Assad's forces beat back Syrian rebels after surprise attack on Damascus Assad's forces beat back Syrian rebels after surprise attack on Damascus Intense fighting in the Syrian capital of Damascus resumed Monday when government warplanes bombed opposition-held areas in the hope of regaining ground lost during a surprise attack by rebels overnight Sunday.
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Instead of doing a surprise attack, remember the old days?
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Rebels initially gained ground in a surprise attack on Sunday.
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A good spot, in the show's logic, for a surprise attack.
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Still, the surprise attack has left him befuddled and deeply unsettled.
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In short, he says there wouldn't really be a surprise attack.
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True to Genji's flanker design, Dragonblade works best as a surprise attack.
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The Russians then would stalk the visitors before launching a surprise attack.
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In 1904, it went to war against Russia by launching a surprise attack.
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Japan's surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor killed more
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Beto O'Rourke off course with a surprise attack from the left on immigration.
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Charles agrees to let him lead the troops through for another surprise attack.
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They launched a surprise attack outside of Damascus, which hasn't seen fighting for months.
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Train stations, government departments, and Fortune 500 companies were hit by the surprise attack.
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"We carried out a rapid, surprise attack," the spokesman, Mohamed Gliwan, told Reuters by telephone.
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She got rid of sneaky, shady Olenna Tyrell by sending a surprise attack to Highgarden.
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Armenia's Defense Ministry said Azerbaijan launched a surprise attack using tanks and aircraft around 2 a.m.
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And the assassins almost certainly didn't have giant swords — after all, it was a surprise attack.
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The episode begins with the Mayans seeking vengeance after a surprise attack on the motorcycle club.
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ATF claimed a surprise attack was necessary because Koresh almost never came out of his home.
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If one is going to attack a much stronger adversary, one would certainly want a surprise attack.
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The danger is that these missiles could allow Russia to launch a devastating surprise attack on Europe.
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Anger at Japan's surprise attack drove much of this sentiment, but so did the president's steady leadership.
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The mock-up, they wrote, could be interpreted as a rehearsal of a Pearl Harbor-style surprise attack.
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Islamic State fighters abducted 300 cement workers in a surprise attack within 30 miles from Damascus on Thursday.
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First, Sadat's big gambit to launch a surprise attack with superior numbers in the Yom Kippur War failed.
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In 1973 Egypt and Syria unleashed a devastating surprise attack on Israel, puncturing the myth of Israeli invulnerability.
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But it was H.E.R. — a recent Grammy darling for her old-school musicianship — who made the surprise attack.
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Just in the past week, ISIS fighters staged a surprise attack on al Kawm in the desert near Palmyra.
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Seehofer shocked his Cabinet peers with a surprise attack on one of the cornerstones of Merkel's 12-year chancellery.
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In December 1941, he was sent to Hawaii immediately after the devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on Pearl Harbor.
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The Observatory said the jihadists had captured it in a surprise attack launched after their fighters had infiltrated the town.
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The would-be strongman, Khalifa Hifter, launched a surprise attack on the Libyan capital, Tripoli, more than two weeks ago.
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In the last few days it has launched a surprise attack near the Turkish border, threatening to cut rebel supply lines.
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That goal was the reason for the North's surprise attack against the South in June 1950 that triggered the Korean War.
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Observers from the other side make it harder for countries to use military exercises as the springboard for a surprise attack.
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We suffered a surprise attack on our soil because we did not have the human sources we needed inside Al Qaida.
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Another, who also did not want to be named, said 20 to 30 troops had been killed in a surprise attack.
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Before "Silent Night" ends, though, the program comes to a jarring halt, with news of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The surprise attack killed thousands of Americans, and prompted the United States to enter World War II the very next day.
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It cannot give an assurance of blast protection that will be proof against surprise attack or guaranteed against obsolescence or destruction.
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It made Europe more secure by eliminating an entire class of surprise-attack nuclear weapons designed for use on its territory.
