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Bev Priestman fired as Canada women's soccer coach after review of Olympic drone scandal
Canada women's coach Bev Priestman, suspended following a drone surveillance scandal at the Paris Olympics, was fired Tuesday following an independent review. Assistant coach Jasmine Mander and analyst Joseph Lombardi were also fired as Canada Soccer released findings of the...
Hezbollah's drones are a fierce and evasive threat to Israel
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — One of the worst mass casualty strikes on Israel in a year of war came not from dozens of Iranian ballistic missiles nor the repeated barrages of rocket fire launched by Hamas and Hezbollah. Instead, it was a single drone. The unmanned aerial vehicle, laden...
EU targets top Iran officials and airlines, accusing them of supplying drones and missiles to Russia
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on Iran’s deputy defense minister, senior members of its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and three airlines over allegations that they supplied drones, missiles and other equipment to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine. ...
Russian missiles and drones target Kyiv for 5 hours and hit Ukraine's power grid
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s air defenses battled an overnight Russian aerial attack on the capital Kyiv for five hours, officials said Thursday, as missiles and drones again hammered the Ukrainian power grid. The Kyiv attack injured at least two people, Ukraine’s Emergency...
Jeanine Tesori becomes first woman composer to open Met Opera season with reworked `Grounded'
NEW YORK (AP) — Jeanine Tesori watched the world premiere run of her “Grounded” with director Michael Mayer last fall at the Kennedy Center and noticed audience fidgeting. “It didn’t need a transplant of a liver, but what it needed was maybe just a different approach,”...
A woman is killed near Moscow after more than 140 Ukrainian drones target Russia, officials say
Over 140 Ukrainian drones targeted multiple Russian regions overnight, including Moscow and surrounding areas, killing at least one person and injuring eight, officials said Tuesday, in one of the biggest drone attacks on Russian soil in the 2 1/2-year war. A woman died in the town...
Yemen's Houthi rebels claim they shot down another US MQ-9 drone
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed early Sunday they shot down another American-made MQ-9 drone flying over the country, marking potentially the latest downing of the multimillion-dollar surveillance aircraft. The U.S. launched airstrikes over Houthi-controlled...
US military says drone strike in Syria kills a Saudi militant from an al-Qaida-linked group
IDLIB, Syria (AP) — A drone strike in northwestern Syria on Friday killed a Saudi militant from an al-Qaida-linked group as he was riding on a motorcycle, the U.S. military and a war monitor said. The strike in the Jabal al-Zawiya area of the opposition-held Idlib province was...
