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Juan Carlos Bonilla is wanted in the United States on drugs and weapons charges. Prosecutors say he used his position as police chief to facilitate the shipment of US-bound cocaine.
India's arms imports have decreased by 33 per cent between 2011-15 and 2016-20, a report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said. The report stated that because of decrease in import, Russia was the most affected supplier, although India's imports of US arms also fell, by 46 per cent. Russia was the largest arms supplier to India in both 2011-15 and 2016-20. However, Russia's deliveries dropped by 53 per cent between the two periods and its share of total Indian arms imports fell from 70 to 49 per cent. In 2011-15, the US was the second largest arms supplier to In...
Avnet Asia Admits to Criminal Liability for the Conduct of Former Employees, and Agrees to Pay More Than $3.2 Million An indictment was unsealed this week charging Cheng Bo, also known as Joe Cheng, a 45-year-old national of the People’s Republic of China, with participating in a criminal conspiracy from 2012-2015 to violate U.S. export laws by shipping U.S. power amplifiers to China. Cheng’s former employer, Avnet Asia Pte. Ltd., a Singapore company and global distributor of electronic components and related software, agreed to pay a financial penalty to the United Sta...
What we do to help the rest of the world. that can mean fighting for freedom. sometimes it means honoring humanitarian work, which is the spotlight for today's "normal or not." the united states spends over $40 billion a year in foreign assistance. right now, one of the most urgent challenges is a famine unfolding for 14 million people. the u.n. says this could pose, get this, the worst humanitarian crisis since world war ii. if you don't know what country i'm talking about, maybe that's because we don't cover it very much. but the epicenter is yemen, ravaged by a civil war, famine, cholera, w...
For donald trump, they see south korea as a place that sends samsung phones to america. hyundai cars to america and a lot of other product. so this is a tricky line for the president to walk. this is a major ally. south korea is a major ally. we've got 100,000 troops there. it is strategic ally. and we're in a bit of a battle with them, but we just signed a new weapons trade deal with them and a new gas deal with them. so, that's a tricky negotiation that we were just watching. >> gary pointed out two things of note in case we forget. when doing business with china, we have to have joint ventu...