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Virtual reality helps Israeli soldiers enter new world

An Israeli soldier carefully eyes the narrow, damp tunnel carved from surrounding rock through a tightly strapped black headset.He is not in one of the attack tunnels built by Lebanon's Hezbollah under the border with Israel, but one of a new generation of soldiers using virtual and augmented reality to train.In a small computer-lined room, T., a 20-year-old member of Yahalom, or Diamond -- the special operations unit of the army's combat engineering corps -- simulates an advance along the narrow passage.
View of a burnt area after a fire in the Amazon rainforest near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, on August 25, 2019

New fires rage in Amazon as Brazil military planes battle flames

Hundreds of new fires have flared up in the Amazon in Brazil, data showed Monday, even as military aircraft dumped water over hard-hit areas and G7 nations pledged to help combat the blazes.Smoke choked Porto Velho city and forced the closure of the airport for nearly two hours as fires raged in the northwestern state of Rondonia where fire-fighting efforts are concentrated, amid a growing global uproar and a diplomatic spat between France and Brazil.

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