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Ukraine’s president has visited the Sumy region in northern Ukraine, continuing his tour over recent days of areas of the country that have felt the brunt of Russia’s full-scale invasion. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Tuesday with officials and local people in two cities in the region that borders Russia. It was partially occupied by Russian forces after the full-scale invasion last year. The Russians withdrew from the region by early April. Zelenskyy’s trip followed his visits over the past seven days to the eastern Kherson and Kharkiv regions which were retaken last year from the Kremlin’s forces, to the intensely contested Donetsk area of Bakhmut, and to Zaporizhzhia in the south.
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State media in military-ruled Myanmar say the political party led by ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been ordered dissolved by the army-appointed election commission because it declined to register for a planned general election it denounced as a sham. Critics say the polls will be neither free nor fair after the military shut free media and arrested most of the leaders of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party. Suu Kyi is serving prison sentences totaling 33 years after being convicted in a series of politically tainted prosecutions. Her supporters say the charges were contrived to keep her from participating in politics. No date has been set for the new polls.
12 hours ago Local authorities in eastern Congo say that at least 17 people have been killed by rebels. They were abducted while driving on a road and then killed by the CODECO militia group in Djugu territory in Ituri province over the weekend. Fighting between CODECO, a loose association of various ethnic Lendu militia groups, and Zaire, a mainly ethnic Hema self-defense group, has been ongoing since 2017 but has worsened recently. Local officials say that at least 32 civilians were killed by CODECO last month. In December, the United Nations said the insurgent group was expanding its areas of control, attacking civilians and Congo’s military, and taxing communities in the areas that it holds.
March 27, 2023Myanmar's top leader has told the nation's military forces they need to take decisive action against those fighting army rule. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing spoke at a military parade on Armed Forces Day. Members of all service branches marched in mass formations onto a huge parade ground in the capital Monday. The display of might included armored vehicles, missiles and artillery as well as fighter jets and helicopters that flew overhead. Myanmar's military has been accused of indiscriminate killings of civilians as it engages in major offensives to suppress the armed resistance opposed to its takeover of the government two years ago. Min Aung Hlaing in his speech said those who condemned his government showed indifference to the violence committed by its opponents.
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Former President Donald Trump's rally in Waco, Texas, this weekend comes amid the 30th anniversary in the city of the infamous deadly standoff at the Branch Davidians compound. Trump, who is facing the possibility of becoming the first president in U.S. history to be indicted, hasn’t nodded to Waco’s past leading up to Saturday's rally. His campaign called the decision to hold the event at Waco’s regional airport ideal because of the city's proximity to Texas’ largest cities. The siege at the compound continues to hold deep symbolism. It was a 51-day standoff that resulted in the deaths of more than 80 members of a religious cult and four federal agents.
March 25, 2023 A veteran corporate lawyer has been shot dead in Myanmar’s biggest city by self-proclaimed urban guerrillas, highlighting the bloody struggle between the military government and its foes. A business colleague, local media and the guerrilla group say Min Tayza Nyunt Tin was shot multiple times on Friday in Yangon. The guerrilla group calling itself Urban Owls in a statement accused copyright lawyer Min Tayza of being a business associate of the country’s military leaders and claimed he helped them launder money in order to buy real estate and business assets abroad in deals totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. The claims could not be independently verified. Urban guerrillas have carried out targeted killings, arson and small bombings since 2021.
March 25, 2023-
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President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are celebrating the close, “inseparable” U.S.-Canada relationship and vowing that the two nations remain committed to defending Ukraine as it tries to repel a Russian invasion that has no end in sight. Biden and Trudeau met just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks for the first time since the start of the war. Biden warned Russia that the U.S., Canada and their allies will defend “every inch of NATO territory.” Biden and Trudeau also announced an agreement aiming to stem the flow of asylum seekers at unofficial border crossings from the U.S. to Canada.
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The Iranian drone attack that struck a U.S. base in northeastern Syria, killing a contractor and wounding several U.S. troops, is just the latest in a growing number of attacks on American forces in Syria. But its lethality was rare. In most recent cases, no U.S. forces have been hurt. Thursday's strike set off a series of retaliatory bombings. American troops have been in Syria since 2015, but the latest casualties highlight what has been a consistent, but often quiet, U.S. counterterrorism mission, one aimed at countering Iranian-backed militias and preventing the resurgence of the Islamic State group.
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Pentagon leaders have told Congress that the U.S. military must be ready for possible confrontation with China. And they're pushing Congress to approve the Defense Department’s proposed $842 billion budget, which would modernize the force in Asia and around the world. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says it's a budget driven by the seriousness of the competition with the China. He made his remarks in testimony Thursday before the House Appropriations subcommittee on defense Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said China's actions are “moving it down the path toward confrontation and potential conflict with its neighbors and possibly the United States.”
March 23, 2023 The German government says that Berlin plans to buy more than 100 Australian-made combat vehicles as it moves ahead with plans to modernize its armed forces. German and Australian officials signed an agreement on Thursday to cooperate on the procurement of the new combat reconnaissance vehicles, based on the Boxer family of armored fighting vehicles and equipped with a 30-millimeter gun. The Defense Ministry said the aim is for deliveries to start in 2025. It didn’t give a price for the purchase. However, it said the money will come from a special 100 billion-euro ($108 billion) fund for the modernization of the military.
March 23, 2023-
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The African Union is appealing for nearly $90 million for its peacekeeping force in Somalia as it provides support to the country's military forces battling al-Shabab extremists. The AU commissioner for political affairs, peace and security, Ambassador Bankole Adeoye, says the more than 19,600-strong AU force won’t be able to function properly and help the Somalis unless that funding gap is filled. The AU force is supposed to hand over full responsibility for Somalia's security to its military at the end of 2024. Adeoye says that if the AU force doesn’t have sufficient funds to operate effectively before the handover, “it may mean that al-Shabab will eventually take over the responsibilities of a state in Somalia.”
March 23, 2023 The Israeli military says that it made a “mistake” in launching a secretive influence campaign on social media in an effort to improve the public’s view of Israel’s performance in its devastating war with Gaza militants in 2021. The online campaign, which failed to gain traction, was one of several contentious — even deceptive — tactics employed by the Israeli military in the bloody 11-day war, which killed over 260 Palestinians and 13 Israelis, as the military bombed the Hamas-ruled territory and Palestinian militants launched rockets at Israel. Israel’s Haaretz daily first exposed the social media operation Wednesday, reporting that the Israeli army employed fake accounts to conceal the campaign’s origin.
March 22, 2023A senior judge has launched an independent inquiry to investigate whether U.K. military police covered up or did not properly probe allegations of unlawful killings by British armed forces during operations in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2013. The inquiry was ordered by Britain’s government after the families of eight Afghans who were allegedly murdered by British Special Forces in Afghanistan launched legal challenges. Senior judge Charles Haddon-Cave said he and his team will “get to the bottom” of whether investigations carried out by the Royal Military Police into the alleged killings were adequate. The inquiry will also review whether the deaths “formed part of a wider pattern of extra-judicial killings by British armed forces in Afghanistan."
March 22, 2023Officials say suspected militants ambushed a vehicle carrying a senior military intelligence officer in northwest Pakistan, killing him and his driver. Brig. Mustafa Burki, who had been deeply involved in operations against the Pakistani Taliban in recent years, was “martyred” along with his driver as he traveled in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, say security officials. The province bordering Afghanistan is a former stronghold of militants. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to media on the record. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack on Burki.
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