Military technology

The US has expelled 35 Russian diplomats in retaliation to the cyber attacks Washington claims were aimed at influencing the presidential election.

The diplomats at Russia's Embassy to Washington have been given 72 hours to leave after being declared "persona non grata."

The latest wave of sanctions includes entities and individuals in the Russian intelligence.

A Turkish state weapons factory head was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison on Dec. 29 for trying to sell Turkish weapons designs to a U.S. company, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Pity the poor princelings of the Polytechnic, those rebels with no regime to fight against, who confuse the symbolic buildings that they occupy with history itself, who think that the fumes of their Molotov cocktails make them equal to those who fought the junta in 1973, who, instead of clashing with tanks, burn trolley buses.

Buk-M1-2 air defence system in 2010. Command post 9C470M1-2, TELAR 9A310M1-2 and a TEL 9A39M1-2 from the backside. Static display at Engineering technologies 2010 exposition. Photo: Vitaly V. Kuzmin / Wikipedia

BELGRADE - Serbian authorities are planning to discuss with the Russian leadership purchases of the Buk missile systems, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Monday.

Police officers discovered a suitcase containing 149 Molotov cocktails in the lobby of an apartment block located on Notara Street in Exarchia, central Athens, on Sunday.

The petrol bombs were confiscated and taken to a police crime lab for further examination.

BELGRADE - Seventy 9 mm CZ-99 semi-automatic pistols, five 7.62 mm M-70 AB2 automatic rifles and two crates of 7.62 mm and 9 mm ammunition have been found missing from a Belgrade military warehouse, the Ministry of Defence said on Thursday.

The arms were found missing during a routine check, a statement said.

BELGRADE - Ten people have been arrested in the Apatin and Sombor areas for selling, distributing and using various arms, and a large quantity of weapons has been found, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Wednesday.

After hours of clashes between self-styled anarchists and riot police officers that started on Thursday night and continued into the early hours of Friday, municipal workers cleared a ton of debris from the area around the National Technical University of Athens, where the unrest caused widespread damage.

Belgian police and protesting off-duty soldiers clashed on Wednesday in Brussels.

AFP is quoting authorities as saying that 8,500 soldiers took part in the demonstration, and that riot police fired water cannon "after receiving projectiles of smoke bombs and firecrackers from the protestors."

Greek police, on high alert for the ongoing visit of outgoing US President Barack Obama, are investigating a bag of makeshift firebombs found outside a soccer stadium near central Athens.