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London (AFP) - Britain on Tuesday launched a review of its armed forces, with the former NATO chief leading the evaluation warning the world faces a "deadly quartet" of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. The assessment, ordered by Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer less than a week after he returned from a NATO summit, will set out a path to increasing defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP. The Ministry of Defence said the Strategic Defence Review would begin work "immediately in recognition of the urgency of the threats facing the UK", and aim to deliver a report in the first half of 2025....
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Kinshasa (AFP) - An American on trial over an alleged coup bid in DR Congo told a court on Friday that he had been forced into participating by his father who led the plot and was later killed. The alleged coup bid struck on May 19 when armed men attacked the home of Economy Minister Vital Kamerhe before raiding the building housing the offices of President Felix Tshisekedi. It was led by Christian Malanga, a Congolese man who was a "naturalised American" and who was killed by security forces, army spokesman General Sylvain Ekenge has said. His son Marcel Malanga, one of three Americans on tr...
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Following a tumultuous year in which multiple acts opted out, SXSW festival have announced that they have dropped the US Army and defense contractor RTX Corporation as sponsors for next year’s edition. More than 60 artists refused to play at the festival in Austin, Texas last March, boycotting the event because of its ties to defense groups that supply Israeli weapons in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Shortly before the festival began, Squirrel Flower cancelled their SXSW shows, citing festival sponsorship from the US Army. In a statement, Squirrel Flower wrote: “A music festival should not inc...
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A court in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok on Wednesday sentenced a US soldier arrested earlier this year to three years and nine months in prison on charges of stealing and threats of murder, Russian news reports said. According to US officials and Russian authorities, Staff Sergeant Gordon Black, 34, flew to the Pacific port city of Vladivostok to see his girlfriend and was arrested after she accused him of stealing from her. Russian state news agencies Tass and RIA Novosti reported from the courtroom in the Pervomaisky District Court in Vladivostok that the judge also ordered Black...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States on Friday announced another $315 million for hungry Sudanese as it pressed the warring sides to end obstruction of aid, warning that a famine of historic proportions could unfold without urgent action. The assistance will include food and drinking water, as well as malnutrition emergency screening and treatment for children. It comes as estimates say that five million people inside Sudan suffer extreme hunger, with food lacking also in neighboring countries where two million Sudanese have fled. "We need the world to wake up to the catastrophe happening bef...
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Kinshasa (AFP) - Three American suspects in what the Congolese army called an attempted coup in Kinshasa last month committed acts "punishable by death", a court heard on Friday as their trial opened. Marcel Malanga and Taylor Christian Thomson, both 21, and 36-year-old Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun are among 50 defendants in the case and were the first to stand before the judge to hear the charges against them. "These acts are punishable by death," the presiding judge of the Kinshasa-Gombe military court, Freddy Ehume, told the three in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital. Defendants w...
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Colleville-sur-Mer (France) (AFP) - NATO member nations are ready to defend themselves but need to build up production of military equipment, the alliance's top general Christopher Cavoli told AFP on Thursday. As Allied nations marked 80 years since the D-Day landings that began the liberation of France from Nazi German occupation, Supreme Allied Commander Europe Cavoli's eyes were turned to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Moscow's potential future threat to NATO countries. NATO "is ready to do collective territorial defence", Cavoli said in Normandy. He pointed to a vast exercise dubbed S...
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The idea that the European Union has created or is creating a pan-European army that will conscript citizens from member states is often used to attack the bloc’s leadership and general direction. It’s typically peddled by right-wing parties and Eurosceptics active on social media to accuse the EU of attacking its members’ sovereignty. But many proponents of "ever closer union" also invoke the idea, arguing that a European army as a way the continent can better defend itself and reduce its reliance on the US. One of the best examples of EU army scare stories came during the Brexit debate, when...
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Abidjan (AFP) - A US delegation is discussing the withdrawal of its troops from military-led Niger as Washington prepares to abandon its strategic position in the Sahel where Russia and Iran are gaining ground. The demand for US troops to exit comes after French troops were also forced to withdraw last year by Niger's new ruling generals following a July coup. Niger announced in March it was ending a military cooperation agreement with Washington, claiming the presence of US soldiers was now "illegal". The country has been a key base for counter-terrorism operations in West Africa, with a majo...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden and Iraq's Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani said Monday they would keep working towards the withdrawal of a US-led anti-jihadist coalition in the country. Their meeting at the White House came amid soaring tensions in the Middle East after Iraq's neighbor Iran launched a massive aerial attack on US ally Israel over the weekend. The US-led military coalition was formed in 2014 to fight the Islamic State group -- the year the jihadists overran nearly a third of Iraq's territory and swaths of neighboring Syria. Iraq has been trying to stay out of reg...
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