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On Tuesday, China ran missile defense drills near the North Korean border, signaling their readiness to ward off a surprise attack.
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Such weapons can be stored ready for launch for longer periods of time and require less preparation, making a surprise attack easier.
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Thousands lined the streets to cheer the man who only four years earlier had unleashed a surprise attack on Israel's holiest day.
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Heng Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit the site of the surprise attack that drew the United States into World War II.
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Photos of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor captured the first bomb dropped, a destroyer exploding, and Battleship Row billowing with smoke.
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We didn't sneak up on Berlin in World War II, and we're not going to do a surprise attack on Mosul either.
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If Russian tanks ever made a surprise attack, NATO planners knew that the soldiers there would likely be the first to find out.
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Because they can readily avoid detection, SSBNs can survive a surprise attack and thus ensure India's ability to launch a retaliatory "second strike".
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In 22014, after Germany's surprise attack on the Soviet western front, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church recited it like an incantation.
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Troops traveled to the site from central China before immediately beginning drills to fend off the "surprise attack" simulating real battle, it said.
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A Plot to Subvert an Election: Unraveling the Russia Story So Far To many Americans, the intervention seemed to be a surprise attack.
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Kamala Harris' surprise attack on Biden in the first debate paid off handsomely for her, and Booker desperately needs a momentum-seizing moment.
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Only 10 years after the surprise attack, a Japanese leader making a splashy appearance there could have stirred resentment in the United States.
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Whether it is a sacrifice, surprise attack, coup de grace, vampire disposal or even the mythical menacement of Damocles, one finds the blade pointed downward.
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The small chunk of game I got to actually play included a space battle around an Imperial shipyard, after the Rebels stage a surprise attack.
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In the final hours, shortly before the experiment ended and the image was frozen for posterity, BlackVoid launched a surprise attack on the American flag.
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The surprise attack was an example of a broader test that incumbent presidents face in juggling pressing, official White House duties while also pursuing reelection.
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"... a surprise attack would erode if not destroy the moral position of the United States throughout the world," Robert F. Kennedy wrote in his book.
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There was no immediate comment from the LNA, which started in April a surprise attack on Tripoli which has not made it beyond the southern suburbs.
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The USS Arizona Memorial marks the resting place of sailors and Marines killed on the battleship during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec.
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Naturally, this not only improves the possibilities for surprise attack, but also minimizes the risk to the helicopters themselves by shortening their exposure to enemy fire.
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As a result, the Allies were able to successfully launch a surprise attack on Sicily with a fraction of the losses they would have otherwise suffered.
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That was the finding after the Japanese surprise attack on US soil at Pearl Harbor; so, too, after the federal government's sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina.
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The answer is yes, of course it can, if the problem is defined as keeping Pyongyang from unleashing a surprise attack on the continental United States.
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Around a dozen al-Shabab militants launched a surprise attack on a Kenyan military base containing US forces earlier in January, according The New York Times.
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But at Amari's coronation, a battle breaks out when Amari's mother, Queen Nehanda, who was presumed to be dead, seizes the throne in a surprise attack.
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China's air force has carried out exercises near the Korean Peninsula, practicing to defend against a "surprise attack" coming over the sea, Chinese state media said.
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Johnson's team found just such a spike in the rate of the creation of groups established right before ISIS' surprise attack on Kobane, Syria, in September 2014.
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Picture Different Outcomes It's tough to be prepared for a surprise attack, but Cassetta recommends visualizing how you would handle the situation if someone does grab you.
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The authors of the study think he may have been killed in a surprise attack, perhaps while he was sleeping, or while he was holding a shield.
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After humanity is all but wiped out by a surprise attack from the advanced robots called Cylons, the new Battlestar follows a waning group of human survivors.
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Americans and the world pause to remember the more than 2,000 US troops killed in 1941 when Japan launched a surprise attack on the Hawaiian naval base.
