Members of Malaysia's civil defence force pose with the python.
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Japan still has a "Maritime Self-Defence Force", not a navy.
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A spokesman for Japan's Maritime Self Defence Force declined to comment.
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And there isn't one [Australian Defence Force member] on the ground.
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The Israel Defence Force did not immediately comment on the attack.
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Marape had previously said he would send the defence force to help.
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Construction workers and members of Malaysia's civil defence force pose with the python.
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The only people milling around in its streets are Israeli Defence Force (IDF) soldiers.
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The Self Defence Force contingent and family members will increase the population by a fifth.
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Fifteen members of the country's defence force and three civilians were killed, according to Fana.
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Abe proposed last May adding a clause to Article 9 to legitimize Japan's Self-Defence Force.
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"Even among Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force vessels, we are the cleanest," Rear Admiral Fukuda said.
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The Defence Force believed there could be a life raft with more surviving passengers, he added.
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The Royal Swaziland Police, the Swaziland Defence Force, and the University of Swaziland all come to mind.
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Defence Force Chief Lieutenant General Tim Keating said the NZDF would co-operate fully with the inquiry.
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The Australian Defence Force would also be deployed to help enforce the self-isolation rules, Morrison said.
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The nearby town of Parndana was evacuated by the Country Fire Service and the Australian Defence Force.
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"The IDF (Israel Defence Force) is not involved in this incident in any way," a military spokesman said.
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The Australian Defence Force itself had become concerned about a "drift in values" among elite troops in Afghanistan.
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"For us, the operational readiness of the South African National Defence Force is a top priority," Wakeford said.
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"I can confirm no Australian Defence Force personnel were on board the aircraft," Payne said in a statement.
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A senior Self-Defence Force officer said that strained ties with South Korea could affect security arrangements with Japan.
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The Antigua Defence Force was also given HK$25.3 million by China to bolster the integrity of its borders.
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Japan has cancelled a maritime fleet review planned for Monday, a spokesman for the Maritime Self-Defence Force said.
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The legal branch of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) went to work building a case against him for manslaughter.
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As a result, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force has been rethinking its security strategy and strengthening its capabilities.
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Jian Zhang, associate professor at UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, said Micronesian states were ideally located.
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Police have disabled one and are in the process of disabling the other, with the assistance of the defence force.
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New Zealand's Civil Defence Force was on standby as other roads were closed and at least one school was evacuated.
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An Islamist militant group called the Allied Defence Force (ADF) is fighting the army for territory and terrorizing the population.
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Japan's Air Self Defence Force reported its fighters scrambled 1,168 times over the 12 months, up from 873 last year.
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The New Zealand Defence Force recently adopted the technique, and military forces of the Netherlands are considering the idea, too.
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"During the violent riots IDF (Israel Defence Force) soldiers fired selectively towards main instigators," the military said in a statement.
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Fortunately, the bomb was deemed to be of no risk to the public, but was seized by the Australian Defence Force.
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"The exercise helped improve fighting skills and deepened cooperation with India," Japan's Maritime Self Defence Force said in a press release.
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The Prime Minister's office is working closely with the Queensland government, and it's sending in the Australian defence force to assist.
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They were joined by two Japanese F-15 jet fighters, Japan's Air Self Defence Force (ASDF) said in a news release.
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This week's exercises will be the sixth drills sharing information in tracking ballistic missiles among the three nations, the defence force said.
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One of the main separatist forces operating in the area, the Ambazonian Defence Force (ADF), could not be immediately reached for comment.
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Periodic explosions were heard as firefighters battled the blaze with foam, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said in a Facebook post.
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She said the defence force would fly over the area for an assessment as soon as it was safe to do so.
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The New Zealand Defence Force had originally said there were seven survivors, but later revised the number to eight in a statement.
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Japan's Maritime Self Defence Force also wants funding to build two new destroyers and a submarine worth a combined 171 billion yen.
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It was brought under control by the Dubai civil defence force, which safely evacuated three people who were on board, it added.
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The Ambazonian Defence Force (ADF), the main anglophone separatist group battling state security forces, had earlier denied the government version of events.
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Reports of the missing couple were disseminated to the United States Coast Guard and the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF), according to Burger.
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The Australia Defence Force said Sunday it had called 3,000 army reserve forces and others with specialist capabilities to help fight the flames.
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Police had found a number of improvised explosive devices strapped to vehicles, and these have now been secured by the defence force, Bush said.
