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Pakistan was tenth largest arms importer in the world in 2015, at one point from nine the previous year, a military think tank database reveals, while Saudi Arabia was leading importer of arms in the world, closely followed by India. International Peace Research Institute shows, India was the top weapons importer in 2014. Pakistan spent $ 735 million on imports of weapons by 2015. In comparison, India imported arms worth $ 3, 078m. The biggest exporter of weapons to Pakistan in the year 2015, China was the transfers of weapons worth $ 565 million, followed by the United States of America (us) with $ 66 m in transfers of weapons. Pakistan is also the largest Chinese merchant on the weapons, which represents 35 percent of the total turnover from the sale of weapons in the country, Close military ties between Pakistan and China, sometimes sparked tension with India, which is trying to increase its own homegrown weapons industry and has long been objections to other countr...

The US Air Force will send six F-15s in Finland this spring for exercises that will operate from a base about 100 miles from the border with Russia, military officials say. The six jets from the 173rd Fighter Wing at Kingsley Field Air National Guard base in Oregon will fly training missions with Finnish forces as part of the Atlantic resolve operation, which the United States began in 2014 to reassure NATO allies after the military intervention of Russia in Ukraine.           The Strike Eagle is a version of the air superiority fighter adpated to perform ground -strike missions. With a crew of two, the twin-jet can carry and deploy most weapons in the     Air Force inventory and operate in any weather. The F-15E was first delivered in 1988. The Air Force lists 219 in its fleet. The United States requested the exercises, said Maj. Sheryll I. US Klinkel Europe air forces. If Finland is not part of NATO, it shares a 813 miles to the border wi...

   Senator Bernie Sanders speaking in Concord, New Hampshire — part of a key region that represents his favorite fossil fuel subsidy.  What is your favorite fossil fuel subsidies? Which may seem like an odd question, but you almost certainly one. Even someone as strongly opposed to the consumption of fossil fuels such as presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is a favorite - will get shortly. If you are wondering why there are fossil fuel subsidies despite seemingly overwhelming opposition to their existence, I'm going to explain it here. In short, it is because they require their taxpayers, but does not recognize them as fossil fuel subsidies. Oil Change International is a company that monitors subsidies of fossil fuels, and tabulate figures often cited by those opposed to the fossil fuel industry. For example, a few years ago environmental activist Bill McKibben, founder of 350. org, stated the OCI data support that fossil fuel industry receives $ 1 trillion in ...

Confirms previous reports that Google is plotting a move to help sell auto consumer in the US insurance, the search giant announced this morning that it is beginning a new feature called « Google Compare Car Insurance ', a comparison-shopping site that you It allows to compare the prices of different insurance providers. The ability to compare prices will start popping up, after the consumer does a search on Google for "car insurance" using the Google search engine. Initially, the service is available to residents of California, but Google says other members will soon follow later in the year. Consumers who enter in this search query, you will see a small gray questionnaire appears, asking the zip code, and other information about their vehicle. If you choose to fill it out, Google will return a comparison premiums Exchange unit, provided by the partners of the insurance advertiser. Alternately, users can also go to www.google.com.com/compare start the same experi...

Sarah-Jane Crawford attends the British Academy Film Awards ate Royal Opera House in London on Sunday, February 14.  "Revenant" became the main victor on a night honoring BAFTA otherwise relatively evenly spread-out that saw 14 films emerge with prizes. The film won the Best Film Award, Best Director and Best Actor awards, along with the best sound and best cinematography. "Mad Max: Road Rage" won four awards, while «Carol,« which had led the nominations were among the few titles excluded completely. Stephen Fry was, again, the main host of the evening, but the other presenters included Tom Cruise, Idris Elba (who lost in a Best Supporting Actor to Mark Rylance) and Cuba Gooding Jr.. There were many comedic digs discussion Oscars diversity across, such as those available Rebel Wilson and Sacha Baron Cohen. The evening also saw Sidney Poitier receive the BFI Fellowship, but the iconic actress was too ill to attend to accept the award in a video. In ho...

One day after he spoke Russian Prime Minister for a renewed "cold war" in the country with the West, the US senior senator accused Moscow therapist in Syria "as an exercise in live-fire" for the army as he tried to carve out a sphere influence in the Middle East. In Sunday's speech to the Munich Security Conference in Germany, US Senator John McCain critical intervention of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Syria almost five years of civil war. "Mr. Putin is not interested in being our partner," said McCain, President of the Commission of the US Senate armed services, adding that the Russian president wanted to "close the Assad regime." World powers agree to pause fighting in Syria  From September to intervene in the conflict in Syria, Russia has pursued a campaign of air from an air base in the province Hmeymim Latakia in Syria, which has helped swing momentum for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. McCain continued, "wa...

Was your video a flop or success? Instagram will soon show you. Your video on Instagram a day at the beach was much likes, but in reality, how many people saw it? Instagram will soon let you know. In the next several weeks, you will begin to see the number of views below each video you share. Below the video in your feed shows the number of screenings, as well you can see how many people liked the video and who they are. Instagram measures a viewing at any time a video is playing for more than 3 seconds, so when fragments a video, it will not count. Most of us will not care about how many people view our videos, but do brands and celebrities. The count of views will let them see how well they do their videos with their fans and potential customers as you can do today on YouTube. It's all part of the global Instagram push to get more companies to advertise on photo-centric social app, since it began to show ads in 2013. We expect more tools and measurements like this i...

