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Kelsey Gallagher

@kelgallagh.bsky.social
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Arms trade, arms control & disarmament. Focus on Canadian military exports. Senior Researcher with ploughshares.ca, Expert with @Forumarmstrade.bsky.social

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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
ICE says armoured vehicles ordered from Canada's Roshel produced in U.S. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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ICE says armoured vehicles ordered from Roshel produced in U.S.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says the vehicles it is purchasing from Canadian defence firm Roshel fall under Buy American provisions.
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Sale of Canadian armoured vehicles to ICE agency ‘deeply troubling’: MP Kwan www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
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Sale of Canadian armoured vehicles to ICE agency ‘deeply troubling’: Kwan
Anti-armament advocates say Canadian firms shouldn’t be selling armoured military vehicles to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or any other organizations with sketchy human rights re...
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Anand won’t say whether Canada would block export of armoured vehicles for ICE use www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Anand won’t say whether Canada would block export of armoured vehicles for ICE use
Washington has ordered nearly $10-million in vehicles from Brampton-based defence contractor, records show
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Ontario's Roshel under contract to supply 20 armoured vehicles to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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ICE ordering fleet of 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian firm | CBC News
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earmarked millions of dollars for a bulk order for 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian defence manufacturer Roshel that are built to resist bullets and bomb bla...
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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Christy Somos @christysomos.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
ICE is buying $7.2M worth of armoured personnel carriers from Canada. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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‘America, uh...First!’: ICE to buy $7.2m worth of Canadian armored personnel carriers
Exclusive: ‘There are so many things wrong with this,’ one government-affairs watchdog told The Independent
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
"Revenues from sales of weapons and military services by the 100 largest global arms-producing companies reached a record $679bn in 2024, according to new data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)" www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
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Top global arms producers’ revenues surge as major wars rage: SIPRI report
From Israel to Elon Musk's SpaceX and other giant companies in the US and Europe, arms producers had a profitable 2024.
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Thoughtful @icrc.org commentary outlining not only the enduring humanitarian imperative for the Mine Ban Treaty, but also the operational, economic, and security-related considerations which render AP mines obsolete in modern conflict blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...
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Do anti-personnel mines still have military utility in modern warfare? - Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog
Five States Parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention have recently submitted instruments of withdrawal, citing national security and military necessity, while at least one other has taken ste...
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Ottawa reviewing two Canadian-owned companies over Sudan weapons links www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Ottawa reviewing two Canadian-owned companies over Sudan links
Foreign Affairs Minister looking into companies that reportedly sold equipment that ended up in the hands of militia connected with atrocities in Darfur
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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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The German government says it’s lifting restrictions on exports of military equipment to Israel
The German government is lifting its restrictions on military exports to Israel
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Officials won’t say if Carney will raise issue of UAE arms shipments to Sudanese militia during Abu Dhabi visit www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Officials won’t say if Carney will raise issue of UAE arms shipments to Sudanese militia during Abu Dhabi visit
Human-rights groups and activists are urging the PM to put pressure on the Emirates to halt its alleged weapons shipments
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
UK pauses intelligence-sharing with US on suspected drug vessels in Caribbean www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK pauses intelligence-sharing with US on suspected drug vessels in Caribbean
Rare rupture between military allies comes as concerns grow over Trump administration’s lethal sinking of boats
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Former Canadian diplomat @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social calls on the government of Canada to address the diversion of Canadian arms to the RSF in Sudan www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBi...
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Sudan’s paramilitary force agrees to U.S. humanitarian ceasefire proposal
YouTube video by CBC News
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
"Russian snipers are using Canadian rifles, despite sanctions" globalnews.ca/news/1148500...
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Russian snipers are using Canadian rifles, despite sanctions | Globalnews.ca
Despite sanctions, made-in-Canada long-range firearms are turning up in Russia.
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
"Is Canada complicit in Trump’s illegal war in Venezuela?" via Ted Snider/ @canadiandimension.bsky.social canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Is Canada complicit in Trump’s illegal war in Venezuela?
The Trump administration’s covert bombing campaign against alleged Venezuelan “narco-terrorists” has drawn scrutiny from legal experts and human rights observers. As evidence of cartel ties remains un...
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
"There has to be more human rights oversight…. We are seeing Canadian weapons being misused." - @kelgallagh.bsky.social A high-tech Canadian-made camera system was used as part of controversial U.S. strikes against alleged Venezuelan drug boats: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli
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Canadian tech helped U.S. strike alleged Venezuelan drug boats: report | CBC News
Canadian technology was used by the U.S. military in operations that blew up at least two alleged Venezuelan drug boats in the Caribbean in September, according to a report by Project Ploughshares.
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Thanks to the CBC's visual investigations team for covering the story here: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... And below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRvN...
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Did Trump strike alleged Venezuelan drug boats with Canadian tech?
YouTube video by CBC News
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Our new report, “Targeted from Above,” reveals that Canadian-made MX-Series surveillance and targeting optics produced by L3Harris Wescam were used in two U.S. airstrikes in the Caribbean, conducted on September 2 and 15. Read the report here: ploughshares.ca/targeted-fro...
