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		<title>Iran warns US battleship to keep out of Gulf</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran's military leadership Tuesday warned a US aircraft carrier to keep out of the Persian Gulf. The warning from army commander Major General Ataollah Salehi comes after a 10-day Iranian naval exercise ended in the Strait of Hormuz.
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		<title>India-China defence dialogue resumed; border mechanism gets a push</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fourth round of ADD, held after nearly two years, was led by India's Defense Secretary Shashikant Sharma and Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Deputy Chief of General Staff General Ma Xiaotian. The two sides also discussed defense exchanges for 2012 and agreed to "gradually enhance" the range and scope of their interaction, according to Indian defense ministry officials.]]></description>
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		<title>Antony leaves for Japan to further defense relations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defense Minister Arackaparambil Kurian Antony Tuesday left for Japan on a daylong visit where he is expected to explore opportunities for furthering the bilateral military relations in global and regional security matters, maritime security, anti-piracy operations, counter-terrorism and humanitarian assistance.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;India&#8217;s area of responsibility goes beyond Indian Ocean&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["Earlier, we have been talking of our strategic interest starting from the Gulf of Aden to the Malacca Straits. But as the global footprint of India increases, certainly IAF will be called upon to serve India's interests where ever the capacity or whatever our capacity lie," Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar  said.]]></description>
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		<title>Navy thwarts pirate attack on two cargo ships</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Attacks by Somali pirates on two cargo ships in the Gulf of Aden were thwarted by an Indian Navy warship last week, navy officers said here Monday.]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s Dornier aircraft in Seychelles for anti-piracy operations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Indo-Asian News Service</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[India has given to Seychelles a Dornier maritime reconnaissance aircraft for surveillance and anti-piracy missions in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR)that is plagued by piracy threats in and around the Gulf of Aden.]]></description>
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		<title>Indian dhow hijacked off Oman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Joshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dhow, <em>al Musa</em>, was on its way to the Persian Gulf and was crewed by fourteen Indian sailors. It is home-ported at Mandvi in Gujarat.]]></description>
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		<title>Antony at ASEAN</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Indian Defence Minister Arackaparambil Kurian Antony on Tuesday called for the adoption of ‘cooperative approaches’ for ensuring the security of sea lanes in the Asia-Pacific Region, in his address to the first ASEAN Plus Eight Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) in Hanoi in Vietnam.]]></description>
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		<title>INS Delhi chokes 3rd piracy attempt in 4 days</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Joshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest attempt took place on Wednesday when the guided missile destroyer was tasked with escorting six merchant vessels with an assortment of 40 Indians among the 147 crew aboard the ships.]]></description>
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		<title>Indian dhows, dubious partners invite Somali piracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Joshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The serial commandeering of Indian dhows by pirates in the Arabian Sea around the Gulf of Aden recently, has put the focus on the vulnerability of these vessels to hijack, especially with their flagrant flouting of guidelines, which also facilitates the endangering of other innocent shipping.]]></description>
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