How US Navy SEALs train new special-operations units to make the seas into 'our playground'

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Croatian ZSS and US Naval Special Warfare personnel conduct an over-the-beach exercise in Split in April 2022.

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Ukrainian troops are calling the US military in the middle of shootouts with Russia for help fixing their artillery

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Ukrainian soldiers fire at Russian positions from a U.S.-supplied M777 howitzer in Kherson region, Ukraine, Jan. 9, 2023.
Ukrainian soldiers fire at Russian positions from a U.S.-supplied M777 howitzer in Kherson region, Ukraine, Jan. 9, 2023.

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A decade of quiet preparations helped Ukraine turn the tables on Russia's bigger, better-armed military, experts say

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Ukrainian troops carry rocket-propelled grenades and sniper rifles toward the city of Irpin in March 2022.

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Russia was making big plans for Ukraine's nuclear power plants before its invasion fell apart

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Russian military vehicles at the gates of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in May 2022.

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Bomb-carrying drones targeted a defense factory in central Iran

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A Hawk surface-to-air missile is launched during military exercises in Isfahan province, some 300 kms south of the capital Tehran, on November 25, 2009.
A Hawk surface-to-air missile is launched during military exercises in Isfahan province, some 300 kms south of the capital Tehran, on November 25, 2009.

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Crimea is shaping up to be the battleground that will decide the Russia-Ukraine war

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Vladimir Putin reviews Russian navy ships in Sevastopol Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin reviews naval ships in the Crimean port of Sevastopol on May 9, 2014.

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German chancellor's indecision on sending tanks to Ukraine has created a new word in Western war room politics: Scholzing

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz listens while attending a conference about Ukraine in Berlin, Germany, on October 25, 2022.

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A Bangladeshi boy was playing when he got locked in a shipping container. He woke up in Malaysia nearly a week later.

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Commercial shipping containers on the port's ground waiting to be shipped in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Commercial shipping containers waiting to be shipped at the port in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

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A man died after being crushed by a pop-up street urinal in central London

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A police tent is erected at Cambridge Circus on the junction between Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road in London, after a man died after being crushed by a telescopic urinal.
A crane lifts the street urinal police at Cambridge Circus in central London, after a worker was crushed to death.

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A diver was decapitated by a 19-foot-long great white shark in Mexico in front of a fisherman, report says

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A diver was decapitated by a 19-foot-long great white shark in Mexico in the first fatal shark attack of the year.

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