MUMBAI, (APP/AFP) – A fire at a massive military ammunition depot in central India on Tuesday has killed at least 17 people and left many more injured, according to media reports. The Press Trust of India news agency said two officers were among the 17 soldiers to have died in the blaze at the depot […]
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17 killed in India army ammunition depot fire: reports
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EU’s Juncker set to meet Putin on Russia trip
BRUSSELS, (APP/AFP) – Top EU official Jean-Claude Juncker is set to meet President Vladimir Putin in Russia in June, a spokesman said Monday, while denying any “inconsistency” with an upcoming decision on whether to extend sanctions against Moscow. European Commission President Juncker’s trip will be the first to Russia by a top Brussels official since […]
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UK police charge two after migrant boat rescue operation
LONDON, (APP/AFP) – British police on Monday charged two men after 20 people, most of them migrants, were rescued from the English Channel when their inflatable boat began to take on water. Two children and a woman were among the group of 18 Albanians and two Britons aboard the rigid-hulled inflatable boat, which got into […]
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Egypt court sentences Brotherhood leader to life
CAIRO, (APP/AFP) – An Egyptian court Monday sentenced the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader and 35 other people to life in prison over violent clashes after the army overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, a judicial official said. Mohamed Badie, the Brotherhood’s supreme guide, has already been sentenced to death and prison terms in other trials. The court […]
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Three Ukrainian soldiers killed in upsurge in east
KIEV, (APP/AFP) – Three Ukrainian soldiers were killed and eight wounded in a fresh “escalation” of fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government forces, Kiev said Monday. Military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said fighting had intensified compared to a month ago and accused rebels of “actively using heavy weapons” including a Grad rocket launcher. “Over the past […]
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Iraq forces push into streets of IS-held Fallujah
BAGHDAD, (APP/AFP) – Iraqi forces thrust into the city of Fallujah from three directions on Monday marking a new and perilous urban phase in the week-old operation to retake the jihadist bastion. Led by the elite counter-terrorism service (CTS), Iraq’s best trained and most seasoned fighting unit, the forces pushed in before dawn, commanders said. […]