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The reason is that real life is more fascinating than fiction. In fiction, the author can do what he likes with the protagonist, but in non-fiction, you’ve to stick with what actually happened. But when you tell a story, linking it with a historical fact makes it more understandable, more believable. While I want the readers to know what actually happened, I wanted to make the story a little more interesting, so I’ve added something on my own. This is, however, a very small percentage. What was it like to be in the armed…

A strong overnight earthquake rattled a mountainous region of northwestern China, authorities said Tuesday, destroying homes, leaving residents out in a below-freezing winter night and killing 127 people in the nation's deadliest quake in nine years.The magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck just before midnight on Monday, injuring more than 700 people, damaging roads and knocking out power and communication lines in Gansu and Qinghai provinces, officials and Chinese media reports said.WATCH | Aftermath of the earthquake: See…

Feeder has released double A-side ‘The Knock’ / ‘Soldiers of Love’, taken from their upcoming double album ‘Black / Red’, due for release on 5th April 2024 via Big Teeth Music via Townsend Music / Absolute Label Services. Talking about the new songs, vocalist, guitarist and writer Grant Nicholas says: “The Knock ‘is one of the more direct, up-tempo songs on the Black / Red album. It’s really a song about a highway or road of life and the journey in which it can take us on and the challenges we face along the…

Former president Donald Trump tried to do a charitable thing Sunday, handing out food to Texas National Guard soldiers, troopers, and others who will be working at the border during Thanksgiving. But he then complained that there wasn’t enough food left for him. “The food looked very good. I wanted to have some, but they didn’t have any for me. They had none left. That’s not good. That’s my kind of food too,” Trump said, drawing some chuckles from the crowd. Trump today at the TX State patrol officers…

British soldiers may be getting a new type of military vehicle, only this time it will come with just two wheels. According to top brass, rocket launchers mounted on electric bikes could soon be headed for the British Armed Forces. The idea isn’t altogether new. In fact, Ukraine has shown great success using fast, high-powered electric bikes to get anti-tank missiles into position and disable Russian tanks. It’s just one of several Ukrainian tactics that the British Army has declared it will…

On today’s battlefields, however, it is no longer enough to merely hide from human eyes. People and kit are given away as well by signals beyond the visual spectrum, and devices that detect these wavelengths are getting better, lighter and cheaper. Thermal sensors are a case in point. Today, one that costs about $1,000 and weighs as little as five sachets of sugar can, in good weather, detect a warm vehicle as far off as 10km. As Hans Kariis, deputy head of signatures research at the…

KYIV, Ukraine —  Bound for the battlefield, sounding harried and anxious, the Russian soldier placed a hasty phone call — to a Ukrainian military hotline. “They say you can help me surrender voluntarily, is that right?” asked the serviceman, explaining that he was soon to be deployed near the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson.“When Ukrainian soldiers come, do I just kneel down, or what? Do you promise not to film me while this is happening?”In fluent Russian, the hotline operator calmly assured him he’d be given…

Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts - perhaps hundreds of thousands of them - to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump.Besides posting adoring words about the former president, the fake accounts ridiculed Trump's critics from both parties and attacked Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador who is challenging her onetime boss for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. When it came to Ron DeSantis, the bots aggressively suggested that…

Screengrab via Disney Plus It’s a sad day for Falcon and the Winter Soldier fans as Anthony Mackie seemingly confirms that Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes will not make an appearance in Captain America: New World Order.  In speaking with Josh Horowitz on his Happy Sad Confused podcast, Mackie —who will officially take up the mantle for Chris Evans as the new Captain America in New World Order — shot down hopes for a bromantic reunion between his character and Stan’s Bucky Barnes when he shared that Thunderbolts…

Image via Pathé Neil Marshall has had an interesting career in horror, with his 2008 film The Descent leading to widespread acclaim for its masterful claustrophobic horror. But before he was sending a group of women into a cave to get blitzed by inbred cave people, he was having people fight mutant soldiers. Marshall’s directorial debut Dog Soldiers is turning 21 this year, and it is now finally freely available to stream in the United States. The cult British horror throws in a mixture of horror, comedy, and…