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Sudan security forces clash with protesters against military coup
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Security forces in Sudan have mounted a fierce crackdown in recent days to crush remaining unrest, six months after a coup that brought a military regime to power in the unstable strategic country. Police fired tearga...
Military plane rushes baby formula to US health systems
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Store shelves across the US remain short of baby formula after a military plane carrying enough to fill half a million baby bottles arrived in the US on Sunday but its contents were rushed to health system outlets to ...
Biden and South Korean president mull expanding joint military exercises
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Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart, Yoon Suk-yeol, have said they are considering expanding joint military exercises in response to the “threat” posed by North Korea, a move that is expected to enrage the regi...
Russia-Ukraine war: Putin warns military expansion in Finland and Sweden ‘would demand reaction’ – live
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Kherson’s military administrators to call for Russian annexation
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The Russian-controlled administration in the Ukrainian city of Kherson has said it plans to request annexation by Moscow, a move that would confirm the Kremlin’s permanent occupation of Ukrainian territory captured si...
US intelligence told to keep quiet over role in Ukraine military triumphs
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Former US intelligence officers are advising their successors currently in office to shut up and stop boasting about their role in Ukraine’s military successes. Two stories surfaced in as many days in the American pre...
Trump proposed deadly strike on top Iranian military figure, book says
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Shortly before the 2020 election, Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, “stunned” the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff by saying the president wanted to kill a senior Iranian military officer ...
Biden asks Congress to approve another $20bn in Ukraine military aid
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Joe Biden has asked Congress to approve another $20bn in military aid to Ukraine, significantly ramping up the US contribution to the battle against Russian occupation. Biden also requested for $8.5bn in economic aid ...
UK leading G7 allies to weaken Putin’s military arsenal
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Britain is pressing with its allies for Vladimir Putin to be so weakened militarily by the war in Ukraine that he can never pose a threat to European security and his forces to entirely leave Ukraine’s territory, with...
Disappeared: a daughter’s 40-year search for her father, taken by Guatemala’s military dictatorship
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One day when she was 12 years old and still new to the ways of remembering the dead, Ana Isabel Bustamante took a photograph from the wardrobe where her mother kept her dark clothes and her most precious things. Ana s...
US won’t rule out military action if China establishes base in Solomon Islands
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One of the most senior US officials in the Pacific has refused to rule out military action against Solomon Islands if it were to allow China to establish a military base there, saying that the security deal between th...
US warns Solomon Islands against China military base as Australian MPs trade blame
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The US government has warned Solomon Islands it will “respond accordingly” if its security agreement with China leads to a Chinese military presence in the Pacific island nation. A visiting US delegation including Ind...
South Korea’s highest court overturns military convictions of two gay soldiers
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South Korea’s supreme court has thrown out a military court ruling that convicted two gay soldiers for having sex outside their military facilities, saying it stretched the reading of the country’s widely criticised m...
Biden announces another $800m in military aid for Ukraine: ‘We’re in a critical window’ – live
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Russia begins large-scale military action to seize eastern Ukraine
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Russia has begun its long-expected large-scale military action to seize the east of Ukraine, the country’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. “Now we can already state that the Russian troops have begun the battle fo...
US military leader warns Chinese security deal with Solomon Islands sounds ‘too good to be true’
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A senior US military general has warned during a visit to Australia that China’s offer to deepen security ties with Solomon Islands will come with strings attached, suggesting the Pacific island country may come to re...