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US Orders Deployment Of Troops, Weapons In Europe To Support NATO

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US Orders Deployment Of Troops, Weapons In Europe To Support NATO

As part of the United States’ strategy to support NATO, the Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin has ordered additional troops and military assets to be deployed in different parts of Europe.

A senior US defence official made this known to reporters, adding that the move was to further support the US’s NATO allies, CNN reports.

America will send a total of 500 troops in this new deployment, the official said.

This will also see the country sending KC-135 refueling aircraft to Greece, and an air support operation center deployed to Poland and Romania.

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Also, ordinance and maintenance companies will be sent to Germany.

The official said that the ordinance and maintenance companies will provide additional logistic support to the first armored brigade combat team and third infantry division already deployed in Germany.

“It’s only 500, small units, enablers, we said at the get-go of deploying forces that we would not rule out additional forces to include enablers, and these units are very much in support of forces that were already sent forward,” the official said.

The 500 addition will bring to 100,000, the US military personnel either on rotational or permanent orders stationed in Europe at the moment.

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The official explained that the decision to send these troops and military assets were “based on conversations that the secretary had with the chairman and with Gen. (Tod) Wolters,” the commander of US European command, “that these additional enablers would be useful for the forces that are already” in Europe.

The additional deployments “were already kind of queued up to go, and again fully in support of our efforts to help defend NATO airspace if needed,” the official added.

 

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Bill Gates Recounts Worst Mistake

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Bill Gates Drops On Billionaire Ranking After Stock Transfer To Ex-wife

By John Michael

Erstwhile word’s richest person and founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, has revealed that his divorce of his wife, Melinda, remains his most regrettable action.

Gates who revealed this in a recent interview with The Times published on Saturday, added that the separation left him and Melinda miserable.

While answering questions bordering on his marriage, the 69-year-old entrepreneur said: “I’m more cheerful now, the mistake I most regret.”

“There are others, but none that matter.

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“The divorce thing was miserable for me and Melinda for at least two years.

“Melinda and I still spend time together as a family. We have three children and two grandchildren, so there are always family events.

“The kids are doing well and have strong values.”

The former couple, who share Jennifer (28), Rory (25), and Phoebe (22), in a joint statement in 2021, announced an end to their 27 years marriage as a result of irreconcilable differences.

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The duo has also moved on with Gates now dating Paula Hurd, the widow of former Oracle CEO Mark Hurd.

 

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BREAKING: Former US President, Jimmy Carter Is Dead

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By John Michael Ojo

The longest-lived president in United States of America, Jimmy Carter, is dead.
This was made known in a statement by the Carter Center and signed by his son Chip Carter on Sunday.

It reads, “My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights, and unselfish love,” said Chip Carter, the former president’s son.

“My brothers, sister, and I shared him with the rest of the world through these common beliefs. The world is our family because of the way he brought people together, and we thank you for honoring his memory by continuing to live these shared beliefs.”

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President Carter is survived by his children — Jack, Chip, Jeff, and Amy; 11 grandchildren; and 14 grea-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Rosalynn, and one grandchild.

Jimmy Carter who was the 39th president of the United States and a recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, died peacefully at his home in Plains, Georgia, in the company of his family. He was 100,

 

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How I Escaped Israel’s Air Strikes – WHO DG

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The Director General of the World Health Organization, WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has revealed how he escaped death by a whisker on Thursday from a deadly Israeli air strikes on an airport in Yemen’s Huthi rebel-held capital.

The Ethiopian-born public health expert who said his ears were still ringing from the effect of the bang, stated this during an interview on BBC radio on Saturday.

Tedros, 59, disclosed that the first missile struck the departure lounge of the airport next to where him and his colleague were seated before another brought down the control tower.

Narrating his near death experience, he said, “We heard a heavy explosion nearby, and then I think repeated. The sound was so, so loud… So deafening, actually. Still my ear rings. It’s already more than 24 hours now. I don’t know if it affected my ear. The explosion was so heavy.

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“It was the departure lounge next to us that was hit, and later on the control tower.

“It was very chaotic. People were in disarray and running everywhere and no shelter: we were completely exposed.

“It’s a matter of luck. Otherwise, if the missile deviated just slightly, it could have been on our heads… my colleague actually said after all that, we escaped death narrowly.”

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