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Drone advances in Ukraine could bring dawn of killer robots

Drone advances in Ukraine have accelerated a technology trend that could soon bring the world’s first fully autonomous robots to the battlefield and inaugurate a new age of warfare. Experts say it may be only a matter of time before either Russia or Ukraine, or both, deploy drones programmed to find and attack targets without help from humans.

Afghan war orphan remains with Marine accused of abduction

Two months after an AP report on a high-stakes legal fight over a child raised alarms at the highest levels of government, from the White House to the Taliban, the toddler remains with U.S. Marine Corps Major Joshua Mast and his family.

‘I think of them’: Abducted Nigerian schoolgirls remembered

On April 14, 2014, fighters for the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram stormed a school in the Chibok community of Nigeria's Borno state and abducted 276 girls who had been preparing for science exams. The missing girls are being remembered now with new sculptures.