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Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter hit by Russian missile video. The Mil Mi-8 is a medium twin-turbine helicopter, originally designed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and introduced into the Soviet Air Force in 1968. It is now produced by Russia. In addition to its most common role as a transport helicopter, the Mi-8 is also used as an airborne command post, armed gunship, and reconnaissance platform. #ukrainewar #mi-8 #russiaukrainewar

A snowstorm paralyzes Munich airport. Chaos in Germany. Winter weather also disrupts train traffic. A spokesperson said 760 flights were affected. More than 40 centimetres (16in) of snow fell overnight on Friday into Saturday, according to weather services. Authorities asked residents to stay home for their safety. A football match between Bayern Munich and Union Berlin has been canceled. It would have been barely noticed in Canada. #munich #snowstorm

The Chavón River is a river located to the east of the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with Haiti, making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that is shared by two sovereign states. It is the second-largest nation in the Antilles by area at 48,671 square kilometers, and third-largest by population, with approximately 10.7 million people in 2022, of whom approximately 3.3 million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city. The native Taíno people had inhabited Hispaniola before the arrival of Europeans, dividing it into five chiefdoms. Christopher Columbus explored and claimed the island for Castile, landing there on his first voyage in 1492. #travel #dominicanrepublic #bayahibe

Magnitude 7.6 earthqake strikes Mindanao, Philippines. A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck Saturday off the southern Philippine coast. The quake struck at 10:37 p.m. at a depth of 32 kilometres (20 miles), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of major damage or casualties. #philippines #earthquake

Wild life in Iberostar Hacienda Dominicus resort, Dominican Republic. The Iberostar Hacienda Dominicus, an all-inclusive 5-star hotel just 1.4 km from Dominicus Beach and 2.3 km from Saona Island. #dominicanrepublic #iberostarresort

Raccoon made his home in my chair's cushion. The raccoon, also spelled racoon and sometimes called the common raccoon to distinguish it from other species, is a mammal native to North America. It is the largest of the procyonid family, having a body length of 40 to 70 cm, and a body weight of 5 to 26 kg. Its grayish coat mostly consists of dense underfur, which insulates it against cold weather. Like all raccoons, the North American raccoon is an intelligent and inquisitive animal. The hairless front feet are highly dexterous and resemble slender human hands, the hind feet being thicker and longer. Although classified as a carnivore, the raccoon is omnivorous, feeding on crayfish and other arthropods, rodents, frogs, and fruit and other plant matter, including crops. Raccoons are mistakenly believed to “wash” their food before eating it if water is available. This misconception arises from their habit of searching for food in or near water and then manipulating it while eating. Raccoons adapt extremely well to human presence, even in towns and cities, where they den in buildings and thrive on a diet of garbage, pet food, and other items available to them. As availability of food is the primary factor affecting the abundance of raccoons, the highest population densities are often found in large cities. In the wild raccoons live in a wide variety of forest and grassland habitats. Most often found in proximity to water, they are also proficient swimmers. They climb readily and usually den in riverbanks, hollow trees or logs, or abandoned beaver lodges. #raccoon

Views of Iberostar Hacienda Dominicus resort, Dominican Republic. The Iberostar Hacienda Dominicus, an all-inclusive 5-star hotel just 1.4 km from Dominicus Beach and 2.3 km from Saona Island. #dominicanrepublic #iberostarresort

The video shows how the man with difficulty climbs through the gap in the bars on the window. Later a man in military uniform is seen chasing the fugitive. The war is approaching the end of its second year, and Ukraine’s military needs more manpower to sustain a bloody war of attrition against Russia. Recruiting and training recruiting troops has become a serious challenge. #ukrainewar #russiaukrainewar

Dogs with jobs. IDF canine unit in Gaza footage. The soldiers of the Oketz ("Sting") K9 Commando Unit train together with their four-legged friends for months, creating an unbreakable bond of trust and friendship. Together, Oketz soldiers and their dogs hold a number of essential capabilities, including the locating and defusing of explosive devices, thwarting attempted smugglings of drugs and weapons into Israeli territory and warning soldiers of the presence of terrorist operatives and assailants. fter their complex training, Oketz soldiers and dogs join other units and special forces for various types of operational activities. Most recently, the unit participated in the focused counterterrorism efforts conducted in the Jenin area during the month of July, where they saved countless lives by identifying explosive devices before the forces detonated them. #israel #idf #idfcanineunit

Two Hamas gunmen killed three people at a Jerusalem bus stop during morning rush hour on Thursday. The attackers, Palestinians from East Jerusalem, were shot dead by off-duty soldiers and an armed civilian, police said. At least eight people were also wounded in the shooting.

