October 3, 2023
Three Indian soldiers and a police officer were killed in separate gunfights with rebels over the past two days in the mountainous Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Wednesday. Indian government forces launched a joint operation against the militants late on Tuesday in the Kokernag area of Kashmir’s Anantnag district. After a lull overnight, fighting resumed there
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If General Omar Tchiani and his men do not yield, the AU has threatened to impose what it has called “extreme sanctions” on the African nation. The African Union has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the junta in Niger to reinstall the country’s democratically elected government just as the coup leaders met with senior civil
READ MOREPhilippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday emphasized his administration’s determination to defend the country’s territory through diplomacy in a keynote speech, but did not mention China, with which he had a series of conflicts in the disputed South China Sea. Marcos also announced in his address to Congress that he would offer amnesty to
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President of Russia Vladimir Putin turned to his country on Monday for the first time since the end of a short-lived rebellion by Wagner mercenary units led by Yevgeny Prigozhin over the weekend. In a short speech, Putin said that the rebels “betrayed the country, their people and those who were dragged into this business.”
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June 25, 2023 – 1:13 am Oooooh President Vladimir Putin has promised to punish the organizers of the armed rebellion in Russia after the leader of the mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin, withdrew his troops from Ukraine to a key southern city. Mr. Putin called the Wagner uprising “a stab in the back.” This is the biggest
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Rebel mercenaries moved north towards Moscow, capturing a key military base on Saturday. Vladimir Putinvowed to put down the rebellion and avert the threat of civil war. The rapidly escalating events mark the most serious challenge to the rule of the Russian president and the most serious security crisis in Russia since that leader came
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Yemeni belligerents exchanged 64 bodies of their fallen, local media and tribal leaders said. Transfer between country’s Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia are the latest in reconciliation efforts amid years of conflict in Yemen. The rare exchange took place on Wednesday near the Saudi border city of Nahran, according to the Houthi-run TV channel al-Masirah
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Recent fighting between the Burmese army and civilian rebels in Shan State has left at least 26 civilians dead, with the conflict mostly taking place in the hotly contested town of Pekon. Burma has been embroiled in conflict since February 2021, when a repressive military government forcibly ousted democratically elected State Councilor Aung San Suu
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Separatist militants kidnap more than 30 women in protest against the imposition of illegal taxes on them were released, the government said on Friday. The women were taken away earlier this month from Babanka, a farming village in the Northwest Region, on the border with Nigeria. “We have taken the women to hospitals where they
READ MOREA rebel group in eastern Congo’s Ituri province killed at least 42 people on Friday, according to a civil society organization. Three towns in Jugu territory were attacked by the CODECO militia group, said Dieudonne Lossa, the organization’s president in Bagnari Quilo, the area where the attacks took place. “They burned several houses. There are
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