NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar’s election commission rejected allegations by the military that fraud played a significant role in determining the outcome of November’s elections, which delivered a landslide victory to Aung San Suu Kyi’s ruling party. The decision, announced Thursday, came amid heightened tensions after the military, which had ruled Myanmar for five decades …

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The Taliban isn’t keeping the promises they made in the peace agreement with the United States that would eventually result in all American troops being pulled from Afghanistan by May, the Pentagon said Thursday. Chief Defense Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters the Biden administration remains committed to the deal that had been brokered last …

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President Biden has yet to name a new special envoy for North Korea policy, leaving open a major personnel hole on a national security matter that had garnered front-burner attention during the Trump administration. While Mr. Biden has begun filling out his National Security Council and State Department Asia policy teams, sources familiar with both …

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The Pentagon will provide personnel to help with distribution of COVID-19 vaccines across the country at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Thursday. The Defense Department received a request late Wednesday from FEMA to assist with President Joe Biden’s effort to bolster vaccinations across the country. Pentagon officials …

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A legal victory for Amazon could effectively doom the Pentagon’s $10 billion “war cloud” initiative, defense officials told Congress in a stark memo Thursday that warned of a potentially bleak outcome in the bitter battle over one of the military’s most ambitious technology projects in decades. The push to award the massive contract to consolidate …

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