UFC President Dana: White Khabib Nurmagomedov's team can take over the USA because we have a generation of cowards. Dana Frederick White Jr. is an American businessman who serves as CEO and president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, a global mixed martial arts organization.

Hamas attack convenience store in Israel on October 07, 2023 Hamas is a designated terrorist group backed by Iran and that has governed the Gaza Strip since 2007. Hamas began firing thousands of rockets on Saturday morning, striking targets as far away as Tel Aviv and the outskirts of Jerusalem, which rarely see any direct hits because of Israel's sophisticated Iron Dome missile defense system. Backed by a barrage of rockets, Hamas militants stormed from the blockaded Gaza Strip into nearby Israeli towns The unprecedented attack, which has killed at least 1400 people in Israel, Israel's Army Radio reported Monday. At least 2,506 people have been injured, the Israeli Health Ministry said earlier. More than 200 Israeli civilians, soldiers, and foreign nationals have also been taken hostage by Hamas, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Israel on Sunday formally declared war on Hamas. #israel #gaza #hamas

German Leopard 1A5 destroyed and abandoned in Kupyansk (Kupiansk) Ukraine. The Kampfpanzer Leopard 1 is a main battle tank designed by Porsche and manufactured by Krauss-Maffei in West Germany, first entering service in 1965. Developed in an era when HEAT warheads were thought to make conventional heavy armour of limited value, the Leopard design focused on effective firepower and mobility instead of heavy protection. #ukrainewar #leopardtank #russiaukrainewar

Dubbed the 'storm of the century' by Russian media, hurricane force winds, snowfall and flooding that swept parts of southern Russia and left at least 13 people dead Monday and almost two million without power. Huge waves crashed over beachside areas of Russia's Black Sea coast, video from social media showed, as wind speeds reached over 140 kilometres (about 90 miles) per hour in some places. The head of Russia's national meteorological service said the storm that hit Crimea was the most powerful since record-keeping began, state news agency RIA Novosti reported. The storm also hit southern Russia and sent waves flooding into the beach resort of Sochi. #crimea storm #black sea storm #hurricane

Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a co-founder of Hamas spoke at the U.N. condeming Hamas. Today I can speak on the authority of [myself, having once been] a Palestinian child, someone who grew up in that culture," Youssef said. “We’re talking about a religious group that does not believe in political borders and wants to annihilate an entire race in order to build an Islamic state. I don't know what else can be said about this – and I don't know why it is not obvious to everybody.” Yousef worked with Israeli counter-intelligence and helped the Mossad in various operations – including incarcerating his own father, Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef.

Sky News U.K. anti-semitism on display in one question. Sky News’ Kay Burley, ahead of the hostage release, asked Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy: “I was talking to a hostage negotiator this morning,” Burley said. “He made the comparison between the 50 hostages that Hamas has promised to release, as opposed to the 150 prisoners that are Palestinians that Israel has released. And he made the comparison between the numbers and the fact that ‘Does Israel not think that Palestinian lives are not valued as highly as Israeli lives?'” “That is an astonishing accusation!” Levy said. “If we could release one prisoner for every one hostage, we would obviously do that. We’re operating in horrific circumstances. We’re not choosing to release these prisoners who have blood on their hands. We are talking about people who have been convicted of stabbing and shooting attacks.” “Notice the question of proportionality doesn’t interest Palestinian supporters when they’re able to get more of their prisoners out,” Levy said. “But really, it is outrageous to suggest that the fact that we are willing to release prisoners who are convicted of terrorism offenses, more of them than we are getting our own innocent children back, somehow suggests that we don’t care about Palestinian lives? Really, that’s a disgusting accusation! #israel #antisemitism #israelwarnews

