The United States has limited defences against such missiles, according to Pentagon officials, and is scrambling for new weapons and strategies to counter them.
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Still, with Haftar's forces unable to pierce defences in Tripoli's southern suburbs, business activities continue in much of the capital and western coastal towns.
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Abe made the remarks during a visit to India aimed at deepening economic and defences ties to balance the weight of a rising China.
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Threats of sanctions by the United States if Erdogan goes ahead with plans to install Russian missile defences have also weighed on the markets.
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Such defences could be very destabilising if they were able to deal with the diminished forces with which an attacked adversary might fight back.
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Although the system was intended to protect against an attack from North Korea, China complained it could be used to undermine China's defences too.
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Bailly is a young and hungry centre-back, Mkhitaryan a central hub and Zlatan an imposing, physical forward who can bully defences into submission.
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Since then, America has deployed limited versions of these defences in eastern Europe and Asia, as well as in America itself, and at sea.
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Bacteria have evolved to counter everyday proteins; put in amino acids they have never seen before and some of those defences no longer work.
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The third illustration is that however feeble Britain's defences against a hard-left government led by Labour's Jeremy Corbyn seem, the reality is weaker.
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But it has been unable to breach the defences in the city's southern suburbs of forces loyal to the internationally recognized government in Tripoli.
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ONLY SECOND F35 TO CRASH The ASDF received the aircraft, designed to penetrate enemy defences by evading radar detection, last May, its spokesman said.
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Putin disclosed the Kinjal's existence in March along with other missile systems he touted as unbeatable, describing how it could evade any enemy defences.
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Of last year's budget, 15.8 percent went to bolster the North's military defences while 47.7 percent was used to boost the economy, it added.
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Though the new hurricane defences have barely been tested so far, they are thought to be far superior to those that failed in 2005.
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The United States is sending additional military forces to Saudi Arabia, and France has deployed a radar system to bolster the kingdom's air defences.
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We join a Ukrainian military exercise as the country seeks to beef up defences that were nearly wiped out by Russia's annexation of Crimea.
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Saudi air defences are relatively thin in the eastern province, with most of its batteries focused to the south on the threat from Yemen.
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Saudi air defences shot down seven ballistic missiles fired by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militia on Sunday, some of which targeted Saudi capital Riyadh.
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At least two Russian security agencies operate in the Baltic states, says Mr Flanagan, who, before leaving government, studied the region's defences against Russia.
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The decision to exit the benchmark-setting process reflects a global shift towards more robust and objective benchmarks that have stronger defences against manipulation.
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At this point, as Lowry continues to pick apart defences and put the offence on his back for long stretches, it's almost become expected.
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If the feathery pests find a way past your human defences, there's every chance they will want to make themselves comfortable and NEVER LEAVE AGAIN.
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Saudi air defences shot down a missile in the skies above the province, the kingdom's official TV channel Ekhbariya reported minutes before the Yemeni claim.
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The court's decision will likely influence PPG's decision on whether Akzo is worth pursuing further, given the company's powerful "poison pill" defences against unwanted suitors.
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The S-400 surface-to-air missiles are meant to strengthen India's defences along its borders with China and Pakistan, Indian military officials have said.
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The EU had to step up its defences against dumping, said Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the commission, in order "to fight against stupid populists".
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A defence industry official said he expected the missile defences to be stationed on Turkey's border with Syria, although no final decision had been made.
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With its blast area of nearly a mile in all directions, it was designed primarily as a weapon to clear concentrations of fairly soft defences.
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Instead, bacteriologists studying the matter have noticed that phages with anti-CRISPR traits are sometimes unsuccessful in attacking bacteria with CRISPR defences, and die out.
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And third, the three are discussing new rules that would not only strengthen members' defences against Chinese subsidies but also limit them at the source.
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The kingdom's air defences shot down seven ballistic missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi forces late on Sunday, and debris killed an Egyptian resident of Riyadh.
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The immense construction, built in the 1930s, failed to protect France from the Wehrmacht, which bypassed the defences by advancing through Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Walling off different chunks of sensitive data within a company, for instance, can reduce the impact of any hacks that do breach the outer defences.
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It enhances growth of many plants but, as Dr Van Wees shows, it also shifts the defences to favour some types of disease over others.
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Its fundamentalist Salafism unnerved some, but it had the petrodollars to finance the project, and it helped reinforce the defences against Iran's call to revolution.
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Luckily, the folks at Yahoo came up with a way to get around their defences — by organising a game of "two truths and a lie".
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It would also be the first crash of an A version of the fifth-generation fighter designed to penetrate enemy defences by evading radar detection.
