US Air Force says its hypersonic missile flew at five times the speed of sound in a test carried off the coast of Southern California.
All of the 27 members who refused to get the coronavirus vaccine were young and low ranks, and they were formally terminated from Air Force, officials say.
Video on social media showed hundreds of people running alongside the huge craft and clambering onto it as it rolled along a runway and what appears to be at least two Afghans plummeting from an airborne C-17 transport.
The Pentagon has updated the Joint Memorandum of Understanding that says the other participants – US, UK, Italy, Netherlands, Australia, Denmark, Canada and Norway – will remain in the programme.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said the US strikes were "illegal and a violation of Syria's sovereignty" in a meeting with his visiting Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein.
President Joe Biden okays air strike against a structure belonging to what the US says were Iran-backed militia.
At least four rockets struck an Iraqi airbase, the Iraqi military says in a statement, while other officials say one person was wounded at the base where an American defence company services combat aircraft.
US military says it has already tested unloading and shipping cargo overland from the country's port at Yanbu, a crucial terminal for oil pipelines in the kingdom.
The immediate brunt of the storm is expected to be felt by the resort-studded northeastern tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, which is forecast to start seeing hurricane conditions today with the storm reaching land in the early hours of Wednesday.
Ten passengers and three crew were on the aircraft, which was operated by the Collings Foundation, a group catering to aviation buffs who pay to experience vintage planes, officials said.
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