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“I cannot think about how they were killed by bloodthirsty soldiers, my daughter who never got so much as a spanking from me,” said Sheila Alano. Her daughter, Alyssa, a 19-year-old student leader from the University of the Philippines, was among 19 killed by the military on April 19 in Toboso, Negros Occidental province.  “My daughter is gone and there’s nothing I can do to bring her back. I hope we can carry on her dreams for the poor farmers of Negros,” said Alano, addressing thousands of mourning students.  The military claims that all of the casualties were combatants, guerrilla…

Laurie Leshin, Director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, praised ISRO’s achievements during her visit to Bangalore in November 2023, highlighting the joint NASA–ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission as a model of equal collaboration and expressing enthusiasm for future cooperation beyond Earth sciences.The Director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Laurie Leshin, expressed deep admiration for the accomplishments of the Indian Space Research Organisation during her visit to Bengaluru on 14 November 2023.Speaking to ANI, she emphasised that NASA is learning a great deal from ISRO and that the collaboration between the two agencies has been marked by exceptional teamwork and mutual…

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STOCKHOLM — Sweden will order four FDI frigates from the French manufacturer Naval Group, backing away from the joint British-Swedish Babcock and Saab bid as well as the proposal from Spain’s Navantia. The purchase will be Sweden’s largest defense acquisition since the early 1980s and constitutes a major step forward in building its naval capabilities. Aboard the Visby-class corvette, HMS Härnösand, moored here near the Royal Palace, the Swedish prime minister and defense chiefs announced their intention today to negotiate for the construction of four new Luleå-class frigates, much larger than the current five corvettes the Swedish Navy currently has…

The victory of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recent elections to the West Bengal state assembly has been received with mixed feelings in neighboring Bangladesh. On the one hand, it has raised hopes among some sections in Bangladesh that with the defeat of Mamata Banerjee’s government, an important “obstacle” in the way of an agreement on the sharing of the Teesta river’s waters has been removed. On the other hand, Bangladeshis are anxious that with the BJP now ruling four of the five Indian states that border Bangladesh, India could escalate the “push-back” of alleged undocumented migrants…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Oslo on 18 May as part of the fourth leg of his five-nation tour and was received at the airport by Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, a gesture underscoring the diplomatic importance Norway attached to the visit.This meeting marks the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Norway in more than four decades, signalling a renewed political and strategic emphasis in bilateral ties.Before the delegation-level discussions, Prime Minister Modi held a one-on-one bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Støre, providing leaders an opportunity to set the tone for the wider talks and to…

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TAMPA, Fla. — Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) will begin testing its “rapid” breakdown disassembly and reassembly capability for the OA-1K Skyraider II aircraft in an operational environment later this year, according to the colonel in charge of the program.  “We have demonstrated this capability by doing a timed disassembly and reassembly in a controlled environment and a hangar. We will next look to conduct the activity in an actual mobility aircraft during our operational test later this calendar year,”  Lt. Col. Robert Wilson, AFSOC’s Armed Overwatch Requirements Branch Chief, told a group of reporters ahead of the annual…

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The Philippine ​Senate yesterday began the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, following a week of chaos in which the feud between the Duterte and Marcos families reached a high pitch of tension. Last week, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to impeach Duterte for a range of transgressions, including corruption, misuse of government funds, and plotting to kill her former ally, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. If convicted, which requires a two-thirds vote in the 24-seat chamber, the 47-year-old would lose her post and be banned from holding elected office for life. Duterte, who has announced her plan to…