By ZOE MASON on July 29, 2026. Landing Zones CEO Spencer Fraser poses with head of air power at Airbus Defence and Space Jean-Brice Dumont after signing the new agreement in the U.K. last week.–PHOTO COURTESY LANDING ZONES zmason@medicinehatnews.com A major Medicine Hat aerospace company inked a significant deal with Europe’s largest aeronautics and space…
CAIRO (AP) — Jordan’s air defenses intercepted five missiles launched from Iran early Wednesday, the country’s military said, hours after the U.S. military said it had knocked down an Iranian missile barrage launched against American forces in the Middle East, shattering a brief pause in fighting. The Jordanian military said the missiles had been “intercepted…
Benjamin Netanyahu meets Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that he had an “excellent” meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House, marking their first face-to-face talks since the war with Iran began in late February. “I’ve just finished an excellent meeting with President…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham, the son of pool hall owners who rose to become one of his generation’s more influential U.S. politicians at home and abroad, will be eulogized Tuesday during memorial services across Washington. Graham’s remains will arrive at the U.S. Capitol, where the Republican served for more than 30 years as…
81 enemy UAVs were destroyed as they approached Moscow. (Representational) An apartment building in Chekhov near Russian capital Moscow has been hit in a drone attack, regional governor Andrei Vorobyov said in a Telegram post on Tuesday. Vorobyov accompanied his post with a photograph of a tall building with blown-out windows and black smoke rising…
US President Donald Trump on Monday (local time) brushed off Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘opposition’ to the potential sale of American F-35 fighter jets to Turkey. Netanyahu had warned that supplying the F-35 fighter jets to Turkey would “destroy the power balance in the Middle East.” (File Photo/Reuters) These remarks by the US President…
Andy Burnham will tell schools across England to adapt their curriculums to the needs of local businesses as part of a devolution drive aimed at tackling the jobs crisis for young people. By moving decision-making to local areas, the PM hopes the plan will make technical and vocational skills as valued as academic qualifications –…
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Wu Chi-wai was granted permission to remain in the U.K. as a visitor, his lawyer said Tuesday, where he has reunited with his family after being locked up in the city’s prison for more than five years. Paul Harris, who represents Wu, told The Associated Press early…
An unidentified man allegedly attacked three women in Paris with two kitchen knives and wounded them, a minister and a police said. Following the assault, the suspect was detained by a French off-duty policeman and other bystanders who pinned him to the ground, news agency Reuters reported. The identity of the suspect and his motive…
For a few weeks this summer you could look at the oil price and forget the Iran war had ever happened. In June America signed a deal with Iran, waiving sanctions on its enemy’s oil exports in exchange for ships’ safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. As tankers rushed to exit the Gulf, a…