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Apr 30 2023
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Armed U.S. drones escort evacuation of American citizens in war-torn Sudan
Armed drones escorted hundreds of Americans as they began their escape from war-torn Sudan on Saturday amid fierce fighting between the military and a rival paramilitary group.
The unmmaned aerial vehicles flew above a convoy of buses as they made the 500 mile journey from the large African nation’s capital Khartoum to Port Sudan on the country's west coast, a U.S. official familiar
NBC News (Online)Apr 29 2023
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Large Fuel Tank Fire Burns in Crimea After Suspected Drone Attack
A fuel tank in the port city of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea was engulfed in a massive fire early Saturday, which a local Kremlin-appointed official said was likely caused by a drone strike. The city on the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014, is home to the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet and is important to its dominance in the sea. Preliminary information
New York Times (News)Apr 06 2024
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Israel launches strikes on eastern Lebanon, Lebanese security sources say
April 7 (Reuters) - Israel launched air strikes on the Bekaa Valley, in eastern Lebanon early on Sunday, two Lebanese security sources told Reuters, a few hours after the downing of an Israeli drone over Lebanon. The sources said that the Israeli attack targeted a training camp belonging to armed group Hezbollah in the Janta village, near the border with Syria. One of the strikes was aimed at
ReutersApr 05 2024
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Israel says its strike that killed aid workers was a mistake. Rights groups say it was no anomaly
CAIRO (AP) — Two basic mistakes, according to the Israeli military . First, an officer overlooked a message detailing the vehicles in the convoy. Second, a spotter saw something in one car – possibly a bag – that he thought was a weapon. Officials say the result was the series of Israeli drone strikes that killed on a dark Gaza road. The Israeli military has described the deadly strike on the
Associated PressApr 07 2024
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Chef José Andrés says Israel's 'unforgivable' strike on his aid workers must force 'real reckoning'
The Israeli drone strike that killed seven workers with chef José Andrés' aid group, World Central Kitchen, is something he will have "to live with" for the rest of his life, he said in an exclusive new interview with ABC News. "It is unforgivable," Andrés told "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz in a sit-down that aired on Sunday. "I will forever have to live with this." The celebrated
ABC News (Online)Apr 07 2024
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Suspect, woman dead after SWAT standoff at Marietta home, police say
During the investigation, police said they learned Reno was accused of taking about $38,000 in cash and handguns from his brothers residence in Paulding County. A SWAT team was activated Saturday after Reno refused to leave the Marietta home, according to authorities. As officers tried to reach Reno, police said a rifle could be seen from outside. At 10:15 p.m., police sent in drones to check
Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionJul 18 2023
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Russia Thwarts Ukrainian Drone Attack On Crimea A Day After Bridge Blast, Moscow Says
Russia on Tuesday stopped a Ukrainian drone attack on Crimea, Russia’s defense ministry claimed, a day after Moscow accused Kyiv of striking and damaging the key bridge connecting the annexed peninsula to the Russian mainland and vowed revenge for the attack. Eleven drones were intercepted electronically and 17 were destroyed by Russian air defenses, the ministry said. Moscow described the
ForbesApr 05 2024
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Taking flight: Pierpont aviation career fair set for April 11 in Harrison County
Apr. 5—FAIRMONT — No matter the age of the pilot or the scale of the machine, flying is flying. A budding group of pilots and aviation engineers from middle schools and high schools across West Virginia and Ohio gave loft to that notion a couple years back during a drone aircraft competition in Fairmont. They whooped and yelled as they sent the miniature, lighter-than-air machines through a
Yahoo NewsApr 06 2024
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As Russia tests for weak spots, Ukraine is banking on enemy mistakes
It generated little attention: another Russian assault in eastern Ukraine, across barren, pock-marked fields, met by determined, nimble resistance. In an attack that defied logic, a Russian armored column lumbered across open countryside near the village of Tonenke in Donetsk and was picked off by drones and anti-tank weapons. Geolocated videos indicate that the Russians lost about a dozen
CNN (Online News)Apr 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
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