Thai police say the latest violence was triggered when Karen groups launched an attack against Myanmar troops. Fighting has broken out between the Myanmar military and armed ethnic groups near a vital trade hub near the Thai border, according to Thailand’s government and media reports. Witnesses on the Thai and Myanmar sides of the border …
The Victus Haze mission is more complicated than Victus Nox, involving two prime contractors, two spacecraft, and two rocket launches from different spaceports, all timed to occur with short timelines “to keep the demonstration as realistic as possible,” a Space Force spokesperson told Ars. “This demonstration will ultimately prepare the United States Space Force to …
China conducted military “combat patrols” Sunday in the disputed South China Sea, its army said, the same day as joint drills by the Philippines, the United States, Japan and Australia. Issued on: 07/04/2024 – 13:01 2 min The announcement comes one day after defence chiefs from four countries including the Philippines — which has been …
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Photographs and text by Jen Guyton Sitting cross-legged on the mossy forest floor, I try not to make a sound as I swat away mosquitoes. The air is warm, the smell of bright Florida sunshine on moist soil still lingering. But a chill descends as the sun goes down, and crickets venture a twilight chirp. …
When Dick Higgins, the last survivor of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association’s Orange County Chapter 14, spoke of fellow survivor John Hughes’s death, he remarked on the importance of the association’s brotherhood. “We were a band of brothers,” he said in a 2022 interview. Pearl Harbor survivor Dick Higgins, 88, is congratulated at a Pearl …
“It is difficult to imagine that this used to be a warzone,” 23-year-old *Shao Hongtian told Al Jazeera as he wandered along a beach near the city of Xiamen on China’s southeast coast. Halting by the water’s edge where gentle waves lapped against the sand, Shao gestured beyond the shallows towards the sea and the …
Called to serve It has been 75 years since President Harry S. Truman signed into law the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, which allowed women to serve as regular members of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. Department of Defense President Harry S. Truman stands in front of the White House on June …
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that Russian advances had been “halted” in Ukraine and the situation was now “much better” for his troops than in recent months. Issued on: 11/03/2024 – 22:02Modified: 11/03/2024 – 22:42 1 min “The Russian advance has been halted,” Zelensky told French broadcaster BFM TV. “Our command, our military has …
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KC Cole, Knowable Magazine Every now and then, science serves up poison pills. Knowledge gained in the course of exploring how nature works opens doors we might wish had stayed shut: For much of the past year, our newsfeeds were flooded with stories about how computational superpowers can create amoral nonhuman “minds” that may learn to think …
By JAMES POLLARD (Associated Press/Report for America) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Highway signs welcome drivers entering North Carolina to “the nation’s most military friendly state,” and veterans here know they’re being courted. But in a state where camouflage-colored appeals have become commonplace, recent efforts by progressive groups to cut into what has long been a …