South Korea’s military says North Korea has launched more balloons likely carrying trash toward it
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea has launched more balloons likely carrying trash toward it.
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China says it picked up a submarine detector dropped by a US Navy aircraft in the South China Sea
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Army must be ‘twice as lethal’, says new chief
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US Navy nuclear ballistic missile submarine surfaces off Norway in unusual flex as 'Doomsday' plane flies overhead
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The Latest | Gaza families bid a tearful goodbye to critically ill kids leaving for treatment abroad
Families bid a tearful goodbye to over a dozen critically ill children who left Gaza for treatment abroad on Thursday. It’s the first medical evacuation since the territory’s sole travel crossing shut down in early May after Israeli forces captured it, Palestinian officials say. Israeli authorities say 68 people — 19 sick and injured children plus their companions — have been allowed out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt.
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Thailand is now the Myanmar junta’s favored banking destination as military attacks ramp up, UN expert says
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‘It’s a very big secret’: the ultra-orthodox Jews shunning their families to fight in Gaza
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Sri Lanka calls on Russia to discharge its citizens from army
Sri Lanka has asked Russia to allow its former soldiers fighting in Moscow's war against Ukraine to return home voluntarily, the government said Thursday.The government says around a dozen Sri Lankans are also being held as prisoners of war in Ukraine.
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US discussing possibility of transferring Israeli Patriot missile defense systems to Ukraine
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4 NATO countries are calling for a defense line along Europe's 700-mile border with Russia and Belarus
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Le Pen vows to block Macron from sending troops to Ukraine
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Japan condemns ‘intolerable’ US army after soldier charged with rape of teenager
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US officials went line-by-line through arms shipments to Israel with defense minister to rebut Netanyahu’s delay claim
American officials went through a line-by-line explanation of hundreds of US weapons shipments to Israel in meetings this week with the country’s defense minister in a bid to rebut claims from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that President Biden was delaying military assistance.
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un could get his hands on some worrying military tech in exchange for throwing Russia a war lifeline
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Bolivia arrests multiple high-ranking military and intelligence officials following failed coup
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