The past week has been incredibly challenging for airlines in the Middle East, after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, only for Iran to respond by firing missiles just about anywhere it could, including (in theory) “friendly”…
Category: 4. World
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Israeli special force mission in Lebanon fails to find navigator missing for 40 years
BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli special force that landed in eastern Lebanon overnight in search of information about a navigator who has been missing for nearly 40 years did not find his remains, the Israeli…
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US and Gulf need Ukraine’s interceptor drones, but Kyiv banned weapons exports after Russia invasion
As the war in the Middle East strains U.S. missile stocks, Ukraine is hoping it can turn a wartime innovation — low-cost interceptors designed to shoot down Russian attack drones — into geopolitical leverage.
Now one of the world’s…
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India letting Iran warship dock after US sank another off Sri Lanka, officials say
NEW DELHI — India has allowed an Iranian warship to dock as a humanitarian gesture, Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Saturday, after the US sank another Iranian navy vessel off neighboring Sri Lanka.
The Lavan docked at…
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Russian strikes kill nine people across Ukraine
Zelensky called on foreign partners to respond to the brutal strikes on Ukraine, from which the international community’s attention has been diverted by the war in Iran.
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WW2 Museum Ships Find New Relevance After US Sub Sinks Iranian Warship
For Brian Auer, the operations manager at Historic Ships in Baltimore, the video of a US Navy submarine sinking an Iranian warship this week looked strikingly familiar.
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Dozens killed in commando raid, Lebanon says, as Israel hunts for long-missing airman
Lebanese authorities say dozens of people were killed when Israeli commandos raided a border region hunting for the remains of a long-missing airman.
Late Friday night, four Israeli…
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Russia returns to the Venice Biennale amid fierce criticism
The Venice Biennale’s decision to allow Russia to take part in its prestigious international art exhibition for the first time since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has been widely denounced as an attempt to rehabilitate the aggressor state through art.
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