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Targeted from above: Canadian sensors facilitating unlawful U.S. airstrikes in the Caribbean - Project Ploughshares
On the morning of September 2, 2025, a small speedboat skims across open water somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. Suddenly, in a flash of white, it’s destroyed in a U.S.-launched airstrike. All 11 people...
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Today, MP @jennykwan.bsky.social announced she will introduce a Private Members’ Bill to close export control loopholes that allow for the unregulated transfers of Canadian weapons to the U.S., some of which end up in third states, including Israel www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...
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Arms Exports: NDP MP Jenny Kwan Discusses Private Members’ Bill
At a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, NDP MP Jenny Kwan outlines her private members’ bill aimed at closing loopholes in Canadian law related to arms exports.Joining her at this event are...
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Axios @axios.com · 18/08/2025
BREAKING: Hamas accepts latest Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal proposal
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Hamas accepts latest Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal proposal
The news comes just hours after President Trump urged Israel to expand its attacks on Hamas.
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Is Australia supplying weapons to bomb Gaza? Here’s what we know about fighter jet parts in the F-35 program www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Is Australia supplying weapons to bomb Gaza? Here’s what we know about fighter jet parts in the F-35 program
The Greens have urged Labor to stop supplying F-35 parts to a global supply chain that can be accessed by Israel – but the government says such claims are ‘misinformation’
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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🧵 Originally began in part to inform U.S. security assistance, the delayed latest Country Reports on Human Rights Practices is now available, with expectation that much is no longer included. As reactions come in, we'll add to this thread. www.state.gov/reports/2024...
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2024 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - United States Department of State
The annual Human Rights Reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agre...
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
New report from @cpteams.bsky.social finds that Turkish strikes in Iraqi Kurdistan decreased by 97% over prior months following the onset of the PKK's disarmament process cptik.org/reports-1/20...
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Turkish Military Attacks Reduce by 97%, Amid Ongoing Peace Developments and New Turkish Military Operation — Community Peacemaker Teams - Iraqi Kurdistan
With the initiation of disarmament and ongoing peace negotiations and implementation efforts, Turkish military strikes decreased sharply—by 97% compared to the previous month —representing a signific...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/08/2025
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
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Frank Slijper @frankslijper.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Germany, Israel’s No. 2 arms dealer, halts exports over Gaza concerns. Big question is what this means for the largest chunk of their arms exports: warships. www.defensenews.com/global/europ...
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Germany, Israel’s No. 2 arms dealer, halts exports over Gaza concerns
Germany accounted for around 30% of Israel’s arms imports between 2019 and 2023, second only to the United States.
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Defense News @defensenews.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Germany accounted for around 30% of Israel’s arms imports between 2019 and 2023, second only to the United States.
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Germany, Israel’s No. 2 arms dealer, halts exports over Gaza concerns
Germany accounted for around 30% of Israel’s arms imports between 2019 and 2023, second only to the United States.
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
New from @yasmineahmed.bsky.social/@hrw.org: "Under British and Int. law, arms licensing should be suspended if there's a “clear risk” that arms might be used... to facilitate serious violations of IHL. That threshold hasn’t just been crossed, it has been bulldozed." www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
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Is Britain Breaking International Law Over Israel to Avoid Offending Trump?
On Tuesday, the British government will be in the high court defending the indefensible: its continuing approval of arms exports to Israel.
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Center for International Policy @cipolicy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Measures to Block Israel Arms Sale a Choice: Uphold U.S. Law or Arm Atrocities SAM Director Ari Tolany responds to Senate efforts to block Trump’s proposed arms sales to Israel, including 1,000-pound bombs, joint direct attack munitions & automatic rifles. internationalpolicy.org/publications...
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Report suggests arms still flow from Canada to Israel despite denials www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Report suggests arms still flow from Canada to Israel despite denials | CBC News
The government of Canada is adamant — with certain, shifting caveats — that it has not allowed arms shipments to Israel since January 2024, and yet Israeli import data and publicly available shipping ...
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
🚨 The US has quietly deployed nuclear weapons to the UK for the first time since the end of the Cold War. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/nuclear-th...
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Nuclear Threats Are Back
Washington responds to Russia with escalation
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
"[Trump] said that the bloc would also be “purchasing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of military equipment,” but did not provide a specific dollar amount" www.cnbc.com/2025/07/27/t...
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Trump announces EU trade deal with 15% tariffs
President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met for a pivotal discussion before Trump's Aug 1. tariff deadline.
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Winnipeg’s hidden role in the global arms trade canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Winnipeg’s hidden role in the global arms trade
Winnipeg’s Magellan Aerospace has played a significant but under-recognized role in Canada’s arms industry. Its CRV7 rockets and other military technologies have been used globally—from Cold War NATO ...
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Despite Trump's comments suggesting otherwise, the Desert Viper and light armoured vehicle are actually one and the same, with the Desert Viper being the specific LAV-700 model Qatar is rumoured to be considering for procurement from Canadian industry, pictured below (photo credit: Stew Magnuson)
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Qatar’s long-rumoured purchase of Canadian-made light armoured vehicles (LAVs) may be moving forward as part of Trump’s earlier-announced $42B Qatar-US defense deal (No Congressional notice explicitly mentioning the LAVs has been published yet) breakingdefense.com/2025/05/trum...
