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Newcastle United star Amar Dedic sparks police operation after being spotted with a bow and arrows | Football

Amar Dedic was stopped by police in Northumberland after being seen with a bow and arrows (Press Association) Newcastle United defender Amar Dedic sparked a major police operation after he was spotted carrying a bow and arrows near a reservoir in Northumberland. Dedic, who joined Newcastle in a £30 million deal from Benfica in the […]

Poland launches major border operation as activity in Russia fuels concern over possible “serious provocation”

Berlin — Poland launched a large-scale security operation this week along its border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, the country’s national police chief said, and the Polish prime minister said the effort may have prevented a sabotage or provocation operation targeting the NATO member. Additional police and counterterrorism units, as well as troops from […]

Israeli military to close West Bank crossings ahead of upcoming elections as massive operation underway

The Israeli military continued a massive operation in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, placing major restrictions on movement ahead of Israel’s upcoming elections. The operation, which comes in response to a gun attack that killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three others in Hebron on Friday, has displaced hundreds of Palestinians over the last […]

Engineers perform delicate operation on explosives-packed World War II shipwreck, but bombs remain in place

Sheerness, England — A delicate operation aimed at preventing an 82-year-old U.S. shipwreck packed with tons of World War II explosives from unleashing a potentially catastrophic tidal wave on London has been completed. But while the most imminent danger has been addressed, the explosives remain inside the rusting wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery on […]

Israel’s Netanyahu vows major military operation, cordons off West Bank city after deadly attack on troops

Tel Aviv — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that he had ordered a major military operation in the occupied West Bank and told troops to cordon off a large city in the territory after a shooting attack by two Palestinian men that left two soldiers dead. The Israeli military said forces killed the Palestinian […]

U.S. military declares end of anti-ISIS Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq

The U.S. military declared an end to its Iraq-based anti-ISIS operation Wednesday, saying all U.S.-led coalition forces and equipment had been withdrawn from a key base in the north of the country in line with an agreement reached previously with the Iraqi government. “The orderly departure of Coalition forces and equipment from Erbil Air Base […]

2 U.S. government workers accidentally shot by soldiers during anti-smuggling operation in Eswatini

Soldiers in the African nation of Eswatini accidentally shot two U.S. government personnel last week, the country’s government said. The U.S. personnel were shot during an anti-smuggling operation by the Eswatini army in a rural region in the northeast of the country late Friday, Eswatini’s government said in a statement late Monday. The Americans sustained […]

Military personnel told last month to stop calling Iran conflict “Operation Epic Fury”

Washington — An Air Force email from August, obtained by CBS News, shows the Pentagon was instructing personnel to stop referring to the ongoing U.S. military operations in Iran as “Operation Epic Fury” — three months after the Trump administration declared it had ended.  In response to questions from CBS News, the Pentagon said Wednesday that […]

Chinese ship caught with banned shark fins in Pacific Ocean in operation involving U.S. Coast Guard

Kiribati, a tiny Pacific neighbor to Hawaii that has grown ties with Beijing, detained a Chinese vessel this month for illegally harvesting shark fins, its maritime police told AFP. The practice of cutting fins off live sharks and throwing the carcasses back into the sea is banned in much of the Pacific Ocean, but persists […]

Suspected Irish crime boss with operation that reached U.S. extradited from Dubai

The alleged leader of an Irish organized crime gang has been extradited to Ireland from Dubai to face charges that he ran an international drug smuggling and money laundering empire with tentacles that stretched to Britain, Spain and the U.S. Air Tracker data showed an Irish Air Corps plane from Dubai landing Sunday evening at […]