# Military

All time

UN envoy arrives in Syria for talks on chemical weapons probe

Meanwhile the US Defence Secretary has suggested that forces are being moved into place in case Obama opts for military action.

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Aug 24th 2013, 11:25 AM

# Egypt

"Stop arms shipments to Egypt," says Amnesty

The organisation has said that the arms are being used to kill protesters, so deliveries

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Aug 21st 2013, 8:45 PM

# Wikileaks

US prosecutors demand 60 years for whistleblower Bradley Manning

The 25-year-old former army intelligence analyst has been convicted on a raft of espionage and theft charges that could see him jailed for more than a century.

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Aug 19th 2013, 9:58 PM

# Mumbai

Divers find another body on Indian submarine after it exploded

Eighteen crewmen were on board the submarine when it exploded and sank, but the navy says some bodies may never be found because of the high temperature of the fire.

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Aug 18th 2013, 2:01 PM

# THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

CIA papers reveal that Area 51 does exist

Declassified CIA documents provide proof that Area 51 is a real place, but there is no mention of UFOs.

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Aug 16th 2013, 10:26 PM

# Cairo

Irish citizens told to avoid all non-essential travel to Egypt as violence escalates

Scores were killed in a crackdown on camps of Morsi loyalists this morning. A month-long state of emergency has been declared in the country.

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Aug 14th 2013, 3:55 PM

# Mumbai

All eighteen sailors on Indian submarine that exploded feared dead

No signs of life have been found on board by divers who entered the vessel. A board of enquiry will investigate what happened.

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Aug 14th 2013, 2:10 PM

# Whistleblower

Verdict due in Bradley Manning WikiLeaks trial

Private Bradley Manning is accused of giving hundreds of thousands of pages of classified documents and videos to WikiLeaks.

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Jul 30th 2013, 8:07 AM

# Shannon

Two US military planes landed at Shannon in one day last month

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said that the aircraft contained no arms, ammunition or intelligence gathering equipment.

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Jul 15th 2013, 7:28 PM

# vengeance

France vows: Mali hostage death will not 'go unpunished'

“We found a body 10 days ago in northern Mali… we will determine the cause of death and nothing will go unpunished,” French president Francois Hollande said.

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Jul 15th 2013, 10:17 AM

# sitdown sunday

Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads

The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.

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Jul 14th 2013, 10:00 AM

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Here are the nine stories you need to know as you kick off your day.

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Jul 5th 2013, 8:52 AM

# Morsi

Egypt army appeals for peaceful pro-Morsi protests

The military said it supported the right to peaceful protest, but warned that violence would “harm social peace”.

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Jul 5th 2013, 7:40 AM

# The Troubles

'No confidence' in leadership of PSNI unit reviewing unsolved Troubles murders

A report published yesterday found that the some military cases relating to state involvement were reviewed with less rigor than others.

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Jul 4th 2013, 8:54 PM

# oh my

The French army's new warplane is monstrous

Is this the future of European military airspace?

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Jun 28th 2013, 9:45 PM

# David Petraeus

CIA director who quit after sex scandal joins investment company

David Petraeus resigned in November after admitting an affair with his biographer, 20 years his junior.

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May 31st 2013, 6:50 AM

# Property Porn

Photos: Here's an unusual 150-year-old mansion up for sale for €90 million

Let’s have a gawk.

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May 26th 2013, 6:30 PM

# Nigeria

'Dozens' killed in Nigeria gun battles

Mobile phone network coverage in some parts of Borno was crippled last year after an Islamic group burned down a series of telecommunication masts.

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Apr 22nd 2013, 1:52 PM

# Dictatorship

Nobel peace laureate says Pope Francis was not complicit in 'Dirty War'

“He was not complicit with the dictatorship, he did not collaborate,” says human rights activist and Nobel laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel.

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Mar 21st 2013, 3:47 PM

# Military

Searchable form of 1922 military census goes online today

A census cataloguing the Free State Army’s total manpower will go live later this morning.

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Feb 28th 2013, 6:45 AM

# Shooting

Fort Hood army shooter loses bid to avoid death penalty

Major Nidal Hasan is accused of going on a shooting spree in 2009 that left 13 dead and 32 wounded at the army base in Texas.

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Jan 30th 2013, 7:18 PM

# Egypt

Egypt military chief warns of collapse of state

The Defence MInister said failure to resolve the situation “could lead to grave repurcussions”.

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Jan 29th 2013, 11:09 AM

# Conflict

Explainer: What is happening in Mali?

It is almost three weeks since French and Malian troops began a battle to wrest back the north of the country from Islamist rebels.

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Jan 28th 2013, 7:30 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Should Ireland have compulsory military service?

Though it’s unlikely to happen, some Nordic countries and Austria are among those to operate a compulsory draft. Should Ireland have one too?

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Jan 20th 2013, 10:29 AM

# Austria

Voters in Austria likely to maintain compulsory military service

Austria looks set to remain one of the few European countries with compulsory military service as voters go to the polls in a referendum being held today.

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Jan 20th 2013, 10:09 AM

# Bomb Squad

Four homemade explosive devices made safe in Dundalk

The viable Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were found in a derelict house in a residential area this afternoon.

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Jan 6th 2013, 7:11 PM

# America

'Stormin Norman' Schwarzkopf dies at 78

The US general led Operation Desert Storm during the 1991 Gulf War.

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Dec 28th 2012, 8:28 AM

# Syria

Head of Syrian military police defects to opposition - reports

Latest reports say Major General Abdul-Aziz Jassem al-Shallal appeared in a video aired on Al Arabiya TV yesterday saying he is joining “the people’s revolution.”

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Dec 26th 2012, 3:42 PM

# Drone

Iran says it decoded data from captured CIA drone

Tehran now claiming it will reverse-engineer the drone and build its own version.

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Dec 10th 2012, 2:40 PM

# Budget 2012

Here's where Ireland overspent by €1.118 billion on last year's Budget

Nine Departments and agencies needed extra top-ups to their funding in 2012. Here’s where the overflow went.

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Dec 9th 2012, 8:00 AM

# Military

Cuts to Reserve Defence Force after Value for Money review

Minister Alan Shatter has announced significant changes to the make up of the reservists.

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Nov 21st 2012, 8:31 AM

# alan ryan

Man arrested over shots fired at Alan Ryan’s paramilitary funeral

Gardaí investigating the discharge of firearms on September 8 arrested a man in his 40s this afternoon.

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Nov 20th 2012, 4:46 PM

# Syria

Air strikes across Syria amid deadly clashes

Most of the army’s air strikes targeted the Idlib province in the northwest, Aleppo and Damascas province.

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Nov 17th 2012, 4:19 PM

# Massacre

Afghanistan massacre: survivors find hope for justice in video testimony

US Staff Sgt Robert Bales is accused of slipping away from his remote camp in Afghanistan last March and massacring 16 civilians – including nine children.

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Nov 12th 2012, 5:49 PM