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The Soviets misinterpreted the 1983 NATO nuclear weapons command exercise, known as ABLE ARCHER, as the preparations for a surprise attack and readied their own forces to respond.
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The 71-year-old bodybuilder, ex-governor and Terminator actor assured fans there was nothing to worry about after footage showed the surprise attack — and Schwarzenegger barely moving.
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He then proceeds to stand up, arm himself, and meticulously gun down more than a dozen men and women — some unarmed — in a surprise attack from the rear.
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Twenty thousand Americans had died there, four thousand in the previous two months, following a surprise attack, known as the Tet Offensive, by North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's air force has carried out exercises near the Korean peninsula, practicing to defend against a "surprise attack" coming over the sea, Chinese state media said.
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On December 8, 1941, a shaken House of Representatives gathered to vote on a resolution of war against Japan in response to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
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There were warnings of a surprise attack, but it was expected to be just the usual small guerrilla force striking quickly in the night and disappearing before dawn.
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It was not immediately clear if the rocket fire from Syria was meant as a surprise attack or came in response to Israeli activity across its northern frontier.
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But the surprise attack would still require large numbers of powerful, precise, concrete-piercing munitions to destroy the hardened bases that store North Korean missiles and nuclear warheads.
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The IS-linked Aamaq news agency reported on Saturday that IS fighters launched a "surprise attack" on several areas in northern Raqqa province, where Tal Abyad is located.
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This means it's quite a lot harder to take an enemy down, and it's far easier on the opposing end to recover from a surprise attack and retaliate adequately.
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In June 1945, American B-29 Superfortress aircraft conducted bombing runs over Shizuoka, Japan, as part of the response to the December 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Historians say the bells were rung to signal the start of the surprise attack on American forces, who retaliated with a massacre in which women and children were killed.
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Tech people like to picture their industry as a roiling sea of disruption, in which every winner is vulnerable to surprise attack from some novel, as-yet-unimagined foe.
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If you're doing really big, illegal graffiti, they hunt you down and surprise-attack you at your house, and take all your stuff for evidence for the court case.
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Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 spurred America's entry into World War II. This photo shows a memorial service for sailors killed in the attack.
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Coalition bombing had mostly ignored the steady rise of AQAP until forces funded and trained by the United Arab Emirates launched a surprise attack to win Mukalla last month.
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He won a race against perhaps the strongest field assembled in the past decade, even after a surprise attack by a debutant marathoner, Guye Adola, threatened to spoil his day.
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Yara Greyjoy: In the season seven finale, Yara was ferrying Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes to Dorne when her uncle, Euron Greyjoy, launched a surprise attack on her fleet.
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The supreme court, central bank and electricity and water authority headquarters were also retaken in what the commander described as a surprise attack that killed more than 130 ISIS fighters.
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Varys even references this Season 7 conversation in the latest episode of Season 8, when Daenerys and her counselors are deciding how to respond to Euron's surprise attack on Dragonstone.
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Even if you set aside the unlikely possibility of an abrupt Pearl Harbor–style surprise attack from either side, tensions could still escalate to the point where shots get fired.
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The USS West Virginia was one of the hardest hit ships at Pearl Harbor but rose from the ashes to destroy Japanese forces in the years after that surprise attack.
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In March, rebel groups launched a surprise attack in northeastern Damascus, taking advantage of Syrian regime forces overstretched by fighting elsewhere in the country, an expert said at the time.
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Rebel forces loyal to renegade leader General Khalifa Hifter, who effectively controls the country's breakaway east, launched a surprise attack against the home of Libya's UN-recognized government last week.
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Allied Chadian-Nigerien forces launched an offensive against the Islamists after a surprise attack in Niger killed 30 of the country's troops in early June, its deadliest ever attack there.
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The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war, said rebels had captured several industrial sites and buildings between Jobar and Qaboun after launching their surprise attack.
