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@Reuters National Security Correspondent covering the Pentagon. idrees.ali @thomsonreuters .com

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A girl skips across the tarmac as people evacuated from Kabul arrive at Melsbroek military airport in Belgium, August 25, 2021. REUTERS/Johanna Geron
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy poses after an interview with Reuters in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
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Alexandra, 12, holds her sister Esyea, 6, who cries as she waves at her mother Irina, while members of the Jewish community of Odessa board a bus to flee Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Odessa, Ukraine, March 7, 2022. REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis
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PRAGUE, April 19 (Reuters) - Czech defence companies will repair Ukrainian tanks and other military vehicles that have been damaged in fighting or need servicing after long-term storage, the Czech Defence Ministry said on Tuesday.
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A dog waits in front of an operating room while medical team performs surgery on a Ukrainian soldier in a hospital, amid Russia's invasion, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, April 19, 2022. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
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U.S. President Joe Biden holds hands with Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as they watch the full U.S. Senate vote on Jackson's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, from the Roosevelt Room at the White House, U.S., April 7, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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U.S. now believes the Russian warship Moskva that sunk was hit by two Ukrainian Neptune missiles, a senior U.S. official says.
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An Iraqi woman dressed as Santa rides her bicycle in the old city of Mosul, Iraq, December 18, 2020.  📷 Abdullah Rashid
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PARIS, Dec 7 (Reuters) - One of the suspected killers of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was arrested at the Roissy airport near Paris on Tuesday as he was about to board a flight to Riyadh, French RTL radio reported.
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LVIV, Ukraine, March 8 (Reuters) - Ukrainian state arms manufacturer Ukroboronprom said on Tuesday it would pay $1 million to anyone who captured a combat-ready Russian military aircraft - an offer it said was open to Russian pilots wanting to switch sides.
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Nearly a half dozen U.S. officials (across the administration) tell Reuters that there is increasing frustration and even anger with the way Biden has handled the evacuation from Kabul, saying his White House wasted too much time in the months leading up to last week.
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Servicemen of the Ukrainian National Guard take positions in central Kyiv, Ukraine February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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BERLIN, April 4 (Reuters) - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, long an advocate of Western rapprochement with Russia, expressed regret for his earlier stance, saying his years of support for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline had been a clear mistake.
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As tensions between Iran and the United States increase in the Middle East, the Pentagon briefing room is being used to host Gene Simmons of Kiss.
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LONDON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The United States and Britain would cut off Russian companies' access to U.S. dollars and British pounds if the Kremlin orders an invasion of Ukraine, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday.
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Ukraine’s ambassador to U.S. says Russia used a vacuum bomb on Monday - Reuters
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Pentagon says it is preparing to make the Pfizer vaccine mandatory for troops now that the FDA has approved it.
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Four Russian fighter jets violated Swedish airspace on Wednesday- Reuters, citing Swedish armed forces
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Activists dressed in Handmaid's Tale costumes rally in front of the Supreme Court to oppose the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 22, 2020. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
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About a dozen buses carrying Ukrainian Azovstal servicemen leave plant - Reuters witness
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Quite an amazing tweet from @marcorubio . Everyone in the delegation was given a shield and face mask prior to arriving, including the press, since the Philippines, which is facing a surge in covid cases, requires both to be worn.
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Our @SecDef is vaccinated But he arrives in the Philippines wearing a mask AND a face shield Embarrassing COVID theatre
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A woman takes part in a rally to support jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Omsk, Russia, January 23, 2021. 📷 Alexey Malgavko
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The most DC celebration. A NATO flag draped around a Biden supporter in front of the White House.
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EU sanctions 5 members of Russian duma elected to represent annexed Crimea - Reuters
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Russian troops have attacked a Ukrainian army base in Kyiv, the attack was repelled - Reuters, citing Ukrainian military
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COPENHAGEN, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Shipping group Maersk is considering suspending all container bookings in and out of Russia in preparation for sanctions and restrictions imposed against the country.
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There is it: The Pentagon orders all active duty troops to be vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine.
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The United States believes Ukraine has taken out more than 100 "high value" Russian targets like command pots and ammunition depots, a senior U.S. defense official says.
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The U.S. Air Force has successfully conducted a hypersonic test.
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I’m not sure who Trump is referring to, but I’m travelling with Defense Secretary Esper and cant recall the quote Trump is using. While speaking with us Enroute to Afghanistan, Esper also made no mention of new areas being resettled with Kurds or oil.
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U.S. satellite image company Maxar says new images show military convoy seen north of Kyiv is considerably longer than 17 miles initially reported and approximately 40 miles.
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The new weapons package, according to the Pentagon, includes 11-Mi 17 aircraft that had been earmarked for Afghanistan before the U.S.-backed government collapsed and 18 155mm Howitzers, along with counter-artillery radars and 200 armored personnel carriers.
