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Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 07:38
Seven policemen who watched five teenagers burn to death in a juvenile detention center in Panama after firing teargas into their cell have been sentenced to prison in verdicts welcomed Tuesday by relatives of the victims. The female director of the facility and a civilian guard were also ordered incarcerated over the deaths, which occurred in Panama City on Jan. 9, 2011.
Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 07:36
Service members with the Special Operations Command South (Forward) 7310 arrange parachutes after a static-line training exercise involving U.S. and Honduran soldiers on Soto Cano Air Base, January 11, 2016.
Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 07:24
Does the US’ International Military Education and Training (IMET) program successfully professionalize the unprofessional, institutionalize civilian control over armed forces, and create enduring “ties that bind”? Today, Duraid Jalili weighs the pros and cons of the IMET program and where it is going in the future.
Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 07:22
Ukraine's state-owned defense industrial holding UkrOboronProm is in negotiations on possible participation in an upgrade programme centred on Poland's PT-91 Twardy (Hard) main battle tanks.
Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 07:09
The Philippines has offered the United States eight bases where it can build facilities to store equipment and supplies under a new security deal, a military spokesman said on Wednesday, amid rising tension with China over the South China Sea.
John Kerry Announces Refugee Program Expansion In Guatemala, Honduras And El Salvador With U.N. Help
Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 07:08
The U.S. will expand its refugee program in Central America, Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Wednesday. The new program will rely on U.N. screening centers and shelters, where asylum seekers can receive initial interviews and temporary lodging.
Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 07:08
Seychelles will host a regional military exercise coordinated by the U.S. Navy later this month. The exercise, named Cutlass Express 2016, will take place January 30 to February 6 and will include forces from Comoros, Kenya, Mauritius, Madagascar, Mozambique and Tanzania, said Major Jean Attala from the Seychelles People Defence Forces, Monday.
Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 07:03
Yet another African transitional government of national unity is about to be launched, this time in South Sudan, on 22 January, to try to resolve yet another terrible conflict. Wars don’t come much uglier than this one, which devastated Africa’s newest country after a fallout between President Salva Kiir and his erstwhile deputy, Riek Machar, in December 2013 quickly descended into mutual slaughter between Kiir’s Dinka and Machar’s Nuer people.
Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 06:59
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels killed a villager and abducted dozens of others during two weekend raids in a remote diamond-producing area of Central African Republic, local residents and officials said on Tuesday. The incidents represent the largest kidnapping by the Ugandan rebel group — headed by notorious warlord Joseph Kony — in recent months in the former French colony, which is also reeling from years of inter-religious bloodshed.
Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 06:59
Georgian Defense Minister, Tina Khidasheli, is visiting Afghanistan to meet Georgian troops serving in the NATO-led Resolute Mission, the Georgian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.