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Park supported the installation of the system to help protect South Korea against threats from North Korea, which Beijing says can peer through China's defences.
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Clinton condemned North Korea's action as a "dangerous and provocative act" and said the United States should respond with more sanctions and stronger missile defences.
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Among the more creative defences Mr Scott mounts is that artists are essentially critics, paying tribute to or improving upon the work of their predecessors.
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I'm world champion, so that doesn't mean just sit back and make easy defences in the US. It means facing the biggest challenges out there.
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Turkey may face broader sanctions too under the Graham plan over its purchase this year of Russian S-400 missile defences despite Washignton's strong objections.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday approved sending American troops to bolster Saudi Arabia's air and missile defences after the attacks on Saudi oil sites.
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Authorities said on Saturday that air defences had been fired in error while on high alert following Iranian missile strikes on U.S. targets in Iraq.
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Weak though these defences are, the force with which they have been mounted suggests that Mr Trump is exceedingly unlikely to be removed from office.
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Moon has also remained vigilant against North Korea's weapons ambitions, saying on Tuesday South Korea should bolster its defences in tandem with talks with Pyongyang.
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North Korea has boosted defences on its east coast, a South Korean lawmaker said, after the North said U.S. President Donald Trump had declared war.
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London's Thames Barrier—conceived, like the Dutch delta defences, after the floods of 2000—closed just eight times between its inauguration in 220 and 2117.
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" In their paper, the researchers describe how difficult it can be for patients to confront situations they fear while deliberately "letting down long-built defences.
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The threat of U.S. sanctions and a wider rupture with Western allies over Ankara's purchase of Russian air defences has been casting doubts over Turkish assets.
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New U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis warned NATO allies on Wednesday they must pay more towards their own defences or potentially see less support from Washington.
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Third parties that want to use bank data will need to convince national regulators that their data defences are solid and must submit to annual inspections.
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And, unlike the machines that tally up votes, the computers that house this information are connected to the internet and often lack robust defences against intrusion.
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The centre-left, to be sure, is losing to right-wing populists wherever globalisation has caused factories to close—yet the Democrats' defences were too weak.
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The latest test is raising questions about the preparedness of Japan's civil defences and the ability of its anti-missile systems to keep the country safe.
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Identified 50 years ago, this is prone to the kind of rapid mutation that allows it to evade the defences the body created against previous variants.
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It is a "very defensive" strategy, argues Timothy Ash of BlueBay Asset Management, designed to help Russia weather future sanctions and build defences against the West.
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Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, a Republican member of the Senate foreign-relations committee, reports "a lot of appetite" in Congress for funding anti-missile defences.
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"These defences are speculated to act like an anti-lock key system, which means that they somehow interfere with the predator's feeding apparatus," says Dr. Weiss.
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Since it's difficult to build flood defences to prevent a flood plain being, erm, flooded, one pair of residents has come up with a unique solution.
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BEIRUT, April 14 (Reuters) - Syrian air defences shot down 13 missiles fired in a U.S.-led attack on the country on Saturday, Syrian state TV said.
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So formidable are its rugged defences that it has defeated the many foes who for centuries have sought to stamp out the ancient peacock-worshipping sect.
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The mismatch between the skills of the best Russian and Chinese state-backed hackers and the amateurish defences of the average American computer network is pitiful.
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Russia, which has said the missile will have an "unlimited range" and be able to overcome any defences, calls the missile the 9M730 Burevestnik (Storm Petrel).
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Air strikes and shelling have hit civilian infrastructure and residential homes, especially in the south of Tripoli where Haftar's forces have sought to penetrate government defences.
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Instead of rebuilding as is, better to put in place appropriate defences, soft as well as hard, and rebuild in styles better suited to the conditions.
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As well as supporting the proposed ban on foreign donations, Mr Turnbull ordered a review of espionage laws earlier this month, to strengthen defences against foreign meddling.
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The spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition said on Thursday the fact the missiles were not intercepted did not mean there was a failure in Saudi defences.
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Tensions between Turkey and the United States are running high over Ankara's decision to buy the S-400 missile defences, which are not compatible with NATO systems.
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The F-35's forte is sneaking past air defences and attacking the ground; the Typhoon, and perhaps the Tempest, are optimised for combat in the air.
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Tensions between Turkey and the United States have run high over Ankara's decision to buy the Russian missile defences, sending the lira sliding nearly 12% this year.
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No man in that division has spent more time as a world champion, and only the great Joe Louis has mounted more title defences than "Dr Steelhammer".
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As the number of bacteria with weakened defences increased, more and more of them were subject to subsequent, lethal attacks, resulting in the creation of more phages.
