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African armies turn to drones with devastating civilian impact
AFP, Published on 25/07/2025
» PARIS - The Easter period usually offers a rare respite in Gedeb, in Ethiopia's deeply troubled north, but on April 17 death rained from the skies in this sleepy town caught up in a war between rebels and the army.
Kim visits military aviation plant in Russia's far east
AFP, Published on 15/09/2023
» MOSCOW - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived at a Russian industrial city to visit a military aviation factory on Friday, Russian agencies reported, following his summit with President Vladimir Putin.
Ukrainian boat destroyed in Black Sea clash
AFP, Published on 22/08/2023
» MOSCOW: Moscow said Tuesday it destroyed a Ukrainian military reconnaissance vessel near Russian gas infrastructure in the Black Sea, in the latest clash in the waterway since Moscow's withdrawal from a major grain export deal.
NATO, Russia in high risk aerial cat-and-mouse game
AFP, Published on 16/03/2023
» PARIS - The loss of a US drone in the Black Sea after an alleged collision with a Russian war plane has exposed the high-risk cat-and-mouse game in European skies between NATO and Russian aircraft.
DR Congo army clashes with rebels as Angola pursues peace bid
AFP, Published on 12/11/2022
» GOMA (DR CONGO) - M23 rebels and DR Congo troops clashed heavily in North Kivu province on Friday as Angola's president pursued diplomatic efforts to bring peace between neighbours Kinshasa and Kigali.
DR Congo deploys fighter jets against M23 rebels
AFP, Published on 07/11/2022
» GOMA (DR CONGO) - DR Congo's military has deployed two war planes against M23 rebels in the conflict-torn east, provoking a rebuke Monday from neighbouring Rwanda after one jet entered the country's airspace.
Myanmar takes delivery of Russian fighter jets
AFP, Published on 04/11/2022
» Myanmar's military has begun taking delivery of a batch of Russian-made combat jets, a monitoring group said Friday, the latest hardware shipped from Moscow as rights campaigners accuse the junta of hitting civilians with air strikes.
Russian strikes pound Ukraine power sites
AFP, Published on 18/10/2022
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that Russian strikes had destroyed about 30 percent of his country's power stations in one week, speaking hours after a fresh barrage cut electricity to cities across Ukraine.
Russian military jet crashes in south west, at least two dead
AFP, Published on 18/10/2022
» MOSCOW: A Russian military plane crashed on Monday into a residential area of Yeysk, a town in southwestern Russia near the border with Ukraine, news agencies reported, citing the defence ministry, with at least two deaths reported.
In east Ukraine, the war-weary listen out to stay alive
AFP, Published on 05/05/2022
» KRAMATORSK, Ukraine: After hearing the shells raining down around her for weeks, 58-year-old Ludymyla is still learning to differentiate between the sounds of the explosions ripping apart towns in war-scarred Donbas.