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HII to perform additional fabrication for third Ford-class carrier

UPI 12 hours ago 
Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Huntington Ingalls Industries received a $25.5 million contract modification to continue advance fabrication work for the Ford-class Enterprise aircraft carrier. Ford-class carriers are vessels slated to replace the U.S. Navy's existing Nimitz-class fleet. Under the modification, Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of HII, will begin initial structural fabrication and shop work on the developing carrier through March 2018. "This award authorizes us to begin fabrication of structural components, sub-components, sub-units and pre-assemblies in our manufacturing shops to support the 2018 construction of Enterprise," HII Newport News Shipbuilding vice president Mike Shawcross said ...
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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs crea...

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Amnesty International accuses Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte of putting killers on police payroll.

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Rodrigo Duterte will fix his murderous war on drugs by having soldiers do the killing instead of police

Steve Mollman,Quartz 16 hours ago 
Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte does not take kindly to being embarrassed—which he was after it came to light this month that members of his anti-drug police brutally murdered a South Korean businessman last October and tried to extort money from his wife. Duterte had to apologize on Jan. 26 for their behavior in public, and even send a representative to Seoul to do the same in person. Worse, the incident forced Duterte to admit that many of the police officers tasked with hunting down drug suspects were corrupt. Compounding matters, shortly thereafter Amnesty International reported that his war on drugs, which has claimed some 7,000 lives in seven months, had created “an economy of murder,” with police and vigilantes paid per dead body. ...
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