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Downed planes spell new peril for Trump as Tehran hunts missing US pilot

U.S. Air Force F-16 planes

Washington/Cairo, April 4 (Reuters): Iran’s forces were hunting on Saturday for a missing U.S. pilot from one of ​two warplanes downed over Iran and the Gulf, officials from both sides said, while two airmen were rescued. The incidents show the risks still facing U.S. and ‌Israeli aircraft over Iran as the war entered its sixth week, despite assertions by President Donald Trump and his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that U.S. forces had total control of the skies. The prospect of a U.S. service person alive and on the run in Iran raises the stakes for Washington in a conflict with low public support among

US launches rescue operation after Iranian state TV claims fighter jet went down, AP source says

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP): The U.S. military launched a rescue operation Friday after local Iranian state media said an American fighter jet went down over southwestern Iran and at least one crew member ejected. Israel is helping the United States with the search and rescue operation, according to an Israeli military officer briefed on the information who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a U.S. announcement. Social media footage showed American drones, aircraft and helicopters flying over the mountainous region where the Iranian channel said at least one pilot bailed out of the fighter jet. It would mark the first

Trump offers murky path forward for Republicans as Iran war clouds midterm elections

US President Donald Trump

New York (AP): This is not the run up to the midterm elections that Republicans wanted. A year and a half after winning the White House by promising to lower costs and end wars, Donald Trump is a wartime president overseeing surging energy costs and an escalating overseas conflict that many in his own party do not like. He offered little clarity to a nation eager for answers this week during a prime-time address from the White House, his first since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran more than a month ago, simultaneously suggesting that the war was ending and

No right to pick school under EWS quota, says Delhi High Court; appeal dismissed

Delhi High Court

New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has observed that while the Right to Education Act ensures access to education, it does not give a student the right to insist on admission in a specific school. A Division Bench headed by Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and comprising Justice Tejas Karia made these observations while dismissing an appeal filed by a mother seeking her child’s admission to a particular private school under the EWS category. The Bench upheld the earlier ruling and found no grounds to interfere with the Single Judge’s decision. The Court emphasised that the

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