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Inflatable Tanks, Special Effects: World War Two 'Ghost Army' Troops Receive Top US Medal
They used actors and various tricks across Europe to mislead the Nazi German army into sending troops to the wrong locations, as per the news outlet.
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Move Over "Ghost Of Kyiv", Sniper "Charcoal" Is Ukraine's New War Hero
The sniper is only known by her call sigh "Charcoal". According to Ukrainian armed forces, she joined the Marines in 2017.
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A Ghost Army Of The Not-Very-Employed Haunts Gulf Rulers
The government was trying to trim a wage bill that eats up more than half its budget -- an outlandish share even by Gulf standards. Last year, it required public employees to swipe their fingers on a biometric reader every morning.
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Workers Paid To Do Nothing: A Ghost Army That Haunts Gulf Rulers
Show up, swipe in. The routine is familiar to office workers everywhere. In Kuwait, it proved too much to ask.
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Syria's Palmyra: Ghost Town Bearing Scars Of ISIS Destruction
Explosions rocked the ancient town of Palmyra on Friday and on the horizon, black smoke wafted behind its majestic Roman ruins, as Syrian army experts carefully detonated hundreds of mines they say were planted by ISIS terrorists before they fled the town.
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Under Siege: Villagers in Fear in Mali's Bandit Country
Only the poor, old and sick have stuck around, holed up at home, trembling at the slightest noise, in the once-thriving Malian settlement of Bintagoungou, now little more than a ghost town.
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A Week After Nepal Earthquake, a Tale of Two Villages
The Villages of Laprak and Barpak in Nepal resemble ghost towns from the air. A week after the killer quake struck, both villages located high up in the upper Himalayas that bore the brunt of nature's wrath are deserted.
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Iraq Says it Found 50,000 "Ghost Soldiers" on Payroll
Iraq's new government has discovered 50,000 "ghost soldiers" who received army salaries without showing up for work, a practice which accelerated the military's collapse in the face of Islamic State fighters six months ago.
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In Benghazi, Libya's Army Liberates a Ghost Town
Sitting in one of the last buildings still intact after months of fighting near Benghazi's airport, Libyan army special forces commander Wanis Bukhamada presides over a world of destruction.
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Army on heavy firing along Line of Control by Pak troops: Highlights
The Army today said Indian troops were being "heavily engaged" by continuous firing from Pakistan, but denied that Pakistani troops had occupied a ghost village in Jammu and Kashmir along the Line of Control.
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Inflatable Tanks, Special Effects: World War Two 'Ghost Army' Troops Receive Top US Medal
They used actors and various tricks across Europe to mislead the Nazi German army into sending troops to the wrong locations, as per the news outlet.
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Move Over "Ghost Of Kyiv", Sniper "Charcoal" Is Ukraine's New War Hero
The sniper is only known by her call sigh "Charcoal". According to Ukrainian armed forces, she joined the Marines in 2017.
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A Ghost Army Of The Not-Very-Employed Haunts Gulf Rulers
The government was trying to trim a wage bill that eats up more than half its budget -- an outlandish share even by Gulf standards. Last year, it required public employees to swipe their fingers on a biometric reader every morning.
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Workers Paid To Do Nothing: A Ghost Army That Haunts Gulf Rulers
Show up, swipe in. The routine is familiar to office workers everywhere. In Kuwait, it proved too much to ask.
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Syria's Palmyra: Ghost Town Bearing Scars Of ISIS Destruction
Explosions rocked the ancient town of Palmyra on Friday and on the horizon, black smoke wafted behind its majestic Roman ruins, as Syrian army experts carefully detonated hundreds of mines they say were planted by ISIS terrorists before they fled the town.
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Under Siege: Villagers in Fear in Mali's Bandit Country
Only the poor, old and sick have stuck around, holed up at home, trembling at the slightest noise, in the once-thriving Malian settlement of Bintagoungou, now little more than a ghost town.
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A Week After Nepal Earthquake, a Tale of Two Villages
The Villages of Laprak and Barpak in Nepal resemble ghost towns from the air. A week after the killer quake struck, both villages located high up in the upper Himalayas that bore the brunt of nature's wrath are deserted.
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Iraq Says it Found 50,000 "Ghost Soldiers" on Payroll
Iraq's new government has discovered 50,000 "ghost soldiers" who received army salaries without showing up for work, a practice which accelerated the military's collapse in the face of Islamic State fighters six months ago.
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In Benghazi, Libya's Army Liberates a Ghost Town
Sitting in one of the last buildings still intact after months of fighting near Benghazi's airport, Libyan army special forces commander Wanis Bukhamada presides over a world of destruction.
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Army on heavy firing along Line of Control by Pak troops: Highlights
The Army today said Indian troops were being "heavily engaged" by continuous firing from Pakistan, but denied that Pakistani troops had occupied a ghost village in Jammu and Kashmir along the Line of Control.
