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28.01.2024 11:32 A frigid winter wind fluttered past the snow-covered landscape as Sgt. Shane Vanderhoek, an indirect fire infantryman with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 125th Infantry Regiment, Michigan Army National Guard, adjusted his team's 81 mm mortar.

28.01.2024 11:32 U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the 88th Readiness Division conducted cold weather snowshoe training during their battle assembly weekend at Fort McCoy, Wis. on Jan. 21, 2024.

28.01.2024 11:32 Hate is growing at an alarming speed, and the world must strongly denounce forces of division, especially in the wake of the abhorrent 7 October terror attacks in Israel, the UN Secretary-General said on Friday, opening a ceremony in the General Assembly Hall commemorating victims of the Holocaust.

27.01.2024 18:10 On Jan. 26, at approximately 1:30 p.m. , Iranian-backed Houthi militants fired one anti-ship ballistic missile from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen toward Arleigh-Burke class destroyer USS Carney in the Gulf of Aden. The missile was successfully shot down by USS Carney. There were no injuries or damage reported.

27.01.2024 18:10 The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Croatia of UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters and related equipment and services for an estimated cost of $500 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale today.

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27.01.2024 18:10 The International Court of Justice on Friday declared that Palestinians had a right to be protected from acts of genocide, calling on Israel to "take all measures within its power" to prevent such actions and allow the entry of desperately needed humanitarian aid into the war-shattered enclave.

27.01.2024 18:10 A senior United Nations official has warned that civil order could break down in Gaza if escalating hostilities force more and more Palestinians to flee to Rafah, an area crammed with 1.3 million people which prior to Hamas' brutal assault in Israel on October 7 accommodated fewer than 300,000.

27.01.2024 18:10 The United Nations agency that assists Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said Friday that it fired several of its employees after Israeli authorities provided the agency with information alleging their participation in the October 7 Hamas terror attack inside Israel.

27.01.2024 18:10 Secretary-General António Guterres has asked the head of the UN agency assisting Palestine refugees, UNRWA, to "swiftly" investigate "extremely serious allegations" that several agency staffers were involved in the 7 October terror attacks in southern Israel.

27.01.2024 18:10 Kyiv and Moscow have conducted an exchange of the remains of soldiers killed, a development that appears unrelated to the disputed downing of a Russian military transport plane, which the Kremlin said was carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs, killing them and nine others on board.

27.01.2024 18:10 The head of Ukraine's military intelligence service said Friday that Kyiv did not have credible or comprehensive information about the passengers aboard the Russian airplane that was downed on Russian soil allegedly carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war flying to Ukraine in exchange for Russian POWs.

27.01.2024 18:10 The four-year sentence Russia handed down Thursday to Igor Girkin, a former Federal Security Service officer and military blogger, is part of a broader crackdown on critics of the Kremlin and its invasion of Ukraine, according to the British Defense Ministry's daily intelligence report on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

27.01.2024 18:10 U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi are set to meet in Bangkok Friday and Saturday to build on a pledge to deepen their dialogue, despite the two superpowers' differences on Taiwan.

27.01.2024 18:10 The Hong Kong Stock Exchange's benchmark Hang Seng index is having a rocky start to the new year, trading around the same level it was at when the British handed the city to Beijing 27 years ago and losing its place as the fourth-largest capital market in Asia to India. Last year it was the worst-performing major market in the world.