war & armed conflict in Papua New Guinea

They claimed to have served against their will as guinea pigs in Cold War-era chemical testing, but the ministry did not admit responsibility. In a June 2016 press release - titled "The truth about Porton Down" - the MoD tried to rebut some of the claims about the site, including that aliens had been taken there ...

Two war vessels on the fleet of 108 years old Royal Canadian Navy on Monday began landmark two-week visit to Nigeria. The two vessels, HMCS ... An average of 87 out of 122 average attacks by piracy in the Gulf of Guinea since 2007 to 2016 have occurred in Nigerian waters. Pirate attacks on vessels ...

World War Two saw not only men and women, but many animals including pigeons, horses and dogs, valiantly contribute to the war effort. ... Weighing only four pounds and standing at just seven inches tall, this Yorkshire Terrier backpacked her way through the jungle terrain of New Guinea with the ...

In his den at the front of the house he kept a hutch on the floor for his two guinea pigs, next to a desk with an ageing PC, stacked with old Russian war games. Another smaller desk was used by Alexandr, who died suddenly of liver failure in St Petersburg last year. Skripal's wife died of cancer in 2012.

Lofa County, was the county hardest hit the during the fourteen-year civil war because four warring factions (NPFL, ULIMO-K, RUF, and LURD) operated within the County, and therefore ... I guess this was so because of the advancements I saw within neighboring towns such as Fassavolu town in Guinea.

BANGKOK — A piece of prized Second World War U.S. naval history, the wreckage of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, which was sunk by the Japanese in a ... The battle helped stop a Japanese advance that could have cut off Australia and New Guinea from Allied sea supply routes and crippled two ...

Conklin said he is looking forward to flying in the very same B-24 bomber that his grandfather did in World War Two. "I'm here to fly on my grandpa's plane. He flew 59 missions in the South Pacific in New Guinea, and I want to fly in the tail-gunner's spot to see what it was like,” said Conklin. “It's going to be ...

But since the so-called War on Terror began in 2001, and Britain intensified its own role with the Iraq invasion in 2003, London has become the global ... Delegations of Generals from places like Equatorial Guinea and Bahrain stalked the floors talking to the chubby English executives of BAE Systems and ...

The wreckage of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, which was sunk by the Japanese in a crucial Second World War sea battle, has been discovered by an ... The battle helped stop a Japanese advance that could have cut off Australia and New Guinea from Allied sea supply routes, and crippled two ...

The wreckage of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, which was sunk by the Japanese in a crucial Second World War sea battle, has been discovered by an ... The battle helped stop a Japanese advance that could have cut off Australia and New Guinea from Allied sea supply routes, and crippled two ...

Sierra Leone was among the countries hardest hit by the December 2013 Ebola outbreak, along with Guinea and Liberia. It recorded more than 3 900 of the 11 300 deaths from the more than two-year epidemic, according to the World Health Organisation. The outbreak led to schools being closed between ...

The case has been a tug of war between France and the oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, culminating in a four-day hearing at The Hague earlier in February. A 2009 complaint filed by Transparency International France against president Obiang Nguema on similar charges of money laundering was initially ...

A photograph Frank Westgate has of his father from the late 1940s doesn't show the devastation of his war injury. In the photograph, a ... Toby and U.S.S. LST 470 were in the thick of action in 1943 and 1944 as Allied forces ousted the Japanese from bases in New Guinea and nearby islands. LSTs were ...

Washington (CNN) Wreckage from the USS Lexington -- a US aircraft carrier sunk by the Japanese during World War II -- has been discovered 500 miles ... the Lexington and its fleet faced off against three Japanese aircraft carriers and is credited with helping to stop Japan's advances on New Guinea and ...

Much of the New Guinea interior remained unexplored by outsiders until after World War II. But those same forces that create the extraordinary topography, also provided gold, silver, copper and other mineral reserves and since the 1970s, mining has dominated the economy. If it weren't for the mineral ...

It was the first time audiences saw World War II's impact on in Papua and New Guinea, the heroism of Australian troops and the "Fuzzy Wuzzy" angels - locals who were recruited to bring supplies and carry injured Australian soldiers. The wartime newsreel was filmed by Damien Parer and produced for ...