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Forces allied to the Tripoli government, backed by air strikes, stormed the town, some 90 km (56 miles) south of Tripoli, in the morning in a surprise attack, witnesses said.
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He nearly takes out Dany in a surprise attack when she lands, but Drogon unleashes fire at the last second, and he is forced to jump into the river and escape.
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It is therefore better to read Trump's statements not as a surprise attack but rather as an early warning should the U.S. intelligence community like to be relevant during this administration.
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A surprise attack by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) on a Democratic candidate ahead of Texas's congressional primaries has drawn national attention to the primary fight in Texas's 2900th District.
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The prospect of accurate and rapid strikes "could erode stability by increasing the perceived risk of surprise attack", writes Zachary Davis in a recent paper for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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And it occurred about the same time that North Korea was secretly helping the Syrians build a nuclear reactor, which the Israelis later destroyed in a surprise attack from the air.
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Last week, the RAND Corporation released a report assessing that Russia's military is now well positioned to overrun the Baltics in a surprise attack, before NATO could muster an effective response.
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In the Pentagon's nightmare scenario, Russia seizes this 40-mile-wide bottleneck in a surprise attack, effectively cutting off the tiny Baltic republics — Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia — from their NATO allies.
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On Sunday, Politico reported that Spicer conducted a Nixon-esque surprise attack in which he made staffers give up their phones so they could be checked for secret communications with the press.
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And later this year Mr Abe may pay his respects to those American servicemen killed in Japan's infamous surprise attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941 that brought America into the war.
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"This splendid lady sandbagged me," Bloom said in a recent phone conversation, with the lofty, ungrudging admiration of an old general recalling an opposite number's surprise attack at some long-ago battle.
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In a call with reporters on the resolution, Sanders likened the challenges presented by climate change to Pearl Harbor and the way in which the US mobilized following Japan's devastating surprise attack.
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It's scary too, with Euron (who, it has been observed, appears to have been recast as the same actor) interrupting a steamy encounter between Yara and Ellaria with a phallic surprise attack.
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Deployment of alliance troops directly in this potential flashpoint area could mean Poland's allies immediately find themselves facing hostile forces, even in a surprise attack, Deputy Defence Minister Tomasz Szatkowski told Reuters.
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The battle was fought between American and Japanese aircraft carriers and warplanes about 200 miles off Midway Atoll, a former military installation that the Japanese hoped to capture in a surprise attack.
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The researchers are not sure which strike was the death blow, but because they didn't find any defensive wounds on his lower arms, they think the whole struggle was a surprise attack.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan will join President Obama today to pay his respects at Pearl Harbor, the site of the surprise attack on an American naval base 75 years ago.
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It goes back to a terrible event that occurred 14 years earlier, when the synthetics stationed on Mars staged an inexplicable surprise attack that left thousands dead and the planet on fire.
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An adversary might also be tempted to pre-empt America by going even faster, a dangerous dynamic that Thomas Schelling, an economist and nuclear theorist, called the "reciprocal fear of surprise attack".
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The missiles were discovered after forces loyal to the United Nations-backed national unity government carried out a successful surprise attack Wednesday on Gheryan, a mountain redoubt 40 miles south of Tripoli.
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Intense fighting in the Syrian capital of Damascus resumed Monday when government warplanes bombed opposition-held areas in the hope of regaining ground lost during a surprise attack by rebels overnight Sunday.
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The memorial marks the final resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors and Marines killed on the USS Arizona battleship during the surprise attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor on Dec.
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The heavily armed fighters had gone to ground in residential areas following their surprise attack on Tuesday, when they nearly overran Farah, before Afghan troops backed by U.S. air power fought them off.
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"A surprise attack launched by Islamic State fighters on a checkpoint west of Arish city in North Sinai followed the detonation of a car bomb parked by an Islamic State fighter," Amaq reported.
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Soon the house is abandoned and demolished by a bulldozer—a surprise attack from the ghost's point of view and, as the claw crashes through the ceiling unannounced, the film's most thrilling scene.
