In India, suspected Maoists have killed nine policemen. This is the second attack this month by the rebels, who are considered the country’s biggest internal security threat.

Policemen combed jungles along the border of Orissa and Chattisgarh states in the east for suspected rebels who ambushed a police patrol a day earlier.

Police chief of Chattisgarh’s capital Raipur, Mukesh Gupta, told VOA that the policemen had gone to “verify some information” when their vehicle broke down. He said they were returning in a tractor when the rebels, who outnumbered them, opened fire.

Human-rights groups say more than 20 political prisoners being held in the country’s notorious Insein prison began a hunger strike last week protesting inadequate nutrition for all inmates and calling for fundamental rights.

Human-rights groups say at least 33 political prisoners in the notorious Insein prison near Rangoon began a hunger strike last week, when a group of women prisoners protested a government amnesty that reduced overall prison sentences by one year.

The United States says Sudan’s seizure of much of the disputed Abyei region jeopardizes the country’s north-south peace accord and complicates efforts at normalizing U.S.-Sudan relations. The U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan is making a crisis visit to the country this week.

The State Department is condemning the May 19 attack on Sudanese troops by southern forces that apparently triggered the latest crisis.

One of the first Marine Corps Harrier squadrons to see action in Afghanistan has returned after nearly a decade.

Marine Attack Squadron 513, which first deployed to Afghanistan in 2002, will also be the first Marine Corps Harrier squadron to fully operate in Afghanistan since the departure of VMA-231 in 2010.

“We were the first deployed out here, and now my Marines are ready, trained, equipped and motivated to get moving on this deployment,” said Sgt. Maj. Scott E. Cooper, the VMA-513 sergeant major, and a native of Huntington Beach, Calif. “I have complete faith in them for success.”

A combined Afghan and coalition security force conducted a security operation resulting in two suspected insurgents detained and one Afghan civilian killed in Musa Qal’ah district, Helmand province yesterday.

U.S. Soldiers taught combat life-savings skills to Afghan Border Police during an ongoing joint medical training session at Fire Base Torkam, Afghanistan, May 19.

U.S. Army Spc. Erik Michelson, 3rd Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, Task Force Steel, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, combat lifesaver instructor from Phoenix, taught the students how to provide care in the field.

With gumball-sized raindrops hitting the windshield of the heavy equipment transport truck, Spc. Viktor Guerrero, a HET driver with the 370th Transportation Company, smiles as he guides the the large truck through the rain and the storm. Chained on-board the 40-wheeled trailer hooked to his HET is a mine resistant ambush protected vehicle. All total, Guerrero controls 48 wheels as they churn the mud-stained roads exiting Joint Base Balad, Iraq, en route to their destination of Contingency Operating Base Warhorse.

In self-defense: Kirkland pit bull incident probably a ‘good shoot’

The weekend shooting of an aggressive pit bull at a Kirkland park appears to fall well within the guidelines of self-defense under this state’s statutes, and the incident has ignited a furious debate about dangerous dogs.

The case, according to Alan Gottlieb, executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation in Bellevue, underscores why his organization fought to nullify Seattle’s illegal parks gun ban.

Whew! Missing King County Sheriff’s guns not linked to ‘Gunrunner!’

King County Sheriff’s Department spokesman John Urquhart confirmed this morning that the agency cannot account for 113 of its firearms, but the good news is that none of the missing guns has ever showed up at a crime scene.

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Article by Dave Workman