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Trump nominates former Aerospace Corporation chair to head US Air Force

US President Donald Trump announced he had nominated Barbara Barrett, a former Aerospace Corporation chair, to lead the Air Force

Staff Writer With AFP

DNA tests confirm Sri Lanka Easter attacks ringleader was Shangri-La bomber

Sri Lanka police said DNA tests confirmed that the ringleader of the Easter attacks, Zahran Hashim, was one of the…

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Netherlands arrests suspected Syrian Al Nusra Front commander

Dutch police arrested a Syrian man called Abu Khuder, suspected of committing war crimes as a commander of Al Nusra…

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UK F-35 fighter jets head to Cyprus for first overseas exercise

UK F-35B Lightning aircraft flew RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus as part of Exercise Lightning Dawn, the first overseas deployment for…

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Mali police killed in attack in Koury near Burkina Faso border

Four civilians, two Malian policemen and a customs officer were killed in an attack on a border post on Mali's…

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Egypt police carry out raids near Cairo after Giza bus bomb

Twelve suspected jihadists were killed in police raids near Cairo, Egypt's interior ministry said, a day after a bomb blast…

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Peacekeeper killed in attacks on Nigeria and Chad troops in Mali

A Nigerian peacekeeper was killed and another injured in a gun attack in Timbuktu and three Chadian peacekeepers were injured…

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Sikorsky to build 12 US Marines CH-53K helicopters under $1.13 billion contract modification

Lockheed Martin company Sikorsky was awarded a $1 billion contract modification to build 12 CH-53K King Stallion helicopters for the…

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Sounding out recruits: Music remains instrumental in the US far-right radicalization

The US is seeing an escalation of right-wing terrorism and music is playing an important role in the radicalization process

Anna Varfolomeeva

Afghanistan police killed in ‘friendly fire’ US airstrike in Helmand province

More than a dozen Afghan police officers were killed in an airstrike carried out by international forces in Helmand province

Joanne Stocker