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U.S. officials tell Reuters that the current intelligence indicates that the Taliban control at least 2,000 U.S.-made armored vehicles, between 30 and 40 aircraft and an untold number of small arms.
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EXCLUSIVE: US Joint Chiefs of Staff tells military there will be no modification to transgender policy until direction received from Pres
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WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) - Seventy-three percent of Americans support U.S. efforts to supply Ukraine with weapons, the highest level of support since Russia invaded its neighbor in February, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Tuesday.
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An asylum-seeking migrant man from Venezuela carries an elderly woman as they cross the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico in Del Rio, Texas, May 26, 2021. REUTERS/Go Nakamura
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March 28 (Reuters) - Russian soldiers who seized the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster drove their armoured vehicles without radiation protection through a highly toxic zone called the "Red Forest", kicking up clouds of radioactive dust, workers at the site said.
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U.S. defense official says Russian advance towards Kyiv going slower than Russia anticipated and advance towards Kharkiv still contested.
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ROME, March 4 (Reuters) - Italian police have seized a yacht owned by Alexey Mordashov, the richest man in Russia before being blacklisted this week by the European Union following Moscow's attack on Ukraine, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.
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The Pentagon announces $300 million in new security assistance to Ukraine. The package includes:
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Anti-war protesters raise their "bloody" hands behind U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a Senate hearing on President Biden's national security funding request to support Israel and Ukraine, Washington, U.S., October 31, 2023.REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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Ukraine military says Ukrainian air defense shot down a russian plane in eastern Ukraine - Reuters
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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is in custody on espionage charges, makes a heart-shaped gesture behind a glass wall of an enclosure for defendants as he attends a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
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The SIV applicants have gone through security vetting many times over what a usual visa holder would require and used to hold some of the highest level security clearances when they worked with the U.S. military....
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Touring the Dona Ana camp at Fort Bliss this morning, where Biden admin plans to house 10,000 Afghan refugees. We should rescue Afghans who’ve assisted the US military, but they should go to a neutral & safe third country. They should NOT come to US w/o a FULL security vetting.
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U.S. has indications that some Russian units have surrendered without a fight, U.S. official says.
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Feb 25 (Reuters) - Russian troops have stopped near the northeast city of Konotop after suffering heavy losses during a fight, Ukraine's land forces said.
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A member of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team carries a dog, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in the village of Yahidne, near to Chernihiv, Ukraine, April 6, 2022. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
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Officials say the military for weeks had been telling the White House that they were ready to do more, in terms of basing and flights from evacuating Afghans, but a decision didn't come until it was too late.
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“(A) doctor who attended was taken aback when she showed Biden prints of photos of malnourished children and women in Gaza—to which Biden responded that he had seen those images before.The problem…was that she had printed the photos from her own iPhone.”
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Latvia will deliver javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine on Tuesday - Latvian foreign ministry
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There are exactly four journalists at the Pentagon briefing on Afghanistan.
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"I'm so happy to be out of Washington D.C. right now I could cry," U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says during a speech at the Virginia Military Institute.
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Officials tell Reuters that an address from Biden today, well after the Taliban military advances began, is far too late. They added that some of the defenses given by the White House, including NSA Sullivan earlier today, are baffling.
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The United States will put one Patriot missile system, with U.S. troops, in Slovakia in the coming days after it agreed to donate its S-300 air defense system to Ukraine.
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Ukraine military says information about the landing of Russian troops in Odessa is false-Reuters
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy award service dog "Patron" during a news conference, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 8, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS
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Norway's defence ministry says it has donated an additional 2,000 m72 anti-tank weapons to Ukraine - Reuters.
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Senior U.S. defense official says assessment is that Russia has every intention of basically decapitating Ukrainian government.
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U.S. official says some Russian troops in Ukraine are running out of food now.
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Swiss president cassis tells television it "very probable" that Switzerland will follow European union on Monday in sanctioning Russia and freezing assets.
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There is growing frustration amongst U.S. officials about President Biden and the White House’s general silence on the situation in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, delegating any messaging to Pentagon and State Department.
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Sept 21 (Reuters) - One-way flights out of Russia were selling out fast on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin ordered the immediate call-up of 300,000 reservists.
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France is shutting its airspace to all Russian aircraft and airlines from this evening on, says French transport minister.
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Russian warship Moskva still believed to be dealing with fire and assumption is that it is heading to Sevastopol, a senior U.S. defense official says.
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President Donald Trump, asked about China's move on Hong Kong, says if it happens U.S. will have a strong reaction.
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BRUSSELS, March 21 (Reuters) - European Union governments will consider whether to impose an oil embargo on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine as they gather this week with U.S. President Joe Biden for a series of summits designed to harden the West's response to Moscow.