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The Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF), which leads a counter-LRA, African Union Regional Task Force, recently announced plans to withdraw from the mission.
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Hurley, 65, had a 42-year military career in the Australian Army culminating in his appointment as Chief of the Defence Force in 2011.
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Yameen is driven around the country in a Mercedes-Benz, with an entourage of soldiers from the Maldives National Defence Force in combat gear.
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Police cordoned off several streets, and in a statement said Fire and Emergency and the New Zealand Defence Force were responding to the incident.
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Premier of the Western Cape, Helen Zille, has repeatedly called for the deployment of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in the area.
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Police minister Bheki Cele told reporters on Wednesday that the South African National Defence Force would be increasing foot patrols, roadbloacks and vehicle checkpoints.
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In a statement posted on its Facebook page at 11:49am HK/SIN, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said with the fire was extinguished.
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Japan's Self Defence Force, which is pivoting away from defending its northern borders, is fortifying the region with radar bases and anti-ship missile batteries.
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Ayaba said members of the Ambazonian Defence Force, an armed wing of the separatist movement, killed two gendarmes in a first attack around 2 a.m.
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The first of the 42 F-35As ordered by Japan's Air Self Defence Force (ASDF) are being deployed to Misawa Air Base in northern Japan.
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In the cyclone-hit tropics, Australia's Defence Force was helping to deliver medical personnel and supplies, while tens of thousands of people remain without electricity.
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The Australian Defence Force (ADF), a branch of the Australian army, was present and showed off its new tactical vehicles, made by Australian firm Thales.
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The Australia Defence Force also said on Sunday that it had called 3,000 army reserve forces, and others with capabilities, to help fight the flames.
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Defence Force agents detain a Haitian man during a raid on a construction site during a search of undocumented Haitian immigrants to detain and deport.
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"This is just an exercise and the main objective is to train the officers," Captain Hiraoki Yoshino of Japan's Maritime Self-Defence Force told reporters.
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Jian Zhang, associate professor at UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, said Beijing&aposs investment reflected a decision to cultivate broader, deeper ties.
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"When it comes to the Maritime Self-Defence Force ensign, domestic laws and regulations stipulate that it must be hoisted at the stern," Iwaya said.
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"This radar station is going to irritate China," said Nozomu Yoshitomi, a professor at Nihon University and a retired major general in the Self Defence Force.
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In both cases, they played to bloody and unsatisfactory stalemates against anti-communist guerrillas being armed and aided by highly organised South African Defence Force units.
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Haitian families move out of the AB Apostolic church after receiving threats by the Defence Force that they could no longer seek refuge in the church.
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Ivo Tapang, spokesman for the Ambazonian Defence Force, one of the main Anglophone secessionist militias, confirmed that fighting had occurred in Nkambe, but disputed Badjeck's account.
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There was no evidence of deliberate disregard for targeting rules, Australia's chief of the Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin, said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Japan's Ground Self-Defence Force (GSDF) retired older H versions of its Vietnam-era Hueys in 2012, after four decades of use, but retained their spare parts.
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"The IDF (Israel Defence Force) is the only military that is fighting the Iranian army in Syria," he said during a visit to an Israeli army base.
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The Singapore Civil Defence Force, Singapore Police Coast Guard and the Republic of Singapore Navy deployed vessels to render assistance to the HOYU crew, the statement added.
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"Making this public is a way to reassure people about their safety and bring peace of mind," Akinori Hanada, an Air Self Defence Force major, told reporters.
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In 2015, Japan's Maritime Defence Force became a regular participant in an annual naval exercise, known as Malabar, that the United States and India began in 1992.
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Japanese F-15 fighters and U.S. B-1 bombers conducted joint drills over the East China Sea on Saturday, Reuters reported, citing Japan's Air Self Defence Force.
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"Hoisting of the Maritime Self-Defence Force ensign is required by law," Katsutoshi Kawano, the chief of staff of the Self Defence Forces, told reporters on Thursday.
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As the sea state permits, recovery efforts will be conducted to further search, assess and survey the area, in coordination and with assistance from the Australian Defence Force.
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Japanese fighters scrambled 1,168 times over the 12-month period compared with 873 times last year, according to a media release from the Japanese Air Self Defence Force.
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Seven of those struck by rocks were members of Japan's Ground Self Defence Force (SDF) engaged in winter training maneuvers, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.
