The interrogation of suspects involved in the attempted coup was due to begin, Mohamed Al Faki Suleiman, spokesperson for the Sovereignty Council of Sudan, told Reuters. Reports said the failed coup involved an attempt to take control of the state radio building in Omdurman, across the river Nile from Sudan’s …
Read More »Australia extends Covid-19 lockdown in Brisbane, sends soldiers to help enforce quarantine rules in Sydney
The lockdown in Brisbane, Australia’s third-largest city, was due to end on Tuesday but will now continue until late on Sunday. The state of Queensland, where Brisbane is located, reported 13 locally transmitted cases on Monday – the biggest daily rise seen in the state this year. “It’s starting to …
Read More »Armenia asks Russia to deploy soldiers to frontier with Azerbaijan, as shootout kills three soldiers & sparks fear of new conflict
Speaking at a government meeting on Thursday, he said that, “given the current situation, I think it makes sense to consider deploying strongholds of Russian border guards across the whole Armenian-Azerbaijani border.” According to Pashinyan, this would “allow for the demarcation of the border, without the risk of firefights.” Officials …
Read More »4 times as many US soldiers and vets died by suicide than in combat since 9/11 War on Terror – study
A new report by Brown University’s Costs of War Project provides a new insight into what many dubbed an epidemic of suicides among the US military. Based on data from the DoD, the VA and secondary sources, the study found that at least four times as many military lives were …
Read More »Trial of the century will reveal EXACTLY what Australian soldiers really got up to in Afghanistan
The eyes of Australia are on an important defamation trial which got under way in the Federal Court in Sydney on Monday. The trial, which is to be heard by a judge alone without a jury, has been described in the media as “the defamation case of the century.” That may …
Read More »Get these men a map: Stray US soldiers RAID Bulgarian plant making biofuel equipment in bungled exercise (VIDEO)
The brief armed incursion happened on May 11, while Bulgaria was hosting US and other allied soldiers participating in the Swift Response exercise. However, the Bulgarian public only learned about it on Friday, after the owner of the raided factory spoke to national media. Footage from the factory’s security cameras …
Read More »Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinian dead during clashes in occupied West Bank, health officials say
Earlier on Friday, hundreds of Palestinians gathered outside the town of Nablus in the northern West Bank to protest the illegal construction of Israeli settlements in the area. The demonstrators, some of whom had their faces covered with masks and scarfs, reportedly threw stones at the soldiers and set tires …
Read More »British soldiers who refuse Covid jab will be ‘educated’ & could face disciplinary action – media
Orders reportedly issued to the Royal Artillery and Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers state that soldiers who refuse to have the coronavirus vaccine will be “educated” by their commanders. “If they still refuse they may be deemed as unfit to soldier and dealt with accordingly as the CV-19 jab may …
Read More »Civilians flee as Philippines soldiers dislodge 200 (hungry?) Islamist militants who seized town market – media
Members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) seized the public market of Datu Paglas, located on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, on Saturday morning, prompting the deployment of military and police units to the area. The group opposes a peace agreement between Muslim rebels, the Moro Islamic Liberation …
Read More »Woke-ism run amok or long overdue? UK’s apology for failure to honour non-white WWI soldiers triggers ‘structural racism’ debate
Following its own inquiry, the CWGC said on Thursday that “pervasive racism” and “contemporary imperial attitudes” had resulted in hundreds of thousands of soldiers from World War I not being memorialised by name, or at all. In the House of Commons, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace later echoed that sentiment and tendered a …
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