WASHINGTON, (APP/AFP) – A probe has been launched into the death of nine soldiers caught in a flash-flood during a training exercise in Texas, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Saturday. Authorities recovered the bodies of four soldiers Friday, a day after their vehicle flipped over in a rain-swollen creek at the vast military […]
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US army probes death of nine soldiers after Texas base floods
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Muhammad Ali, ‘The Greatest of All Time’, dead at 74
NEW YORK, (APP): Known as ‘The Greatest,’ former three-time heavyweight boxing champion and cultural and civil rights icon Muhammad Ali has died. He was 74. The iconic Louisville native, born Cassius Clay Jr, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in the mid-1980s. He was taken to a Phoenix hospital in Arizona this week suffering from respiratory […]
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Syria army thrusts into IS bastion province Raqa
BEIRUT, (APP/AFP) – Syrian troops pushed into the Islamic State group’s bastion province Raqa on Saturday for the first time since 2014, in an advance towards the country’s largest dam, a monitor said. The Tabqa dam on the Euphrates River, 40 kilometres (25 miles) upstream from Raqa city, is also the target of a separate […]
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Four more soldiers dead after flash flooding at Texas base
WASHINGTON, (APP/AFP) – Authorities recovered the bodies of four soldiers Friday, one day after their vehicle flipped over in a rain-swollen Texas creek during a training exercise. The four confirmed deaths raised the toll from the accident to nine, Christopher Haug, chief of media relations at Fort Hood military base, told AFP. The troops were […]
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Pakistan and U.S. sign action plan on women’s economic empowerment
NEW YORK, (APP): Pakistan and the United States Friday signed an action plan on women’s entrepreneurship and economic empowerment as the two countries ended a major business conference here. The action plan was signed by the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, Catherine Russell, and Pakistan’s Additional Secretary of Commerce, Robina Ather, at a […]
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UN chief “shocked” at grave violations against children detailed in latest report
UNITED NATIONS, (APP): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his shock at the scale of grave violations against children in countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen that have been detailed in a new report on children and armed conflict covering the year 2015, The secretary-general noted the complex environments created […]