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The investigation into extrajudicial killings by British troops in Afghanistan was announced last year
An independent inquiry into alleged illegal killings by the British military in Afghanistan officially opened with a call for evidence on Wednesday. Investigation chairman Lord Justice Haddon-Cave promised to “do everything in our power” to “get to the bottom” of the scandal.
The estimated cost of rebuilding and restoring Ukraine has surpassed the $400 billion mark, a fresh report suggests
Ukraine’s reconstruction and recovery bill has grown to $411 billion, according to a new assessment conducted jointly by the country’s government, the World Bank, the European Commission, and the UN.
According to the evaluation,
Israel’s military has admitted it made a ‘mistake’ by targeting civilians in an effort to shore up support for its 2021 Gaza campaign
The Israel Defense Forces illegally targeted the Israeli population with a social media psychological operation to convince citizens that its airstrikes were “taking a toll” on Gaza during the 2021 Guardian of the Walls military operation,
Beijing said countries in the Asia-Pacific must not allow themselves to be “coerced or used” by Washington
The United States is set to build four new military bases “scattered” around the Philippines, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said, noting that at least one facility would be placed near a disputed island chain claimed by China and several other nations.
Pyongyang slams Washington’s UN envoy as “a pawn of the Evil Empire” after she urged the DPRK to give up its nuclear arsenal
North Korea has said that any attempt to force it to abandon its nuclear weapons would trigger a harsh response, invoking a recently updated policy governing the use of the atom bomb in the event of a major threat.
A joint media and NGO probe found at least two, and as many as 26, civilian victims of British airstrikes
The UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) killed civilians during its most recent bombing of Iraq, according to an investigation by the Guardian and the monitoring group Airwars, published on Wednesday. The report directly contradicts denials by the British government that RAF air raids,
A year after applying to join the US-led military bloc, Stockholm gets parliamentary approval
The Swedish parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of joining NATO, almost a year after the government in Stockholm applied for membership. The formal vote in the Riksdag was passed by 269 votes to 37, with 43 members abstaining.
Controversial pension reform is not a “luxury” but a long-overdue measure, the French president says
French President Emmanuel Macron has stood by his controversial pension reform in his first public remarks since pushing the measure through without the approval of lawmakers. He said the move, which has deepened ongoing unrest in the country,
Samoa has cautioned that Beijing’s contract with Solomon Islands may “morph into something else”
The awarding of a contract to a Chinese state-owned company to redevelop a commercial port in the Solomon Islands’ capital, Honiara, may lead to deeper security tensions, the Prime Minister of Samoa Fiame Naomi Mata’afa has said.
The agreement struck between Beijing and Honiara will see the city’s international port and two domestic wharves upgraded as part of a $170-million project to be completed by the China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC).
The investigation into extrajudicial killings by British troops in Afghanistan was announced last year
An independent inquiry into alleged illegal killings by the British military in Afghanistan officially opened with a call for evidence on Wednesday. Investigation chairman Lord Justice Haddon-Cave promised to “do everything in our power” to “get to the bottom” of the scandal.
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