 India adds 5 French-made fighter jets in military upgrade
NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian air force inducted into service five French-made Rafale fighter jets Thursday amid heightened tensions with China along their disputed... (photo: AP / Manish Swarup) Yahoo Daily News
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 Trump defends remarks about downplaying Covid-19 threat
Washington, Sep 10 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has defended his earlier remarks that he wanted to downplay the coronavirus threat to the American public, arguing... (photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore) Suryaa
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 Trump's stunning split with America's military leaders
(CNN)President Trump loves the pomp of the military. He went to a military-style boarding school in New York, he has always pined for a big Kremlin-style military parade... (photo: US DoD / PO1 Dominique A. Pineiro) CNN
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 Liberals & hawks accuse Trump of ‘attack’ on military after he says Pentagon chiefs ‘fight wars to keep arms dealers healthy'
US President Donald Trump accused the Pentagon’s top brass of starting wars in order to hand billions to arms makers, drawing shocked reactions from his liberal critics... (photo: White House / Shealah Craighead) Russia Today
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 Disparaging comments, advocacy reflect Trump's ambivalence toward military
WASHINGTON — As Donald Trump laid the groundwork in 1999 to run for president as the Reform Party candidate, he made a little-remembered attack on the person he saw as a... (photo: White House / Shealah Craighead) Stars and Stripes
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 Turkey’s power projection risks military clash in Mediterranean, former PM says
ANKARA: Turkey risks military confrontation in the Eastern Mediterranean because it prizes power over diplomacy, a former prime minister who championed a less... (photo: Creative Commons / Foreign and Commonwealth Office) Arab News
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 Pentagon says China planning big increase in nuclear arsenal
WASHINGTON (AP) — China likely plans to double its stockpile of nuclear warheads in this decade, including those designed to be carried atop ballistic missiles that can... (photo: Public Domain / Lisa Ferdinando) Wtop
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 COVID-19: Bahrain cancels International Air Show 2020
Dubai: The Bahrain International Air Show has been cancelled due to coronavirus-induced challenges and travel restrictions that have affected commercial events, large... (photo: AP / Hasan Jamali) Gulf News
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 Trump losing military support in election: poll
Just 37.4 percent of active personnel in the US military support President Donald Trump's re-election, while 43.1 percent back his Democratic opponent Joe Biden,... (photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America ) News24
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 An American Journey: 1635 Arrival to 2020 U.S. Catastrophe
I set out to write a commentary on current economic events for this engagement, with a focus on monetary issues. But the current nightmarish scenario in the U.S. is so... (photo: Creative Commons / Lightburst) GlobalResearch
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 China Warns of “Accidental” Military Confrontation with US
China’s military has warned of an unintentional military confrontation with the US if it does not halt its naval operations in the South China Sea, insisting that recent... (photo: US Navy / MC3 Andrew Langholf) GlobalResearch
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 Who's in the running for WTO leadership?
Shares As Roberto Azevedo steps down Monday as head of the World Trade Organization, here are pen pics of the eight candidates running to become the next WTO... (photo: WTO/Jay Louvion) The Jakarta Post
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 US military refuses to play role in presidential vote
WASHINGTON: The US armed forces will have no role in carrying out the election process or resolving a disputed vote, the top US military officer told Congress in comments... (photo: US DoD / Sgt. Nicole Mejia) The News International
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 India turns down Russia’s invite to take part in multilateral military exercise amid border row with China
India on Saturday turned down Russia’s invitation to participate in next month’s multilateral defence exercise, which is scheduled to be held in southern Russia between... (photo: Creative Commons / Government of India,) Indian Express
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 U.S. Military 'Closely Monitoring' Russian Submarine That Surfaced Off Alaska
U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Command are closely monitoring a Russian submarine that surfaced near Alaska on August 27. “We... (photo: U.S. Air National Guard / Staff Sgt. Edward Eagerton) Radio Free Europe
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 Jacob Blake, Breonna Taylor, and the arbitrariness of the police-shooting news cycle
On Sunday, police shot Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, seven times. Blake had been climbing into a car with three of his sons in the back seat; the eldest... (photo: AP / David Goldman) Columbia Journalism Review
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 An Ethiopian perspective: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
You may have heard about the long-standing impasse between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) — a mega hydropower project which was... (photo: AP / Elias Asmare, File) Mail Guardian South Africa
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 Australian bushfires likely to happen again -- and they could be even worse, inquiry warns
(CNN)Australia's record-breaking 2019-20 bushfires were likely made worse by climate change, an inquiry has found, warning that the such devastating wildfires are likely... (photo: AP / Rick Rycroft) CNN
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 Report: Israeli military base targeted by incendiary balloon from Gaza
Israeli media say an incendiary balloon launched from the besieged Gaza Strip has struck a military base in the occupied territories, with reports declining to provide... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) Press TV
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 Donald Trump and the Art of Betrayal
Iran and the Nuclear Deal The betrayal began with Iran. The work had all been done by Obama and Secretary of State, John Kerry. Trump was the beneficiary of a historic... (photo: USAF / Staff Sgt. Michael Battles) Antiwar
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