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A federal judge has ordered the U.S. military to resume admitting transgender service members by January 1, 2018, thereby reinstating former President Barack Obama’s landmark policy. Earlier this year President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum directing Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, and Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke to “return to the longstanding policy and practice on military ...

NORTH Korea will call Donald Trump’s “bluff” in the face of a huge planned military operation codenamed “Vigilant Ace”, it has been revealed. Daily Express :: News Feed

A Zimbabwean High Court judge has ruled that the military action leading to Robert Mugabe’s resignation was legal, a key decision as the military has sought to show that its moves were not a coup. CBC | World News

NEW Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson saved the jobs of hundreds of Royal Marines as he ripped up plans for fresh cuts to Britain’s military, it has been reported. Daily Express :: News Feed

For the many Zimbabweans who had long dreamt of it, but had given up hope of ever seeing it, the apparent fall from power of President Robert Mugabe after nearly four decades of autocratic rule must come as an enormous shock, writes CBC’s Margaret Evans. CBC | World News

Human Rights Watch accused Myanmar security forces on Thursday of committing widespread rape against women and girls as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing during the past three months against Rohingya Muslims in the country’s Rakhine state. CBC | World News

US MILITARY command tweeted false information about its nuclear arsenal sparking fears of an escalation from paranoid North Korea. Daily Express :: News Feed

BRUSSELS is moving ever-closer to an EU Army with 22 states set to sign off on a key military agreement today – a move a high-ranking eurocrat hailed as a “historic day”. Daily Express :: News Feed

The ballistic missile fired by Yemeni rebels that targeted the Saudi capital was from Iran and bore “Iranian markings,” the top U.S. Air Force official in the Mideast said Friday. CBC | World News

A Federal Court in Washington is barring U.S. President Donald Trump from changing the government’s policy on military service by transgender people. CBC | World News