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US to increase military drone flights: Report
The US military will drastically increase drone flights over the next four years, in a bid to boost intelligence and strike capabilities across a growing number of conflict zones, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.The Pentagon is planning to expand the number of daily flights from 61 at present to as many as 90 by 2019, a senior defense...
Ukraine activists scrap gay pride parade after court ban
Gay rights activists in Ukraine have cancelled a planned pride parade Saturday in the port city of Odessa after a local court banned the event.”The decision of the court is illegal and violates our constitutional right of assembly,” Kyrylo Bodelan, a spokesman for the Odessa Pride group, told AFP.Bodelan said that the group would...
Dutch prosecutors: Fragments from MH17 site may be from Russian-made missile
Some of the debris recovered from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine may be fragments of a Russian-made missile system, Dutch prosecutors leading an international investigation said on Tuesday. … …read more Source: ANTARA...
MH17 investigators find ‘possible’ BUK missile fragments
Investigators probing the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine said Tuesday they had identified pieces that “possibly” come from a Russian-made BUK missile, where the plane crashed.International and Dutch investigators are probing “several parts, possibly originating from a BUK surface-air-missile...
Pentagon guidelines on war coverage by journalists draw fire
The Pentagon is drawing fire for new legal guidelines that liken war correspondents to spies and says that in some instances they can be treated as “unprivileged belligerents.”The guidelines received little notice when they were published in June in the Defense Department’s new Law of War Manual, a compendium of legal advice for...
Ukraine slaps broadcast ban on 13 Russian artists, including Depardieu
Ukraine on Saturday named 13 pro-Russian actors and singers whose work would be banned from TV, radio and cinema, including France’s Gerard Depardieu. The blacklist issued by the ministry of culture described the 13 as a … …read more Source: ANTARA...
Ukraine artist creates Putin portrait with bullet shells
A young Ukrainian artist has captured global media attention by creating a striking portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin out of 5,000 bullet shells collected in the separatist east.Daria Marchenko’s “The Face of War” — a remarkably realistic and politically tinged depiction of Putin in a dark suit and red tie...
Gunmen Attack Hotel in Central Mali, One Dead
Bamako. At least one person was killed in an attack early on Friday by unidentified gunmen on a hotel in central Mali frequented by United Nations peacekeepers in the West African nation, a witness and a military spokesman said. The raid targeted a hotel on the road to the airport in Sevare, which services the larger town of Mopti. The body of...
Russia begins destroying smuggled Western foods
Russia launched Thursday a controversial campaign to destroy tonnes of Western food from gourmet cheeses to fruit and vegetables smuggled into the crisis-hit country, defying a storm of criticism.President Vladimir Putin last week signed a decree ordering the incineration of all food that breaches a year-old embargo on Western imports imposed in...
MH17: Australia determined to seek justice, despite Russian veto
A woman with a small child look at a ‘hedge of compassion’, made of thousands of dolls found along the road and at Schiphol airport after the MH17 disaster, prior to a commemoration ceremony in Nieuwegein, near the central city of Utrecht, Netherlands, July 17. (AP/Michael Kooren)Australia remains determined to seek justice for the...
