Search results for ‘drones’
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UK to announce joint drone project with France
A UK/French plan to build the next-generation drone will be announced tomorrow during a summit in Paris, as Britain’s BAE Systems warns of a 14 per cent fall in sales due to defence spending cuts.
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Self-guided bullets to ‘hit target a mile away’
A new “super bullet” will be able to change its course midflight so it can accurately hit a target up to a full mile away, according to US government researchers.
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Violence surges as US troops prepare to leave Iraq
Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones looks at the uncertain future facing Iraq and the wider region as US troops prepare to withdraw from the country at the end of this month.
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Man accused of planning bomb attacks in New York
An “al-Qaeda sympathiser” accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City, as well as US troops returning home, is arrested on terrorism-related charges.
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Britons among drone strike Taliban victims
Senior Pakistani security officials and Taliban sources say four of the seven militants killed in a drone attack on Thursday in north Waziristan’s Shawal valley were British nationals.
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Pakistanis rally against drone ‘assassination campaign’
Two thousand Pakistanis join a rally against drone attacks, labelled a “global assassination campaign” by thinker Noam Chomsky as security sources say the latest strike has killed 13 militants.
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Five Taliban chiefs reported dead after US drone strike
A US drone strike in Pakistan has killed five commanders of a powerful Taliban faction which attacks western forces in Afghanistan, according to one of the group’s leaders.
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Three months of famine in southern Somalia
The death of one of the world’s worst tyrants on Thursday made it impossible for me to report that we are now three months on since the UN declared a famine in southern Somalia, writes Jonathan Rugman.
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‘Mutassim was in charge not Gaddafi’, says bodyguard
Gaddafi’s bodyguard claims that the former dictator’s son, Mutassim, was “in charge of eveything” from the start of the war, as questions emerge about how the Colonel was killed.
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Afghanistan – rose-tinted specs come off at last
The most senior British diplomat working on Afghanistan has given the most damning assessment of the UK’s record in the country that I have heard from a serving official. Jonathan Rugman reports.
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Al-Qaeda chief Awlaki ‘killed in Yemen’
As a US drone strike in Yemen kills cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a leading al-Qaeda figure, Channel 4 News assesses his influence on terror attacks in the UK and abroad.
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Pakistan’s al-Qaeda chief ‘killed’
Abu Hafs al Shahri, believed to be al-Qaeda’s chief of operations in Pakistan, has reportedly been killed in a drone attack in Waziristan.
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Senior al-Qaeda leader ‘captured’ in Pakistan
Pakistan says it has captured three al-Qaeda operatives, including “senior leader” Younis al-Mauritania, who it says took orders directly from Osama bin Laden.
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Study reveals 168 child deaths in Pakistan drone war
US drone strikes in Pakistan have killed more civilians than previously reported, including 168 children, according to figures compiled by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
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US pauses military aid for Pakistan
The United States is to withhold some £500m in military assistance to Pakistan, as it “works through” strains in their relationship prompted by the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May.