A Danish soldier has been killed in a firefight in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. The Danish military said on October 23 the soldier’s unit was engaged in a gun battle while patrolling an area east of its base in Bridzar.
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Novell Pulse to Soldier On Despite Fallen Google Wave
August 7th, 2010 |
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Despite the demise of Google Wave, Novell Systems will continue working to bring its Novell Pulse real-time collaboration platform to the market. Novell competes with Google, Microsoft and IBM in collaboration software. – Google Wave may have crashed on the beach of consumer indifference,
but that doesn’t mean the rest of the real-time collaboration platforms will be
lost at sea.
Novell Systems, battling Google, Microsoft and IBM over enterprise
software contracts, said it will continue working to bring its Novel…
Afghan soldier kills three British soldiers
July 13th, 2010 |
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An Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman says an Afghan soldier has killed three British soldiers in southern Afghanistan.
Spokesman Mohammad Zahir Azimi gave no immediate further details, but reports said the incident happened while the soldiers were on joint patrol near Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province.
Lindsay Lohan Mingles with Eilat Anschel, Former Israeli soldier
July 7th, 2010 |
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Tabloids report that the Queen of scandal Lindsay Lohan has been noticed in Los Angeles in company of Eilat Anschel, Israeli veteran soldier and at the same time her new gal-pal. According to the site TMZ.com, famous for spreading gossip, the reason for the tabloid starlet to refer to Eilat Anschel was the need for [...]
Ford’s ‘virtual soldier’
May 21st, 2010 |
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Technological innovations that can cross over from the military sphere to the civilian one have always intrigued me. There’s something a little bit depressing about all the resources that we – collectively, as humans – put into ‘defending’ ourselves from each other. Necessary though it may be in the kind of world we live in, it’s not exactly a positive thing for us to be doing.
On the plus side, at least there are plenty of spin-offs from all the considerable resource and technological wizadry that is expended on the military. An example this week is the ‘virtual soldier’ dubbed ‘Santos’ that Ford is using to get a better understanding of the ergonomics on the vehicle assembly line. A fascinating development. I wonder what Henry would have made of it?
How long before they come up with a Santos (or even a reliable robot that doesn’t fall over when negotiating stairs) that inhabits the real world? And when they do, it may well be the military that gets there first again…
Medvedev calls on Hamas to release Israeli soldier
May 11th, 2010 |
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on the Palestinian radical Islamic group Hamas on Tuesday to release captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. This is according to Kremlin spokeswomen Natalia Timakova, RIA Novosti reported.
NATO soldier, Afghan policeman killed in roadside bombings
April 18th, 2010 |
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A NATO soldier and an Afghan police officer were killed in two separate roadside bomb blasts in southern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.
Meanwhile, police began a search operation for five United Nations staff in northern Afghanistan, where police said a joint operation with NATO troops killed nearly 30 militants in the past four days.
Afghan soldier kills U.S. serviceman at army base
December 30th, 2009 |
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An American serviceman has been shot dead and two Italian troops lightly injured after an Afghan soldier opened fire at a military base. It happened at Bala Murghab in western Afghanistan.
100th British soldier killed in Afghanistan
December 8th, 2009 |
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The UK is mourning its 100th military death in Afghanistan this year, after a soldier was killed in Helmand province. The growing number of casualties has undermined support for the mission among the British public.
Germany’s army chief quits over Afghanistan raid
November 26th, 2009 |
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Germany’s top soldier has resigned over allegations of a cover-up related to a deadly Nato air strike in Afghanistan. Wolfgang Schneiderhan’s move followed reports that key information about the September 4 action was withheld, the defence minister said.
Slovenian soldier commits suicide in Kosovo
November 25th, 2009 |
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A Slovenian soldier deployed in Kosovo as part of KFOR committed suicide yesterday. The Slovenian army representatives confirmed the news, and said the woman killed herself using an automatic rifle.
British PM in row over letter to dead soldier’s mother
November 10th, 2009 |
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was on Tuesday embroiled in a row with the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan, after he telephoned her to apologise for a handwritten letter of condolence. Brown’s office said earlier that he was “mortified” to think he had caused offence with the
U.S. soldier kills 12 in rampage on Texas base
November 6th, 2009 |
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A U.S. Army officer opened fire on a large military base in Texas Thursday, killing at least 12 people and wounding more than 30. Local officials identified the shooter as Major Nidal Malik Hasan.
Third gun attack on brigadier in Pakistan capital
November 6th, 2009 |
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Gunmen on a motorbike on Friday wounded an army brigadier and soldier in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad before escaping in the third such attack in two weeks, officials said. The officer and a soldier were shot while travelling in a jeep through the I-8 residential neighbourhood, police
Koreans meet after half century to say goodbye
September 24th, 2009 |
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The South Korean soldier said he wanted Lee Sun-ok to leave her North Korean village near the border with China and come with him to be a medic in the South. Her father saw he had a gun and said she should go. Lee, then 20, thought the separation would only be temporary but in that instant
Deaths take UK Afghan toll to 201
August 16th, 2009 |
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A British soldier has died from wounds suffered in Afghanistan, taking the number of UK troops killed since operations began in 2001 to 200.
The soldier, from the 2nd Battalion the Royal Welsh, died at Birmingham’s Royal College of Defence Medicine in Selly Oak. Next of kin have been informed.
The soldier was injured in an explosion while on patrol in Helmand on Thursday.
A total of nine UK personnel have died this month as troops attempt to shore up security ahead of August elections.
The latest death follows those of three soldiers killed by roadside bombs while on foot patrol in Helmand on Thursday.
Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth has warned more lives will be lost, but said leaving was not an option.
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Remains of US soldier in first Gulf War found
August 3rd, 2009 |
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The remains of a US Navy pilot have been found and positively identified, more than 18 years after he was shot down over Iraq and became the first US casualty of the first Gulf War, the US Defense Department said on Sunday. The Pentagon’s announcement resolved questions about the fate of
Western troops die in Afghanistan
August 1st, 2009 |
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Four Western soldiers have been killed in separate attacks by insurgents in Afghanistan, officials say.
Three US troops died in roadside bomb blasts in the south of the country, while a French soldier was killed in a gun battle north of the capital, Kabul.
The Americans were killed when their patrol was hit by two devices in Kandahar province, officials said.
The incidents come after July saw the highest monthly death toll for foreign troops since 2001.
There were 43 Americans among the 74 killed.
The French soldier killed was a member of a 230-strong joint French-Afghan force ambushed by Taliban insurgents in a valley in Kapisa province. Two other French troops were wounded.
It brings to 29 the number of French dead in the conflict. France has 2,900 troops in Afghanistan.
There are altogether currently more than 100,000 US-led troops in Afghanistan combating a growing Taliban insurgency.
US President Barack Obama has ordered an additional 21,000 troops to the country by the end of the year.
Violence has increased ahead of presidential elections on 20 August.
Civilians and Afghan security officials have also come under attack as insurgents target election candidates and officials. </p
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CNN: Multiple Bombings Slowly Destroy US Soldier’s Brain – He Commits Suicide (VIDEO)
July 29th, 2009 |
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CNN has a heartbreaking report of a U.S. soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and was subjected to multiple bombings. Despite serious injuries, he was repeatedly sent back to duty. Doctors now believe that the bombs were slowly destroy…