Day: April 23, 2024

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 21, 2024  Critical Threats Project

Over the last day, 86 combat engagements took place. In total, the enemy launched 6 missile and 77 air strikes, fired about 100 times from multiple launch rocket systems at the positions of our troops and populated areas.

Ukraine war latest: Over 20,000 Russian troops trying to storm Chasiv Yar; Budanov says Ukraine to face ‘difficult …  Yahoo! Voices

Consideration of personnel rotations in the government was postponed until May.

The United States is engaged in its first major naval combat since World War II, according to the commander overseeing U.S. naval forces in the Middle East. But instead of pitting the world’s major powers against each other, this battle is between a superpower and an isolated armed group controlling one of the poorest, most resource-deprived areas on Earth. Houthi attacks on maritime shipping in the Red Sea are undermining freedom of navigation as an international norm, jeopardizing a principle that has underpinned the international system and global economy for decades. The fact that the Houthi attacks have faded from

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Trainees of the Seychelles Coast Guard didn’t expect to be baptized by fire when they left Victoria harbor that morning. Yet there they stood (or ducked for cover) on the deck as 7.62×39-mm cartridges from the pirates’ AK-47s whizzed over their heads. Seychellois commandoes reacted with the sang-froid that comes from experience. They quickly turned the guns of their Trinkat-class patrol vessel on the pirates in the fishing trawler they had forcibly seized only hours before. The pirates didn’t have a chance; they dropped their weapons and surrendered. The pirates of Somalia have returned, and small states in the region

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Artificial Intelligence has reached the Catholic Church  The Catholic Weekly