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[Link] Medieval Blacksmiths Are Helping the Ukrainian War Effort
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
On February 22, the “Art of STEEL” workshop posted a photo of medieval-style steel gauntlets on its Facebook page. Four days later, it posted a video of steel spikes connected by a long chain. “Helping to protect the city,” the post said.
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[Link] People Are Worried About Russian Saboteurs at the Poland-Ukraine Border
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
PRZEMYŚL, Poland — For Vladimir, a Ukrainian taxicab driver who was recently ferrying foreign fighters and refugees to and from the Poland-Ukraine border, the threat of Russian saboteurs is real.
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[Link] Yangon’s silenced streets: how a hotbed of anti-coup resistance was extinguished
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
As Thitsar* walked through her neighbourhood one December morning, she was struck by its emptiness. The bamboo shacks that line the streets of Hlaing Tharyar, an industrial township on the outskirts of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, lay in tatters, overgrown with weeds.
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[Link] Dozens have finally been sentenced over the 2017 murders of two UN investigators in the Congo
Read: 30/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
About 50 people have been sentenced to death, many in absentia, in Democratic Republic of Congo in connection with the murders of UN experts Zaida Catalan and Michael Sharp in 2017, according to a defence lawyer in the case.
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[Link] Clash with separatist rebels sees death of three Indonesian soldiers in Papua
Read: 28/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Separatist rebels have killed three Indonesian soldiers and critically injured another during an attack on a military post in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua.
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[Link] Australian energy giant Woodside withdraws from Myanmar almost one year after military coup
Read: 27/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Australian energy giant Woodside has announced it is withdrawing from Myanmar, almost one year after the military seized power in an illegal coup.
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[Link] Niger: two killed and 17 injured in clash with French military convoy
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
At least two people were killed and 18 injured in western Niger on Saturday when protesters clashed with a French military convoy they blocked after it crossed the border from Burkina Faso, Niger’s government said.
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[Link] Behind a Billboard of Bowe Bergdahl, Khost Maintains Anti-Taliban Ways
Read: 4/11/2021 coffeeordie.com
KHOST, Afghanistan — It’s one of few stretches of road among these winding hills and twisting valleys that remains paved and intact, untouched by the two-decade war that crippled most of Afghanistan’s land arteries.
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[Link] The Taliban Have a Growing ISIS-K Problem
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The Taliban face a growing insurgency from ISIS-K, a jihadist group inspired by Islamic State and founded by former Taliban fighters in early 2015.
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[Link] 900 Detained After Seven ‘Targeted Killings’ in the World’s Most Militarized Zone
Read: 11/10/2021 www.vice.com
Teachers. A principal. And a well-known pharmacist. They were all shot dead in broad daylight last week in India-controlled Kashmir, heightening fear in the world’s most militarized zone.
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