Army steps up presence in Rio crackdown
Rio de Janeiro sees 500 soldiers take over Mangueira with tanks and armored cars. The operation surrounds Dende slum on Governor's Island as 15 arrests occur on the island. Army aims to starve the drug trade and purge police corruption amid daily violence and public support.
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Russian military in crisis amid corruption and cuts
Moscow reports the Russian armed forces face their deepest crisis since 1991 with corruption scandals, budget cuts, and morale collapse. Names include Defense Minister Pavel Grachev and President Boris Yeltsin as parliament debates ousting him while troops cope with near starvation rations and draft evasion.
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Protests greet opening of German nuclear waste dump
Nearly 2,000 anti nuke activists blocked a railway to protest the Gorleben waste site in Lower Saxony. Spent fuel rods from Philippsburg were routed by rail amid large police presence with no arrests as demonstrators demanded a permanent storage solution.
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