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"It is crystal clear that it is an actual drill and a rehearsal of war aimed at militarily occupying our Republic by surprise attack and rapid dispatch of large-scale reinforcements," it said.
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Around a dozen al-Shabab militants launched a surprise attack against a Kenyan military base housing US forces earlier in January, according to new details in a New York Times report published Wednesday.
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Murray invited the British general William Howe and his men to have tea at Belmont, thus giving Colonial soldiers time to escape after a surprise attack on the British in nearby Kips Bay.
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Rebel groups fighting under the Free Syrian Army (FSA) banner, some of which attended peace talks in Kazakhstan, accused the jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham of launching a surprise attack on their positions.
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Considered very valuable in the hacking community, "zero day" vulnerabilities in software are ones that the target is unaware of, that the hacker or hackers could use in order to launch a surprise attack.
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But if that's the case, why didn't we go in as a surprise attack instead of - you know, with the element of surprise - instead of announcing three months ago that we're going into Mosul?
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Within four years, some experts warn Kim may have a nuclear warhead capable of reaching the West Coast of the U.S., as well as submarines able to conduct swift surprise attack on America's allies.
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Talks arranged by the UN to broker a peace between them in April were upended by Mr Haftar, who launched a surprise attack on the capital just after the UN secretary-general had arrived.
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When I was growing up, he'd surprise-attack me, hollering, "I'm the American Dream," then lift my 7-year-old body into the air, slam me on the couch and go for the pin.
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McGurk pointed to a March operation near Tabqa, Syria, where the US commander decided to have US helicopters ferry hundreds of Syrian Democratic Forces fighters behind enemy lines to conduct a surprise attack on ISIS.
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An elite team launched a surprise attack overnight, claiming the remnants of the main official building (along with a central bank branch and museum) while killing "tens" of ISIS fighters, according to a military spokesman.
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These measures "lay a solid foundation for more far-reaching measures to reduce the risk of a surprise attack or inadvertent conflict," Richard Sokolsky from the Stimson Center website 38 North, which tracks North Korea.
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The North American neighbours are tussling over the future of the NAFTA trade agreement they share with Mexico, and last week Canada launched a surprise attack on U.S. trade policy, initiating a wide-ranging WTO complaint.
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Euron may have built his thousands of giant ships at a suspicious speed, but his surprise attack on Yara's fleet was the most believable thing about this episode — especially Theon's heartbreaking encounter with his own PTSD.
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The Islamic State group launched a surprise attack near Mayadeen, a town in eastern Syria it had lost several months ago, killing at least 25 Syrian army forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.
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When the latter failed to see dramatic developments in the arena, or didn't want to see it, the Americans were also blinded, as in the surprise attack of the Arab states against Israel in October 1973.
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It was only two weeks after the Japanese surprise attack against the United States; the hulls of sunken ships still scarred Pearl Harbor, the dark waters there an unmarked graveyard for more than 2,000 American seamen.
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But it has upset some U.S. veterans and Wyoming's delegation to the U.S. Congress, which uniformly opposed returning bells that were a memorial to the 45 U.S. soldiers who were killed during a surprise attack on Sept.
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Philippines soldiers have been mired in grinding urban warfare with ISIS-aligned fighters ever since a surprise attack on Marawi on May 23 -- the first instance of disparate, ISIS-aligned Filipino groups banding together and holding territory.
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If a barricade or lock is not available, Dr. Blair suggests not lying on the floor, because that would prevent you from the last resort: a surprise attack on the gunman if he bursts into the room.
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The Battle of the Blackwater even featured the now-standard last-minute surprise attack that turned the tide, this time led by Tywin Lannister and Loras Tyrell as the first act in the two great families' alliance.
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But it has upset some U.S. veterans and Wyoming's delegation to the U.S. Congress, which uniformly opposed returning bells that were a memorial to the 45 U.S. soldiers who were killed during a surprise attack on Sept.
