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                                <title><![CDATA[ No arrest, no response: 4 months on, family seeks answers over elite commando left vegetative after camp assault ]]></title>
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                                <description><![CDATA[ Sabahan Abdul Hamid Taib was a healthy 25-year-old elite commando, but now his family faces the heartbreaking task of bringing him home in a permanent vegetative state after an assault that has yet to result in a single arrest. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ UK aims to offer military training inside Ukraine, minister says ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2023 01:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Britain has provided five-week military training courses to around 20,000 Ukrainians over the past year, and intends to train a similar number going forward. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Investigation body set up to determine cause of incident at air force training camp ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 23:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Defence Minister Mohamad Hasan says the investigation will be carried out in detail. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Govt to introduce regional incentive payment for armed forces personnel ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2023 08:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ It replaces the Sabah/Sarawak incentive payment and the peninsula incentive payment. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ No race quota for armed forces recruitment, says defence minister ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2023 09:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Mohamad Hasan however acknowledges the low percentage of non-Bumiputera recruits. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Russian whose daughter drew anti-war picture gets two years jail but flees ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Alexei Moskalyov has been separated from his 13-year-old daughter Masha since he was placed under house arrest at the start of this month and she was moved to a children's home. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ LTAT declares 5% dividend for 2022 ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2023 09:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ This is up 0.9% from 2021. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ 97% of army veterans who receive BSH aid are non-pensionable, says defence minister ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2023 08:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Mohamad Hasan says efforts are being made to trace those involved. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Mexico sends armed forces to border state after prison jailbreak sparks manhunt ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 07:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ State prosecutors in the border state of Chihuahua say Alejandro Alvarado, head of the Juarez prison, has been dismissed, and is under investigation for his possible role in the jailbreak, alongside others. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Early voting for army personnel common practice, says law minister ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2022 07:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar says the important thing is that the postal ballot papers reach the returning officer's office before 5pm on polling day. ]]></description>
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