Israeli hostages released by Hamas returning home. group of hostages was transferred out of Gaza as a result of a temporary truce negotiated between Israel and Hamas after weeks of conflict along with a number of other nationals, including citizens of Thailand, Poland, the Philippines and Russia. Hundreds of Israelis draped in flags cheered as freed hostages, waving, arrived at an air force base. Some hostages were handed over directly to Israel, while others left through Egypt. The hostages released by Hamas ranged in age from four to 84, and included Abigail Edan, a four-year-old Israeli-American girl whose parents were killed in the attack that started the war on Oct. 7. #israel #hostages #israelwarnews

Russian Black Sea Fleet's Su 30SM & Su 24M jets destroy Ukraine's unmanned attack boats off Crimea coast. The Russian defense ministry said it destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned boats in the Black Sea

Pope Francis hosted a group of transgender women (many of whom are sex workers) to a Vatican luncheon for the Catholic Church's "World Day of the Poor" last week. The Vatican released a document earlier this month affirming that individuals suffering from gender-identity disorders are allowed to be baptized or be named as godparents under specific circumstances and that nothing in church law prevents gay or transgender people from serving as witnesses in Catholic weddings.

Son of Hamas's founder (Israeli spy) Mosab Hassan Yousef interview. Mosab Hassan Yousef nicknamed "The Green Prince" is a Palestinian who worked undercover for Israel's internal security service Shin Bet from 1997 to 2007. Shin Bet, Israel's security service, considered him its most valuable source within the Hamas leadership. The information Yousef supplied prevented dozens of suicide attacks and assassinations of Israelis, exposed numerous Hamas cells, and assisted Israel in hunting down many militants, and incarcerating his own father, Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef. #sonofhamas #greenprince #shinbet

A new batch of Su 34 fighter-bombers has been delivered to the Russian Air Force. The Sukhoi Su-34 is a Soviet-origin Russian twin-engine, twin-seat, all-weather supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber/strike aircraft. It first flew in 1990, intended for the Soviet Air Forces, and it entered service in 2014 with the Russian Air Force. Based on the Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker air superiority fighter, the Su-34 has an armoured cockpit with side-by-side seating for its two pilots. #ukrainewar #su-34 #russianairforce

Hamas militants come out of tunnels and surrender to IDF. Video of IDF soldiers destroying tunnel shafts in Gaza. Hamas is a designated terrorist group backed by Iran and that has governed the Gaza Strip since 2007. Hamas began firing thousands of rockets on Saturday, October 07, 2023 morning, striking targets as far away as Tel Aviv and the outskirts of Jerusalem, which rarely see any direct hits because of Israel's sophisticated Iron Dome missile defense system. Backed by a barrage of rockets, Hamas militants stormed from the blockaded Gaza Strip into nearby Israeli towns The unprecedented attack, which has killed at least 1400 people in Israel, Israel's Army Radio reported Monday. At least 4000 people have been injured, the Israeli Health Ministry said earlier. More than 200 Israeli civilians, soldiers, and foreign nationals have also been taken hostage by Hamas. Israel formally declared war on Hamas. #israel #idf #gaza

