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MARYLAND, United States (Reuters) — The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Wednesday (June 21) is expected to detail its plans to study and promote a celestial show that will darken skies from Oregon to South Carolina. During the August 21 eclipse, the moon will pass between the sun and Earth, blocking the face of the sun and leaving only its outer atmosphere, or corona, visible in the sky. It is the first coast-to-coast total eclipse […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korea’s military conducted a joint drill with two United States supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers on Tuesday (June 20) as part of a scheduled exercise. At an earlier briefing, a South Korean air force official told reporters the drill will also involve two South Korean F-15K fighter jets. Photos released by the US Department of Defense on Tuesday shows B-1B lancers flying a 10-hour mission from Andersen Air Force Base, […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — A United States warplane shot down an Iranian-made drone operated by pro-regime forces in Syria early Tuesday, officials said, prompting growing international concern over rising tensions between the two sides. Russia, a key ally of the Syrian regime, accused the US-led coalition of “complicity with terrorism” after the drone was downed in southern Syria. It comes days after a US warplane shot down a Syrian government fighter jet in the north […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) – South Korea’s military plans to conduct a joint drill with two U.S. supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers on Tuesday (June 20) as part of a scheduled exercise, an air force official told reporters. The official told reporters during a briefing the drill will also involve two South Korean F-15K fighter jets without elaborating on the nature of the drill or when it will be carried out. Tensions on the Korean peninsula […]
WASHINGTON DC, United States (Reuters) – U. S. President Donald Trump met with chief executives of technology companies including Apple and Amazon.com on Monday (June 19) as the White House looks to the private sector for help in cutting government waste and improving information technology services. Major U.S. technology company chief executives sat down with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and other top Trump administration officials on Monday before meeting with the president The […]
by Sara Hussein with Maria Antonova in Moscow Agence France Presse BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Russia on Monday warned it would track US-led coalition aircraft in Syria as potential “targets” and halted a military hotline with Washington after US forces downed a Syrian jet. The United States moved quickly to contain an escalation, with a top general saying it would work to relaunch the “deconfliction” hotline established in 2015. The downing of the jet and […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Otto Warmbier, the US student released by North Korea in a coma last week after more than a year in detention, has died, his family said Monday. The 22-year-old, who had suffered severe brain damage, was medically evacuated to the United States on June 13. He died Monday at 2:20 pm (1820 GMT), surrounded by relatives in his home town of Cincinnati, Ohio. “It is our sad duty to report […]
RAQQA, Syria (CCTV) — The Syrian government has blamed the U.S.-led coalition for bringing down a Syrian Su-22 warplane from over the country’s northern city of Raqqa on Sunday. The pilot is reported as missing, according to the Syrian state news agency. The Syrian government forces have blamed the downing of its warplane as overt infringement upon the country’s sovereignty. The downed warplane was on a combat mission against the Islamic State (IS) group. The general […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — The United States-led coalition battling the Islamic State group said Friday it could not confirm the death of the jihadists’ leader following reports by the Russian army that he might have been killed. “We cannot confirm these reports at this time,” said US Army Colonel Ryan S. Dillon, spokesman for the coalition’s Operation Inherent Resolve in Syria and Iraq. The Russian army said earlier that it hit IS leaders in an air […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Flamboyant basketball star Dennis Rodman says his mission to Pyongyang is an attempt to “open doors” with the isolated country, as the United States focuses on the release from North Korean custody of a comatose student. In a video filmed in Beijing before an unresponsive Otto Warmbier was evacuated to the US suffering from brain damage, the eccentric ex-Chicago Bull said he wanted to build bridges with the Stalinist state. “The […]
TENNESSEE, United States (Reuters) – Two inmates accused of shooting to death a pair of armed guards during an escape from a prison bus in Georgia were captured on Thursday (June 15) in Tennessee, Georgia officials said. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed the capture of Donnie Rowe, 43, and Ricky Dubose, 24, in a statement on Twitter but provided no further information. The inmates were caught following a car chase in Tennessee, one state […]
(REUTERS) – President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday (June 15) slammed United States Vice President Mike Pence for saying Venezuela was an example of what happens when democracy is undermined, calling the comments “nauseating.” Already suffering a severe economic crisis, Venezuela, a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, has recently been convulsed by clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters. “Today the Vice President of the United States (Mike Pence) made some absolutely despicable, vomit-inducing statements. […]
