#training drill

Hamas holds war-ready summer camp graduation

Hamas held a closing ceremony in the Gaza Strip on Friday for a batch of the 120,000 boys and girls attending the Islamist movement’s controversial summer schools.

The ceremony, for some 1,000 students who took part in camps in the southern city of Khan Yunis, was framed as part of the militant group’s plan to continue its armed conflict with Israel.

Boys between 15 and 18 years of age were put…

Hamas holds war-ready summer camp graduation

Hamas held a closing ceremony in the Gaza Strip on Friday for a batch of the 120,000 boys and girls attending the Islamist movement’s controversial summer schools.

The ceremony, for some 1,000 students who took part in camps in the southern city of Khan Yunis, was framed as part of the militant group’s plan to continue its armed conflict with Israel.

Boys between 15 and 18 years of age were put…

Russian drill calls for ‘NATO’ soldiers ‘to lay down arms, stop being pawns’

Russian troops were allegedly on the hunt for NATO soldiers during a mission in the northwest of the country. However, there is no need to panic. The alliance is not invading, as it was merely a mock exercise to simulate a hypothetical incursion into Russia.

The opposing force was not specified, but messages played over loudspeakers as the drills took place left little room for the imagination.

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Power outage in Seattle downtown shuts down traffic, trains

Lights went out in downtown Seattle, Washington, shutting down light rail and traffic signals. The outage was attributed to a problem at a power sub-station.

According to the city’s Department of Transportation, the area affected is between interstate I-5 and the waterfront, and between Pike Street in the north to Jackson Street in the south. Seattle City Light blamed “equipment failure and…