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Pyongyang wants nuclear weapons and ICBMs, and lots of both, because these are the indispensable instruments for achieving the unconditional unification the North has been relentlessly pursuing since its surprise attack against the South in June 1950.
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And while he can use his boxing in measured, thoughtful fashion—hooking off the jab in lovely fashion—he has a tendency to go overkill on the shifting punches which typically yield better results as occasional surprise attack.
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"It is crystal clear that it is an actual drill and a rehearsal of war aimed at militarily occupying our Republic by surprise attack and rapid dispatch of large-scale reinforcements," North Korea's foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
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Joe Biden later endorsed her 2016 U.S. Senate run, and some Democrats have had their fingers crossed for a Biden-Harris 2020 ticket — even after her surprise attack on Biden's stance of busing in the first Democratic debate.
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That's the number of Americans — one Army soldier and two Pentagon contractors — who were killed earlier this month in a surprise attack on the Manda Bay military base in Kenya, where both American and Kenyan forces are stationed.
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"Well, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say if North Korea was planning some kind of pre-emptive or surprise attack on Guam, we would not be reading about it in North Korean media," Delury said.
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Since only one-third of SSBNs usually are on patrol, and up to two-thirds often at port, eight of the 2628 planned Columbias could be destroyed in port, leaving only four surviving at sea in a surprise attack.
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But he said he has no plans to reciprocate the president's visit with a trip to Pearl Harbor, where the Japanese carried out a surprise attack in 1941, drawing the U.S. into World War II. View the discussion thread.
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It will be a less powerful Dragon Queen that Jon meets, now that some significant portion of her fleet has been destroyed by Euron's surprise attack, with Yara, Theon, Ellaria and the Sand Snakes all lost in some fashion.
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Japan's Foreign Ministry, in news briefings, indicated at the time that he would be the first sitting Japanese prime minister to visit Pearl Harbor, the site of the surprise attack on a United States naval base 75 years ago.
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But I suspect one of the reasons the battle unfolds so vividly, with the NATO leadership plausibly opening themselves to a devastating surprise attack, is because the plotting for the battle took so many cues from Larry Bond's famous wargame, Harpoon.
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But the moment all my mechs left to attack what we thought was the main group, I realized I'd been lured away, and had to send my lightest mechs on a Hail Mary attempt to break up the enemy surprise attack.
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Because while the Army can teach new recruits how to march, hold a gun, and do push-ups, it unfortunately couldn't give this battalion of green plastic army men the know-how to survive a surprise attack from molten copper.
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South Korea and US swear high and low that these exercises are purely defensive in nature, and that they're just reviewing their instructions for what to do in the event of a unjust and completely unprovoked surprise attack from the North.
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You see it in everything from Man of Steel's final battle to the 2005 War of the Worlds, in which invaders launch a surprise attack on New York and directly blast people into ash, prefiguring Infinity War's use of the visual.
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Growing numbers of nuclear weapons will soon be deployed to submarines patrolling some of the most bitterly contested waters on earth — and controlled by jittery and potentially paranoid officers on perpetual high alert about a surprise attack from the other side.
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But in another surprise attack, in October, a rocket from Gaza made a direct hit on a house in the southern city of Beersheba, crashing through the roof and destroying the bedrooms where three children had been sleeping moments earlier.
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But the last time the US took out a military leader of Soleimani&aposs magnitude in a foreign country was during World War II, by targeting the Imperial Japanese admiral who planned the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941.
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The offensive may have failed to spark a popular uprising across South Vietnam, as North Vietnam's Communist leadership had hoped, but it did constitute a huge, well-executed surprise attack that laid bare the claims of the American military commander, Gen.
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They are preparing to defend Tripoli, 21 km (125 miles) to the east, against military commander Khalifa Haftar, a self-proclaimed foe of Islamists who launched a surprise attack in April against a U.N.-backed government based in the capital.
