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WATCH: U.S.-made missile goes up against one of Russia’s most advanced tanks
In a video posted to YouTube Friday, Syrian rebels appear to have filmed themselves firing for the first time a U.S.-made TOW anti-tank missile at a Russian T-90 tank. According to the video’s caption, the TOW strike occurred in the Syrian town of Sheikh Aqil, a suburb just northwest of Aleppo. The BGM-71 TOW is an aging wire-guided anti-tank missile system that the United States has been supplying to CIA-vetted Syrian rebels. Since their first appearance in 2014, the missiles have popped up throughout the war-torn country, often in videos showing rebels attacking Syrian troops and government-backed militias. Friday’s video is significant because there is very little footage, if any, of a U.S. TOW going ...Welcome To Korea: 4,000 U.S. Troops Arrive At A Tense Time
Three British tourists found dead near Vietnam waterfall
Hanoi (AFP) - Vietnamese police on Friday found the bodies of three British tourists near tiered waterfalls in the country's central highlands, an area popular with adventure travellers.
The trio, a man and two women, were found amid rocks and pools of water near the falls outside of Dalat, a mountainous city that draws tourists with its crystal lakes and scenic landscape.
It was not immediately clear how they died.
"We are working on the reasons for their deaths," Dalat city's deputy police chief Bui Duc Ro told AFP.
The British Embassy in Hanoi confirmed the deaths of three British nationals near Dalat and said it was providing support to their families.
"We are in close contact with local authorities in Vietnam on their behalf," the embassy said in a statement.
State-run media said the two women were aged 25 and 19 and had entered Vietnam at the start of the month, but the police officer could not confirm their identities.
Dozens of emergency workers climbed down a steep rocky slope near the waterfall to retrieve the bodies, which were reportedly found with life jackets on.
Visitors can rappel down the 20-metre waterfall as well as luge around the site.
In 2013 British scientist Jamie Taggart went missing in Vietnam's Sa Pa jungle and was never found despite search efforts by local authorities.Boeing 727 cargo plane lands without functioning landing gear
Pacific Commander: China Heading Toward Operational, Tactical Control of Major U.S. Trade Route
(CNSNews.com) - If China continues to arm all of the bases they've reclaimed in the South China Sea...they will change the operational landscape in the region," Admiral Harry Harris, head of U.S. Pacific Command, told a news conference on Thursday. "And short of war with the United States, they can become -- they can rise to the level of having operational control, tactical control of the waterways and airways in the South China Sea, which today, involves about $5.3 trillion of trade, over a billion of which -- over a trillion of which is destined for the United States. "There are enormous I.T. infrastructure in the...undersea cables in the South China Sea. It's a principle shipping lane, as ...Report: Russian Army Shot Down Malaysian Airlines Jet
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