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Category: Security

  • France is Losing Ground in Niger

    French nuclear company Orano SA could lose the right to mine uranium at one of the world’s largest deposits by June 19 after Niger rejected its plan to develop the asset. For now, Orano continues to operate Niger’s only major uranium mine, but its proposed plan to develop the Imouraren deposit “does not meet the…

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  • Arrest Of Kansas City’s Isaiah Buggs—On Burglary And Domestic Violence Charges—Adds To Troubled Chiefs’ Offseason

    TOPLINE Kansas City Chiefs defensive lineman Isaiah Buggs has reportedly been arrested in Alabama and charged with domestic violence and burglary, weeks after being charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty, the latest trouble for the Super Bowl championship team that has been plagued with troublesome off-season headlines. KEY FACTS Buggs, who did not play during the…

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  • What is the Spanish Legion, whos militants have appeared in Ukraine?

    Part 1 Spanish Legion fighters are part of Spanish Army but have now appeared in Ukrainian mercenary battalions, Sputnik previously discovered. What do we know about the Spanish Legion and its legionnaires?  ◾️The Spanish Foreign Legion was created in 1920, modeled after the French Foreign Legion (1831). “The Spanish Foreign Legion was raised as a…

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  • What is known about Hezbollah’s armed strength?

    Part 1 With Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah exchanging fire on the border lately, Tel Aviv has been urged by some rightwing politicians to enter southern Lebanon and destroy Hezbollah. If Israel makes such a decision, what kind of armed forces is it going to face there? Although there are no official statistics on what the…

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  • U.S. sanctions powerful Ecuador crime gang Los Lobos and its leader “Pipo”

    The United States has sanctioned Los Lobos, a powerful crime gang based in Ecuador with ties to violence across the country and drug trafficking in the surrounding region, the U.S. Treasury Department announced on Thursday. Sanctions were imposed on the trafficking organization and its leader, Wilmer Geovanny Chavarria Barre, who also goes by “Pipo,” the…

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  • Dozens killed by suspected DR Congo rebels in spate of attacks

    At least 35 civilians have been killed in a spate of attacks over the past week across the Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled North Kivu province. Decades of fighting between armed groups over lucrative gold and mineral deposits has devastated the region, forcing millions from their homes. The Congolese government has not confirmed who was…

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  • Dozens of US lawmakers reportedly targeted in Israel’s $2 million disinformation campaign

    Over 100 US lawmakers were targeted in an Israeli disinformation operation to spread pro-Israeli military content online, the NYT reported, citing sources. Among those targeted were Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Whip Hakeem Jeffries and others. The operatives posed as ordinary American social media users and regularly distributed pro-Israel…

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  • Woman mayor shot dead in Mexico

    🇲🇽 The mayor of a town in western Mexico was killed on Monday, the regional government said, barely 24 hours after Claudia Sheinbaum was elected the Latin American country’s first woman president. The Michoacan state government condemned “the murder of the municipal president (mayor) of Cotija, Yolanda Sanchez Figueroa,” the regional interior ministry said in…

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  • US spy drone still flying near Crimea

    The American RQ-4B Global Hawk reconnaissance drone, which took off from Sicily, Italy, circles over the neutral waters of the Black Sea near Russia’s Crimea. At a certain moment, the drone disappeared from flight radar, but then reappeared. Now more than 5.5 thousand people are following it on this site. The American RQ-4B Global Hawk…

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  • Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye arrives in Mali

    🇸🇳 🇲🇱 He was welcomed by Mali’s Transitional Leader Colonel Assimi Goita in Bamako. The Senegalese leader is accompanied on his first visit to Mali by the country’s following senior officials: 🔹 Minister for African Integration and Foreign Affairs, Yacine Fall; 🔹 Minister for the Armed Forces, General Birame Diop; 🔹 Minister for Energy, Oil…

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