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The Netherlands must become better prepared for a future war with Russia, for example by encouraging voluntary military service, outgoing Dutch Army Commander Martin Wijnen said in an interview with Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf on Dec. 28
The Vatican Publishing House said this month that it intends to release a book of about 130 homilies given by the late pope.
The homilies were reportedly transcribed by members of Memores Domini, a lay association that lived with Benedict.
Reintroduction of military conscription should not be ruled out, a senior member of Germany's pro-business FDP liberal party, the junior partner in the ruling coalition, said in remarks reported by the newspaper Die Welt on Wednesday. "I have previously been against the suspension of compulsory military service," deputy FDP head Wolfgang Kubicki said. Conscription made the Bundeswehr a people's army, he said. Germany was neither mentally nor factually ready or capable of defending itself, Kubick
Ukraine’s prospects of a battlefield victory are not looking good and the country must prepare for the worst, two lawmakers in Kiev told The Times of London