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The survivors, including an unconscious teenage girl, were safely transferred to a nearby fishing vessel late on Sunday, Defence Force Air Commodore Darryn Webb told Radio New Zealand.
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"The Australian Government remains prepared to offer further support as required and our [Australian Defence Force] remains at short notice readiness to support any further requests," Payne said.
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The Royal Navy frigate HMS Sutherland arrived at Yokosuka, the headquarters of Japan's Maritime Defence Force fleet and home port of the U.S. Seventh Fleet's carrier strike group.
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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull visited Kabul in January, and the Australian Defence Force announced two months later its troops would remain there for at least another three years.
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The 248 meter (813.65 ft) long Maritime Self Defence Force ship and its two destroyer escorts also conducted drills with a Japanese submarine in the contested South China Sea.
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Though the ship was cramped, basic, and cold, the Australian Defence Force staff did their absolute best to make things as comfortable as possible for everyone, especially the pets.
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People run after collecting food aid from a South African National Defence Force (SANDF) helicopter in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Nhamatanda village, near Beira, Mozambique in March.
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Carl Thayer, an expert on Vietnam's military at the Australian Defence Force Academy, said the deployment showed the seriousness of Vietnam's determination to militarily deter China as far as possible.
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"Maldives Police Service was requested by the Maldives National Defence Force (military) to intervene in clearing out individuals who forcefully entered the parliament building," the police said in a statement.
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Swift, in Tokyo to meet senior Japanese Self Defence Force commanders, said at a briefing that any decision on a pre-emptive attack would be up to President Donald Trump.
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"If the reports are true, then public trust in the defense ministry and the Self-Defence Force will be greatly damaged," Suga said, using the Japanese name for its military.
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The Ground Self Defence Force helicopter, built by Boeing Co, came down in Saga prefecture during training, Minister of Defence Itsunori Onodera said in comments aired by public broadcaster NHK.
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"The Paracels are going to be vital to any future Chinese attempt to dominate the South China Sea," said Carl Thayer, a South China Sea expert at Australia's Defence Force Academy.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Sunday that David Hurley, former Australian Defence Force chief and current governor of the state of New South Wales, has been appointed to the office.
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The center, which re-opened in 2012 as an offshore processing site for asylum seekers found in Australian waters, is being returned to the PNG Defence Force, which owns the land.
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South Africa's National Defence Force (SANDF) confirmed that there had been shooting incident involving its soldiers and Mozambique border police on Sunday afternoon in the northern part of Kwazulu-Natal province.
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Warsaw (AFP) - Poland said Monday it will build a new territorial defence force of 53,000 volunteers by 2019, which it announced with an eye on heading off any threat from Russia.
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Warsaw (AFP) - Poland said Monday it will build a new territorial defence force of 22017,000 volunteers by 2019, which it announced with an eye on heading off any threat from Russia.
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On Tuesday, around 50 people including police, New Zealand Defence Force staff, and Land Search and Rescue volunteers searched the area, although the search was scaled back and bad weather set in.
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His 2013 video telling troops to treat women with respect in response to a misconduct scandal involving over 100 Australian Defence Force troops went viral was a key reason behind his award.
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If NATO collapses, they will be faced with creating a European Defence Force – often tabled, never pursued, and, given the European Union's still limping economy, now is a bad time to try.
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A total of 30 rhino horns, 103 elephant tusks and 69 pieces of elephant tusk have also been recovered by ministry officials working together with the Namibian Police and Namibian Defence Force.
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Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 20 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's air defence force has intercepted two Iranian-made Houthi missiles in Mecca province, a statement from the kingdom's embassy in Washington said on Monday.
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The year-long review would also look into how the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) handled reports of civilian casualties from the raid in northern Afghanistan, according to an emailed government statement.
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The country's military, the Jamaican Defence Force (JDF), called out to ensure security during the election, will now stay on the streets throughout this week, with additional help from its reservist force.
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MANAMA, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The Bahrain Defence Force signed a $3.8 billion deal with Lockheed Martin to buy 16 upgraded F-16 aircraft on Tuesday, the official Bahrain state news agency said.
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The Royal Bahamas Police Force and the Royal Bahamas Defence Force declined or didn't answer Semple's calls and the chief governmental administrator for the region was unreachable on Sunday, the Times reported.
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"The Hunter class will provide the Australian Defence Force with the highest levels of lethality and deterrence our major surface combatants need in periods of global uncertainty," it said of the ships.
