The US military’s research agency has opened a bid for weapons systems that could defend convoys of land vehicles or small ships from attacks by drone swarms, most likely driven by recent experiences fighting against ISIS in Iraq.
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The 30,000 acres of US Forest Service land, originally slated for gold mining, will be protected under a two-year ban issued by the Obama administration. The site was close to the northern entrance of Yellowstone National Park.
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American fashion model Gigi Hadid has been criticized on by conservatives on social media following an attempt to impersonate Melania Trump at the American Music Awards.
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Top UFC lightweight Khabib 'The Eagle' Nurmagomedov, who has been calling for the championship belt fight ever since he recovered from injury earlier this year, says he now has a “plan B” if he doesn’t get it.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry’s sharp-tongued spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, has made it into the BBC’s annual list of 100 women having the biggest impact on the world.
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Responding to the threat posed by US cruise missiles, which could be launched from sites in Eastern Europe, Russia will be forced to deploy its own ballistic missiles in its westernmost region, the head of the Russian Senate Defense Committee warned.
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For most American shoppers Black Friday, once the largest shopping day of the year, is losing its luster. Consumer traffic in favorite stores has dropped significantly in recent years with most major retailers launching online sales weeks in advance.
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Britain’s Home Office is “disregarding and mistreating” medical evidence of torture in order to reject asylum claims, a charity has claimed.
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Manpower in some of Britain’s elite Guards regiments, which protect Buckingham Palace, has fallen so dramatically that only a few hundred junior infantrymen can be mustered by some battalions, figures indicate.
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Protesters in Jerusalem have hung a gay pride flag on the office building of the city’s chief rabbi, also drawing a rainbow on the sidewalk outside. It came after the religious leader said “homosexuality is an abomination” and “is punishable by death.”
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Investors from China are considering 20 projects in priority development areas of the Russian Far East and the free port of Vladivostok.
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The Catholic Church in Rwanda has apologized for the role some of its members played in the 1994 genocide in which 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred over the course of 100 days, the Associated Press reports.
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In a final statement, leaders at the APEC summit in Lima vowed to cut overall energy consumption by almost half and double renewable energy within the next two decades. They also pledged to curb protectionism and fight terrorism and domestic corruption.
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The story of a Peruvian woman, who tried to give Vladimir Putin a sweater as a present, only to be detained and questioned by police, ended happily on Sunday, when a journalist presented her gift to Russia’s president after a press conference.
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Bernie Sanders has called on President-elect Donald Trump to apologize for his “disgraceful” and “racist” claims that President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States.
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Demonstrators protesting against Dakota Access Pipeline say they are trapped on a bridge as North Dakota police fire tear gas, water cannon and concussion grenades at them, according to live reports on social media.
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At least one person has been injured in an incident involving a shootout and a car explosion in Sweden’s second largest city, Gothenburg, local media report, citing police.
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A 6.4-magnitude earthquake has hit western Argentina in the province of San Juan, the US Geological Survey reports.
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Fifteen people have been reportedly arrested after dozens of Kurdish protesters opposing the policy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan clashed with police and pro-Erdogan demonstrators as a rally of hundreds in support of the Turkish president was held in Paris.
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