Brigadier General Brook Leonard, commander of the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke, suspended flight operations on Friday after reports of five “physiological incidents” since May 2. Flights were supposed to resume.
LONDON Britain’s Theresa May told her party on Monday she would serve as prime minister as long as they wanted after a botched election gamble cost the party its majority in parliament and weakened London’s hand days before formal Brexit negotiations.
The maneuvers began Monday with opening ceremonies at military training grounds in Pabrade and Rukla (near Kaunas). The drills, which will last until June 23, are meant to test the capabilities of the German-led Forward Presence (eFP) Battalion Battle Group, also comprising soldiers from Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway.
CAIRO An audio message purporting to come from the spokesman of Islamic State called on followers to launch attacks in the United States, Europe, Russia, Australia, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and the Philippines during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which began in late May.
BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is on the brink of losing the two main centers of his ‘caliphate’ but even though he is on the run, it may take years to capture or kill him, officials and experts said.
Formal talks with European Union counterparts were scheduled to begin next Monday, June 19, but might be postponed by a few days. Brexit secretary David Davis announced the possible change of plan on Monday, as the date clashes with the announcement of the new government’s policy program, known as the Queen’s Speech.
The production of William Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ running at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, in which a Trump-like Caesar is assassinated, “does not reflect Delta Air Lines’ values,” the former official airline of the theater said in a series of tweets.
