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Apr 12 2024
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US moving 'assets' to region to deter Iran from retaliatory attack on Israel, avoid wider conflict, officials say
High-level U.S. officials are urgently trying to pressure Iran to back down from its threat to launch a retaliatory strike against Israel -- the latest challenge facing the Biden administration as it tries to avert an all-out regional war in the Middle East.
At the same time, the U.S. was moving troops and other assets to the Middle East as Iran readied a large number of missiles and
ABC News (Online)Apr 14 2024
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China Has Helped Russia Boost Arms Production, U.S. Says
China has helped Russia revive its military production at a critical stage in its Ukraine war, providing Moscow with optics, microelectronics, drone engines and other dual-use material that have significantly strengthened Moscow’s battlefield capabilities, senior Biden administration officials said Friday.
In the last quarter of 2023, China provided Russia with more than 70% of its
Wall Street Journal (News)Apr 11 2018
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Trump tells Russia to get ready for US missile strikes in Syria
US president’s incendiary tweet comes as Kremlin warns military action could heighten instability.
The GuardianSep 27 2022
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U.S. Coast Guard spots Chinese guided missile cruiser and Russian naval ships off Alaska
A U.S. Coast Guard ship on routine patrol in the Bering Sea came across a guided missile cruiser from China, officials said Monday.
But it turned out the cruiser wasn't alone as it sailed about 86 miles north of Alaska's Kiska Island, on Sept. 19.
Two other Chinese naval ships and four Russian naval vessels, including a destroyer, were spotted in single formation, the patrol boat
CBS News (Online)Apr 18 2024
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Photograph of aunt holding body of dead niece in Gaza wins World Press Photo award
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – A haunting image of a grieving Palestinian woman embracing her little niece, killed in an Israeli strike in war-torn Gaza, won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year Award Thursday. The picture taken by the Reuters news agency’s Mohammed Salem shows Inas Abu Maamar cradling the body of five-year-old Saly, who was killed with her mother and sister when a missile hit
The Times of IsraelApr 14 2024
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Iran Army Says Attack On Israel 'Achieved All Its Objectives'
The Iranian army said Sunday its drone and missile attack on Israel, in retaliation for a deadly strike on Iran's Damascus consulate, has "achieved all its objectives".
"Operation Honest Promise... was completed successfully from last night to this morning and achieved all its objectives", Mohammad Bagheri, the Iranian armed forces' chief of staff, told state TV.
Barron'sApr 18 2024
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Palestinian Woman With Dead Niece Image Wins World Press Photo Award
A haunting image of a grieving Palestinian woman embracing her little niece, killed in an Israeli strike in war-torn Gaza, won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year Award Thursday. The picture taken by Reuters news agency's Mohammed Salem shows Inas Abu Maamar cradling the body of five-year-old Saly, who was killed with her mother and sister when a missile hit their home in Khan Younis in
Barron'sApr 04 2024
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A Letter to the British PM from the Intelligentsia
The world is outraged and heartbroken following the tragic murder of World Central Kitchen humanitarians by IDF missiles in Gaza. The UK lost three of its noble citizens in that drone powered missile strike. Its citizens have lost entire family lines in this brutal killing field. It is against this backdrop that notable members of the British intelligentsia, including barristers, former High
Daily KosOct 27 2017
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JFK files reveal FBI warning on Oswald and Soviets' missile fears
The publication of nearly 3,000 previously classified files relating to the assassination of John F Kennedy in 1963 reveals that the FBI had warned Dallas police about a threat to kill Lee Harvey Oswald, and claims that Soviet officials feared an “irresponsible” US general could launch a missile strike in the wake of the crisis.
The GuardianApr 18 2024
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Lumbering M270 Launchers Just Lobbed Eight ATACMS Rockets With 8,000 Submunitions At A Russian Base In Crimea.
On March 12, the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden unexpectedly gifted to Ukraine a $300-million consignment of weapons—the last consignment paid for with funds the U.S. Congress approved before Republicans gained narrow control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2023. Five weeks later, the Ukrainian finally put the weapons to good use. The arms package reportedly
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