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Dr. Jha has spoken to the United States Army War College and the British Parliament, and she has been a consultant to New Zealand's Defence Force and military officials in the Netherlands.
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It was then adopted as the ensign of the Maritime Self-Defence Force, as Japan's navy is known, when the MSDF was established as part of Japan's Self-Defense Forces in 1954.
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"At the request of the Papua New Guinean Government, Australia is today providing a RAAF C-130 to conduct aerial surveillance and provide logistical support to the Papua New Guinea Defence Force."
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Soon several thousand Estonians who had joined the Finnish army came back across the Gulf of Finland to join the newly formed Territorial Defence Force, assigned to defend Estonia against the Soviet advance.
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Since 2011, a Japanese Self Defence Force contingent of 180 troops has occupied a 12 hectare (30 acre) site in Djibouti, next to Camp Lemonnier, the U.S. base at the country's international airport.
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"In the second intifada [2000-2005] there was a clear chain from those directing and funding the attacks, and the dispatcher and perpetrator," says an operations officer in the Israel Defence Force (IDF).
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The Australian Defence Force was alerted by the U.S.-led coalition last January to claims on a website that tracks civilian deaths in war, Airwars, that there were civilians in a nearby building.
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The "Rising Sun" ensign, used by the Japanese Imperial Navy in campaigns around Asia and the Pacific before and during World War Two, was adopted by the Maritime Self-Defence Force in 1954.
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Variations of the flag are used by the Ground Self-Defence Force and on the fatigues of some Japanese sailors, but some South Koreans liken it to Nazi symbols such as the swastika.
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The SDF last year embraced internet advertising, which resulted in a three-fold increase in visits to its recruiting homepage, said Major Yoshiaki Hayashida of the Ground Self-Defence Force staff office's personnel division.
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The Marine Corps said they had shifted to recovery efforts in coordination with the Australian Defence Force, which could last several months, and had notified the next-of-kin of the three missing Marines.
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New Zealand defence force personnel are being deployed in the mission on Friday, along with assistance from the police and other agencies in the recovery mission that could take a few hours, police said.
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New Zealand Defence Force said on Friday it was sending more reinforcements to Australia, including from Fiji, to join contingents and specialists sent also by other countries, such as Japan and the United States.
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Daniel Franklin, The Economist's diplomatic editor, asks Mr Stoltenberg how NATO's members can overcome their differences—should Europe have its own defence force and is Turkey at risk of drifting away from the alliance?
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Shortly before the video showing Ahed assaulting the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) soldiers was filmed, soldiers had shot her 15-year-old cousin Mohammed Tamimi in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet.
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THE control tower at Iwakuni air base near Hiroshima gives a bird's-eye view of the huge facility shared by American marines and Japan's Maritime Self-defence Force, as the country's navy is euphemistically known.
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Sailors scrub toilets, mop and buff floors, and remove dust from the web of overhead pipes, wires and vents along the ceilings of one of the newest ships in Japan's Maritime Self Defence Force (MSDF).
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"This is one of the largest waves recorded in the Southern Hemisphere," said Dr. Tom Durrant, senior oceanographer at MetOcean Solutions, the company that deployed the buoy in conjunction with the New Zealand Defence Force.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A fire that had broken out at an oil storage tank at Tankstore's Pulau Busing terminal in Singapore on Tuesday evening has been extinguished, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said on Wednesday.
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They've had little food or clean water since Tuesday when Australian authorities handed the Manus Island immigration processing center back to the PNG Defence Force, which owns the Naval Base on which it was built.
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Lieutenant General Greg Bilton, chief of joint operations at the Australian Defence Force, said the Chinese surveillance vessel was probably headed to Australia's northeast coast to get a first-hand look at the military exercises.
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"His unique skillset as a specialist doctor and his extensive experience as a cave diver were quintessential to the success of this operation," Major Alex Rubin, of the Australian Defence Force, told reporters in Chiang Rai.
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Thiel's data crunching start-up Palantir counts the New Zealand Defence Force, the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, and the New Zealand Government Communications and Security Bureau among its clients, the New Zealand Herald on Thursday.
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On social media the raids sparked a wave of criticism against the Special Defence Force (SDF), Tripoli's most powerful Salafist-leaning group, which has modeled itself as the capital's primary anti-crime and counter-terrorism force.