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What they lack in size, Gremlins will make up for in quantity—the idea being to overwhelm enemy defences as a swarm of wasps overwhelms a picnic.
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UAVs will carry out the whole range of reconnaissance or strike missions, and stealth variants will become the tip of the spear for penetrating sophisticated air defences.
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Existing defences are not geared up to cope with small drones, which are difficult to spot, identify and track, and which may be too numerous to stop.
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For instance, beefing up missile defences or bringing tactical nuclear weapons back to South Korea would hugely unsettle China (see article), straining the world's most crucial relationship.
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It's a case of angles: everyone's defences are set up at twelve o'clock, no one is good at defending themselves when attacked from the side or behind.
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It marked a departure from the approach taken by Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, to tamp down concerns among other major nuclear powers about expanding U.S. missile defences.
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Of last year's budget, 15.8 percent was used in bolstering the North's military defences while 47.7 percent of spending was executed to boost the economy, KCNA said.
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The faction's Aleppo commander led a new military alliance that rebel groups formed this month in an attempt to better organize their defences against the government's attack.
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Even if their cyber-defences are strong, there is always the risk from accomplices on the inside (help from whom has not been ruled out in Bangladesh).
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In reproducing it without consent or licence, Associated Newspapers has prima facie infringed those rights, subject to the availability of any defences, including that of public interest.
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As the years went on, helped along by that public-eye relationship and several stints in arenas with her label-mates, Amber began to lower her defences.
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On Sunday the coalition accused the Houthis of "dangerous escalation (that) came because of Iranian support" after Saudi air defences intercepted the ballistic missile heading toward Riyadh.
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The same officer also added a paragraph about how the SkyGuardian could provide humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, coastal surveys, search and rescue and even monitor flood defences.
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Russia has ballistic missiles that can reach any part of the world, but it is worried that they may be vulnerable to current or future American defences.
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"Guam remains safe, and I am confident in the ability of U.S. defences to protect our island and allies in the region," Bordallo said in a statement.
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The Philippine bank said it had received advice from lawyers in the United States that it had "strong and valid" defences against any suit by Bangladesh Bank.
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The government also wants to fortify Kuwait's defences against swings on commodity markets as well as enhancing its regional security by partnering with China to build the zone.
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Kepler analyst Faitz said it is unlikely PPG will return to buy Akzo, given opposition by Dutch politicians and the Akzo Nobel Foundation, which holds poison pill defences.
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The European Commission, which conducts trade talks on behalf of governments, reckons the EU needs to bolster its defences against subsidised steel and other products, particularly from China.
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In all competitions, defences have become more frugal and tactics more conservative, making goal-fests like the one Barcelona needed much rarer than they were in the past.
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The defences around Dhaka have held, though the city's Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre says the level of the Brahmaputra is still threatening embankments south of the capital.
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Mr Trump could start by helping both Mr Abe and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea with extra missile defences, such as the new Aegis Ashore system.
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The proposed changes come as Australia moves to finalise the implementation of the Basel III capital rules, which are being adopted worldwide to bolster bank defences against risk.
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By developing weapons capable of evading U.S. defences, Putin said, he was showing U.S. officials it was futile for them to beef up their own nuclear missile capability.
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It is cold comfort to Mr Zuckerberg that should his defences fail, Big Tech's critics will have to concede that digital monopolies are not that invincible after all.
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In response, the United States and South Korea agreed to revise a treaty limiting development of ballistic missiles, which the South wants to use to boost its defences.
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Charter Court and OneSavings announced their intention to merge in March, in a merger that will bolster their defences in the face of uncertainty brought on by Brexit.
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The money will be used to build sea walls and other defences, plant vegetation along shores and support communities, said Benoit Bosquet, WACA manager at the World Bank.
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Mr Tsemakh commanded separatist anti-aircraft defences in the town of Snizhne, close to where international investigators say a Russian-supplied Buk missile was launched at the aircraft.
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It said a Turkish strike drone had illegally entered Syrian airspace on Tuesday and been destroyed by Syrian government air defences while preparing a strike on government troops.
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In contrast, the LNA uses UAE-supplied drones which cover the whole country, although there have been no air strikes for weeks as Turkey has installed sophisticated defences.
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U.N. officials monitoring sanctions on Iran and Yemen are also helping probe the attack, which exposed gaps in Saudi air defences despite billions spent on Western military hardware.
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In his own words, Harrison "let his defences drop" and started a sexual relationship with a young, attractive Russian maid, who turned out to work for the KGB.
