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Robot Dogs to Patrol Tyndall Air Force Base Soon

Inder Singh Bisht -
Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, will be one of the first in America to have semi-autonomous robot dogs patrolling its 38 square kilometer compound.
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Americas

Biden Could Reverse Germany Troop Removal

Staff Writer With AFP -
US President-elect Joe Biden could reverse course -- at least partially -- on the Trump administration's move to withdraw some 12,000 US troops from Germany, according to Biden's defense advisers. 
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Cyber

Quarter of British Soldiers Could Be Robots By 2030s, Top General Says

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Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Sir Nick Carter claimed a quarter of British soldiers could be robots by the 2030s.
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Africa

Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict Risks Spreading South

Staff Writer With AFP -
Fears mount of increasing conflict in Ethiopia, where PM Ahmed last week ordered a military campaign in Tigray that has the nation careening towards a potential civil war.
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Asia Pacific

Pakistani Al-Qaeda Bomb-Maker Mohammad Hanif Killed in Afghanistan

Staff Writer With AFP -
Mohammad Hanif, a Pakistani bomb-maker who trained Taliban militants before switching allegiance to Al-Qaeda, has been killed in western Afghanistan.
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Africa

Ethiopia PM Says Conflict in Tigray Nearing End as Thousands Flee Fighting

Staff Writer With AFP -
PM Ahmed said the end of military operations in Ethiopia's north is "coming within reach," as thousands fled the violence into neighboring Sudan.
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Africa

Nigeria Takes Delivery of Chinese Drones to Combat Insurgency, Armed Banditry

Inder Singh Bisht -
Four Chinese-made Wing Loong II combat drones have reportedly arrived in Nigeria to take part in ongoing counter-insurgency and anti-banditry operations in the country’s restive northwest region. 
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Commentary

Elections, the Canadian-American Security Relationship, and NORAD

The Wallace Institute -
Nurturing Canada-US ties and NORAD must remain a high priority, especially as some of the North American Warning System infrastructures are aging.
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Americas

Amnesty Urges US to Halt MQ-9B Drone Sale to UAE

Inder Singh Bisht -
The US' plan to sell 18 MQ-9B drones to the UAE could increase the death toll of Yemeni and Libyan civilians, Amnesty International warned.
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Americas

US ‘Disappointed’ as Cambodia Razes Another Military Facility

Staff Writer With AFP -
The United States expressed disappointment Tuesday that Cambodia had demolished a second American-funded military facility without warning, as the kingdom turns to China to expand a naval base.
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Europe

Turkey Hails Azerbaijan ‘Gains’ After Karabakh Deal

Staff Writer With AFP -
Turkey on Tuesday hailed the "significant gains" achieved by Azerbaijan's forces that were cemented in a peace deal with Armenia.
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Americas

Trump Fires Defense Chief Mark Esper

Staff Writer With AFP -
President Donald Trump on Monday announced by tweet that he had fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper, further destabilizing a government already navigating Trump's refusal to concede election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden.
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Africa

ADF Militia Kill More Than a Dozen in Attacks Near DR Congo’s Beni

Staff Writer With AFP -
More than a dozen people have been killed in two attacks near Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that were blamed on the Islamist ADF group, local sources said Sunday.
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Europe

Armenia Says Fighting Continues for Key Karabakh Town

Staff Writer With AFP -
Armenia said on Monday that fighting was continuing for the key town of Shusha in Nagorno Karabakh, a day after Azerbaijan claimed to have captured it from Armenian separatist forces.
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Europe

Three Dead in Axe and Gun Attack at Russian Military Base Near Voronezh

Staff Writer With AFP -
A Russian serviceman Monday hacked an officer to death with an axe and shot two fellow soldiers dead at a military base near the southern city of Voronezh, investigators said.
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Africa

Ethiopia’s Abiy Vows Military Operation in Tigray to ‘Wrap up Soon’

Staff Writer With AFP -
Ethiopia's PM Ahmed vowed his military operation in the northern Tigray region would be over soon, seeking to placate foreign allies that the country was not on a path to all-out war.
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