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Stars and Stripes Daily Headlines

Stars and Stripes Daily Headlines

July 17, 2021

 

US Embassy in Kabul faces a daunting mission

Current and former officials described an array of obstacles that a shrinking cadre of civilians must navigate, with the COVID-19 pandemic and the specter of a possible diplomatic evacuation compounding the significant difficulties inherent to working in Afghanistan.

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Congress wary of Space Force spending

The nation’s newest service is beset with old problems that slow the fielding of new gear and carve big holes in even the Pentagon’s massive budget, the House Armed Services Committee warned in a memo this month.

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In wake of ship collisions, Navy revamps surface officer training in San Diego

In the four years since two deadly ship collisions rocked the U.S. Navy, the service has been looking for ways to address problems in the fleet that its own investigators said contributed to the deaths of 17 sailors.

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Russia to unveil new fighter jet at Moscow’s air show

The new warplane hidden under tarpaulin was photographed being towed to a parking spot near an airfield where the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon opens Tuesday.

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Japan’s Olympic security balancing act leaves few satisfied

Japan’s massive security apparatus has raised complaints that the nation, during the weeks of the Games, will look more like authoritarian North Korea or China than one of the world’s most powerful, vibrant democracies.

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How Afghan war showed limits of US military power

The Afghan war demonstrated the seeming paradox that it is possible to win the battles and still lose the war. Or at least that a technologically superior force can kill more efficiently than its enemy yet fail to achieve a final result resembling victory.

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First resident of Olympic Village tests positive for COVID

Officials said the patient was not an athlete with the the Games opening in just under a week on July 23.

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Key diplomats appear to snub Haiti’s acting leader

A key group of international diplomats on Saturday appeared to snub the man currently running Haiti by urging another politician, the designated prime minister, to form a government following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.

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US probes rash of health incidents among diplomats in Vienna

Some of the symptoms are similar to those first reported by U.S. diplomats and spies in Havana, Cuba, in 2016 and 2017 for which no definitive cause has yet been determined, officials said.

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‘We have nothing’: Grief, shock and resilience along the flood-ravaged banks of a German river

In village after village along what was once a string of idyllic riverside communities in western Germany, the scenes Friday bore witness to nature’s power as floodwaters receded enough to give a glimpse of the scale of the damage.

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