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Africa should be helped with trade and investment rather than rely on aid, Juncker will say, while also proposing to beef up Europe's defences against poor Africans heading north.
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If you make me wait, and enemy combatants engage with us before my relief, I can't guarantee I will be able to operate our defences to my normal standard.
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Though the F-353 has been plagued by cost overruns and technical snags, it is a path-breaking aircraft that comes into its own when dodging enemy air defences.
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Just like in the myth, BP pretends that it's giving us a gift, when in reality it's trying to smuggle its deadly climate-wrecking business plans past our defences.
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SWIFT has told Bangladesh Bank its system was secure and that the Asian bank needed to tighten its own defences to prevent criminals from hacking into their computer systems.
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This populist, nationalist age suits the Global Times and its Trumpian instinct that the best defences are brazen ones: coolly conceding opponents' facts while attacking their motives and standing.
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And South-East Asia, where those variants appeared, is again suffering local outbreaks incurable by some of the main defences used against the disease, artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs).
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Cities need to protect flood defences and catchment areas, such as the wetlands around Kolkata and the lakes in and around Pokhara in Nepal, whose value is becoming clear.
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Russian military aircraft often probe European air defences and buzz NATO warships in the Baltic and the Black Sea, risking an incident that could rapidly get out of control.
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A study by a group of 25 European manufacturing federations estimates the European Union could lose up to 3.5 million jobs if it removes its trade defences against China.
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Zuckerberg said there had been a lot of important elections since 2016 that have been relatively clean and demonstrated the defences it has built up to protect their integrity.
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The U.S.-led coalition has said 3,000-4,000 Islamic State fighters are thought to be holed up in Raqqa city, where they have erected defences against the anticipated assault.
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Syria's Russian-supplied air defences shot down an Israeli F-16 jet in February during a previous bombing run against what Israel described as Iranian-backed positions in Syria.
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The South Korean military said this was part of a regular exercise to bolster military defences and also to display the alliance between the United States and South Korea.
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Proposals include increasing European spending on military missions, jointly developing assets such as helicopters and drones, expanding peacekeeping abroad and building stronger defences against state-sponsored hackers in cyberspace.
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Brunson's detention deepened a rift between NATO allies Washington and Ankara, who are also at odds over the Syrian war and Turkey's plan to buy missile defences from Russia.
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South Korea said on Monday it was preparing fresh military drills with its ally the United States and ramping up its ballistic missile defences in response to the test.
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Von der Leyen's decision comes against the backdrop of increased pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump for Germany and other NATO countries to spend more on their own defences.
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Since then, most New Orleanians—and the Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees the system of levees—have understandably focused their attention on improving the defences facing the sea.
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In a later statement carried by KCNA, Chief of the General Staff Pak Jong Chon said the tests were designed to bolster North Korea's defences by developing new weapons.
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Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters resumed a major offensive inside the city on Thursday, a day after they broke through IS defences in its remaining stronghold in Aleppo province.
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"This was a completely avoidable tragedy which should never have happened if Iran&aposs air defences were being managed and operated competently," he told Business Insider in an email.
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AMMAN, April 17 (Reuters) - Pro-Iranian-Hezbollah militia's media unit said on Tuesday Syrian air defences had intercepted three missiles aimed at Dumair military airport north east of Damascus.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said "foreign powers" were likely to try to interfere with Sweden's elections next year, adding the country's cyber-security defences would be strengthened.
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Last week sources told Reuters that Japan planned to ban government purchases of equipment from Huawei and ZTE to ensure strength in its defences against intelligence leaks and cyber attacks.
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But in a speech to bankers in 2013, recently leaked, she noted that a no-fly zone would require risky strikes on Syrian air defences, some in heavily populated areas.
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In the past six months, amid unusually benign political and economic conditions, governments have failed to muster the will to build up the euro zone's defences against the next shock.
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The Times London's Gatwick and Heathrow airports have ordered military-grade anti-drone defences worth "several million pounds" after drones caused three days of disruption at Gatwick last month. bit.
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The stake purchase followed speculation that Mediaset was seeking to instigate a round of cross-border consolidation to strengthen the European TV industry's defences against streaming giants Netflix and Amazon.
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Liberals need to preserve their defences against the unwisdom of crowds in the form of bills of rights, second chambers in parliament, independent courts and other barriers against elective dictatorship.
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PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN faces increasing pressures at home and abroad, and he's adding to them—most of all by acquiring Russian missile defences that make Turkey's NATO allies nervous.
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But China's accession agreement allowed others to erect stronger defences, and assume that it was a non-market economy when calculating the "fair" duty—using third-country prices for comparison.
