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Ill-equipped and tired: a night with a Ukrainian air defence unit
AFP, Published on 29/07/2025
» UNDISCLOSED — A menacing buzz reverberates through the night sky in eastern Ukraine. Explosions ring out, flashes illuminate sunflower fields below and the smell of gunpowder poisons the air.
Ukraine confirmed Chinese supplies to 20 Russian military plants: intelligence chief
Reuters, Published on 26/05/2025
» KYIV - Ukraine has confirmed information that China is supplying a range of important products to Russian military plants, the chief of Ukrainian foreign intelligence was quoted on Monday as saying.
France wins suit over history-making shipwreck off US coast
AFP, Published on 09/10/2023
» WASHINGTON - More than 450 years ago, a three-masted ship sank in a hurricane off the coast of Florida, taking with it France's hopes of colonizing the peninsula.
EU targets 1 million shells a year as Ukraine saps ammo
AFP, Published on 03/05/2023
» BRUSSELS - The EU will put forward a plan to boost its production capacity of artillery shells to one million a year, officials said Tuesday, as it scrambles to arm Ukraine and refill its own stocks.
Fighting rages in Sudan as death toll climbs to 97
AFP, Published on 17/04/2023
» KHARTOUM - Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum Monday as fighting between the regular army and paramilitaries raged for a third day with the death toll rising to nearly 100.
Myanmar rebels risk life and limb in DIY weapons factories
AFP, Published on 08/11/2022
» Under an awning in a bamboo thicket in northern Myanmar, an anti-coup fighter following instructions from YouTube welds scavenged steel into crude mortar rounds and shells to be fired at junta troops.
Philippines to review thousands more 'drug war' killings, says justice minister
Reuters, Published on 20/10/2021
» MANILA: The Philippines justice ministry will review thousands of killings in President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, its chief said, after releasing details of a first batch of cases that it said pointed to abuses by police.
New law stokes tension in Nigeria's blighted oil delta
AFP, Published on 01/09/2021
» EJAMAH-EBUBU (NIGERIA) - Nigerian farmer Nwale Nchimaonwi celebrated when he learnt that an oil law to overhaul the industry and improve the plight of communities living on crude-producing land had passed after two decades wait.
N. Korean leader's sister slams US as Biden envoys begin Asia trip
AFP, Published on 16/03/2021
» SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's influential sister slammed the US and South Korea on Tuesday, state media reported, as the new US secretaries of state and defence began a visit to Tokyo and Seoul.
N. Korean leader's sister slams US as Biden envoys begin Asia trip
AFP, Published on 16/03/2021
» SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's influential sister slammed the US and South Korea on Tuesday, state media reported, as the new US secretaries of state and defence began a visit to Tokyo and Seoul.