police estimated the value of seized jewelry alone at one hundred nine million dollars allegations of rafik corruption seem to have sunk the former prime minister's reelection bid and police are now focusing on the loss of billions of dollars at the government's key fund for economic development and is a fence the former leaders said it was not uncommon to keep large amounts of cash on hand for political purposes and receiving the gifts while in office was not illegal. british weapons and aerospace corporation systems has landed a twenty six billion dollar contract with the australian navy was selected over competing companies to build nine anti-submarine frigate frigates the contract is a major boost for the british ambitions to rebuild their stories ship building industry seeming to open the door for british entry into the market for a new generation of warships and also would make british and australian warship highly interoperable as well as affirming historic and cultural ties between the two countries for the pros brecht's it era manufacturable take place in a plant in australia with