Military

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Australians and New Zealanders paid tribute to their war dead Sunday as both nations prepared to withdraw from their longest war in Afghanistan. The neighboring countries commemorate Anzac Day every April 25, the date in 1915 when the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on Turkey in an ill-fated campaign …

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MEXICO CITY (AP) – Prosecutors in Mexico said Saturday that two men have been ordered to stand trial for allegedly making explosive-laden drones of the kind that have been used in recent attacks on police and soldiers. The Attorney General’s Office said the two were arrested a year ago in the central states of Puebla …

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Federal officials arranged with New Mexico State Police to make a traffic stop of a drug trafficker. But an officer not briefed on the plan was fatally shot when he pulled over the man instead of others who were waiting to make the stop, the Albuquerque Journal reported. State Police records …

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YUMA, Ariz. (AP) – A new tent-like temporary migrant processing facility in Yuma, Arizona, began operations earlier this week to house people seeking asylum in the U.S., according to a Border Patrol official. The 90,000-square-foot (8,361-square-meter) structure, which was built in 20 days in a parking lot behind the Yuma Sector Headquarters building, can accommodate …

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