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Even faced with the much less onerous task of suppressing Syrian air defences in 2012, Barack Obama was advised that 200-300 aircraft would be needed for an indefinite period.
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Under its Air2030 programme, Switzerland is seeking to procure new combat aircraft and ground-based air defences in a programme valued at up to 8 billion Swiss francs ($8.08 billion).
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While offering the Patriots to Turkey, the U.S. has warned its NATO ally against buying a Russian missile defense system, saying it cannot be integrated into the NATO air defences.
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While offering the Patriots to Turkey, the United States has warned its NATO ally against buying a Russian missile defence system, saying it cannot be integrated into NATO air defences.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed the largest military budget since 2011, focused on beefing up the United States' nuclear defences and countering the growing strength of China and Russia.
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"China will be very sensitive about any moves by Japan or South Korea to improve missile defences," said Zhang Baohui, a mainland nuclear security expert at Hong Kong's Lingnan University.
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Chinese fears are particularly acute over sophisticated high-altitude ballistic missile defences that U.S. military officials have said were needed in South Korea, integrated with its own less-advanced systems.
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The viability of such a system was hotly debated until the first Clinton administration pulled back from all space-based missile defences, on the argument that they would prove destabilising.
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The retailer said it was preparing its defences in relation to various claims being made against it around the fraud, but would consider early resolution of these including via settlements.
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In his seventh season with the Raptors, the 26-year-old does, however, acknowledge that he's got a greater understanding of what opposing defences are trying to do against him.
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State television did not mention three missiles that were fired at Dumair military airport, northeast of Damascus, that pro-Iranian Hezbollah's media service reported were intercepted by Syrian air defences.
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The initial parts of the system, which Washington says are not compatible with NATO defences, were delivered to Ankara in July despite warnings about possible U.S. sanctions over the purchase.
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EVADING MISSILE DEFENCES In 2019, North Korea conducted several tests of new short-range missiles such as the KN-23, which experts said are designed to better evade missile defenses.
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By 2030 poor countries will need to spend $140bn-300bn each year on adaptive measures, such as coastal defences, if they want to avoid the harm caused by climate change.
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Jubeir, the Saudi minister, in his recent remarks in New York, said the kingdoms air defences have stopped hundreds of ballistic missiles and dozens of drones coming into Saudi Arabia.
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As China makes its nuclear forces more credible—less vulnerable to pre-emption, and more likely to get through missile defences—America grows nervous, argues Caitlin Talmadge of Georgetown University.
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Syrian state media made no mention of the strike on Dumair but earlier said its air defences had shot down missiles above the main Shuyrat air base in Homs province.
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George W. Bush was reluctant to use the defences that negotiators had secured against Chinese imports, for fear of hurting American consumers and encouraging other sectors to clamour for protection.
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"1,300 square km (captured from Islamic State) in 10 days - we were expecting it to take longer, but the Daesh (Islamic State) defences disintegrated," Silo said in a phone interview.
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India says the missiles are necessary to bolster defences against China, but Washington has said it rather India looked at other options including U.S. defence firms for alternate weapons system.
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"The aggression is ongoing and air defences are confronting hostile targets and are downing most of them in the southern region," state media outlet SANA said, indicating areas south of Damascus.
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Stipe Miocic is closing in on the record for heavyweight title defences in the UFC and for his second defence he has been slated to face old rival, Junior dos Santos.
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"The decision is of significance to any financial institution facing allegations of lack of capacity or defences based on local mandatory laws," Allen & Overy partner James Partridge said in a statement.
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To claim the nation-state can exert complete sovereignty in the face of these transnational challenges is not just a lie; it deliberately lowers defences against their economic and social consequences.
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The Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment said in an emailed statement the discovery was an example of the effectiveness of community involvement in the state's biosecurity defences.
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"What better way of providing automated defences at scale than by the major private providers effectively blocking their customers from coming into contact with known malware and bad addresses," he said.
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More recently, a South Korean supermarket chain was, in effect, kicked out by official harassment and a consumer boycott, because of a row over American anti-missile defences in South Korea.
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India says the missiles are necessary to bolster defences against China, but Washington has said it would prefer India to consider other options including U.S. defence firms for alternative weapons systems.
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Mr Putin said the weapons were a response to America's withdrawal in 2002 from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which limited the development of defences that could shoot down ballistic missiles.
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Highly manoeuvrable warheads, missiles that can be fired over the South Pole, supersonic cruise missiles and underwater port-busters are all threats that such defences can at present do nothing against.
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Another difficulty is that an aggressor may be tempted to go after cyber and space assets in the hope of causing major damage to a target's defences without actually killing anybody.
