Year: 2019
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Jun- 2019 -4 JuneAsia Pacific
Japan ends search for missing F-35 fighter jet
Japan called off its search for an F-35A, almost two months after the jet crashed into the sea sparking a scramble to recover the pilot and secrets onboard
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4 JuneAfrica
Sudan military cancels civilian transition deal after deadly crackdown on protesters
Sudan's military cancelled a power-transfer agreement with protesters and called for elections within nine months, a day after forcefully breaking up a weeks-long sit-in
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4 JuneAfrica
Attacks foiled in Niamey and Diffa, Niger defense ministry says
Security forces in Niger foiled three weekend attacks in the capital Niamey and in the southeastern city of Diffa, the government said
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4 JuneBusiness
US approves $1.7 billion sale to Bulgaria of 8 F-16 fighter jets
The US State Department approved the $1.673 billion sale to Bulgaria of eight F-16 fighter jets and associated equipment, weapons and training
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3 JuneAfrica
Islamic State fighters attack Nigeria military bases in Lake Chad area
Islamic State militants carried out attacks on Nigerian military bases in Marte, Kirenowa and Dikwa in the Lake Chad area over the weekend
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3 June
Norway to repatriate 5 orphan children of ISIS adherents from Syria
The Kurdish administration in northeast Syria handed over five orphans from a family who joined ISIS to Norwegian authorities
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3 JuneMiddle East
Iraq sentences to death 11 French ISIS adherents transferred from Syria
A Baghdad court on Monday, June 3 sentenced to death two more French nationals for belonging to the Islamic State group, leaving all 11 Frenchmen transferred from Syria facing the gallows in Iraq. Bilel Kabaoui, 32, and Mourad Delhomme, 41, join nine other French citizens and a Tunisian national already on death row after trials over the past week. They have 30 days to appeal the sentences. Captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces, the French nationals were transferred from Syria in February. Iraq has sentenced more than 500 suspected foreign members of ISIS since the start of 2018. Its courts have condemned many to life in prison and others to death, although no foreign ISIS members have yet been executed. Iraqi law provides for the death penalty, which is carried out by hanging, for anyone joining a “terrorist group” – even those who did not take up arms. A group of prominent French lawyers said earlier Monday that the execution of French ISIS members on death row would be a disgrace for France. “We have taken a historic risk, which, if it is realized, will leave an indelible stain on the mandate of [President] Emmanuel Macron,” said the lawyers, including some …
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3 JuneAsia Pacific
India Air Force An-32 disappears with 13 on board
An Indian military aircraft with 13 people on board went missing after takeoff in the northeast of the country, the defense ministry said
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3 JuneAsia Pacific
Afghanistan civil servants killed by ‘sticky bomb’ targeting Kabul bus
At least four people were killed when a bomb tore through a bus in Kabul, marking the second day straight that attackers have targeted a bus
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3 JuneAfrica
Sudan security forces shoot protesters at sit-in outside army headquarters
Security forces shot dead protesters as Sudan's military rulers tried to break up a sit-in outside Khartoum's army headquarters
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