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Pro-junta rally planned in Burkina as UN condemns coup
AFP, Published on 25/01/2022
» OUAGADOUGOU - Supporters of Burkina Faso's new ruling junta were set to rally on Tuesday as France and the UN condemned the West African country's latest coup.
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Invisible wounds: France faces up to war trauma
AFP, Published on 18/07/2021
» PARIS - Christophe came close to death in Afghanistan, Raphael saw one body bag after another in the Sahel region of Africa, while Omar does not even want to talk about what he experienced on the battlefield.
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Biden picks first Black Pentagon chief
AFP, Published on 08/12/2020
» WASHINGTON - Lloyd Austin, who led US troops into Baghdad in 2003 and rose to head the US Central Command, has been chosen by President-elect Joe Biden to be the first African-American secretary of defense, US media reported Monday.
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Envoys taken to Myanmar's strife-hit Rakhine
AFP, Published on 02/11/2016
» YANGON - Foreign diplomats visited flashpoint areas of Myanmar's strife-torn Rakhine state on Wednesday, authorities said, as pressure mounts on the government to address accusations of rights abuses in a region home to the Muslim Rohingya minority.
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Pakistan barred from Kabaddi World Cup in India
AFP, Published on 05/10/2016
» NEW DELHI - The 12-nation Kabaddi World Cup kicks off this week in India, with a row over a decision to bar arch-rivals Pakistan from competing threatening to overshadow the tag-wrestling sport's showcase event.
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Beijing may build 3rd S. China Sea runway: US think-tank
AFP, Published on 16/09/2015
» BEIJING - Beijing may be building its third airstrip on artificial islands in the South China Sea, a US think-tank said, in a move likely to raise tensions with Washington ahead of a state visit by China's president.
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Afghanistan leans on 'abusive' local police as Taliban advance
AFP, Published on 02/07/2015
» KASAB (AFGHANISTAN) - A peach-fuzzed teenager clad in camouflage fatigues, Mohammad Jawad could be mistaken for a boy scout -- but he commands one of hundreds of Afghanistan's local anti-Taliban police units, accused of stoking insecurity.
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North Korea general allegedly behind attacks on South dies
AFP, Published on 11/05/2015
» SEOUL - A powerful North Korean general who Seoul believes was behind the sinking of a South Korean warship and the shelling of one of its islands in 2010 has died, state media said Monday.
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Fallen Chinese general facing graft charges dies: Xinhua
AFP, Published on 16/03/2015
» BEIJING - The highest-ranking Chinese military officer to fall under President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption drive has died of cancer, official media reported Monday.
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Myanmar rebels accuse military of air strikes
AFP, Published on 05/02/2015
» YANGON - Rebels in Myanmar's war-torn northeastern border areas Thursday accused the nation's army of launching air attacks, the latest escalation of fighting that has claimed an estimated 20 lives this week.
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