The IDF announced on Tuesday that four soldiers in the IDF’s Multidimensional Unit were killed in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip. They entered a building to clean and scan the area in the Palestinian city at 3 a.m. and there was an explosion in that area. Aspects of the incident are still under … Read more
Representational Image Jerusalem: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Friday, October 25 said in a statement that five soldiers were killed and four others seriously injured by a rocket hit in southern Lebanon on Thursday night. The killed, including two officers, were reservists from the 8th Armored Brigade, according to the IDF. The soldiers were … Read more
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) says troops have eliminated 101 terrorists, apprehended a terrorist commander, Usman Maisaje, and 182 others in different operations across the country in the last one week. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Edward Buba, a major general, made this known in a statement on the operations of the armed forces on … Read more
The Nigerian Army says its troops have dealt a significant blow to terrorists, killing several high-profile fighters and recovering a cache of lethal weapons, including rocket bombs and ammunition The Nigerian Army, in a post on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday, stated that its sustained onslaught has continued to cripple the adversary’s freedom of … Read more
KEY POINTS According to the rules, names that could offend, contain symbols, or breach trademark or copyright laws are all off-limits. The name on a customer’s passport application must also match the name on their UK or overseas supporting documents, such as their birth certificate. The UK Home Office recently denied a seven-year-old boy’s passport … Read more
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced it will pause all upcoming screenings of the film Russians at War. The first-person documentary by Russian Canadian filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova spurred protest from Ukrainian officials and community groups who say the film amounts to propaganda. The feature was set to have its North American premiere at the Scotiabank Theatre at 2:30 p.m ET Friday. Additional … Read more
The Toronto International Film Festival says it’s not pulling a controversial documentary about Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine from its schedule, despite outcry from Ukrainian officials and community groups who say the film amounts to propaganda. TIFF’s statement comes a day after Ontario’s public broadcaster TVO, which helped fund Russians at War, announced it was no … Read more
A new online phenomenon has been manifesting of late: Anti-Israel accounts search the web, looking for former IDF soldiers and when they find them, these hackers doxx them based on the soldiers’ own pictures and stories that they have uploaded to social media. The hackers focus primarily on former soldiers who uploaded public pictures … Read more
Traditional allies appear to have abandoned Nicolas Maduro as protests rock Venezuela in the wake of Sunday’s election, which the longtime president claims to have won with 51.2 per cent of the vote. Maduro was quickly recognized as the winner by Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras and Bolivia, as well as Russia, China and Iran. But he got no recognition from … Read more
Canada’s defence department and military are approaching the implementation and use of artificial intelligence in a “fragmented,” unco-ordinated manner, says a newly prepared federal strategy. The long-awaited overview of how to deal with rapidly evolving machine-learning technology is being met with mixed reviews by some high-tech and civil society experts who had been expecting more clarity on … Read more
