The American and Indian militaries will hold joint exercises in the Himalayan mountains in October, less than 100km from India’s disputed border with China, CNN reported. The location was announced amid heightened tensions between the US and China over Taiwan, while India and China have been clashing along their mountain …
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A Ukrainian drone dropped an explosive device onto a border checkpoint in Russia’s Bryansk Region on Tuesday, injuring four people, according to the local governor. The wounded have been hospitalized with light and moderate injuries, Aleksandr Bogomaz said. The Troebortnoye checkpoint was hit by a quadcopter UAV, the governor wrote …
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The 2,000-mile (3,200km) border between the US and Mexico is the world’s deadliest land migration route, a recent UN study claimed. Some 728 migrants died or disappeared there last year, an increase of more than 50% since 2020. Published by the International Organization for Migration, a UN body, the report …
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The mayor of Lappeenranta, a small Finnish city close to the border with Russia, would put his township in Russia’s sights by hosting a NATO military base, the speaker of the Russian State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, said on Monday. Volodin was commenting on a story published by Finnish media about a border …
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A border checkpoint in Russia’s Kursk Region was attacked by Ukraine on Wednesday morning, according to local governor Roman Starovoyt. The Krupets crossing was targeted at around 7.30am local time, he wrote on Telegram. “There were no casualties or destruction” as a result of the incident, the governor said. The …
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Belarus has observed increased activity of the Ukrainian military along the countries’ shared border, Belarusian Security Council chief Alexander Volfovich claimed on Sunday. Ukrainian troops have amassed at several locations along the frontier, with some saboteur groups entering the territory of Belarus, according to the official. “Engineering works are ongoing along …
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Large-scale NATO military drills started in Estonia on Monday. The exercise dubbed ‘Hedgehog 2022’ is one of the largest in the Baltic nation’s history, according to the military bloc. The drills will involve some 15,000 troops from 14 nations, including both military bloc members and their partners. Soldiers from Finland, …
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The breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria has reported new attacks from drones near its border with Ukraine following a string of mysterious incidents described by the self-proclaimed republic as acts of “terror.” According to the Transnistrian Interior Ministry, on Friday evening four explosions occurred in the vicinity of a former …
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Polish President Andrzej Duda has expressed hope that there will be no border between Poland and Ukraine in the future, calling the two nations “fraternal.” Speaking in Warsaw on May 3, the day Poland celebrated its Constitution Day, Duda said he envisaged a time in which the two nations would live …
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A weaponized cargo drone was intercepted overnight near a large telecom center located in the village of Mayak, the Interior Ministry of the self-proclaimed republic of Transnistria said on Tuesday. The intercepted drone appeared to be a home-made contraption, jury-rigged from different parts, the ministry said. “The drone with a …
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