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Russia seeks more contract soldiers
Published on 18/04/2024
» Russia is preparing to enlist more contract soldiers as it presses its invasion of Ukraine, aiming to avoid — at least for now — another mass call-up that could undermine popular support for the war.
Fire engulfs iconic Copenhagen landmark
Published on 16/04/2024
» COPENHAGEN - A fire ripped through Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange, one of the Danish capital’s best-known buildings, on Tuesday, engulfing its spire which collapsed in a scene reminiscent of the 2019 blaze at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Fight back or flee? Myanmar draft forces hard choices on youth
Reuters, Published on 08/04/2024
» Weeks after Myanmar's military government announced a nationwide draft, two young women from far-flung parts of the Southeast Asian country headed to the jungles to take up arms against the junta.
Belarus cadets train on Russian tanks
AFP, Published on 18/02/2023
» MINSK, Belarus: In Moscow-allied Belarus, officers look out across a snowy training ground outside the capital Minsk as Russian and Soviet-era tanks fire into the distance.
Deadly Ukraine strike reveals Russian tech weakness
AFP, Published on 04/01/2023
» PARIS - Russia has blamed the deaths of scores of its soldiers in a New Year missile strike on its troops using unsecured, traceable mobile phones on the battlefield.
War of attrition: Russia's stubborn fight for Ukraine's Bakhmut
AFP, Published on 09/12/2022
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - For months, Russian forces have attacked the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut with frontal assaults, artillery barrages and air strikes in a stubborn battle for a settlement deemed strategically irrelevant by many observers.
'It's always scary': medics in Ukraine's 'meat grinder'
AFP, Published on 30/11/2022
» BAKHMUT: As Russian forces poured across Ukraine's borders, Palych knew that pain, suffering and injuries would follow in the ensuing war and his training as a paramedic would be needed.
Decisive week for Finland, Sweden as NATO decisions loom
AFP, Published on 10/05/2022
» STOCKHOLM: Finland and Sweden are expected to announce this week whether to apply to join NATO following Russia's Ukraine invasion, in what would be a stunning reversal of decades-long non-alignment policies.
Russia to open Ukraine 'humanitarian routes', but fears persist
AFP, Published on 08/03/2022
» KYIV: Russia planned to open humanitarian corridors in Ukraine Tuesday for civilians to flee besieged cities, but Kyiv insisted the move was a publicity stunt and people would not be able to escape.
Myanmar's Wa rebels march in show of force
AFP, Published on 17/04/2019
» PANGHSANG, Myanmar: It has a standing army of 25,000, manufactures its own guns and conscripts at least one member of each household -- meet the United Wa State Army: Communist, reclusive, China-backed rebels determined to protect their supremacy over Myanmar's badland border zone.