Merchant mariners aren't surprised Iran is attacking commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
They saw a similar playbook during the Tanker War in the 1980's.
#Iran
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The US military says 4 of 6 crew members are confirmed dead after a KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in Western Iraq.
Central Command says the plane did not go down due to hostile or friendly fire
The aircraft was part of the joint US-Israeli bombing campaign of Iran
Thailand summons Iranian ambassador after unknown projectile hits Thai ship near the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday.
3 Thai crew members are still missing from the Thai-flagged bulk carrier “Mayuree Naree”
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The Isolation of the Islamic Republic: the joint US and Israeli surprise attack on Saturday revealed how few friends were willing to stand beside Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
#Iran
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“The Americans have stabbed the Iranian people in the heart and we will stab them in their heart,”
--Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran on state media
“They must know they cannot just hit and run”
#Iran
A former US Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyer who was responsible for training new deportation officers warned that the agency's training program for new recruits is "deficient, defective and broken." https://cnn.it/4sbJyxe
Korean criminal court finds former president Yoon Suk Yeol & his defense minister guilty of insurrection.
Judge says dispatching armed soldiers to National Assembly by helicopter on Dec 3 2024 to make arrests amounts to acts of insurrection.
Yoon gets life in prison
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On the Pakistani border with Afghanistan, the newest generation of Taliban militants is armed with guns that were made in the USA
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Team: Sophia Saifi and Javed Iqbal
Neil Young is giving the people of Greenland the gift of song — his songs, that is. https://cnn.it/45CMwBX
"Compared to conflicts involving major powers since World War II, Moscow’s losses are staggering"
Report estimates Russia suffered 1.2 million casualties since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly 4 years ago
#Ukraine️
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is now providing free internet access via its Starlink satellite service to users in Iran as the country’s regime continues its bloody crackdown on anti-government protests, according to a tech expert in touch with Iranian Starlink users. https://cnn.it/49lqINB
The Trump administration’s efforts to investigate Renee Good and others around her, and not the ICE officer who shot her in Minneapolis, is wreaking havoc on the US attorney’s office in Minnesota, which is leading the probe.
"The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President."
--Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell
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"Over the years as I traveled regularly between Cuba & Venezuela, it was hard to tell where one nation began & another ended," writes CNN Havana correspondent Patrick Oppmann
Maduro’s capture is a seismic reversal of fortune for Cuba’s communist-run government
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Hong Kong officials blame substandard construction netting that didn't meet fire safety standards for the blaze that killed at least 151 people in Tai Po last week.
The city's top official calls for an independent investigation & vows justice for the victims
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"Bodies were found in the building corridors, flats, staircases & even on rooftops"-Hong Kong police superintendent
Authorities so far searched 4 of 7 residential towers burned in last week's Tai Po fires. The inferno killed at least 146 people.
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As death toll continues to grow to at least 44 killed by Wednesday's horrific fire in Tai Po, the city's Chief Executive announces “inspections of all housing estates undergoing major repairs throughout Hong Kong to check the safety of scaffolding & building materials”
Three men have been arrested in connection with the deadly Hong Kong high-rise fire, police say. Hundreds of people remain missing.
https://cnn.it/3JXaL6r
Reporting from the scene of the deadly Tai Po fire in Hong Kong which has killed at least 13 people, including one fireman
Ghazala Hashmi will win Virginia lieutenant governor's race, becoming the nation's first Muslim woman elected to a statewide office, CNN projects. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/4qILgGn
Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill will win New Jersey governor's race over Jack Ciattarelli, CNN projects, succeeding term-limited Gov. Phil Murphy. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/3WBApQT
Zohran Mamdani will become New York City's next mayor, CNN projects, after a meteoric rise in Democratic politics. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/43gCYeJ
Democrat Jay Jones will become Virginia's next attorney general, overcoming the disclosure of his violent text messages, CNN projects. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/493LzVR
Democrats defend the liberal majority on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in a race with 2028 implications, CNN projects. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/3JESDxJ
Dick Cheney, the influential GOP vice president to George W. Bush and chief architect of the "war on terror," has died. He was 84.
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Happy Halloween from Hong Kong!
Is the Trump Administration's crackdown on immigration and the new $100,000 price tag on H1B visas killing the American Dream for Indian students?
Preliminary statistics show Indian student visa arrivals to the US plunged 45% this summer...
#India
