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Pakistan promised to dig out every body from under the avalanche. On 7 April 2012, an avalanche hit a Pakistan Army base in Gayari Sector, near the Siachen Glacier region, trapping 140 soldiers and civilian contractors under deep snow. [ 1][ 2] The incident occurred at an altitude of about 4,000 meters [ 3] and 300 km northeast of Skardu ...
Law and crime Hamas executes three men (of whom one was convicted of collaborating with Israel) in the Gaza Strip. (AFP via Al-Arabiya) Politics Joyce Banda becomes the President of Malawi following the death of Bingu wa Mutharika. (Reuters via Yahoo) The United Kingdom Home Office is subjected to an attack believed to be from the Anonymous computer hacking group. (BBC) Sport The 158th Boat ...
2011: 2011 military intervention in Libya: Operation Odyssey Dawn, United States and coalition enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 with bombings of Libyan forces. 2011: Osama Bin Laden is killed by U.S. military forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of Operation Neptune Spear. 2011: Drone strikes on al-Shabaab militants begin in ...
Five Embassies, ISAF bases, Parliament, government buildings, airport, [3] hotel. The April 2012 Afghanistan attacks [9] [10] [11] took place on Sunday, 15 April 2012, at around 13:00 local time (08:30 UTC) when heavily armed Taliban insurgents and suicide bombers launched multiple coordinated attacks throughout Afghanistan. [7]
On April 30, 1999, Congress designated National Military Appreciation Month as a month-long observance. [7] [8] Congress chose May because many military related observances such as Memorial Day and Loyalty Day are celebrated and observed on that date. Congress recognized the month after a unanimous vote of 93–0 in April of that year. [9]
Armed conflicts and attacks. 2012 South Sudan–Sudan border conflict: The Sudan People's Liberation Army says it shot down a Sudanese MiG-29 jet fighter in South Sudan's Unity state. (CNN) A suicide bomber kills at least 12 people and injures many more in Afghanistan 's Faryab province.
On 12 April 2012, a coup d'état in Guinea-Bissau was staged by elements of the armed forces about two weeks before the second round of a presidential election between Carlos Gomes Júnior and Kumba Ialá. [3] The coup started in the evening with military personnel and equipment making its way onto the streets, followed by the state-owned media ...
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