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A day after U.S. forces completed its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, an Afghan boy pumps up his arms as he and other refugees board a bus taking them to a processing center upon their arrival at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, U.S., September 1, 2021.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says it is in national security interest to stay in the Iran nuclear deal. Goes further than Dunford did last week.
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Abdullah Alzureiqi and his daughter Hala say a prayer at the fatal crime scene where a man driving a pickup truck jumped the curb and ran over a Muslim family in what police say was a deliberately targeted anti-Islamic hate crime, in London, Ontario, Canada. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
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Alisa, 38, a media relations specialist, poses with a gun for a picture at her home near Kyiv, Ukraine, February 19, 2022. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic
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BERLIN, Feb 20 (Reuters) - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen disclosed some details of the sanctions Moscow would face if it invaded Ukraine, saying Russia would be cut off from international financial markets and denied access to major export goods.
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U.S. assesses is that Russia will try to encircle Kyiv in the coming days, a senior U.S. official says.
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WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - A broad bipartisan majority of Americans think the United States should stop buying Russian oil and gas and work with NATO to set up "no-fly zones" to protect Ukraine from Russian air strikes, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Friday.
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The American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls are lit in the colours of the Ukrainian flag, following the Russian invasion in Ukraine, as seen from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada February 27, 2022. REUTERS/Nick Iwanyshyn
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The damage to the Patriot system was so limited that it has now been fixed, official says.
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U.S. officials say a Patriot defense system appears to have suffered some damage in Ukraine but it is not believed to be significant enough to even remove the system from Ukraine.
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"My adherence to Nord Stream 2 was clearly a mistake," he said. "We were sticking to a bridge in which Russia no longer believed and which other partners had warned us against."
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A senior U.S. defense official says 20 days into the invasion, Russia had made little to no progress in the last 24 horus and forces still about 15-20 km outside of Kyiv city center.
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The United States has carried out an airstrike against structure belonging to Iranian-backed militia in Syria, U.S. officials tell Reuters. W/ @phildstewart
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The two sources said soldiers in the convoy did not use any anti-radiation gear. The second Chernobyl employee said that was "suicidal" for the soldiers because the radioactive dust they inhaled was likely to cause internal radiation in their bodies.
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A girl sits between concrete barriers in Kabul, Afghanistan October 7, 2021. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
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Volodymyr, 61, and his son Yaroslav, 23, react as an evacuation train with their relatives, mother, wife and three children departs to Lviv at Kyiv central train station, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 11, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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Yesterday on an official trip with Deputy U.S. Defense Secretary Hicks, my phone was confiscated by a DoD official, locked up and I was stopped from using electronics because of a new policy that bars non-US reporters from using devices on govt planes. (Pic taken by US citizen)
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KYIV, April 18 (Reuters) - Russia's invasion has damaged or destroyed up to 30% of Ukraine's infrastructure at a cost of $100 billion, a Ukrainian minister said on Monday, adding reconstruction could be achieved in two years using frozen Russian assets to help finance it.
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Fedex and UPS says services in and out of Russia are suspended until further notice- Reuters
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IBM says it has suspended all business in Russia - Reuters
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JERUSALEM, Oct 24 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron proposed on Tuesday that an international coalition fighting against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria be widened to include the fight against the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza.
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U.S. believes Russia's main advance on Kyiv has had no appreciable movement in last 24 hours, U.S. official says.
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Unusually large columns of military vehicles and hardware are moving through Donetsk, largest city of self-proclaimed republic in eastern Ukraine - Reuters witness
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U.S believes Russia has committed more than 80 pct of its pre-staged combat power in Ukraine, U.S. official says.
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Pentagon announces $400 million in additional security assistance to Ukraine, including 45 refurbished T-72 tanks.
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The Pentagon says it cannot at this time corroborate reports of Russian missiles crossing into Poland.
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Suicide attack in #Pakistan killed 72. Car bomb in #Iraq kills 51. As far as I can tell, no major news network gave any airtime to either.
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Senior U.S. military official says three, not one, children have been born on military aircraft evacuation from Kabul.
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WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) - The Biden administration is willing to move ahead with a ban on Russian oil imports into the United States without the participation of allies in Europe, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Found out today that Kash Patel, acting defense secretary Miller's chief of staff, has used "Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense and the War Department" as his email sign off. Is it common in the Pentagon to use a War Department sign off?
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A Palestinian boy pulls a cart carrying his brother and their belongings as they flee their home during Israeli air and artillery strikes, near the site of a tower building destroyed in earlier strikes in Gaza City May 14, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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Official says less than half a dozen Russian warships in northern Black Sea have moved further away from the coast after the incident.
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The U.S. military says it is repositioning two Patriot batteries to Poland to proactively "counter any potential threat to U.S. and Allied forces and NATO territory." H/T @LucasFoxNews
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