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On social media the raids sparked a wave of criticism against the Special Defence Force (SDF), Tripoli's most powerful Salafist-leaning group, which has modeled itself as the capital's primary anti-crime and counter-terrorism force.
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The AFP said the ABC raid was in relation to allegations it had published classified material and followed a referral from the chief of the Australian Defence Force and a former acting defence secretary in 2017.
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The presidency added that Zuma, in his capacity as chair of the Southern African Development Community, was sending special envoys to Zimbabwe to meet with Mugabe and the Zimbabwean Defence Force, which has seized power in Harare.
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"We regret the inconvenience caused to all involved with the running of the show, The Military vehicle owners, memorabilia collectors and exhibitors, defence force members, community groups, vendors, and support organisations," organizers wrote in a Facebook post.
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On Good Friday in April this year, a fistfight between refugees and locals at a nearby soccer pitch escalated into shots being fired at the center by PNG Defence Force personnel, according to refugees and the police.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The Australian Defence Force on Saturday said its deliveries of F-35 fighter jets from the United States were still on track, despite the planes being grounded after one of the aircraft crashed in September.
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Japan has cancelled a maritime fleet review planned for Monday, a spokesman for the Maritime Self-Defence Force said, after a fierce typhoon pounded Tokyo and surrounding regions over the weekend, causing flooding and widespread power outages.
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"During the course of two days, eight U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Defence Force ships, three helicopter squadrons and maritime patrol aircraft covered nearly 1,000 square nautical miles," the U.S. Seventh Fleet said in a press release.
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The Maldives National Defence Force said in a statement that it would work to stop activities that "openly threaten the security and safety of the Maldives" or which sought to spread "false and unfounded rumors" about the government.
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Gulf states have a joint defence force under the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), but the alliance has been fractured by a boycott imposed on Qatar by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and non-GCC Egypt since mid-2017.
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"President Jacob Zuma has authorized the employment of members of the South African National Defence Force for service in cooperation with the South African Police Service to maintain law and order," a presidency statement said late on Tuesday.
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In the autumn of 2015, Mr Abe pushed through laws allowing the army, known as the Self-Defence Force, to come to the aid of the country's allies if under attack, a freedom the constitution formerly denied it.
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On Wednesday, a New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) aerial survey found "huge columns of smoke, ash and volcanic rocks billowing from the crater of an erupting volcano" on the island, according to a press release from the agency.
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SYDNEY, June 23 (Reuters) - Australia's defence force said on Friday it will send two military surveillance aircraft to assist Philippine soldiers fighting Islamist militants, as the archipelago nation battles to regain control of its southern city of Marawi.
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Carl Thayer, an expert on Vietnam's military and diplomacy at Australia's Defence Force Academy, said Hanoi was expected to prove a tough negotiator but would need support among other ASEAN members to hold a firm line against China.
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A cheaper fighter program would free up funding for other purchases and a lower cost jet that other nations could afford opens up the prospect of overseas sales that would further lower unit costs for Japan's Self Defence Force.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States, Japan and South Korea will hold two days of missile tracking drills starting on Monday, Japan's Maritime Self-Defence Force said, as tensions rise in the region over North Korea's fast-developing weapons programmes.
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Upgrades to a large portion of over 235 aging Japan Air Self Defence Force F-285Js, to incorporate new engines and radars among other advanced capabilities, could proceed while research into the F-403 program continues, said the sources.
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Retrieving the dead is itself a potentially lethal endeavor: Last week, a member of the Civil Defence Force was killed when a bomb buried under the ruins of a home exploded as he tried to free bodies trapped there.
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While there, they were invited to perform the hongi, a traditional Māori greeting which includes two people pressing their nose and foreheads together, before the pōwhiri which includes a haka, performed by members of the New Zealand Defence Force.
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The South African National Defence Force said last Friday it would deploy a battalion with support elements to communities in a vast area called the Cape Flats, where high rates of unemployment and drug abuse have fueled gang activity.
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Two Japanese warships, the Samidare and Ashigara, left western Japan on Friday to join the Carl Vinson and will "practice a variety of tactics" with the U.S. strike group, the Japan Maritime Self Defence Force said in a statement.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has canceled a maritime fleet review planned for Monday, a spokesman for the Maritime Self-Defence Force said, after a fierce typhoon pounded Tokyo and surrounding regions over the weekend, causing flooding and widespread power outages.
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The Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force (MSDF) may conduct helicopter landings on each other's ships, as well as communication drills, as the USS Carl Vinson and its escort ships pass through waters close to Japanese territory, the sources said.
