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Half of French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle crew test positive for COVID-19

Nearly half of the 2,300 sailors aboard France's aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and support craft when a coronavirus outbreak…

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Abu Sayyaf militants kill and wound two dozen Philippine soldiers in Sulu attack

Islamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf militants killed 11 Philippine soldiers and wounded 14 others in the group's deadliest attack in over…

Staff Writer With AFP

Nigeria security forces kill 18 in coronavirus lockdown enforcement

Nigerian security agents killed 18 people in their enforcement of measures to curb coronavirus, a figure higher than the documented…

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Nearly 700 sailors from French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle test positive for coronavirus

A third of the nearly 2,000 sailors who were aboard France's aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and support craft when…

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Defectors quit last US-backed rebel group in Syria, head for regime territory

A suspected drug smuggler and other former member of Maghawir al-Thawra, the last US-backed rebel group in Syri,a defected to…

Jared Szuba

Israeli drone strike targets Hezbollah members in Syria near Lebanon border

An Israeli drone targeted a car of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement just inside Syria near the border with Lebanon without…

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Germany arrests 5 Tajiks in suspected ISIS cell planning attacks on US forces

German police arrested five Tajik nationals on suspicion that they were members of an ISIS cell that had been planning…

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Kabul to ban motorbikes in bid to thwart Taliban killings and crime

A security official said that the Taliban are conducting an increasing number of targeted killings of government officials in Kabul

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Haftar’s Libyan National Army forces fire on Tripoli after losing western towns

Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army forces rained rockets on the capital Tripoli after being ousted by government loyalists from a…

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US approves $63 million sale of Mk 54 torpedoes to India

The US has approved a possible $63 million sale of 16 Mk 54 lightweight torpedoes to India for use on…

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