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    <text>Australian Army veteran and Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith is granted bail with travel restrictions after his previous arrest for alleged war crimes while deployed to Afghanistan during the war. </text>
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      <text>U.S. Rep. Cory Mills introduces articles for impeachment against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, accusing him of ignoring key intelligence in the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan that saw the death of 13 soldiers and the surrender of Kabul to the Taliban. </text>
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