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2009-06-28 In Honduras, the military arrested President Jose Manuel Zelaya, the same day he vowed to follow through with a referendum that the country's Supreme Court had ruled illegal,
2009-06-10 "Our position is that we cannot go below the level of 1,500 nuclear warheads. But the final decision is to be made by the country's political leadership."
-- Nikolai Solovtsov, Russian Strategic Rocket Forces Commander, at a meeting of the Defense Ministry's Public Council, at the training center of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces' Military Academy
2009-05-25 President Nicolas Sarkozy has formally opened a French military base in the United Arab Emirates, France's first permanent base in the Gulf.
The base will will host up to 500 French troops and include a navy base, air base, and training camp
2009-02-20 On February 20, the Russian Federation Security Council and the State Council will approve a new national security strategy to go through 2020. Without saying the "United States," the draft document clearly identifies the United States as Russia's primary rival for the next decade. It goes on to say that the primary focus of the struggle will be for hydrocarbons in some very specific areas. The Middle East and Central Asia are mentioned specifically. In these areas, according to the document, the struggle could develop into a military confrontation.
2009-02-17 "I am absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the Taliban, the spread of extremism in that region, solely through military means. ... We're going to have to use diplomacy. We're going to have to use development."
-- Barack Obama, President of the USA, in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp
2009-02-17 In the USA, the White House announced that 17,000 more troops would join the existing 65,000 Western troops in Afghanistan “to stabilise a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which has not received the strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently requires.”
2009-01-30 "I was just told by the Spanish foreign minister that Spain decided to change the legislation
In order to change the possibility of different organisations, political organisations, to abuse the legal system in Spain in order to put charges against Israelis and others that are fighting terror."
-- Tzipi Livni, Foreign Minister of Israel, told journalists after a telephone conversation with her Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos
2009-01-29 The High Court in Spain is starting a war-crimes investigation into a former Israeli defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and six of his military officials for the bombing in 2002 of a building in the Gaza Strip killing 14 civilians and Salah Shehada, a leader of the Hamas military wing.

2009-01-23 Obama, in his first military action as president, sanctioned two missile attacks inside Pakistan, killing 22 people, reportedly women and children among them. The attacks drew criticism from Pakistani officials at the weekend.
2009 The USA is helping Afghanistan to build a bigger army.

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