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Ukraine has taken 17,000 Russians off the battlefield without firing a shot, US Army special-ops general says

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Russian soldiers during the Vostok military exercise at a training area south of Vladivostok in September 2018.MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images Russia has taken hundreds of thousands of casualties since attacking Ukraine last year. Thousands more troops have deserted, a reflection of the Russian military’s deep morale problems. Ukrainian information warfare has helped drive those … Read more

Russians are hunting the Ukrainian drone pilots destroying their tanks and firing everything they’ve got, if they pick up their electronic trail, operator says

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A Ukrainian serviceman launches a drone during a press tour in the Zhytomyr Region, northern Ukraine on September 20, 2023. Kirill Chubotin / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images Both Russia and Ukraine are increasingly using drones to attack their enemy’s equipment. These cheap but powerful drones have made their controllers prime targets, The Economist reported. … Read more

X accused of illegally firing employee who criticized Elon’s return-to-work plan

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CNBC reports that the National Labor Relations Board alleged, in a complaint filed Friday, that X violated labor law when it fired an employee who criticized the company. Elon Musk bought the company, then known as Twitter, in October and threatened to fire workers who didn’t return to in-person office work. After Yao Yue encouraged … Read more

Music festival goers first took cover from rockets, then Gaza militants began firing on them

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The rockets began around 6:30am, Tal Gibly told CNN. Thirty minutes later, she and hundreds of others attending an Israeli music festival were running as Gaza militants fired at them. The terrifying attack was just one of multiple locations hit on Saturday morning by the most sustained and coordinated assault inside Israel ever carried out … Read more

My biggest mistake was not firing wrong people fast enough

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Pedestrians walk past a Levi’s store in Midtown Manhattan. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The CEO of the world’s most famous denim jeans company said he knew from his second day on the job that the best way to turn around the company was to fire more than half of his executives. “The … Read more

2 Japanese troopers fatally shot by trainee at firing vary

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Touch upon this storyComment TOKYO — A soldier-in-training shot three members of Japan’s Self-Protection Forces at a firing vary on Wednesday, killing two of them, police mentioned. The 18-year-old trainee fired a rifle on the troopers throughout a taking pictures train about 9 a.m. native time on the facility in Gifu, in central Japan. The … Read more

Lawyer calls for firing of Mississippi police officer after 11-year-old boy is shot

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded an unarmed 11-year-old Black boy within the kid’s residence ought to be fired, an legal professional for the kid’s mom stated Thursday. The kid, Aderrien Murry, was hospitalized 5 days for a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and fractured ribs after an Indianola Police … Read more