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A spokesman for Japan's Self-Defense Forces said that one of the airmen had been rescued but the immediate fate of the remaining crew members was unclear. The Marine Corps said in a short statement that the incident occurred at 2 a.m. local time in Japan on Thursday (1700 GMT Wednesday). The aircraft - a KC-130 and an F/A-18 Hornet - had launched from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in southern Japan.

Comey is expected to be questioned about decisions made by the FBI in 2016, including a call not to recommend criminal charges against Democrat Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server and the FBI's investigation into potential coordination between Russian Federation and Republican Donald Trump's campaign.

There are no signs that heightened tensions between Ukraine and Russian Federation pose an increased threat to Poland, the defence minister in Warsaw said last week. Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko said on the occasion of Europe Day on May 21, 2016 that Ukraine had a special mission to protect its Western neighbors from Russia's aggression, barbarism and militarism.

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday that Russian Federation tried to meddle in the US midterm elections last month - just as it did in the 2016 vote that brought President Donald Trump to power. US prosecutors in October charged a Russian national with playing a financial role in a Kremlin-backed plan to conduct "information warfare" against the United States, including attempts to influence the midterm election.

New Jersey Democrat Bob Menendez said he was "more convinced" than he was before that the US needed to reconsider its close ties to Saudi Arabia in the wake of the Central Intelligence Agency briefing, while South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham told reporters that "it's not a smoking gun, it's a smoking saw", in reference to Khashoggi's alleged dismemberment using such a tool.

According to Conricus, the tunnels were part of a Hezbollah plan from 2012 to "shift the battlefield to Israel " and "conquer the Galilee" in a future conflict by infiltrating its territory. The Lebanese Armed Forces went on high alert in southern Lebanon after the announcement, a security official told al-Nahar. Since their last fought war in 2006, Hezbollah has strengthened its military capabilities significantly with an estimated arsenal of some 100,000 and 120,000 short-and ...

Speaker John Bercow gave the green light to a debate and vote on the motion of contempt after a demand from the six opposition parties. The vote also orders the immediate publication of the "final and full" legal advice on the Brexit deal.

The language of the United Nations resolution "calls on" rather than "forbids" Iran from testing its missiles, according to Trita Parsi, the president of the National Iranian American Council . On Tuesday, the head of Iran's atomic energy organisation warned the European Union that Tehran's patience was running out on the bloc's pledge to keep up oil trading despite USA sanctions.

The violence has caused deep concern in the French business community which claims it has already lost billions of euros and is set to attend a meeting at the Economy ministry on Monday. 412 people were arrested, with 378 of them still in custody at the time of writing. Clashes between police and demonstrators wearing the high-visibility yellow vests broke out soon after crowds began gathering near the Arc de Triomphe on Dec 1, 2018.

George Conway , husband of White House adviser Kellyanne Conway , soon suggested that Trump's tweet might be considered witness tampering. Eisen cited that under the statute it is illegal to "cause or induce any person to withhold testimony".

During the campaign, while publicly espousing a conciliatory relationship with Putin, Trump was repeatedly dismissive of claims that he had connections to the Kremlin, an issue that flared as especially sensitive in the summer of 2016 after the Democratic National Committee and a cybersecurity company asserted that Moscow was behind a punishing cyberattack on the party's network.