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Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System Completes Successful Intercept Flight Test

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Pacific Command, and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS Lake Erie (CG 70) successfully conducted an operational flight test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, resulting in the intercept of a...

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Hundreds of African Migrants Dead or Missing in Mediterranean

Hundreds of African migrants are dead or missing in the Mediterranean Sea, after a disabled boat carrying an estimated 500 people to a hoped-for better life in Europe caught fire and sank off an Italian island.

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United Nations Calls for More Support for Humanitarian Response in North-West Pakistan

More funds are urgently needed to continue critical humanitarian assistance for more than 1 million temporarily displaced people across north-western Pakistan due to insecurity since 2008, the UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in...

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Taliban Attack Kills 13 in Pakistan

Pakistani officials say a Taliban suicide bomber has attacked the compound of a rival militia group and killed at least 13 people.

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