The top United States defence leaders were summoned to the White House yesterday to talk about the military's sexual assault crisis as the Pentagon's top general said women in uniform were losing...
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- May 19, 2013
- Updated: 3:51pm
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16 May 2013
A drone the size of a fighter jet has taken off from the deck of an American aircraft carrier for the first time in a test flight that could open the way for the US to launch unmanned aircraft...
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12 May 2013
Wong Kar-wai, the Hong Kong film director, was awarded France's highest cultural honour.
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11 May 2013
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has irked Washington with his frequent criticism of American military operations in his country, says that his government is now ready to let the US have nine...
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10 May 2013
A small, weathered piece of silver has finally finished its journey from a back yard in southern France to the 90-year-old US veteran who lost his identification on the battlefield during Europe's...
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9 May 2013
The US Air Force stripped 17 officers of their authority to control - and, if necessary, launch - nuclear missiles after a string of unpublicised failings, including a remarkably dim review of...
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As North Korea maintains its belligerence, the world is caught in a dilemma. Ignoring it as just another round of empty threats would run the risk of North Korea test-firing missiles with longer...
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The unmanned X-51A WaveRider sped westward for four minutes, reaching Mach 5.1, or more than five times the speed of sound, before making a planned plunge into the ocean.
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A US military refuelling plane on its way to Afghanistan exploded in the air and crashed in Kyrgyzstan yesterday when its cargo of fuel ignited, the Central Asian country's Emergencies Ministry...
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An Okinawan lawyer has branded as racist mainland Japanese who have been railing against efforts by residents of the island prefecture to reduce the US military presence there.
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WATCH THE VIDEO | US investigators are heading for Afghanistan to probe the deadly crash of a civilian jumbo jet that fell belly first out of the sky, in a spectacular vertical plunge and fireball...
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Technology has a clever habit of outdoing fantasy, and this month the US Navy announced that it has finally produced a working Laser Weapon System (the US military has been trying to develop...
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