Year: 2019
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Nov- 2019 -25 NovemberAfrica
DR Congo protesters storm MONUSCO camp, accuse peacekeepers of inaction after Beni attacks
Eight DR Congo civilians died in a fresh militant attack in Beni and angry residents partly burnt the town hall and accused MONUSCO of inaction
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25 NovemberMiddle East
Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed in new Saudi-led coalition airstrikes near Hodeidah
Saudi-led coalition airstrikes killed eight Yemeni Houthi rebels near the port of Hodeidah, triggering fierce battles around the flashpoint city
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25 NovemberMiddle East
French naval base in UAE to host European-led Gulf maritime monitoring mission
A European-led maritime surveillance initiative to monitor Gulf waters will be stationed at a French naval base in Abu Dhabi
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25 NovemberAmericas
Trump fires US Navy Secretary Richard Spencer over SEAL misconduct case
The US Navy secretary criticized Donald Trump after being sacked in a dispute over a SEAL commando whose demotion for misconduct was reversed
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25 NovemberAsia Pacific
Philippines soldiers rescue British man and wife from Abu Sayyaf
Philippine soldiers on Monday rescued a British man and his wife from the Islamic State-linked jihadist group Abu Sayyaf
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23 NovemberMiddle East
US deployment to Syria’s oilfields won’t halt further Turkish attacks, Kurdish official says
US forces guarding northeast Syria's oilfields will not prevent an expansion of Turkey’s incursion, TEV-DEM official Aldar Xelil said
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22 NovemberMiddle East
UK to repatriate first British children of ISIS-linked parents from Syria
The UK will for the first time repatriate orphan children of British parents who had traveled to join ISIS in Syria
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22 NovemberAsia Pacific
South Korea and Japan to extend military intelligence-sharing agreement
South Korea will extend a critical military intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan just hours before the pact was due to expire
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22 NovemberAsia Pacific
China slams ‘provocative’ US warship navigation operations in disputed waters
China accused the US of "provocative" conduct after warships USS Gabrielle Giffords and USS Wayne E. Meyer sailed near the Spratly islands in the South China Sea
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21 NovemberBusiness
US approves $1 billion sale of MK-45 naval guns to India
The US Department of State has approved a possible $1 billion sale of up to 13 MK-45 5-inch (62-caliber) (MOD 4) naval guns to India
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