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China’s state-run media announced on Feb. 19 that four Chinese soldiers died at Galwan Valley, an India–China border region, in a violent face-off on June 15, 2020, while an Indian officer said China’s death toll was 45. It was the first deadly clash on the China–India border in the past four decades. After the bloody fight, India announced that 20 soldiers had died and honored them several times. China didn’t announce any deaths for eight months, until Feb. 19. China and India had troops in a standoff for months at multiple locations along the disputed China–India border in the Ladakh...

Monday night there was intense fighting between Chinese and Indian soldiers at a remote border in the Himalayas. India reported that 20 soldiers including one officer had been killed. China didn’t report numbers resulting from the skirmish but Indian reports claimed Chinese communication intercepts put the number of Chinese casualties at 43. No guns were used in the battle. Instead, combatants fought with rocks and fists. The Chinese reportedly used clubs made of wood and spiked with nails. Many of the soldiers appear to have died after falling from cliffs into a freezing river below.Naturally in a situation like...

Illegal immigrants appeared to have “ambushed” two U.S. Border Patrol agents near the Texas border with Mexico and bashed their heads with blunt objects -- possibly rocks -- killing one agent and sending another to a hospital in serious condition... Rogelio Martinez, 36, was killed and another agent, was injured while patrolling the Big Bend Sector, leading authorities to scour West Texas for the attackers, officials said.... it appeared Martinez and the second agent were “ambushed” by a group of illegal immigrants....“There’s a high likelihood this was an assault on the agents.”... Martinez and his partner suffered traumatic injuries to...

Six military bases in San Diego County will be used as logistics hubs for supplies and troops to help with securing the Southwest border following President Trump’s announcement Wednesday that he would deploy as many as 15,000 military personnel in response to caravans of Central American migrants making their way northward. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Naval Air Station North Island (Coronado), Naval Base San Diego and Naval Base Point Loma as well as Naval Air Station El Centro will participate in the deployment named Operation Faithful Patriot, officials said “They have been identified as...

A 26-year-old Honduran died Sunday after he was struck in the head with a rubber bullet as the second group of migrants formed near an international bridge that connects Guatemala and Mexico. The death was reported by Guatemalan firefighters and was believed to have occurred during a violent clash after migrants had reportedly broken through a gate on the Mexican side of the border. Mexico denied any responsibility in the death, and said its own immigration agents and police had been pelted with rocks and glass bottles. Alfonso Navarrete Prida, the Mexican interior secretary, said some of the attackers carried...

North Korea warns catastrophe after border incident 1 hour, 4 minutes ago North Korea warned of catastrophic consequences on Sunday if South Korea's military engaged in "unforgivable military provocation" like the weekend skirmish at a heavily fortified border between the two Koreas. South Korean troops fired warning shots on Saturday after North Korean soldiers briefly crossed over the border, adding to mounting tension after Pyongyang said on Wednesday it planned to conduct a nuclear test. "This was an undisguised challenge against us and an unforgivable military provocation," the North's KCNA news agency said in a commentary. "It was only the...