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Carl Thayer, a security scholar at the Australian Defence Force Academy, said he was "simply amazed" by the recent U.S. patrol in the Paracels, which could complicate actions to challenge the newer risks posed by China's work in the Spratlys.
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"We will learn from each other, and ultimately we will make friendships that will tie us together more closely in the future," RAF Lieutenant Colonel Roger Elliot, said in introductory remarks to 33 Japan Air Self Defence Force (JASDF) personnel.
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TOKYO, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Japan has cancelled a maritime fleet review planned for Monday, a spokesman for the Maritime Self-Defence Force said, after a fierce typhoon pounded Tokyo and surrounding regions over the weekend, causing flooding and widespread power outages.
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Meghan, 37, and Harry, 34, were invited to perform the hongi, a traditional Māori greeting which includes two people pressing their nose and foreheads together, before the pōwhiri which includes a haka, performed by members of the New Zealand Defence Force.
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Japan is also wary of China's long-range missiles, and would like to secure measures to launch fighters from aircraft carriers in case runways operated by U.S. forces in Japan or by Japan's Air Self-Defence Force were destroyed by missiles.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Indian government has appointed new heads of its army and air force among a series of senior military and intelligence appointments, officials said, two weeks before its two most senior defence force chiefs are due to retire.
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The two Japanese warships, the Samidare and Ashigara, left western Japan on Friday to join the Carl Vinson and will "practice a variety of tactics" with the U.S. strike group, the Japan Maritime Self Defence Force said in a statement.
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Over the next five years, Japan will increase its Self Defence Force in the East China Sea by about a fifth to almost 10,000 personnel, including missile batteries that will help Japan draw a defensive curtain along the island chain.
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"The Government of the Philippines has accepted an Australian offer of two Australian Defence Force AP-3C Orion aircraft to provide surveillance support to the Armed Forces of the Philippines," said an emailed statement from Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne.
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The Japanese ships Ise, Inazuma and Makinami will sail with the USS Ronald Reagan, USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Sea of Japan and East China Sea on Sunday, Japan's Maritime Self Defence Force said in a press release.
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"I want to thank the Australian Defence Force, and the crew of the HMAS Melville in particular, for their assistance in the search and recovery effort of our MV-22 that went down off the coast of Australia," Nicholson said.
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Nozomu Yoshitomi, professor at Japan's Nihon University and a retired major general in Japan's Ground Self-Defence Force, said the DF-17 posed serious questions about the effectiveness of the regional missile defence system the United States and Japan are building.
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The fire front is driving entire townships toward the coast and onto the beaches, where the Australian Defence Force waits to evacuate them on zodiacs and battleships in what is likely the largest peacetime maritime rescue operation in the country's history.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese F-15 fighters on Tuesday held drills with U.S. B1-B bombers, F-35 stealth aircraft and F-18 multirole combat jets above the East China Sea, south of the Korean peninsula, Japan's Air Self Defence Force (ASDF) said.
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The Liaoning has been a crucial building block for the navy in its evolution from a coastal defence force into what is now a modern navy that China uses to assert its (contested) maritime claims in the East and South China Seas.
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"After considering the range of military air transport aircraft carefully, the Super Hercules has been selected as it offers the necessary range and payload capability as well as fully meeting NZDF's requirements," he said in a statement referencing the New Zealand Defence Force.
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The Maritime Self Defence Force (MSDF) needs more women because falling birth rates mean it has too few men to crew warships in home waters or on helicopter carriers such as the Kaga, sailing in foreign waters to counter China's growing regional influence.
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In the six months ending in September, Japanese fighters scrambled to chase Chinese planes 407 times compared with 231 times in the same period last year, the Japanese Air Self-Defence Force said in mid-October, an increase of about three-quarters.
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The 100,000-ton Reagan, which is based in Japan, and its escort ships have been holding drills with Japanese navy vessels since Sept 11 in waters south and west of Japan's main islands, the Japan Maritime Self Defence Force said in a statement.
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During the six-month deployment, the U.S. troops participated in 12 joint exercises with the Australian Defence Force, giving them an opportunity to interact with a range of countries including China, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
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Vietnam's fortification of its islands over the last few months is in response to a Chinese buildup of various military installations on the islands it controls, according to Carl Thayer, an official at the Australian Defence Force Academy specializing in Vietnam's military.
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