Megan Ernst and her two young children were eating dinner on Feb. 19, 2023, when four uniformed sailors and two Navy SEALs knocked on the front door of their Virginia Beach home. “If they are at your door, there is no hope,” Ernst said, shaking her head as tears trailed down her cheeks. Michael Ernst, […]
Republic of Ireland striker Adam Idah came off the bench to hit a double as Celtic came from behind to win another close contest with Motherwell in stoppage time. Celtic were in serious danger of losing more ground in the cinch Premiership title race after Blair Spittal scored a wonderful goal to give Motherwell a […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two Navy SEALs drowned last month while trying to board a vessel that was intercepted by U.S. naval forces in the Arabian Sea. On Thursday, federal prosecutors unsealed a criminal complaint against four foreign nationals they say were transporting suspected Iranian-made missile components on the vessel. The four sailors were later taken to […]
Guinea’s military junta, which seized power in a coup in September 2021, has dissolved the government. The announcement was made through a presidential decree read on state TV on Monday by the presidency’s Secretary General, Brig Gen Amara Camara. Mr Camara did not disclose the reason for the dissolution or say when a new government […]
Feb. 13 (UPI) — Police in Canada’s Prince Edward Island came to the assistance of two baby seals found wandering on different roads in a single day. The RCMP said in a news release that dispatchers “received several calls about something fishy going on on Route 18a,” specifically a seal wandering in the roadway in […]
Feb. 3—Dear Answer Man: When you start noticing it — as I recently have — the state seal is everywhere. It’s in government buildings. It’s incorporated into logos for agencies. Even the patches for the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office has the state seal incorporated in them. With the new seal being finalized, what’s the county’s […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are revising their preliminary findings on what happened to two Navy SEALs who died during a mission to board an unflagged ship that was carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Yemen. Based on further review and interviews with personnel involved in the operations, U.S. officials said Wednesday that Navy Special Warfare […]
By Liz Lee and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Wednesday upgraded its diplomatic ties with Uzbekistan and offered closer cooperation across a range of projects, including a Central Asia railway that would open up a new trade route as shippers shun an existing overland link via Russia. The two countries have elevated their ties […]
The U.S. Navy has identified the two SEALs lost in the waters of the Gulf of Aden during a risky nighttime mission to board a boat carrying Iranian-made missile parts to Yemen. On Sunday, U.S. Central Command announced the end of an exhaustive 10-day search and rescue operation involving multiple aircraft and surface ships to […]
The two US Navy SEALs who went missing off the coast of Somalia on January 11 are dead, US Central Command said after searching for them for 10 days. “We regret to announce that after a 10-day exhaustive search, our two missing U.S. Navy SEALs have not been located and their status has been changed […]
BRIGANTINE – It’s seal stranding season in New Jersey, which means the Marine Mammal Stranding Center is busy. For more than 45 years, the center has nursed marine mammals and turtles back to health across the state. Since opening in 1978, the Marine Mammal Stranding Center has responded to over 6,000 incidents, according to its […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Navy SEALs seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weaponry from a ship bound for Yemen’s Houthi rebels in a raid last week that saw two of its commandos go missing, the U.S. military said Tuesday. The raid marks the latest seizure by the U.S. Navy and its allies of weapon shipments […]