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Issue number
73
May 2019
Actions against Europe against arms sales to Saudi Arabia

War profiteer of the month: SAAB

A fighter aircraft in the air during a display. The image is shot from below, and the aircraft has plumes of smoke trailing from the tip of each wing.

SAAB is a Swedish arms company, founded in 1937. The company builds a wide range of military aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, and missiles.

Activists across Europe resist arms shipment to Saudi Arabia

A banner reading "port closed to war, port open to migrants" in Italian, hanging off a fence

Unionised dock workers and activists have refused to load a Saudi ship – the Bahri-Yanbu - carrying weapons to Saudi Arabia.

Leaked report details Saudi use of French weapons in Yemen

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French NGO “Disclose” has released details of the use of French weapons by the Saudi-led coalition in the war in Yemen, using leaked documents.

SIPRI data shows world military expenditure in 2018 grew to $1.8 trillion

An F35 jet flies through the air

World military expenditure has risen to $1.822 trillion in 2018, representing an increase of 2.6 per cent from 2017, according to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

Germany: activists take action against Rheinmetall AGM

A large number of people occupy a stage. Some are trying to hold up banners as security guards try to pull them down.

Activists in Germany have disrupted the annual general meeting of arms company Rheinmetall, holding banners protesting the use of tanks manufactured by the company by the Turkish military in Kurdish regions.

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