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Iran has tried three times this year to put a satellite in space, but each time something has gone terribly wrong with the rocket.
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A small Israeli ultranationalist party has agreed to drop out of upcoming national elections to support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party. Netanyahu said at a press conference Thursday that he agreed to give a ministerial post in …
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An Ohio man has been charged with threatening a Jewish community center in a video police say shows him shooting a rifle, federal authorities announced Thursday. Police in New Middletown in northeastern Ohio arrested 20-year-old James Reardon on Aug. …
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Pakistanis have been urged to come onto the streets at noon Friday amid blaring sirens and renditions of the national anthem, as Imran Khan called for a mass display of solidarity with Kashmir. Sirens and the national anthem will be sounded at midday to summon people out of their homes and workplaces to mark what will become a weekly “Kashmir hour”, the military’s information wing has said. The mass demonstrations are being staged protest against Delhi’s abolition of autonomy for Indian-administered Kashmir. Indian forces have imposed a strict curfew and communications blackout to try to snuff out protest in the territory. The former cricketer said: “We must send a strong message to Kashmiris that our nation stands resolutely behind them. So I am asking all Pakistanis for half an hour tomorrow stop whatever you are doing and come out on the road to show solidarity with the Kashmiri people.” Srinagar in India-administered Kashmir remains tense after more than three weeks of lockdown Credit: AP The mass mobilisation is part of Pakistan’s attempt to highlight events in Kashmir as it tries to court international opinion to intervene. Mr Khan has said he will speak before the United Nations general assembly next month to press the issue. Pakistan’s denunciations of India have so far met a muted response, with some countries Islamabad had counted as allies declaring India’s move is an internal matter. India’s trading might, and Pakistan’s long-standing diplomatic isolation for its sponsorship of militants have made it difficult for Islamabad to gain traction, diplomats say. Tensions between Islamabad and Delhi have been high since February air strikes by Delhi after Narendra Modi’s government sought revenge for a suicide bombing claimed by Pakistan-based militants. They rose further after the August 5 decision to revoke Kashmir’s self rule. Kashmir has been divided between the two countries since independence, and has been the spark for two major wars and countless clashes between the arch-rivals. Mr Khan’s calls for protests came as the Pakistani military announced earlier Thursday the testing of a surface-to-surface ballistic missile, with the army’s spokesman saying the weapon was “capable of delivering multiple types of warheads”.
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The Israeli army on Thursday accused Iran of collaborating with Lebanon’s Hezbollah to assemble precision-guided missiles that could cause “massive” human casualties in Israel. Tehran and the Shiite movement plan to convert “stupid rockets into precis…
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Israel has positioned dummy decoys dressed as soldiers on the border with Lebanon, according to local reports, as the country prepares for strikes by Hizbollah. Israel and Hizbollah, which last fought a war in 2006, are on high alert after Israel carried out a series of attacks on the group in Lebanon and neighbouring Syria and Hizbollah promised a retaliation. Lebanese journalist Ali Shueib, who works for Hizbollah’s al-Manar TV station, tweeted photos of off-road army vehicles with what appeared to be a mannequin in the front seat. “Stop the jokes,” he tweeted, saying that using these dummies only reveals “‘stupidity and foolishness’ because you have not learned that you are facing men that have the intelligence, professionalism, courage, and faith to defeat.” خلصنا المزح بموضوع الجيب ✋ هذه الفضيحة كفيلة بإسقاط رؤوس كبيرة في جيشكم !! لأنها تدل عن “غباء وحمق” لأنكم لم تتعلموا بعد انكم بمواجة رجال لديهم من الحكمة والحرفية والشجاعة والإيمان مايكفي لهزيمتكم !!انضبوا وضبوا تماثيلكم .. هالحركات حتى الأطفال بلعبة الغميضة ما بيعملوها ✋ pic.twitter.com/0FqVHC0hF9— علي شعيب ���� (@ali_shoeib1) August 29, 2019 Or Heller, an Israeli military correspondent for Channel 10 News, posted a close-up of the dummy taken from the other side of the vehicle, suggesting that Israel had placed it there in anticipation of a Hizbollah assault. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has been known to use mannequins, placing them in bunkers or sniper’s nests in an effort to trick its enemies into thinking they are manned by soldiers and leading them to reveal their position. Hizbollah, which is backed by Iran, have been warning they intend to carry out “calculated strike” against Israel in the coming days, in revenge for an Israeli strike in Syria which killed two Hizbollah fighters and a drone attack which is reported to have targeted precision-missile technology over the weekend. וכך ניראות הבובות בקו, בתמונה שחבר צפוני צילם. ברקע: ההבנה בצהל שנארסראללה סינדל את עצמו לתגובה על תקיפת הרחפנים בדאחייה. בדפוסי הפעולה האפשריים שלו: מטען, ירי צליפה, או ירי טילים נגד טנקים. pic.twitter.com/0jJ3QGc2iB— Or Heller אור הלר (@OrHeller) August 29, 2019 Sources close to the Shia movement had indicated to the Telegraph that the group would look to attack Israeli troops along the border and send drones into the country in a “like-for-like” retaliation for the drone attack. Israel is fighting a shadow war with arch-foe Iran, targeting its proxies in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq and attempting to disturb the flow of weapons. On its Twitter account on Thursday, the IDF went public with what it said were details about an extensive Iranian-sponsored project to provide Hizbollah with the means to produce precision-guided missiles. It released the names of four Iranian Quds Forces officers it alleged to be training Hizbollah members in Lebanon. Members of Lebanon’s Shia Hizbollah movement carry the coffin of a fighter killed in Israeli strikes in Syria, during the funeral in the Ghobeiry neighbourhood of southern Beirut Credit: AFP Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus, an Israeli military spokesman, said Tehran had in recent months increased the pace of the project such that it was “faster in terms of buildings, facilities, locations, conversion and manufacturing facilities, and it means more people, operatives involved in doing so”. “It is time for them (the Lebanese government) to understand their responsibility and understand the fact that what they are letting Hizbollah and Iran do on Lebanese soil is their responsibility,” Lt Col. Conricus said. Israel has said that it holds the Lebanese state responsible for Hizbollah’s actions since the movement now has MPs in parliament. Lebanon on Wednesday opened fire on Israeli drones operating inside Lebanese airspace, after warning its neighbour it would defend its sovereignty.
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The U.N. Security Council is strongly supporting a negotiated political solution in war-torn Yemen that addresses legitimate concerns of all Yemenis, including those in the south, which recently saw a violent attempt to take over government institution…
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A Hong Kong firm was sanctioned this week by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for its alleged role in the illegal transshipment of “tens of millions of dollars’ worth” of U.S.-origin technology and electronic components…
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An Iranian space rocket appears to have exploded on the launch pad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center. It would be the third such failure this year.
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Denmark has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. President Donald Trump’s unexpected interest in buying Greenland and his subsequent postponement of a planned State Department visit to Copenhagen rankled Danish feathers and left many on b…
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Tunisian women can seek abortions, file for divorce and enjoy other rights unheard of in some parts of the Arab world — and two presidential candidates say it’s time to put a woman in charge of the country. Selma Elloumi Rekik and Abir Moussi want to …
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