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Moscow and Ankara have agreed to speed up delivery of S-400 anti-ballistic missile systems to Turkey despite growing concerns in NATO over the Turkish government’s purchase of a non-interoperable system.

Hooded assailants hurled Molotov cocktails at a riot police unit parked in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia in the early hours of Monday, causing minor damage but no injuries.

The attack occurred at around 2 a.m. and targeted a police unit parked on the corner of Didotou and Harilaou Trikoupi Streets close to the offices of PASOK. 

The U.S. is seeking cooperation with Turkey to boost Turkish air defense capabilities as an alternative to Ankara’s purchase of Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile batteries.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has described Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400 anti-ballistic missile systems as “a difficult issue” for the alliance while at the same time welcoming the Turkish government’s cooperation with the French-Italian consortium on the procurement of SAMP-T to augment its air defense.

Moroccan, suspected of being an Islamic State terrorist (IS), was arrested on our border with Turkey.

He tried to pass through Bulgaria with a fake French identity card.

The man is initially H.Z. and is sought by Morocco through Interpol in connection with terrorist activity and membership of Islamic State..

The US has approved the sale of 200 offensive and defensive missiles to Finland, which is not a member of NATO and borders with Russia, the State Department said.

Tension in Tunisia are not diminishing, and new clashes between demonstrators and policemen have erupted in a number of cities on the third day of protests against austerity measures prepared by the authorities. From Monday onwards, social unrest continues - seven years after the start of the "Arab Spring", which removed the dictator Zin el Abidin Ben Ali, reports mediapool. 

A Turkish ballistic missile expert said on Dec. 26 that mysterious lights observed in the Turkish sky could be caused by the Russian ballistic missile test.

Japan’s government approved a record military budget on Dec. 22 but did not earmark enough extra money to stop a splurge on U.S.-made ballistic missile defense kit from putting a squeeze on funding for an ambitious domestic jet fighter project.

Turkey and Russia are set to sign an agreement on S-400 missile defense systems in the upcoming days, a Russian official said on Dec. 21.