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"On a broad basis, there is absolutely no difference that I see," she said, pointing out that the long-term ambition was a continent with strong finances, defences and foreign policy.
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Touring northern Argentina, where 20,000 people have been displaced from their homes by floods, Mr Macri blamed the former president, saying she had failed to invest in flood defences (see article).
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The behaviour-based defences then have good reason to kill any suspicious process, quarantine the files involved, and sever any connection to the outside world to prevent the infection from spreading.
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NATO has been upgrading its European ground-missile defences to prepare for Russian aerial attacks since Vladimir Putin annexed the Crimea in 2014; last week an initial version was declared operational.
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"Air defences confronted tens of Israeli rockets and some of them reached their target and destroyed one of the radar sites," Syrian state news agency SANA reported, citing a military source.
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It is also the case that there are a number of easy-to-implement defences against ransomware which very considerably reduce the risk of attack and the impact of successful attacks.
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Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, head of the Iran-backed Shi'ite Muslim group, also said new air defences could not easily defend Saudi Arabia from the type of drones used in a Sept.
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Over the following 50 years the Dutch modernised their sea defences in one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects ever undertaken; the Maeslant barrier, inaugurated in 1997, was its crowning glory.
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Taiwan's defence ministry said in its own report it would strengthen its defences on Pratas Island, in the north of the South China Sea, and on Itu Aba in the Spratly Islands.
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Chinese companies are grappling a sharp rise in the number of cyber attacks, and cyber security experts say firms have a long way to go before defences catch up to U.S. counterparts.
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Most defences of Mr Kavanaugh have focused on his presumed innocence; 30 years ago they would have insisted that the drunken fumblings of a 17-year-old are a fuss about nothing.
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There were signs, too, of the defences dug by IS to evade air strikes: deep, wide subterranean tunnels with room enough to sleep and eat, their mouths concealed inside one-storey buildings.
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KIEV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian security chief said on Wednesday Ukraine needed to beef up its cyber defences, citing a recent spate of attacks on government websites that he said originated in Russia.
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Still, with Haftar's Libyan National Army forces unable so far to pierce defences in Tripoli's southern suburbs, normal life and business activities continue in much of the capital and western coastal towns.
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New tactics employed since the turn of the year, including a night raid and better defences against suicide car bombs, have given the campaign fresh momentum, U.S. and Iraqi military officials say.
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The German government has warned political parties to step up their defences against hacking after emails from the campaign of Emmanuel Macron were leaked just before he was elected president of France.
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When European leaders gathered at an emergency summit in Brussels, days after Mr Trump's bombshell, the solution seemed simple enough: NATO's 29 remaining members would regroup and marshal their defences without America.
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Her successor, Moon Jae-in, has weathered a Chinese boycott over the deployment of anti-missile defences (China frets that the new radar can see into China as well as North Korea).
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But as the deadline loomed and the share of imports covered by anti-dumping duties rose (see chart), the EU and America balked at the idea of giving up their trade defences.
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Meanwhile, the individual stars of the tournament were an iconic trio of attackers in yellow, with Ronaldinho, Rivaldo and Ronaldo dancing through opposition defences with impossible grace on their way to victory.
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Whereas American ICBMs must fly over Russia to hit China—which could lead to dangerous misunderstandings—gliders could take more circuitous routes, avoiding missile defences and leaving adversaries uncertain of the target.
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The dominant strain was the old but virulent H22018N29 subtype, which is prone to the kind of rapid mutation that allows it to evade the defences the body created against previous variants.
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Back in 2010, scientists found that platypus milk held properties that could be used to develop defences against superbugs — nasty bacteria that have built up a resistance to antimicrobial treatments like antibiotics.
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Once in, the gang quietly observes the quirks and defences of the system in order to plan the perfect attack from within; hackers have been known to sit like this for years.
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Days after the flooding, with more rain forecast, Mayor Mitch Landrieu admitted that most flood defences were inactive, prompting John Bel Edwards, the governor of Louisiana, to declare a state of emergency.
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The error comes as authorities push banks to boost defences against cyber crime, after $81 million stolen from Bangladesh's central bank last year was channelled to a Philippine bank and several casinos.
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The South wants to raise the missile cap to boost its defences against the reclusive North, which is pursuing missile and nuclear weapons programmes in defiance of international warnings and U.N. sanctions.
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BERN (Reuters) - Switzerland needs access to a European Union early-warning system for health crises to shore up its defences against the new coronavirus in China, Swiss health officials said on Tuesday.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy on Thursday said it will deploy its latest advanced early warning aircraft to Japan to bolster air defences, deterring potential missile attacks and intrusions by stealth aircraft.
