CORAL GABLES, FL - JANUARY 4: Duke forward Wendell Moore Jr. (0) defends in the first half as the University of Miami Hurricanes faced the Duke University Blue Devils on January 4, 2019, at the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Florida. | Photo by Samuel Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
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Margaret C.“Marge” Carlson, age 93 of DuBois, PA died Sunday, January 5, 2020, at Penn Highlands DuBois Hospital. Born on April 1, 1926, in New Kensington, PA, she was the daughter of the late Michael and Anna (Stefura) Duffalo. On August 23, 1947, she married Russell R. Carlson. He preceded her in death on February […]
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A survey on the interconnector has confirmed that it was a ship’s anchor that caused the damage, Enemalta said on Monday. It said footage obtained by survey vessel Polar King provides reasonable evidence that the cable was ruptured by an anchor, with evidence showing how the anchor was dragged, eventually dislodging the cable from the trench on the seabed and subsequently ripping it. The Polar King arrived on a site 16 nautical miles off Ragusa on Sunday to assess the damage caused to the undersea power cable between Sicily and Malta. Читать дальше...
Adam Mount
Security, Asia
The holidays have passed without major weapons tests from North Korea, but we’re hardly out of the woods yet. If anything, the risks have increased relative to a month ago.
The holidays have passed without major weapons tests from North Korea, but we’re hardly out of the woods yet. If anything, the risks have increased relative to a month ago.
In April, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told his national Assembly, “we will be patient and wait... Читать дальше...
James Holmes
Security, Middle East
And would they be crazy enough to try?
Key Point: The Persian Gulf could be the flashpoint between Iran and the United States.
Would Iran close the Strait of Hormuz, could it, and would the United States reply by force of arms if Tehran made the attempt?
Maybe, maybe, and yes. There is precedent: it assailed merchant and naval shipping during the “Tanker War” of the 1980s. Then, it was attacking the export earnings of its archfoe Iraq. Читать дальше...
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Late last week, using what has apparently become an official channel of communication, President Trump announced via his Twitter account that the U.S. military would target “52 Iranian sites…some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture” if Iran retaliated for the killing of its top military man and spy, Major Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The selection of 52 sites would symbolize, he said, the “52 American hostages taken by Iran many years... Читать дальше...
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani took to Twitter to respond to President Trump’s threat to attack 52 targets in Iran. On 5 January, US President Donald Trump warned Iran against retaliating for the killing of its top military commander Soleimani, saying that otherwise Washington would strike 52 sites in the Islamic Republic “very fast and very […]
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