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Mar- 2021 -5 MarchMiddle East
Iran Guards Say Foiled Plane Hijacking
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Friday that they foiled the hijacking of a plane by an assailant who intended to have the internal flight redirected to a neighboring Gulf Arab country.
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5 MarchAfrica
UN Alleges War Crimes in Ethiopia’s Tigray, Urges Eritrea Pullout
UN leaders alleged possible crimes against humanity in Ethiopia's Tigray region including by Eritrean troops, as they urged a pullout by the neighboring country.
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5 MarchAsia Pacific
China Military Budget to Grow 6.8% in 2021
China's military budget -- the second largest in the world after the US -- is set to increase by 6.8 percent in 2021, the finance ministry announced Friday.
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4 MarchEurope
Nine Turkish Soldiers Killed in Military Helicopter Crash
Nine Turkish soldiers were killed and four wounded on Thursday when their military helicopter crashed in the southeast of the country, the defense ministry said.
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4 MarchAfrica
Who Are the ‘Bandits’ Behind Nigeria’s Mass Kidnappings?
For the past decade, criminal gangs in northwest Nigeria have terrorized communities, attacking villages, pillaging, raping, stealing cattle, ambushing travelers, and kidnapping people.
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4 MarchEurope
NATO Chief Warns EU It Can’t Defend Europe Alone
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned Thursday that the European Union cannot defend its citizens alone without the help of the trans-Atlantic alliance.
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4 MarchAsia Pacific
Seven Ethnic Hazaras Killed in Eastern Afghanistan
At least seven members of Afghanistan's persecuted Hazara ethnic group were brutally murdered in the country's restive east, officials said Thursday.
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4 MarchMiddle East
Yemen’s Houthis Claim Missile Strike on Saudi Aramco Plant
Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed a missile strike Thursday on a plant of energy giant Saudi Aramco in the western Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah amid an escalation in cross-border attacks on the kingdom.
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3 March
UK Defends Yemen Aid Cuts and Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday defended his government's plan to halve humanitarian aid for war-torn Yemen while continuing to sell arms to Saudi Arabia, despite a US freeze on its weapons' exports.
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3 MarchAfrica
Six Dead in Jihadist Attacks in Northeast Nigeria: Aid Groups
Aid groups in Nigeria said six civilians died in a suspected jihadist attack on a northeastern town that, according to the UN, "directly targeted" aid facilities.
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