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Mexico: Wildfire Breaks Out in Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico 3

Firefighters in Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico, contained a major forest fire on Wednesday, February 18. The blaze erupted around 2:00 p.m. in the Lomas de Atizapán area, spreading rapidly through dry brush and fueled by strong winds. By late evening, Municipal President Pedro Rodríguez Villegas confirmed the fire was under control and all previously blocked roads had been reopened to traffic. No civilian injuries or structural losses were reported.

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Mexico: Wildfire Breaks Out in Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico

Firefighters in Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico, contained a major forest fire on Wednesday, February 18. The blaze erupted around 2:00 p.m. in the Lomas de Atizapán area, spreading rapidly through dry brush and fueled by strong winds. By late evening, Municipal President Pedro Rodríguez Villegas confirmed the fire was under control and all previously blocked roads had been reopened to traffic. No civilian injuries or structural losses were reported.

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Mexico: Wildfire Breaks Out in Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico 2

Firefighters in Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico, contained a major forest fire on Wednesday, February 18. The blaze erupted around 2:00 p.m. in the Lomas de Atizapán area, spreading rapidly through dry brush and fueled by strong winds. By late evening, Municipal President Pedro Rodríguez Villegas confirmed the fire was under control and all previously blocked roads had been reopened to traffic. No civilian injuries or structural losses were reported.

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Rebels Led By HTS In Hama - Syria

A civilian walks past armed rebels stationed in a public square in Hama, Syria, on December 6, 2024. Rebels led by HTS have intensified their offensive, seizing control of key areas in Aleppo and Hama and pushing further towards Homs, sparking widespread displacement and heightened instability in west-central Syria. Photo by Bilal Alhammoud/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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GSDF spies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 27, 2013, shows the Defense Ministry in Tokyo. Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force spies have secretly gathered intelligence abroad since the Cold War era without informing the prime minister or defense minister, a practice considered as deviating from civilian control, former senior defense officials said the same day.

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Hatoyama urges 'civilian control' to prevail in emergency law

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, speaks at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Jan. 28. Hatoyama stressed the need to hold firm and careful discussions on issues relating to national emergency legislation.

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Sonar analyst says he didn't know Ehime closing on sub

HONOLULU, United States - A sonar analyst on the U.S. submarine which hit and sank a Japanese fisheries training ship off Hawaii on Feb. 9 testifies on March 19 that the crowding of civilian VIPs in the sub's control room was not why he failed to alert the captain at a key juncture that the ship was less than 4,000 meters away and closing. Rather, Petty Officer 1st Class Patrick Seacrest told the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry, he was simply unaware that the two vessels were on a collision course because he was focusing on a new surface contact the sub's sonar had picked up.

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Japanese crew outraged by reports of civilian at sub post

HONOLULU, United States - Crew members of the Japanese fishery training ship Ehime Maru give a news conference at the Japan Cultural Center in Honolulu on Feb. 13. Some of them expressed outrage over reports that a civilian was at the U.S. sub's control position at the time of its collision with their ship Feb. 9.

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Russia to open humanitarian corridor for civilian evacuation in Azot plant

STORY: Russia to open humanitarian corridor for civilian evacuation in Azot plant DATELINE: June 15, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:50 LOCATION: Moscow CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Russia 2. various of Ukraine STORYLINE: The Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday that a humanitarian corridor will be opened on Wednesday to evacuate civilians in the Azot chemical plant in the strategic city of Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine. Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, said that Russian armed forces are ready to "carry out a humanitarian operation to evacuate civilians guided by humanitarian principles." He added that a humanitarian corridor will be opened in the northern direction towards the city of Svatovo from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Moscow time (0500 to 1700 GMT) on Wednesday. Mizintsev urged Ukrainian armed forces to "stop any hostilities and release the civilians they are holding through this humanitarian corridor." He also urged the authorities in Kiev to display prudence

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Hatoyama urges 'civilian control' to prevail in emergency law

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, speaks at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Jan. 28. Hatoyama stressed the need to hold firm and careful discussions on issues relating to national emergency legislation.

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Constitution should enshrine civilian control of SDF: LDP vice pres.

Masahiko Komura, vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, gives an interview to Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 18, 2017. As the LDP is working on a proposal to amend the postwar Constitution for the first time, Komura says the principle of civilian control over the country's Self-Defense Forces should be made clear through an addition to the war-renouncing Article 9. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Constitution should enshrine civilian control of SDF: LDP vice pres.

Masahiko Komura, vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, gives an interview to Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 18, 2017. As the LDP is working on a proposal to amend the postwar Constitution for the first time, Komura says the principle of civilian control over the country's Self-Defense Forces should be made clear through an addition to the war-renouncing Article 9. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sonar analyst says he didn't know Ehime closing on sub

HONOLULU, United States - A sonar analyst on the U.S. submarine which hit and sank a Japanese fisheries training ship off Hawaii on Feb. 9 testifies on March 19 that the crowding of civilian VIPs in the sub's control room was not why he failed to alert the captain at a key juncture that the ship was less than 4,000 meters away and closing. Rather, Petty Officer 1st Class Patrick Seacrest told the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry, he was simply unaware that the two vessels were on a collision course because he was focusing on a new surface contact the sub's sonar had picked up.

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Japanese crew outraged by reports of civilian at sub post

HONOLULU, United States - Crew members of the Japanese fishery training ship Ehime Maru give a news conference at the Japan Cultural Center in Honolulu on Feb. 13. Some of them expressed outrage over reports that a civilian was at the U.S. sub's control position at the time of its collision with their ship Feb. 9.