The commander of a British regiment has become the country’s highest ranking soldier to be killed in action since 1982’s Falklands War after a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan.
Top-ranking British soldier killed in Afghanistan
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Nigerian militant group attacks major oil pipelines
A militant group operating in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria said Monday that it had destroyed several major oil pipelines in response to a military offensive. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said it had “put out of operation” a Chevron storage facility by destroying several pipelines that fed into it