Major world powers have agreed to "cessation of hostilities" and to provide direct assistance to Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry announced early Friday. He spoke in Munich, Germany, where top diplomats from more than a dozen countries, including the United States and Russia, met in order to achieve an agreement. "I am happy to say that as a result today in Munich, we believe we have made progress on the humanitarian front and cessation of hostilities along, and these two fronts, this progress has the potential - to be fully realized, fully accept to - be able to change the daily lives of the Syrian people, "the Kerry said. "Firstly, we agreed to accelerate and expand the implementation of humanitarian aid which was just beginning," he told reporters.

BRUSSELS : United States ( US ) Defence Secretary Ash Carter , who was under pressure to shore up support from Arab allies to fight the Islamic State (IS) armed group on Thursday welcomed the commitment of Saudi Arabia to expand its role in air strikes against militants. In a gathering of defense ministers more than two dozen at NATO Headquarters, Saudi Arabia, which quietly resumed its air strikes in participation in recent weeks, also renewed the possibility of sending forces to Syria. "The defense minister of Saudi Arabia ... stated that the Kingdom relaunch its commitment to the coalition air campaign, which is very welcome news, and contributing in other critical ways on the ground," Carter said after the talks in Brussels. Carter, generally praising contributions from allies, said should win the US-led war against IS despite former Cold War foe Russia's role in the civil war in Syria on the side of the government of President Bashar Al-Assad. On Wednesd...

Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday threatened to send millions of refugees in Turkey, EU Member States, NATO pledged to deploy ships in the Aegean to facilitate migrant crisis. Erdogan to accelerate the termination of the western migration policy in a speech in Ankara, confirming had threatened EU leaders at the November summit that Turkey could say "goodbye" to refugees. Alarm is growing in EU capitals that thousands of migrants still crossing daily Aegean from Turkey after over one million the dangerous sea voyage last year. NATO agreed to send a naval group on Sea to fight people-smuggling feeding the influx of immigrants, while Greece is considering sending someone got in the water back to Turkey. Turkey, already house some three million refugees, it is also within the EU and UN pressure to take in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing regime advances the Aleppo region. Erdogan said Turkey had every right to peat refugees from th...

I had no idea what to expect title at Madison Square Garden this afternoon to get my ticket for three season the talented designer Arik Kanye West's show / life Pablo listening period at Madison Square Garden. Tidal, which livestreamed the show, was generous enough to extend an invitation to me which I thought meant to sit and watch Kanye and models along with everyone else with a ticket. As it turns out, I was given the same pass that the work crew event were - that allows me to virtually roam free everywhere in the arena. finally found his way backstage, where hung celebs, models prepared and finally got the show on the floor, just feet from Kanye. There will be enough time to discuss and dissect the music, and one listen to a loud stadium not going to do the album justice. One thing was clear, however: the action on the floor was electric, and it is not everyday you experience one Kanye West album like this. Here is just some of what I noticed listening to the album and w...

There is still so much we do not know how a 13-year-old Blacksburg, Virginia, the girl got to know a 18-year-old freshman Virginia Tech, before he allegedly stabbed to death. What we know is a little bit more for a possible motive for the death of Nicole Lovell, a junior high school student. David Eisenhauer, a college track and field athlete, believed that they had an inappropriate relationship with Lovell and stabbed to death because he threatened to expose their relationship, according to a law enforcement official. But how do you meet? How did the alleged relationship? Points are facing an online network, after police arrested Eisenhauer with tips and leads from social media. We also know that Lovell was active in social media, including entries in a group on Facebook called teen dating and courtship, which has been closed since.

Twitter is losing customers  It is difficult for the small core of Twitter addicts to accept, but Twitter, just not popular enough to be successful. In fact, Twitter can lose customers. The social media company said Wednesday that it lost two million users in the last three months of 2015. Shares plummeted by 12% in trading late at night. Twitter has 305 million active users by the end of 2015. In contrast, Facebook (FB, Tech30) has 1.6 billion. Google (GOOGL, Tech30) has eight products with over one billion users each. Even to Instagram surpassed Twitter in September, increased to 400 million users. If Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) was able to generate sales effectively tweets sponsorship and partnerships, is growing at a snail's pace. It is still a relatively niche product that has not been able to expand its reach in the way they are his competitors. New management, products, I have no plans and features do much to move the needle. Twitter's growth has stagnated and ...

VTech has restored access to learning software Lodge Cyber security experts said parents should boycott or at least be careful of VTech electronic games because of how he handled a hack attack. They gave advice, after he revealed that the VTech new terms and conditions, stating that parents must take responsibility for future violations. children accounts for more than 6.3 million affected by violation of last year, which gave the perpetrator access to photos and chat logs. VTech says is beside the new conditions. "By learning about the hack from databases, VTech has worked hard to improve website security and services and the protection of customer information," the spokesman said. "But any company that operates online can provide a 100% guarantee that this will not be hacked. "Learning Lodge terms and conditions as the T & Cs for several online sites and services, simply recognize the fact by limiting the company's liability for the acts of...

car automatic driving system Google could soon be given the same legal definition as a human driver, opening the way for vehicles without steering wheel or pedals. The US national road safety management service (NHTSA) - What rules and regulations sets on the streets of America - shared her thoughts in a letter to the Google made public this week. Until today, every car without a human driver could not be considered technically. However, taking into account technological developments, the NHTSA has changed the perspective. "If the human tongue of the vehicle can actually drive the vehicle, it is more reasonable to identify the driver as anything else (unlike anyone) doing the driving," he said. "In this case, an item of equipment a motor vehicle, the Self-Driving system, in fact the vehicle." Google boost  This means automatic driving of Google pod, which has no formal controls in the car, is a crucial step closer to be allowed on public roads. With...