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The growing number of police killings of suspected criminals in Rio de Janeiro’s war on drugs is linked to bonuses now paid to “brave” police officers, according to a just-released independent study.
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New disclosures about war crimes committed by British army in Iraq are out. A British soldier named Donald Payne revealed some of the crimes committed by the British...
made popular Nov 19 2009
One of Iraq’s two vice-presidents has vetoed part of the country’s new election law, putting the parliamentary polls scheduled for January in doubt.
Tariq...
made popular Nov 18 2009
New disclosures about war crimes committed by British army in Iraq are out. A British soldier named Donald Payne revealed some of the crimes committed by the British...
made popular Nov 18 2009
Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms abducted and killed at least 13 people in a village west of Baghdad, in what some described as revenge against Sunnis who helped...
made popular Nov 17 2009
Doctors in Iraq’s war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may...
made popular Nov 14 2009
That would be the country that spent a trillion dollars — on the invasion and occupation, but also on training and equipping Iraqi security forces, and on ambitious...
made popular Nov 13 2009
There seems, as with many problems in Iraq, no good answer for Camp Ashraf, as tensions here rise and American soldiers get closer to leaving: what to do with the few...
made popular Nov 12 2009
Behind-the-scenes U.S. pressure has finally forced Iraq’s leaders to accept a political compromise, with Sunday’s vote in the Iraqi parliament to adopt an...
made popular Nov 11 2009
Iraq’s parliament ended weeks of debate Sunday and passed a long-delayed law paving the way for the planned January election to go forward, sidestepping a crisis...
made popular Nov 9 2009
Iraq’s Green Zone has been an Oasis for Western officials in the city since the advent of the war. Secured behind myriad checkpoints and high concrete walls, the...
made popular Nov 6 2009
It is not known who is responsible for such attacks, as no one is claiming responsibility for them; which doesn’t really make sense as terrorist organizations...
made popular Nov 5 2009
A new wave of attacks has been wavering around Iraqi cities these days. Massive bombings were reported during the last couple of weeks causing deaths, casualties and...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Violence in Iraq has been reduced, as Western generals and politicians are keen to point out, but it has not gone away. If anything, it has become more deeply...
made popular Nov 3 2009
Nearly half of all Iraqis who died in October perished in a single coordinated attack against government offices in Baghdad, a tally by The Associated Press showed...
made popular Nov 3 2009
A new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center revels an alarming belligerency in the American public. Apparently, several years of agonizing war in Iraq (and...
made popular Nov 3 2009
Iraqi politicians have been turning up their rhetoric over Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south want to control.
The dispute...
made popular Nov 2 2009
Iraq has called for more support from the international community to help it combat insurgent suicide bombings.
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Sunday’s...
made popular Oct 31 2009
Many people around the world have been cursed with cringe-inducing names (as this BBC story proves). Some, however, are more unfortunate than others.
On last...
made popular Oct 28 2009
132 Iraqis are dead, more than 500 are injured… Suicide bombers on Sunday caused this huge number of deaths and casualties.
Why and who would do something like this?...
made popular Oct 27 2009
Suicide bombers driving two large vehicle bombs again penetrated the heart of Baghdad today, killing 147 people and wounding more than 700, less than three months...
made popular Oct 26 2009
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Call of the Unknown Soldier
by Rajbir Deswal
Driving past Maj. Sandeep Shankla Park in Panchkula, I hazily saw certain Army and private vehicles lined up, in a thick...
made popular Oct 21 2009
South Africa’s defence minister could dismiss more than 1,000 soldiers who went on the rampage in the capital Pretoria on Wednesday, officials say.
The troops...
made popular Aug 29 2009
The Obama administration is not ruling out the possibility of Russian membership in NATO.
Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday that...
made popular Jul 30 2009
Let me begin by informing you I don’t generally hang out reading girly blogs. Okay, so maybe I am subscribed to a few, but definitly not the Miss Universe site;...
made popular Apr 1 2009
Afghan Defense Ministry has hinted for a better 2009. Gen. Azimi, the spokesman of the ministry while addressing a joint press conference with heads of NATO, ISAF and...
made popular Jan 15 2009
The bodies of eight military soldiers and one ex police chief, which showed signs of torture, were left on the side of a highly trafficked highway in Chilpancingo,...
made popular Dec 23 2008
Rights groups say more than 10-thousand Maoist child soldiers in Nepal need help integrating back into their communtiies .. after failing to be registered at UN...
made popular Oct 24 2008
Yesterday , my dear sister !,in my dream,I saw a cascade of tears from your eyes;When asked about the cause of your grief,You showed me the image of your husband.You...
made popular Oct 11 2008
An alarming number of women soldiers are being sexually abused bytheir comrades-in-arms, both at war and at home. This fact hasreceived a fair amount of attention...
made popular Oct 8 2008
The Kicker reports that “the Associated Press retracted two government-issued photographs last night after a photographer in Texas alerted the agency that the photos...
made popular Sep 20 2008
NOTE: This is a story that I wrote on our Success Blog Net I felt it worthy to copy it here to help remind everyone of those not able to be at home.
In times past,...
made popular Sep 6 2008
Pakistan lodged a strong protest with the United States over what it called an unprovoked and cowardly air strike by U.S. forces in Afghanistan that killed 11 Pakistani...
made popular Jun 12 2008
A total of 341 military personnel killed themselves in 2007, a reduction of 15% on the previous year.
made popular May 30 2008
Zamboanga, one of the insurgent-infiltrated regions in the Philippines, has recently been alarmed with the bombing of a compound near a Catholic cathedral and a...
made popular Apr 14 2008
As the Iraq war continues, death toll seems unending.
More Iraqi and American soldiers’ lives are wasted due to the ongoing crises.
How many more lives are we...
made popular Mar 24 2008
Indian Army has prepared itself to fight with the enemy within the country. The army across the border is not its enemy no. one. Vice-Admiral V K Singh, Director...
made popular Dec 30 2006
President A P J Abdul Kalam has said to the young 552 gentlemen cadets (GCs), who are joining the armed forces, to be prepare to work with greater responsibilities for...
made popular Dec 10 2006
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