"Russia's Defence Ministry on Monday challenged accusations pro-Russian rebels were to blame for shooting down a Malaysian airliner and asked the United States to produce satellite images to support …
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"China says it has the right to send a surveillance ship to monitor a US-led naval exercise, after US media reported the vessel's presence off Hawaii over the weekend." Source: BBC News - China 'spy …
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"China does not seek to fill a void left in Afghanistan by the withdrawal of U.S. troops but will play a 'huge' commercial role in helping rebuild the country, a newly appointed Chinese special envoy …
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"Thanks to a Twitter bot that monitors Wikipedia edits made from Russian government IP addresses, someone from the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) has been caught …
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"More than two years into Syria's civil war, the once highly-centralized authoritarian state has effectively split into three distinct parts, each boasting its own flags, security agencies and …
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"Iranian-trained Shiite militias that accounted for a significant portion of U.S. combat deaths during the Iraq war are now at the leading edge of the Shiite-led Iraqi government’s battle to repel the …
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"A United States citizen was briefly arrested at Islamabad airport on Friday for attempting to board a plane carrying ammunition, Pakistan officials said, in the second such case since May. The man, …
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"A family of satellites known as the U.S. Space Based Infrared System, or SBIRS, was probably key to determining that a surface-to-air missile took down the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 jet over …
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"Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said there would be 'hell to pay' if Russia or Russian separatists were involved in the crash of a Malaysian airplane over eastern Ukraine. McCain said the incident had the …
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"An Air Force fighter jet has been shot down by an air-to-air missile fired from a Russian plane, a spokesman for Ukraine's Security Council said Thursday. Andrei Lysenko also said Ukrainian troops …
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