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Marine Corps identifies service members killed in Norway Osprey crash 

Loved ones and leaders on Monday remembered the four Marines who died following an aircraft crash in northern Norway for their commitment to their military service and their families.

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Austin to join Biden’s trip this week to NATO, Poland

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will return to Europe for a second consecutive week, joining President Joe Biden’s trip Wednesday to NATO headquarters in Brussels and visit Polish leaders later in the week, the Pentagon announced Monday.

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Ramstein Air Base squadron shows some ‘girl solidarity’ amid flurry of C-130 flights

Three C-130s out of Ramstein on a mission Friday earned an unusual distinction: they flew the first training formation with all-women crew members in the squadron’s history, which goes back to World War II.

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Operations at US naval base in Sicily unaffected by anti-NATO crowd at protest

On Sunday, a crowd estimated at no more than 125 blocked one road providing access to a portion of the base, known as NAS II, that includes an airport and a flight line, but the main gate and other access roads remained open.

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Tokyo, Hiroshima suspend Russian sister-city exchanges over Ukraine invasion

Some Japanese governments are suspending exchanges with their Russian sister cities in the wake of the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

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Long-lost cheerleading megaphone from DOD school reconnects woman with her Okinawa past

A Kubasaki cheerleader’s megaphone took a long and winding path back to its original owner.

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As Mariupol hangs on, the extent of the horror not yet known

As Mariupol's defenders held out Monday against Russian demands that they surrender, the number of bodies in the rubble of the bombarded and encircled Ukrainian city remained shrouded in uncertainty, the full extent of the horror not yet known.

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White House: Biden to visit Poland on Europe trip this week

President Joe Biden has added a stop in Poland to his trip this week to Europe for urgent talks with NATO and European allies, as Russian forces concentrate their fire upon cities and trapped civilians in a nearly month-old invasion of Ukraine.

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Survivor of four Nazi concentration camps is killed in Ukraine, foundation says

Boris Romantschenko eluded death at Hitler’s hand, surviving forced labor and detention in four concentration camps as Europe became a killing field in the 1940s. Last week, his life was snuffed out by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s onslaught in Ukraine.

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EU slams 'war crimes' in Ukraine, mulls fresh sanctions

European Union countries on Monday accused Russia's military of committing war crimes in Ukraine, but appeared unlikely to target the country's energy sector with sanctions soon despite a clamor across Europe for those responsible for attacks on civilians to be held to account.

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The future of naval aviation: State-of-the-art planes for Norfolk, farther reach for aircraft carriers

Walking the flight deck of his old flagship, USS George H.W. Bush, after watching the USS Gerald R. Ford head out for flight deck certification was a chance for the Navy’s top aviator, Vice Adm. Kenneth Whitesell, to think about naval aviation’s future.

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