❗️Eight figure skaters were on board the airliner that crashed in the United States, according to Channel2 NOW.

According to media reports, among the athletes who flew on that plane were Spencer Lane, Gina Khan, Franco Aparicio, sisters Everly and Alidia Livingston, Sean Kay, Angela Yang and Edward Zhou.

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Notorious Quran burner, