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Russia jails French citizen detained on charges of collecting military data - Times of India

MOSCOW: A court in Moscow on Friday ordered a French citizen accused of collecting information on military issues in Russia to be held in jail pending investigation and trial. Laurent Vinatier was arrested in the Russian capital on Thursday as tensions have flared between Moscow and Paris following French President Emmanuel Macron‘s statements about the possibility of deploying the country’s…

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When a soldier makes it home...

Information veterans who commit suicide after they’ve left combat is woefully incomplete, as The New York times reports.

No one knows whether the battalion’s suicide rate is abnormally high or a common trait of fighting units hit hard by combat, because no one monitors troops over time. In an era of Big Data, when algorithms can predict human patterns in startling detail, suicide data for veterans is incomplete and years old by the time it is available. The most recent data is from 2011.

In Unit Stalked by Suicide, Veterans Try to Save One Another The New York Times (Sept. 19, 2015)