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„ @SchererSteve was a foreign correspondent for @Bloomberg (@business) and @Reuters [1] for 26 years, based mostly in Rome. He hails from Muncie, Indiana.”
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„ @IsraeliPM Benjamin @netanyahu and his son Yair joined leaders of Europeʼs far-right parties at a Conservative Political Action Committee event in Hungary on Sat.,
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„In Nov., officers from the same unit were documented, fatally shooting two Palestinians in the West Bank city of Jenin after they had surrendered.
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Footage showed the two exiting a house in the Jabal Abu Dhiya neighborhood with their hands raised. After the officers detained them and ordered them to lie on the ground at the entrance to the building, they shot them at close range [1].
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The following day, far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced he would promote the unit's commander. Unlike the current case, in that November incident, the officers were summoned for questioning on the same day of the shooting.”
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„Ali Larijani, Iran’s top security official, strolled confidently in dark sunglasses and a black coat Friday through a rally of regime loyalists in central Tehran. It was his first public appearance in a war in which he was a known target.
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– »Brave people. Brave officials. Brave leaders. This combination cannot be defeated« – he wrote later on X.
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Four days later, he was dead. Early Tuesday morning, Israel’s intelligence services found Larijani gathered with other officials at a hideout on the outskirts of Tehran and killed him with a missile strike.
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„The strikes underscore the Pentagon’s growing reliance on land-based missiles in its war plans, and the arrival of newer versions of the weapons fired from mobile Himars truck launchers that can shoot and move, making them less vulnerable in an era of drone warfare.
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In a conflict largely described as an air war, the land-based systems provide another dimension to the U.S. attack on Iran.
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It reflects a larger shift by the U.S. military in recent years away from the kind of weaponry needed to fight a counterinsurgency, like the ones the U.S. fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, to rearming for conventional wars against major powers, like China.”
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„Disgusting” and „sick human being” in Orange Makeup, @POTUS @realDonaldTrump, rejoices over the death of former @FBI director Robert Mueller „who led Trump-Russia investigation”
@shelbyholliday @Shayan86 1).
„One of the missiles was shot down by a US warship, while the other failed in flight, according to the @WSJ, citing multiple officials.
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If the salvo had reached its target it would have been the longest-range Iranian strike yet. Before the war, according to the US Congressional Research Service, Washington was aware of Iranian missiles that could reach 3,000km [1].”
@shelbyholliday @Shayan86 @WSJ 3).
„The U.S. has described the Diego Garcia base as »an all but indispensable platform« for security operations in the Middle East, South Asia and East Africa.