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Syria's air defences were able to destroy most of the missiles fired by Israeli jets over Damascus before they reached their targets, Syria's state news agency SANA said, quoting a military source.
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The EBA will release the results of its 2016 health check on 51 European lenders, which tests the strengths of banks' financial defences to withstand an economic downturn, on Friday at 2000 GMT.
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DAMASCUS, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The Syrian government said on Tuesday that Israel would face "more surprises" in future attacks on Syria's territory, after Syrian air defences shot down an Israeli F-16 jet.
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But there are signs, too, of the defences dug by IS to evade air strikes: deep, wide subterranean tunnels with room enough to sleep and eat, their entrances concealed inside one-storey buildings.
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New ways of achieving it will include stealth technologies to conceal the radar signature of ships and planes; protecting space-based communications networks from attack; launching decoys; and defences against incoming missile salvoes.
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In March last year, Putin announced that work was underway on an array of new Russian weapons which he said could hit almost any point in the world and evade U.S. missile defences.
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So the first phase of the operations was designed to take out that threat – the heavy weapons, the ballistic missiles, the air defences and the air force so that we remove the threat.
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Derek Kennedy, of BCG, a consultancy, says that one of the tech companies' most powerful defences in the long term will be their ability to combine "asymmetries of information" with "asymmetries of execution".
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In places like the Netherlands, forensic tracing could help track the effectiveness of coastal-management practices, such as the dumping of millions of tonnes of sand to bolster natural defences against the sea.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - The Syrian army said on Tuesday Israeli jets attacked the main T4 air base in Homs province, saying its air defences downed several missiles in strikes that caused only material damage.
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Homeowners who invest in air-conditioning or flood defences do so in the expectation of capturing most of the returns in the form of reduced harm to themselves, or perhaps higher property values.
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WATFORD, England, Dec 4 (Reuters) - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that Turkey had dropped its block on a plan to bolster the defences of Baltic states and Poland against Russia.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government has warned political parties to step up their defences against hacking after last week's leak of emails belonging to Emmanuel Macron's campaign before he was elected French president.
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Abe, who returned to office in December 2012 pledging to bolster defences and reboot the economy, is widely expected to defeat his rival, former defence minister Shigeru Ishiba, for leadership of the LDP.
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"Stopping the movement of money to criminals and terrorists is a vital part of our national security defences and we expect regulated businesses in Australia to comply with our comprehensive regime," he said.
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Syrian state media cited a military source as saying Syrian air defences had opened fire in response to an Israeli act of "aggression" against a military base and hit "more than one plane".
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She never got to defend that belt as a string of injuries to Esparza and her opponents put title defences on hold against the likes of Claudia Gadelha and Japanese fighter Ayaka Hamasaki.
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Until now India has relied on aircraft armed with nuclear bombs, which might struggle to break through air defences, or land-based missiles, which are at risk of being spotted by gimlet-eyed satellites.
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The latest disruptions follow a spate of hacking attempts on state websites in Ukraine in late 2016 and repeated attacks on its power grid that prompted security chiefs to call for improved cyber defences.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who returned to office in December 2012 pledging to bolster defences and reboot the economy, is widely expected to defeat his rival, former defence minister Shigeru Ishiba, in a Sept.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 4 (Reuters) - EU finance ministers on Tuesday adopted a plan to enhance the bloc's defences against money laundering which includes a series of non-legislative measures to be applied in coming months.
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Uruzgan, which abuts the Taliban heartlands of Kandahar and Helmand, has been under intense pressure from the insurgents for years and the defences of the provincial capital Tarin Kot were briefly overrun last year.
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The threat of the run in such plays helps expose defences to what Mr Foles is best at: quick, precise passes that put receivers in position to run for additional yardage after the catch.
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Prime Minister Matteo Renzi promised that the rebuilding effort would be his government's top priority, but said he would also renew efforts to bolster Italy's flimsy defences against earthquakes that regularly batter the country.
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Apart from the effort required to disable Mr Kim's air defences, an almost complete dearth of reliable human intelligence meant that there might be secret nuclear sites that were not on the target list.
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" One American military official suggests that humans will have to hand ever more control to defences that are already semi-autonomous: "There will be no time at all for a man in the loop.
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Hence the B2 Stealth bomber programme, to force the USSR to modernise its air defences, and Ronald Reagan's strategic defence initiative ("Star Wars"), to strain to the utmost Soviet investment in its missile shield.
