Etiket: military
Military aid increases in British Columbia
About 120 military personnel have arrived in Abbotsford as the Fraser Valley town begins a massive reconstruction of dikes, roads, bridges and other infrastructure damaged as a result of severe…
Fifty days on hunger strike | Georgia to transfer ex-president Saakashvili to military hospital
(Tbilisi) The Georgian government said on Friday it was ready to transfer ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on hunger strike in a prison-hospital for 50 days, to a military…
Russian military admits destroying satellite whose debris triggered an alert on the International Space Station
After the shooting, the seven people currently on board the ISS had to take temporary refuge in their ships in order to prepare for a possible emergency evacuation. Article written…
US, France worried about Russian military activity in Ukraine
(Washington) The heads of American and French diplomacy, Antony Blinken and Jean-Yves Le Drian, spoke on Saturday of “the worrying Russian military activity” in Ukraine, after the deployment of Russian…
Ecuador | After the massacre, military reinforcements around the prison of Guayaquil
(Guayaquil) The army has stepped up its presence around the Guayaquil penitentiary in southwest Ecuador, where no new incidents occurred on Sunday, in the aftermath of the massacre of 68…
Syria | The US military considers a strike that killed civilians “legitimate”
(Washington) The US military invoked “self-defense” for a 2019 airstrike in Syria that killed civilians, after the publication of an investigation by the New York Times accusing the Pentagon of…
Military coup in Sudan | Army releases ministers and promises government
(Khartoum) The chief of the army in Sudan, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, on Thursday ordered the release of four ministers arrested on the day of the coup on October 25,…
Cases of sexual misconduct in the military will be transferred to civilian
The federal government accepts “in its entirety” the appeal of retired Supreme Court Judge Louise Arbor for the transfer to civilian authorities of all criminal cases involving allegations of sexual…
Afghanistan: a senior Taliban official killed in the attack on the military hospital in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan | The chief of the Taliban military forces in Kabul, Hamdullah Mokhlis, is among the victims of the attack on Tuesday by the Islamic State group against the…
Sexual misconduct in the military | Victims have until November 24 to seek compensation
(Montreal) Victims of sexual misconduct in the military or in the Ministry of Defense have until November 24 to complete their compensation claim form, as part of the class action…
Diplomacy: Beijing’s military momentum worries Washington
China’s growth in military might and its determination to end US domination in the Asia-Pacific region is of concern to the US defense industry. US officials fear in particular the…
Guantanamo | Military jury members seek clemency for detainee
(Washington) US Army officers have called for clemency for a Pakistani detained in Guantanamo Bay who described the torture he suffered for three years at the hands of the CIA.…
Burma | The military in power accuse the opposition of having burned a village
(Bangkok) The military in power in Burma on Saturday accused anti-junta fighters of having started a fire which ravaged a city in the west of the country where there was…
a week after the military coup, anti-coup protesters maintain barricades
Since Monday, a dozen protesters have been killed by security forces and nearly 300 people have been injured, according to a Sudanese union of pro-democracy doctors. Article written by Posted…
three demonstrators killed and a hundred opponents injured during a rally denouncing the military coup
The opposition is mobilized on Saturday to protest against the seizure of power by General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhane. Article written by Posted the 10/30/2021 13:24 Update the 10/30/2021 19:26 Reading…
three demonstrators killed and a hundred opponents injured during a rally denouncing the military coup
The opposition is mobilized on Saturday to protest against the seizure of power by General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhane. Article written by Posted the 10/30/2021 13:24 Update the 10/30/2021 19:26 Reading…
Military putsch: deadly clashes in Khartoum on the fourth day of the coup
Clashes between demonstrators and security forces left another dead Thursday in Khartoum, the fourth day of a military coup refused by the streets and by the international community, who want…
Myanmar military uses torture systematically
Soldiers deployed in the Myanmar countryside twisted a young man’s skin with pliers and punched him in the chest until he could no longer breathe. “Your mom can’t save you…
Coup in Sudan: civilian leaders in military hands
State television in Sudan, stormed by soldiers, announced Monday morning that General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, head of the Sudanese transition, would speak shortly as a “coup d ‘Status’ is in…
France places a latest-generation military satellite in orbit
Syracuse 4A must allow the French armies to communicate at high speed and in complete safety from ground, air, marine and submarine relays. Article written by Posted on 10/24/2021 8:19…