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
"The Committee noted that, by providing military aid... the US and Canada “could be enabling racial discrimination, racial segregation and apartheid by Israel” in breach of obligations under the Int. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination" www.jurist.org/commentary/2...
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Why the United Nations is Investigating the US and Canada for Enabling Atrocities in Gaza
The United States is Israel’s largest supplier of arms. Now, a United Nations committee is investigating whether its transfers of bombs, fighter jets and other weapons violate international law. On Ma...
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Belgian court orders Flanders to halt the transit and transshipment of arms to Israel through Flemish territory www.belganewsagency.eu/belgian-cour...
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Belgian court orders Flanders to halt military transit to Israel
A civil court in Brussels has ordered the Flemish government to block the transit of all military equipment and any goods potentially intended for...
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"Golden Dome Explained: Ambition, Reality, Risk" from @jessicawestphd.bsky.social and Kat Barrett @ploughsharesca.bsky.social ploughshares.ca/wp-content/u...
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Pleased to note that our publication “Fanning the Flames” @ploughsharesca.bsky.social is cited in the recent report of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
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A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (Advance edited ve...
This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and...
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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 04/07/2025
NEW: Canada Authorized $37.2 Million In New Military Export Permits To Israel This Year. Global Affairs insists it hasn’t authorized new exports that could be used in Gaza, but won’t say if this policy applies to Israel’s other conflicts. www.readthemaple.com/canada-autho...
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Canada Authorized $37.2 Million In New Military Exports To Israel
Global Affairs insists it hasn’t authorized exports that could be used in Gaza, but won’t say if this policy applies to Israel’s other conflicts.
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International Campaign to Ban Landmines @minefreeworld.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have officially announced their intention to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty, marking an unprecedented step backward in humanitarian disarmament. 🔗 Read the full press release: bit.ly/3Tmhqbj #MineFreeWorld #ProtectMineBan
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Nobel Peace-Prize Winner Denounces Baltic Countries’ Official Announcement of Withdrawal from Life-Saving Landmine Ban Treaty - ICBLCMC
International Campaign to Ban Landmines - Cluster Munition Coalition - Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
New report "Transparency in European Arms Exports: Access to information and accountability" by @tmcasser.bsky.social and University of Amsterdam Law Clinics www.asser.nl/about-the-as...
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The US Federal Procurement Data System has been updated with the US$265 million contract for General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada to supply 150 flat-bottom-hull Stryker armoured vehicles to Bulgaria via the US Foreign Military Sales program www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/sea...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/06/2025
A group of nonprofits lost a legal battle to prevent Britain from exporting fighter jet parts to Israel, after judges said Monday that the issue should be decided by the government rather than the courts.
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Nonprofits Lose Legal Bid to Halt U.K. Exports of Fighter Jet Parts to Israel
A top court ruled Monday that the British government, rather than judges, should decide on the “acutely sensitive and political issue.”
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
US strikes did not destroy Iran nuclear programme, says Pentagon assessment
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US strikes did not destroy Iran nuclear programme, says Pentagon assessment
The White House says the initial damage assessment about Iran's uranium stockpile is "flat-out wrong".
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
My latest with @ploughsharesca.bsky.social "Canada again shipping UAV sensors to Türkiye" 1/ ploughshares.ca/canada-again...
Bayraktar TB2 UAV pictures with a L3Harris Wescam CMX-15D EO/IR sensor visible on its underside during Teknofest 2025, May 2025. It is unclear when this sensor unit was exported to Türkiye. Photo: Baykar.
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
My latest with @ploughsharesca.bsky.social "Canada again shipping UAV sensors to Türkiye" 1/ ploughshares.ca/canada-again...
Bayraktar TB2 UAV pictures with a L3Harris Wescam CMX-15D EO/IR sensor visible on its underside during Teknofest 2025, May 2025. It is unclear when this sensor unit was exported to Türkiye. Photo: Baykar.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 23/06/2025
Iran launches missile attack on U.S. base in Qatar www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Iran launches missile attack on U.S. base in Qatar
Qatar, home to a major base for U.S. forces and a major regional airline, temporarily closed its airspace as a precaution amid threats of Iranian retaliation
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Airwars @airwars.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
1/ Our new investigation on unprecedented civilian harm caused by the U.S.’ latest campaign in Yemen covered by The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Trump’s Yemen bombings killed nearly as many civilians as 23 previous years of US attacks, analysis shows
Monitoring group says high death rate in two months indicates change in US policy that could affect Iran
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Kelsey Gallagher @kelgallagh.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
As the widening of the conflict in the Middle East becomes increasingly likely, Raytheon Technologies' stock soars to all-time www.investing.com/news/company...
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Raytheon Technologies stock soars to all-time high of $141.12 By Investing.com
Raytheon Technologies stock soars to all-time high of $141.12
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