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The Russian statement came two days after the Islamic State group said its fighters launched a surprise attack on Wednesday from two axes on a joint Syrian and Russian forces convoy west of the town of Mayadeen, killing 15 Syrian and Russian soldiers.
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The red pin marks the location of the strategic, 40 mile-wide Suwalki Gap in Poland, which the Pentagon fears Russia will seize in a surprise attack, effectively cutting off the tiny Baltic republics — Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia — from their NATO allies.
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In July, it's not clear who will take the White House — although it's become increasingly clear who many on Wall Street will back, after GOP nominee Donald Trump launched a surprise attack against big banks through the party platform statement earlier in the week.
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The attack came as the United Nations was brokering a truce in the capital Tripoli, where the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) force launched a surprise attack in April, part of the chaos in Libya since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
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Or there was my defense of Taiwan against a midnight surprise attack on Chinese New Year in the near future, as elite Chinese amphibious units swarmed into downtown Taipei and the only forces ready to oppose them were street cops pressed into front-line service.
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Coalition bombing had mostly focused on the Houthis and troops loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, but began turning their attention to AQAP earlier this year when forces funded and trained by the United Arab Emirates launched a surprise attack to win Mukalla.
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The Soviet leadership in 1983 was unexpectedly gripped by a wave of paranoia that Ronald Reagan was planning a surprise attack—President Reagan had denounced the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," prompting the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov to call Reagan insane and a liar.
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Beginning with a surprise attack on the Japanese-held Admiralty Islands at the end of February 1944, MacArthur's forces advanced the Allied front five hundred miles by making a bold leap to Hollandia on the northern coast of New Guinea and isolating major Japanese units.
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According to a one-page, historical footnote by former Times Executive Editor Max Frankel in The New York Times Magazine years later, President Roosevelt had dictated the speech but then felt "history" did not cover the treachery, the heinous nature of the surprise attack.
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - East Libyan forces have targeted rival brigades with a series of air strikes in the southern region of Jufra, officials and witnesses said on Sunday, three days after dozens of their men were killed in a surprise attack on an air base.
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The Republican presidential nominee knocked US officials as a "group of losers" for not launching a "surprise" attack and said he was convinced the offensive -- which is led by the Iraqi military -- was launched "for political reasons" to benefit his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.
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In 1951, Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida "paid a quiet visit" to Pearl Harbor, the scene of the surprise attack by Japan in December 1941 that killed more than 2,300 Americans and helped bring the US into World War II, according to the New York Times.
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A week after an aspiring strongman launched a surprise attack on the Libyan capital, an assortment of criminal gangs and extremists are rushing into the fight against him, raising new questions for the United States and other Western powers that have condemned his attack.
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The Battle of the Bulge, in which a surprise attack by German forces put the Allies on their heels following a year&aposs worth of advances, was one of the largest battles in the largest-scale war that the United States has ever faced.
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Today is the 75th anniversary of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, which killed more than 83,400 Americans at a naval base in Hawaii and drew the United States into World War II. Our city felt the shock waves from nearly 5,000 miles away.
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But the surprise attack by Daenerys and her three children against the Slavers' ships (complemented as always by her Dothraki and Unsullied soldiers) was so devastating that it changed geopolitical history in the region, breaking the power of the slave trade over Meereen once and for all.
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Seventy-six years ago today, Japan bombed the U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor, killing more than 2,400 Americans and propelling the U.S. into World War II. News of the surprise attack in Hawaii "fell like a bombshell on Washington," The Times reported the next morning.
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In 1973, after Egypt launched a surprise attack against Israel in what became known as the Yom Kippur War, Mr. Cohen took a leave from Harvard to enlist in the Israeli Army and use his training as a social psychologist to bolster morale at the front.