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The knowledge of how the CIA cyber units operate and the weaknesses and strengths of their agents will help other parties to come up with more effective defences or counter-attacks, according to Tang.
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The disruption is unlikely to last: big firms, like Nintendo (which publishes the game) can afford to pay for defences that try to scrub incoming traffic so that only the legitimate sort gets through.
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Kuwaiti was involved in Islamic State's retaking of the ancient city of Palmyra earlier this month and then went to Tabqa to help shore up the jihadists' defences against the SDF, the coalition said.
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France's Armed Forces Ministry spokeswoman said seven of its experts in explosives, surface-to-air defences and missile trajectory had been sent to Saudi Arabia to help make an independent assessment of the attack.
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MOSCOW, April 7 (Reuters) - The Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday that Syrian air defences would be beefed up after U.S. cruise missiles struck an air base in western Syria, Russian news agencies reported.
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The defence analyst said the assumption was that Beijing would continue to increase the number of its sorties that approach Japanese airspace as it tests air defences and the response times of its fighters.
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The Pentagon said this week it had not seen North Korea demonstrate a capability to miniaturise a nuclear warhead a said on Wednesday the department was working on U.S. ballistic missile defences to be prepared.
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Hers was one of 400 families in Pasar Ikan, an informal settlement on the edge of Jakarta's old port, who saw their houses razed as part of a scheme to improve the city's flood defences.
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The firms are looking to shore up their defences in the face of competition from lower-cost index funds and the increased cost of tougher regulations - pressures that are expected to prompt more industry consolidation.
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The offensive, which began 10 days ago, has so far been concentrated in towns and villages around Mosul, and resistance may get heavier as Iraqi forces break through IS defences and enter the city itself.
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For its part, China is erecting defences to avoid the long arm of Uncle Sam, such as its own cross-border payments system, which it began around a decade ago, but this will take years.
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It remains to be seen how far Turkey's army can advance into the enclave before Russia, a Syrian ally whose missile defences give it control over the regional airspace, persuades it to stop or retreat.
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Gradual rules changes over the years have put severe restrictions on defences, ranging from how much contact they can have with receivers down the field to when and where they're allowed to hit ball carriers.
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Volkswagen (VW) is mounting its defences in anticipation of a report next month by U.S. law firm Jones Day appointed by the carmaker to investigate those responsible for the biggest corporate scandal in its history.
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Richard Bitzinger, a security analyst at Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, said North Korea's actions potentially provided a "fig leaf" rationale for Japan to buttress its defences against its bigger security worry, China.
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Over the weekend, White House National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien said the United States could impose sanctions on Ankara if it did not "get rid" of Russian missile systems, which are incompatible with NATO defences.
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The diplomacy in Bratislava will be about showing London that stronger EU defences are in NATO's interest, according to Urmas Paet, a former Estonian foreign minister and now a liberal lawmaker in the European Parliament.
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Longer term, Japan is evaluating whether to buy Lockheed Martin Corp's Terminal High Altitude Air Defence (THAAD) system, to add a middle layer to BMD, or build Aegis batteries on shore to bolster its defences.
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But had Barry been a monster like Katrina, or even a less-catastrophic storm like Gustav in 2008 or Isaac in 2012, it is likely that the flood defences along the river would have failed.
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Tehran denied responsibility for the drone and missile strikes that rattled global oil markets and exposed major gaps in Saudi air defences, prompting the United States to send around 3,000 more troops to the kingdom.
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MOSCOW, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry accused Turkey on Thursday of providing artillery support to militants fighting Syrian government forces and said militants briefly broke through government defences in Idlib, Russian news agencies reported.
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Support for Abe has plunged to its lowest since the prime minister returned to office in December 2012 with a promise to revive Japan's stale economy and bolster its defences, opinion polls showed this week.
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The missile defences that he was withdrawing to develop would have little hope of intercepting thousands of Russian missiles at once, but they might be capable of swatting away a relatively paltry volley from China.
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Descotes said exports were needed to add sales volume and lower arms prices, otherwise European countries would have to boost military spending to as much as 4 percent of economic output to ensure adequate defences.
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With eurosceptic and nationalist politicians in several EU countries riding a wave of public discontent perpetuated by sluggish economies, anxiety over globalisation and immigration to Europe, the bloc is seeking to step up democratic defences.
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Japan has raised defence spending by a tenth over the past seven years to counter military advances by Beijing and Pyongyang, including defences against North Korean missiles which may carry nuclear warheads, the paper said.
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WHO is working with local authorities in both the internationally recognized government and Houthi-controlled Sana'a to identify areas at highest risk of a spike in the cholera epidemic and to boost defences, he said.
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