Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, a dictator who ruled Libya for 42 years, was on Thursday shot and killed by rebels in his hometown of Sirte. The narcissistic leader backed terrorism and became United States public enemy number one.
The United States, which is the largest seller of high-tech defence equipment globally, has a strong end-user monitoring agreement, and as a matter of practice takes all allegations of misuse of defence articles very seriously.
The United States public debt is the money borrowed by the federal government of the United States at any one time through the issue of securities by the Treasury and other federal government agencies.
Half of all Americans expect another country to emerge this century as the world's technology leader, according to a survey released earlier this month by Duke University. 72 per cent expect the technological advancements of the 21st century to surpass those of the previous century, and only 49 per cent predict the US will lead the way in producing these advances.
Another sobering number is that the total Chinese investment in India in the past 10 years amounts to $400 million.
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