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...But talks between the US and UAE over the sale of F-35s have since stalled, with Washington worried about sensitive information being leaked to China, and Abu Dhabi frustrated by restrictions on the jets...
...The administration is also moving ahead with the sale to Israel of $18bn worth of weapons, including F-15 fighter jets, over the next five years — one of the largest US arms deals with its ally....
...The US will train Ukrainian pilots in Arizona this year to fly F-16 fighter jets, the Pentagon said on Thursday....
...She contributed $4mn towards RFK’s Super Bowl advertisement earlier this year in which he outraged his family by likening himself to his uncle, John F Kennedy....
...Denmark began training eight Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16s earlier this week....
...The US will transfer F-16s to Turkey, its national security adviser said on Tuesday, hours after Turkish president Recep Tayep Erdoğan agreed to drop his veto on Sweden joining Nato....
...Robert F Kennedy Jr, the most popular independent candidate, has more than 10.5 per cent, while Cornel West and Jill Stein are each on about 2 per cent, according to a RealClearPolitics average....
...Lloyd Austin, US defence secretary, announced on Wednesday that two US F-15 fighter jets had conducted “a self-defence strike” on a weapons storage facility in eastern Syria in response to attacks on US...
..., academic Cornel West and Green party activist Jill Stein are still seeking ballot access in states across the country....
...A former F-16 pilot who earned the call sign “Swamp Thing” after he ejected into the Florida Everglades when his plane was struck by lightning takes over as Joe Biden’s chief military adviser on Sunday....
...Two American F-16s carried out the strikes on Friday morning. “We do not seek to widen the conflict nor escalate it,” said a senior US defence official....
...Biden first offered support to the idea of sending F-16s last year after Finland and Sweden applied to join Nato....
...Read more on the F-16 plan here...
...Robert F Kennedy Jr — son of the 1968 candidate — has already launched an independent bid, and Jill Stein and Cornel West have mounted their own campaigns from the left....
...The next step is an American ‘yes’ on actually making use of the F-16s in combat by Ukrainian fighter pilots . . . It’s a step-by-step approach.”...
...“The view of our military commanders is that the notion that F-16s would play a decisive role in this counteroffensive given that fundamental reality . . ....
...The Democratic and Republican nominees are joined by the dynastic Robert F Kennedy Jr and leftist academic Cornel West running as independents, and the Green Party’s Jill Stein....
...Parallel discussions were also held with US president Joe Biden over Turkey’s plans to complete a multibillion-dollar deal to buy F-16 fighter jets, which has been held up in Congress....
...Robert F Kennedy Jr, 70, Joe Manchin, 76, Jill Stein, 73, Marianne Williamson, 71, and Cornel West, 70, are each thinking about entering the fray as independents in one form or other....
...The US is unlikely to provide its own F-16s to Kyiv....
...A coalition of allies is expected to announce the start of training for Ukrainian pilots in US-made F-16 fighter jets, the officials said....
...Erdoğan will say: ‘No, I want the Congress to take the first step and greenlight the F-16s and then I’ll move forward’,” he said....
...Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said that giving Ukraine F-16 fighter jets is currently “not a wise use of resources.”...
...Those included a presentation about corrosion problems affecting Australian F-35s and an artillery manual “carried by command post officers for each battery”....
...Of these, the two most serious are Robert F Kennedy Jr and whichever bipartisan ticket No Labels puts up....
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