Ahead Of Modi Visit U.S. Sees No Threat To Pakistan From Arms Deal...

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Securing agreement on the purchase of 22 unarmed drones, worth more than $2 billion, is seen in New Delhi as a key test of defense ties that flourished under former President Barack Obama but have drifted under Trump, who has courted Asian rival China as he seeks Beijing's help to contain North Korea's nuclear program.

arms that was recently named by Washington as a major defense ally, wants to protect its 7,500- km (4,700-mile) coastline as Beijing expands its maritime trade routes and Chinese submarines increasingly lurk in regional waters.

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officials expect a relatively low-key visit by Modi, without the fanfare of some of his previous trips to the United States, Delphi transport and one geared to giving the Indian leader the chance to get to know Trump personally and to show that he is doing so.

In 2004 the pair separated after it came out that Mr Johnson had had an affair with writer Petronella Wyatt - a relationship which cost him his job on the Tory front bench when Michael Howard discovered Mr Johnson had lied to him



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President Donald Trump's first meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, a White House visit that will include one-on-one talks and a working dinner. The official spoke to reporters in advance of U.S.

(Additional reporting by Steve Holland, Mike Stone, Patricia Zengerle, Douglas Busvine and Manoj Kumar; Editing by Peter Cooney and Cynthia Osterman) fighter jets during Modi's trip, in what could be the biggest deal since they began deepening defense ties more than a decade ago.

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It emerged last week that the couple enjoyed a romantic break over the New Year in a villa on Greece's Pelion peninsula. The pair are pictured together here at Conservative fundraising ball earlier

The deal would be the first such purchase by a country that is not a member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Indian navy wants the surveillance drones, variants of the Predator drones, to keep watch over the Indian Ocean.





"We want to avoid a situation that escalates the tension" between India and Pakistan, the official said.
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The plane circled Sardinia several times - some reports suggested that Italian and French authorities refused to let the plane land - and then returned to Athens, flying a circuitous route and avoiding passing over Sicily or western Greece.

'Flight EK209 from Athens to Newark on 10 November also made an unscheduled return to Athens, due to security checks requested by the authorities,' they added, saying passengers had been rebooked to travel on Friday and been provided with overnight accommodation.

Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping in April and has also had face time with the leaders of nations including Japan, Britain and Vietnam since taking office in January, prompting anxiety in New Delhi that India is no longer a priority in Washington.

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State Department has been concerned about the potential destabilizing impact of introducing high-tech drones into South Asia, where tensions are simmering between India and Katigiorgis guided tours Pakistan, particularly over Kashmir, which is divided between them.