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[Link] Witness in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial denies he is a ‘liar and a fantasist’
Read: 2/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
A former SAS soldier who testified that Ben Roberts-Smith ordered him to stage a mock execution of a comrade during a training drill has defended himself in court against accusations he was a liar and fantasist who was trying to justify his own failures as a soldier.
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[Link] First Popularized in the US, Russia Adopts 'Crisis Actor' Conspiracy Theory
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
The official Twitter account for the UK’s Russian embassy is accusing a pregnant Ukrainian woman, seen in photos of a maternity hospital blast in Mariupol on Wednesday, of being an actor placed in the scene by propagandists in support of Ukraine.
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[Link] Russian soldiers accused of firing on civilian vehicles in Ukraine
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Russian soldiers have been accused of multiple instances of deadly fire on civilian vehicles across Ukraine.
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[Link] Witness tells court he killed a Taliban fighter credited to Ben Roberts-Smith in Victoria Cross award
Read: 3/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
A soldier who fought alongside Ben Roberts-Smith at the battle of Tizak where Roberts-Smith won his Victoria Cross has told the federal court he killed one of the Taliban machine gunners credited to Roberts-Smith on his official VC citation.
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[Link] Amazon's retail CEO Dave Clark defends the company's response to the deadly Edwardsville tornado in internal memo: 'fast action saved lives'
Read: 19/12/2021 www.businessinsider.com
Amazon retail boss Dave Clark thanked employees in an internal memo on Wednesday, following his visit to the Edwardsville, IL, warehouse that was struck by a deadly tornado last week.
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[Link] Disabled Man and Teenagers Among 11 Shot and Burned in Horrific Massacre
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
Warning: This article contains graphic images. News outlet Myanmar Now reported locals as saying that some of the victims’ hands were tied when their bodies were found. Cries for help were reportedly heard during the fire, leading some to believe that they were burned alive.
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[Link] Video Captures Horrific Moment Military Truck Rams Into Unarmed Protesters
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
At least three civilians have been killed and dozens injured in Myanmar after a military truck was caught on camera speeding towards a crowd and running down unarmed protesters.
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[Link] Why Farmers Are Still Unhappy Despite Modi Withdrawing Controversial Farm Laws
Read: 26/11/2021 www.vice.com
In a surprise televised address last week, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi apologised to farmers and announced that the controversial farm laws they had been protesting for a year would be withdrawn.
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[Link] US confirms 2019 airstrike hit crowd of Syrian women and children
Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The US military has confirmed for the first time a 2019 air strike in Syria that killed up to 80 people, mostly women and children, but claimed the strike was justified as it killed Islamic State fighters who were attacking coalition forces.
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[Link] Outrage as McDonald’s CEO appears to blame parents of slain Chicago children
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
McDonald’s chief executive, Chris Kempczinski, has sparked outrage after the emergence of a text exchange with the Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, in which he appears to blame two Chicago parents whose children were fatally shot.
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[Link] All sides in Ethiopian war committed crimes against civilians, UN report finds
Read: 4/11/2021 www.sbs.com.au
The report covers most of the year-long conflict, fought by Tigrayan forces against the Ethiopian military and its key allies: forces from Ethiopia's Amhara region and soldiers from the neighbouring nation of Eritrea.
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[Link] School Cop Who Shot and Killed Manuela ‘Mona’ Rodriguez Charged With Murder
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The former Long Beach, California, school safety officer who shot and killed an 18-year-old mother as she drove away from the scene of a fight will now face a murder charge.
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[Link] ‘The court of God will be waiting for him’: Iraqis react to Colin Powell’s death
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
For many Iraqis, Colin Powell was the face of the US invasion which caused an estimated 200,000 deaths, unleashing nearly two decades of domestic chaos and precipitating chaos throughout the region.
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[Link] Ben Roberts-Smith’s backers at Seven commissioned secret report into war crime allegations, court hears
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Ben Roberts-Smith’s TV station backers commissioned a secret report into war crimes allegations made against him by newspapers, the federal court has heard.
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[Link] Optimum distance to use a taser 3-4 metres, police shooting murder trial told
Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The murder trial of a police officer who shot and killed a woman armed with a knife has been told the best distance to deploy a taser is from 3 to 4 metres — around the same distance some witnesses put him at when he fired his gun.
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[Link] Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Is a Truth-Teller in a Time of Systemic Deceit and Lethal Secrecy
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
Since the arrest and indictment of Daniel Hale on charges that he leaked the documents that formed the basis for The Intercept’s series “The Drone Papers,” as well as documents about the government’s secret watchlisting system, I have wanted to speak publicly about this unjust prosecution.
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[Link] Pentagon Wrongly Admitted Killing 21 Civilians in Iraq and Syria
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
The Defense Department has been forced to withdraw a key part of an official report to Congress, after wrongly claiming responsibility for killing 21 civilians in Iraq and Syria who were actually slain by close U.S. allies.
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