Douglas Abbott Macgregor (born January 4, 1947) is a retired U.S. Army colonel and government official, and an author, consultant, and television commentator. He played a significant role on the battlefield in the Gulf War and the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. His 1997 book Breaking the Phalanx established him as an influential if unconventional theorist of military strategy. His thinking contributed to the US strategy in its 2003 invasion of Iraq. On November 11, 2020, a Pentagon spokesperson announced that Macgregor had been hired to serve as Senior Advisor to the Acting Secretary of Defense, a post he held for less than three months. Macgregor was the "squadron operations officer who essentially directed the Battle of 73 Easting" during the Gulf War. Facing an Iraqi Republican Guard opponent, he led a contingent consisting of 19 tanks, 26 Bradley Fighting Vehicles and 4 M1064 mortar carriers through the sandstorm to the 73 Easting at roughly 16:18 hours on 26 February 1991 destroyed almost 70 Iraqi armored vehicles with no U.S. casualties in a 23-minute span of the battle. He was at the front of the formation in the center with Eagle Troop on the right and Ghost Troop on the left. Macgregor designated Eagle Troop the main attack and positioned himself to the left of Eagle Troop. Eagle Troop Scouts subsequently followed Macgregor's tank through a minefield during which his crew destroyed two enemy tanks. As Macgregor was towards the front of the battle involved in shooting, he didn't "request artillery support or report events to superiors until the battle was virtually over, according to one of his superior officers". The risks he undertook "could have been criticized had the fight turned ugly". At a November 1993 exercise at the Army's National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Irwin, Lt. Col. Macgregor's unit vastly outperformed its peers against the "Opposition Force (OPFOR)". The series of five battles usually end in four losses and a draw for the visiting units; his unit won three, lost one, and drew one. Macgregor's unit dispersed widely, took unconventional risks, and anticipated enemy movements. Macgregor was "one of the Army's leading thinkers on innovation", according to journalist Thomas E. Ricks. He "became prominent inside the Army" when his book Breaking the Phalanx was published in 1997, arguing for radical reforms. Breaking the Phalanx was rare in that an active duty military author was challenging the status quo with detailed reform proposals for the reorganization of U.S. Army ground forces. The head of the Army, United States General Dennis Reimer, wanted to reform the Army and effectively endorsed Breaking the Phalanx and passed copies out to generals; however, reforming the U.S. Army according to the book met resistance from the Army's de facto "board of directors" — the other four-star Army generals — and Reimer did not press the issue. Breaking the Phalanx advocated that "the Army restructure itself into modularly organized, highly mobile, self-contained, combined arms teams that look extraordinarily like the Marine Corps' Air Ground Task Forces". Many of Macgregor's colleagues thought his unconventional thinking may have harmed his chances for promotion. While an Army NTC official called him "the best war fighter the Army has got," colleagues of Macgregor were concerned that "the Army is showing it prefers generals who are good at bureaucratic gamesmanship to ones who can think innovatively on the battlefield." Hamas is a designated terrorist group backed by Iran and that has governed the Gaza Strip since 2007. Hamas began firing thousands of rockets on Saturday morning, striking targets as far away as Tel Aviv and the outskirts of Jerusalem, which rarely see any direct hits because of Israel's sophisticated Iron Dome missile defense system. Backed by a barrage of rockets, Hamas militants stormed from the blockaded Gaza Strip into nearby Israeli towns The unprecedented attack, which has killed at least 1300 people in Israel, Israel's Army Radio reported Monday. At least 3000 people have been injured, the Israeli Health Ministry said earlier. More than 100 Israeli civilians, soldiers, and foreign nationals have also been taken hostage by Hamas. Israel formally declared war on Hamas. #israel #douglasmacgregor #gaza

Russian Ka-52 "Alligator" flight at Dubai Air Show 2023 The Kamov Ka-50 "Black Shark", NATO reporting name Hokum A, is a Soviet/Russian single-seat attack helicopter with the distinctive coaxial rotor system of the Kamov design bureau. It was designed in the 1980s and adopted for service in the Russian army in 1995. The Ka-50 is manufactured by the Progress company in Arsenyev. It is used as a heavily armed scout helicopter, and is notable for having a rescue ejection system, rare for helicopters. #ka-52 #russianhelicopters #dubaiairshow2023

The British-owned, Japanese-operated commercial ship was "illegally boarded by military personnel via a helicopter" on Sunday and is now at the Hodeidah port in Yemen. Houthis released video footage on Monday showing armed men dropping from a helicopter and seizing the cargo ship in the southern Red Sea, a vessel they described as Israeli. "All communications were subsequently lost with the vessel," Isle of Man-based Galaxy Maritime Ltd., the ship's owner, said in a statement. "The Houthi seizure of the motor vessel Galaxy Leader in the Red Sea is a flagrant violation of international law," State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told a briefing. "We demand the immediate release of the ship and its crew and we will consult with our allies and UN partners as to appropriate next steps." #houthi #yemen #hijackers