TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s army test fired a sophisticated short-range missile on Sunday, state media reported. The report by the official IRNA news agency quoted the chief of the army’s ground forces, Gen. Kioumars Heidari, as saying that the missile’s range was 300 kilometers, or 186 miles. Gen. Heidari said the “smart” missile is …
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BEIRUT (AP) — Israel fired several missiles early on Monday targeting areas near the Syrian capital, Damascus, Syria’s state news agency reported. An opposition war-monitoring group said the strikes killed six Iran-backed fighters. The SANA news agency claimed that Syrian air defenses shot down most of the missiles, which it said were fired from Syria’s …
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A former South Korean coast guard chief was cleared of negligence Monday over bungled rescue operations for one of the country’s deadliest maritime disasters, when more than 300 people were killed, most of them schoolchildren. The Sewol ferry capsized off the south coast in April 2014, and many of the students — who were on …
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The tourists at Disney World are too preoccupied with the majestic Cinderella Castle ahead and the marching band playing “Let It Go” to notice the words in the second-floor window above the candy store. “General Joe’s Building Permits, Licensed In Florida since ’66,” it says over the fake business on the Magic …
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden spent his third week in office visiting the Pentagon, touring the National Institutes of Health and working on the administration’s COVID-19 response. He capped it off by beating one of his granddaughters at Mario Kart during his first presidential visit to Camp David, the historic retreat for U.S. leaders. That’s …
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