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5 troops killed, 4 others injured in blast in S. Thailand

FivegovernmenttroopswerekilledandfourothersseriouslyinjuredinablastinsouthernThailandonMonday,policesaid.Thebomb,believedtohavebeenplantedbyanunknowngroupofloca

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Mexico lawmakers back bill to allow stronger military presence

In Mexico, a proposed law that would allow the military to act as police officers is the source of much debate.

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Mexico lawmakers back bill to allow stronger military presence

InMexico,aproposedlawthatwouldallowthemilitarytoactaspoliceofficersisthesourceofmuchdebate.Advocateshavearguedthemilitaryneedstostepintomakeupforlocalpolicewhoa

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Germany says no choice but to pull forces from Turkish air base

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel met with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu, in Ankara on Monday for emergency talks regarding a dispute over the stationing of German troops and aircraft at a Turkish military base in Incirlik.

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Germany says no choice but to pull forces from Turkish air base

GermanForeignMinisterSigmarGabrielmetwithhisTurkishcounterpart,MevlutCavusoglu,inAnkaraonMondayforemergencytalksregardingadisputeoverthestationingofGermantroops

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China-donated security equipment handed to Somali army

The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on Thursday handed over security equipment donated by China to the Somali National Army (SNA) to help enhance security operations in the country.

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Turkey tries 47 ex-soldiers in Erdogan assassination plot

Dozens of former Turkish soldiers were brought to trial on Monday on charges of trying to kill President Recep Tayyip Erdoganduring a coup attempt in July, the latest in a series of trials in the plot.

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Truck-ramming attack kills four Israeli soldiers

A Palestinian rammed a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers visiting a popular tourist spot in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four and wounding 17 others, authorities said.

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Myanmar’s military killed seven of my children, says Rohingya refugee who fled village

Noor Ayesha held her last surviving daughter tight as their boat crossed into Bangladeshi waters. She left behind a firebombed home, a dead husband, seven slain children and the soldiers who raped her.

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Nine dead after India fires at Kashmir bus, Pakistan says

​At least nine people were killed and seven others wounded in cross-border fire which hit a Pakistani bus in disputed Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said, in the latest deadly skirmish between India and Pakistan.

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DPRK leader guides firing drill on front-line islet

​DPRK leader Kim Jong-un has inspected an artillery unit stationed on an island bordering South Korea and ordered a firing drill on the spot, the North's state-run newswire reported Friday.

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Myanmar endeavors to eradicate child soldiers

​Myanmar's military has released 101 child soldiers this year, increasing the total number of child soldiers rescued to 800 since 2012, authorities said Monday.

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Chinese railway transportation falls short of military demand

China’s rapidly-developing railway system has yet to meet the military's demand for transportation, a newspaper affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) admitted, after photos of PLA soldiers traveling in boxcars triggered online discontent.

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Myanmar military investigates ‘war crime’, in landmark sign of change in the country

The first and second bodies pulled from the shallow grave in northern Myanmar didn’t belong to Aik Chin’s missing son. Nor, he prayed, did the third, whose face was unrecognisable from a severe beating.

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Brutality of Turkey's failed coup caught on phones, social media

​A tank rolls through five lanes of deadlocked traffic towards the Bosphorus Bridge, crushing cars. A military helicopter shoots at people dashing across a highway. Mutinous soldiers open fire on civilians outside an air base.

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Philippine Marine soldiers ambushed by Abu Sayyaf militants, three killed

Three Marine soldiers were killed when they were ambushed by a group of Abu Sayyaf Group members in south Philippine province of Sulu on Thursday, said local authorities.

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On the front lines of China's flood battle

As water sits two meters above the alert level in vast Fanghu Lake in east China's Jiangxi Province, soldiers use forklifts to pour gravel to reinforce the embankment.