News archive of February 2017
Rally held in Oraiokastro to support refugee pupils
Holding banners reading "We accept refugees, isolate the fascists," demonstrators on Tuesday gathered outside Oraiokastro Town Hall to pledge solidarity with refugee children attending schools in the town near Thessaloniki.
The gathering was organized by the local women's association and members of the People's Committee of Oraiokastro, and also included a march through the town.
Military plant blast kills 1 person; 3 missing, 25 injured
An explosion occurred on Tuesday afternoon in the A28 ammunition depot of the Tehnicki Remontni Zavod in Kragujevac, central Serbia, that killed one person.
The Ministry of Defense announced this on Tuesday evening, adding that three more persons are listed as missing, while 25 members of the Serbian Army (VS) and the Interior Ministry (MUP) have been injured.
What happened to prisoners of war in Medieval England
Every medieval English monarch had to decide how to deal with prisoners of war. Ruling over territory that sometimes ran from the highlands of Scotland to the south of France, their authority rested on violence. Fighting the French, Scots, Welsh, Irish, or their own nobility in a string of civil wars, they could not have kept their throne without victories on the battlefield.
US President Trump to boost defense spending
U.S. President Donald Trump will ask Congress to boost Pentagon spending in the next fiscal year by $54 billion in his first budget proposal and slash the same amount from non-defense spending, including a large reduction in foreign aid.
Trump said he believes the extra $54 billion spending on the U.S. military would be offset by a stronger economy as well as cuts in other areas.