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Syria Has Shut Down Its Airspace To All Turkish Aircraft

Syria banned Turkish passenger flights from its airspace from Sunday in a retaliatory move after Turkey confiscated a cargo of what Russia said was radar equipment en route from Moscow to Damascus...

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Iran Demands Mad Props For Getting That Drone Into Israel Last Week

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's defense minister says Hezbollah's launch of a drone into Israeli airspace earlier this week proves Iranian military capabilities. The Sunday statement by Gen. Ahmad Vahidi...

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LIVE: Felix Baumgartner Attempts To Break The Sound Barrier

Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner tries again today to become the first skydiver to break the speed of sound, despite earlier delays due to strong winds. You can watch the live feed at the Red Bull...

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Chuck Yeager Broke The Speed Of Sound In A Rocket Plane 65 Years Ago Today

Chuck Yeager became the first man to break the speed of the sound in a rocket plane on Oct. 14, 1947. Exactly 65 years later, Felix Baumgartner will try to become the first skydiver to break the speed...

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Here's Why Clusterbombs Are A Devastating Weapon For Syria

The Syrian regime stands accused once again of using controversial clusterbombs in its fight against rebel forces. Cluster bombs are not only effective at devastating troops across a patch of...

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US And Japan May Hold A Drill To Simulate Attacking An Island Seized By...

Japan and the United States are mulling a joint military drill to simulate retaking a remote island from foreign forces, reports said, amid a festering row between Tokyo and Beijing over disputed...

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Why Churchill Thought Attacking Italy Could Win Him World War II

David Reynolds, professor of international history at Cambridge and fêted documentary-maker, is making a habit of asking BBC Four viewers to think anew about the Second World War. His last film, World...

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Awesome Pictures Of Jets Breaking The Sound Barrier

Most people know the intrepid, and let's just say it totally ballsy, Chuck Yeager strapped himself into a plane with more engine than wings and successfully exceeded the speed of sound on October 14,...

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Conditions In Iran Are Becoming Increasingly Desperate

More worrisome signs are emerging of deteriorating economic conditions in Iran. Here are some of the latest news quotes: 1. Crude output is slowing. NYT: - Daily oil production in Iran, the most...

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Awesome GIF Of Felix Baumgartner Jumping From Space

Via @BuzzFeedSports: Read up on Felix Baumgartner > Please follow Science on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »

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Austrian Skydiver Felix Baumgartner Breaks The Speed Of Sound

Felix Baumgartner successfully jumped from 24 miles above Earth today. By doing this, the 43-year-old from Austria became the first person to break the speed of sound wearing only a high-pressure...

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When This Woman Was Killed In Combat It Exposed How The Government Really...

When the first of October rolled in a couple of weeks ago it reminded many of us that summer was really over. Forget Labor Day and September 21, the first day of fall; October is changing leaves,...

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REPORT: Iran Drew Up Plans To Cause A Vast Oil Spill In The Strait Of Hormuz

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards has floated the idea of creating a vast oil spill in the Strait of Hormuz to block the vital shipping lane, Erich Follath of Der Spiegel reports.  The "top secret"...

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The US Is Stuck Arming Hard-Line Jihadists In An Attempt To Topple The Syrian...

Most of the weapons being sent from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to Syrian rebels are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists as opposed to secular opposition groups that the West wants to strengthen, American...

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MIT: The US Really Should Be Freaking Out About Possible Cyber Attacks

Many called the world wide web a 'democratizing force' when it hit mainstream use in the late 80s and 90s, but it could be just the force to bring the US to its knees in the coming years. Many...

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Video Shows Crowd Going Nuts As Veteran Tackles Westboro Baptist Protester

The Westboro Baptists were up to no good Saturday at a funeral for Army Sgt. Donna Johnson in North Carolina when they attempted to stomp the American flag in front of a group of vets. In the amateur...

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Taliban Who Took Hit Out On 14 Year-Old Girl Now Targeting Media Over Coverage

The Pakistani Taliban have reacted to the torrent of negative media coverage after their attempt to assassinate a 14-year-old schoolgirl by threatening journalists. Several Pakistani and international...

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This New 'Mini-Flame' Virus Is Sweeping Through The Middle East

A new cyberespionage tool linked to the Flame virus has been infecting computers in Lebanon, Iran and elsewhere, security researchers said Monday. Kaspersky Lab, which was credited with revealing the...

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Danish Man Claims He Was A CIA Double Agent Inside Al-Qaeda

A Danish man claims that he helped the CIA track radical American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki until the al-Qaeda figure was killed in a U.S. drone strike in September 2011, Brian Ross of ABC News reports....

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One Of The Most Effective Weapons Against Iran Has Nothing To Do With Military

Would-be foreign policy experts haunting airport bars in odd corners of the U.S. used to ask me, as I sat uncomfortably in my green and red Marine Corps monkey suit, what it was the Coalition Forces...

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