The reasons for Europe s defection are eminently geopolitical.

We also need firm action to discourage any potential defection from the NPT.

Moscow kept my defection secret from everyone but a few members of the presidium.

A delinquent State's refusal to be held accountable by its peers and a State's defection without sanction had weakened the NPT community.

The only other notable event of 216 BC was the defection of Capua, the second largest city of Italy, which Hannibal made his new base.

Censorship of maps was also used in former East Germany, especially for the areas near the border to West Germany in order to make attempts of defection more difficult.

One of those who appeared in the video threatening the Bahraini regime is Lieutenant Mohamed Isa Al Binali, whose defection from the Bahrain Defence Forces was reported on Global Voices earlier this year.

The 1948 election also marked Maryland's permanent defection from the Solid South as the expansion of the federal government led to a population explosion in the state that changed Maryland politically into a Northeastern State.

The Tajik government is expected to release a full statement on Halimov's defection soon and blocked social media where the video has been shared on May 28, as well as Asia Plus, the Tajik news agency that first covered the story.

The Serbs were recruited in large numbers into the Byzantine army especially under Justinian II in the 680s, until the defection of a 30,000 strong Serbian contingent led to the disastrous loss of the Battle of Sebastopolis in 692 693.

After the defection of Hussein Kamel from Iraq in August 1995, Iraq further admitted that biological warfare agents had also been produced at two other civilian facilities, the foot and mouth disease vaccine plant at Al Dawrah and Al Fudaliyah.

At a time when the integrity of the global arms control regime was being challenged, the international community should have been able to address such issues as non compliance, defection from the NPT and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by terrorists.

While some of the criticisms made during the General Assembly's consideration of the draft resolution concerning the Committee (A 59 L.34) were ideological in nature, other aspects which had, moreover, resulted in the defection of certain countries that usually supported the draft resolution were constructive and should be taken into account.

News of the defection of Brigadier General Manaf Mustapha Tlas, a member of Bashar al Assad's inner circle, has provoked a vocal reaction on Syria's streets and on Facebook amongst both regime supporters and the opposition. The move comes after 16 months of revolutionary upheaval and the deaths of more than 15,000 people according to UN and human rights organisations' reports.