Aerospace & Defense

State Department approves $3.8 billion in arms sales to Bahrain: Pentagon

WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department has approved arms sales packages worth more than $3.8 billion to Bahrain including F-16 jets, upgrades, missiles and patrol boats, the Pentagon said on Friday.

U.N. aviation agency to call for global drone registry

MONTREAL The United Nations' aviation agency is backing the creation of a single global drone registry, as part of broader efforts to come up with common rules for flying and tracking unmanned aircraft.

U.S. defense rally may stall even as North Korea tensions flare

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK Investors have flocked to U.S. defense stocks amid escalating tensions with North Korea and President Donald Trump's promises to boost the military, but with towering valuations, their steepest gains may be behind them.

U.S. oil drillers cut rigs for third week in four as recovery stalls: Baker Hughes

U.S. energy firms cut oil rigs for a third time in the past four weeks as a 14-month drilling recovery stalls with energy firms reducing spending plans in response to recent crude price declines.

Germany disputes size of Russian wargames, predicts 100,000 troops

TALLINN Germany said on Thursday that Russia was planning to send more than 100,000 troops to war games on NATO's eastern flank this month, disputing Moscow's version that only 13,000 Russian and Belarussian servicemen would participate.

China's tighter drone rules send new pilots flocking to school

BEIJING A buzz fills the sky above a flight base in northern Beijing, as pilots practise take-offs and landings ahead of tests to qualify for a license - to fly drones. | Video

Russian and Japanese leaders 'decisively condemn' North Korean tests

VLADIVOSTOK Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday after talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the two leaders "decisively condemned" North Korean weapons tests.

France offers Belgium to supply its army with Rafale war planes

PARIS France has offered Belgium a deal to purchase Dassault Aviation's Rafale war planes, the French Defence ministry said on Thursday, as Brussels seeks to replace 34 of its Lockheed Martin's F-16 planes.

The death of the car show?

PARIS/FRANKFURT Frankfurt's vast auto show, which opens next week, is already getting attention of the wrong kind - for its impressive list of no-shows.

Cyber alert: EU ministers test responses in first computer war game

TALLINN European Union defense ministers tested their ability to respond to a potential attack by computer hackers in their first cyber war game on Thursday, based on a simulated attack on one of the bloc's military missions abroad.

South Sudan president sacks state-owned oil company boss

JUBA South Sudan President Salva Kiir has sacked the head of national oil company Nilepet, according to a government decree.