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Boris Yeltsin—back when the Doomsday Clock stood at a remarkably peaceful 14 minutes to midnight—was actually handed the Russian nuclear briefcase, known as the Cheget, in 1995 when Russian radar mistook the launch of a Norwegian scientific rocket for a surprise attack from a US submarine.
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Pearl Harbor Today, in Honolulu, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Obama will visit Pearl Harbor, 75 years after the surprise attack that dragged the US into World War II. The joint visit is meant to show the power of reconciliation: from adversaries to the closest of allies.
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The surprise attack on Soleimani, who built up Tehran's network of proxy armies across the Middle East and was a pivotal figure in orchestrating its campaign to drive U.S. forces out of Iraq, has plunged the region into a new crisis and raised fears of a wider war.
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Yet, as U.S.-Japanese relations deteriorated during the following months and the day of the surprise attack grew close, with intelligence "chatter" in intercepts suggesting possible hostilities, this information was not considered by the president, the secretary of State, the secretary of War, nor any senior military commanders.
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There's an important Asian case in point, mentioned only briefly here, that strongly supports Freedman's warnings against delusions of knockout battles: Japan in World War II. Plotting their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese militarists hoped to win some quick victories and then negotiate peace on more favorable terms. Gen.
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If the United States was prepared to go beyond a limited strike, it could conduct a surprise attack on North Korea's missile garrison and weapon storage areas, using American aircraft stationed in Guam, in Japan and on aircraft carriers as well as strategic bombers that would be refueled in flight.
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It was a surprise attack on a demonstration meant to protest the two most recent instances of excessive police force on black men; Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, two black men from Minnesota and Louisiana, respectively, were shot and killed by police officers within 48 hours of each other this week.
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The Iraqi army, joined by Iran-backed Shia militias, surged north in a surprise attack to capture the oil-rich region of Kirkuk in a stunning defeat for Kurdish peshmerga forces, which had held effective control of the region ever since Iraqi forces abandoned Kirkuk while retreating from ISIS in 2014.
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But Abe said at the time he had no plans to reciprocate the president's visit to Japan with a trip to Pearl Harbor, where the Japanese carried out a surprise attack in 1941, drawing the U.S. into World War II. Rebecca Savransky contributed to this report, which was updated at 7:19 a.m.
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In Mr. Leutze's work, the founding father stands heroically at the helm of one of the row boats traversing the icy river, leading his men to what would be a successful surprise attack against the German Hessian troops in Trenton, N.J. In Mr. Lawrence's version, however, there is not a single protagonist.
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The latest exchange happened Wednesday when Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid blasted Chuck Grassley, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, for his surprise attack a day before on John Roberts, the conservative chief justice of the Supreme Court, who Grassley blamed for contributing to the politicization of the Supreme Court confirmation process.
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The new air route has alarmed some security experts because it increases China's ability to launch a surprise attack on the Taiwanese island groups of Kinmen and Matsu, which are near the Chinese coast and thus on the front line of Taiwan's defense, by allowing Chinese aircraft to get closer before they can be detected.
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Conceived in the depths of the Cold War by President Dwight Eisenhower and pressed forward by President George H.W. Bush to promote international stability after the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, the Open Skies Treaty allows the United States, Russia and other nations to send unarmed surveillance flights over one another's territories to monitor military buildups or warnings of a surprise attack.
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Did Bran know the events that were going to play out during Game of Thrones' final season — Cersei not sending her army to Winterfell; Arya killing the Night King; Euron's surprise attack on Dany; Cersei executing Missandei; Daenerys torching King's Landing; Jon killing Daenerys; Jon being sent to the North — and decide to sit idly by so that he could inherit the throne by a process of elimination?
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In the coming week, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will fly to Hawaii for the express purpose of visiting the site of the surprise attack on a United States naval base 75 years ago that killed 2,400 Americans and drew the country into World War II. It is a sign of how far public opinion in Japan has moved that Mr. Abe can make the trip to the memorial, accompanied by President Obama, to offer condolences to the victims.
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