Tag: Military
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Russia strikes Kharkiv ‘police station’ as US boosts Ukraine’s military | Russia-Ukraine war News
At least one person killed in Kharkiv as Pentagon announces $425m in additional military assistance for Ukraine. A Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, hit a location used by policemen, killing at least one senior officer and wounding 30 other people, police said. Four civilians were among those injured in the late afternoon…
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‘Ready to die’:Protesters face bullets for political change in Mozambique | Protests News
Rights activist Cidia Chissungo has spent the last few days poring over images she never thought she’d see in Mozambique: Young men with bloodied bodies pockmarked with bullet wounds; teenagers with eyes swollen shut from being hit with tear gas canisters by the Mozambican police. Chissungo, 28, who is documenting the scale of ongoing post-election…
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North Korea fires suspected long-range ICBM towards sea, South Korea says | Military News
BREAKINGBREAKING, North Korea is believed to have test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile towards the sea, South Korea reports. North Korea has launched a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) towards waters off its eastern coast, South Korea’s military said. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement that the missile launch towards the…
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Iran plans to increase military budget by 200 percent | Military News
Defence spending boost needs parliament nod, comes as Iran and Israel exchanged tit-for-tat missile strikes in October. Iran plans to triple its military budget, a government spokeswoman has said, as tensions with rival Israel rise amid the Israeli military’s offensives in Gaza and Lebanon. The planned defence budget increase is part of a proposal submitted…
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Dozens killed by paramilitary RSF in Sudan’s Gezira, aid groups say | Sudan war News
UNICEF calls for more international attention to ‘the forgotten crisis’ as about 25.6 million people face acute hunger. Dozens of civilians have been killed and thousands displaced in Sudan’s Gezira state, aid groups said, after several days of attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). A union of doctors and a youth group said…
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China’s Xi and India’s Modi meet after border accord between two countries | Border Disputes News
Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping hold talks on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have held their first formal talks in five years, a sign that icy relations are thawing after a deadly military clash in 2020. The two…
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US veteran Daniel Penny on trial in New York for fatal subway chokehold | Racism News
Penny faces up to 15 years in prison for manslaughter in the racially-charged trial. A former United States Marine is set to go on trial for putting a man in a deadly chokehold while riding a New York subway in 2023. The veteran, 25-year-old Daniel Penny, faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted…
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US threatens Israel but deploys troops, revealing policy inconsistency | Israel-Palestine conflict News
The deployment of an advanced United States anti-missile system to Israel, along with 100 troops to operate it, marks a significant escalation in US entanglement with a widening Israeli war that Washington has already heavily subsidised. But the deployment – in anticipation of an Iranian response to an expected Israeli attack on Iran – also…
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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 963 | Russia-Ukraine war News
As the war enters its 963rd day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Tuesday, October 15, 2024. Fighting At least one person was killed and 11 injured, some of them seriously, in a Russian air attack on Ukraine’s southern region of Mykolaiv, said Mykolaiv Governor Vitaliy Kim. At least one person…
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South Korea on alert as North ‘to blow up border roads’ amid drones dispute | Military News
Seoul says it is ‘fully ready’ for any provocation as Pyongyang deploys eight artillery brigades to the border. South Korea’s military has announced it is “fully ready” to respond amid reports that North Korean troops have been deployed to the border and are getting ready to blow up roads connecting the two nations along the…