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India has sent warships and stepped up aerial surveillance in strategic Gulf waters, the Press Trust of India reported on Thursday, with global tensions rising in the region. "INS Chennai and INS Sunayna have been deployed in the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to undertake maritime security operations," the navy said, quoted by PTI. The aim is "to re-assure the Indian-flagged vessels operating/transiting through the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, following the maritime security incidents in the region," the navy said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2ItXPlF via Latest News

The 463-pound alligator was suffering from injuries after being hit in the head by a semi-truck on Interstate 10. It was later euthanized. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2XX6C5a via Latest News

The President hasn’t been shy about saying he doesn’t want to get involved in additional military entanglements overseas, but Thursday’s shoot-down represented the most serious clash yet. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2N46iQZ via Latest News

"I’m now in hospice, because there is nothing else the doctors can do to fight the cancer," wrote Alvarez on Facebook. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2x90gUc via Latest News

Russians turned to President Vladimir Putin with fears over squeezed incomes and civil liberties during a four-hour annual phone-in Thursday, but the longtime leader insisted a brighter future was ahead. The marathon event -- to which viewers this year submitted some two million questions online and via telephone -- came with Putin's approval ratings in decline. Putin claimed there was "no proof" of Russia's involvement. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2IuZTu0 via Latest News

On Thursday, Iran shot down a U.S. military drone that the country claims was flying over Iranian air space in the southern Gulf region, further escalating tensions between the two nations.The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps website said the “spy” drone was shot down over the southern province of Hormozgan. The U.S. Navy, meanwhile, said the drone was flying in international air space over the Strait of Hormuz, a major thoroughfare through which one-third of the world's global oil supply flows.“Iranian reports that the aircraft was over Iran are false,” Captain Bill Urban, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, said in a statement. “This was an unprovoked attack on a U.S. surveillance asset in international airspace.”The Navy’s MQ-4C Triton drone, which costs roughly $180 million and provides real-time intelligence and surveillance to forces on the ground, was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile, U.S. Central Command said. The Iranians also unsuccessfully attempted to shoot...

Here's everything we know about tourist deaths and concerning incidents in the Dominican Republic so far. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2Xo38LN via Latest News

Corey Scott claimed he suffocated a teenage detainee in Iraq in an act of mercy after Edward Gallagher stabbed him. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2L70Lq5 via Latest News

Fox News host Sean Hannity kicked off his show Thursday night by promising President Trump would “bomb the hell of out Iran” for downing an American drone and lashing out at a fellow Fox News personality who advocated for restraint. Shortly after Fox News’ Tucker Carlson—who has been privately advising the president against war with Iran—praised Trump for initially resisting calls for military action, Hannity took a completely different approach, insisting that Iran has essentially left Trump no choice.“A strong message needs to be sent that a huge price will be paid if you take on the United State of America,” Hannity declared. “Simple peace through strength, and it works.”Following his short monologue, the pro-Trump primetime star welcomed on Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera, who immediately noted that Iran claims they “have absolute, undeniable proof” that the drone they shot down was over territorial waters. Hannity, meanwhile, wanted to hear none of it.“They shot an American ...

The US said Friday Iran has no right to respond to diplomacy "with military force", a day after Tehran shot down a US reconnaissance drone over the Strait of Hormuz. "Our diplomacy does not give Iran the right to respond with military force," Brian Hook, the US special representative on Iran, told reporters in Saudi Arabia. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2Fru9E6 via Latest News

Warden Benjamin Ford pronounced Marion Wilson Jr. dead at 9:52 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson. Wilson, 42, and Robert Earl Butts Jr. were convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the shotgun slaying of 24-year-old Donovan Corey Parks in Milledgeville, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) southeast of Atlanta. "I ain't never took a life in my life," Wilson said as part of a final statement before receiving a deadly injection of pentobarbital. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/31MppCg via Latest News

(Bloomberg) -- The National Rifle Association suspended its top lobbyist and one of his deputies, adding further turmoil to the gun-rights group’s leadership ranks as it wages legal battles on multiple fronts and prepares for a bruising 2020 election cycle.The NRA confirmed Thursday that it had suspended Chris Cox, the lobbying chief who was viewed widely as a future leader of the group, and his deputy chief of staff, Scott Christman.The moves came after Oliver North, the former NRA board president, was ousted from the organization in April after it accused him of leading an attempted coup against Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the NRA who has long served as the organization’s leader. North alleged that LaPierre used the group to enrich himself. As part of the infighting, the NRA sued Ackerman McQueen Inc., its longtime advertising firm, and in turn Ackerman cut ties with the group.On Wednesday night, the NRA filed a lawsuit against North arguing that he didn’t have th...

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday the United States has no appetite to go to war with Iran, after Tehran shot down a U.S. military surveillance drone in the Gulf region. "I think it's a dangerous situation," Pelosi said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2IVN7n3 via Latest News

California Governor Gavin Newsom has proposed helping utilities create a fund of up to $21 billion to compensate future victims of wildfires sparked by the companies' equipment or employees, an aide said on Friday. The proposal by the Democratic governor follows the bankruptcy filing earlier this year of San Francisco-based utility PG&E Corp, which anticipates $30 billion in liabilities from wildfires that have been blamed on its equipment, including the state's deadliest blaze which killed more than 80 people last year. The state's other two large utilities, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, have seen their credit ratings downgraded over wildfire concerns. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2L9capt via Latest News

A day of mostly peaceful protests in Hong Kong turned ugly Friday as crowds laid siege to the city’s police headquarters. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2WWB2CY via Latest News

Donald Trump has pushed a tough line on Iran, and some close advisors have pressed the US president to get even tougher. Tensions have skyrocketed following Iran's shooting down of an American surveillance drone Thursday. Trump's national security advisor is his chief saber-rattler, a champion of regime change in Cuba, Iraq, North Korea, Venezuela and now Iran. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2FmCt8a via Latest News

A witness in the court-martial trial of a decorated US Navy SEAL charged with killing a captive teenage militant while deployed to Iraq confessed on Thursday that it was he -- not the defendant -- who put an end to the boy's life. Corey Scott, a first class petty officer, told the military court in San Diego that while he had seen Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher stab the wounded Islamic State group fighter in the neck in May 2017, he had killed the boy afterwards. Prosecutors on Thursday argued that Scott's version of events was a fabrication and that he was lying to protect Gallagher. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2Xo8qHj via Latest News

A fire at a refinery complex in Philadelphia is controlled and contained but still burning more than 12 hours after it started. Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy says the blaze at Philadelphia Energy Solutions started in a tank that holds a mix of propane and butane. Murphy says five employees had minor injuries and were treated at the scene. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2NbvvJw via Latest News

What is China's President Xi Jinping hoping to achieve when he visits North Korea? Ian Bremmer breaks down this high stakes meeting. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2Xo8pDf via Latest News

Joe Biden, the former US vice president, said on Wednesday he had nothing to apologise for after coming under fire for remarks about his time working civilly with segregationists serving in the Senate in the 1970s. The Democratic frontrunner came under sharp criticism from some of his presidential rivals, with US Senator Cory Booker calling on him to apologise. "Frankly, I’m disappointed that he hasn’t issued an immediate apology for the pain his words are dredging up for many Americans. He should," Mr Booker, who is black, said in a statement. The criticism exposed bubbling racial and generational tensions within the Democratic field that is the most diverse in history. Mr Biden, 76, is leading in early opinion polls in the crowded Democratic contest to take on Republican President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday evening, Mr Biden was asked about Mr Booker's demand that he apologise. "Apologise for what? Cory should apo...