DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) – A special tribunal in Bangladesh’s capital on Wednesday sentenced to death eight Islamic militants for the 2015 killing of a publisher of books on secularism and atheism. Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal Judge Majibur Rahman announced the verdicts in a packed courtroom in the presence of six defendants. Another two, including sacked military …
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Struggling with the region’s worst outbreak of the coronavirus, Iran is marking the anniversary of the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution on Wednesday on wheels – cars, motorcycles, bicycles – instead of traditional rallies and marches. Tens of thousands are expected to drive through cities and towns as part of the manifestations …
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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden is making his first visit to the Pentagon as commander in chief, taking stock of a military as it pivots from the turmoil of the Trump years and focuses to an unusual degree on domestic and internal issues. Biden planned to meet Wednesday afternoon with senior civilian and military …
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – Colombia has failed to protect human rights activists in its remote communities, resulting in hundreds of slayings since the government reached a peace deal with the country’s biggest rebel movement in 2016, an international monitoring group said Wednesday. Armed groups, including some that emerged from the now-demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of …
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The U.S. Army wants counterdrone capabilities to be in the arsenal of even the lowliest private on the battlefield. With what military planners call “unmanned aircraft systems” rapidly revolutionizing age-old war-fighting theories, every soldier, regardless of assignment, should know how to help knock out swarms of enemy drones before they can wreak havoc on a …
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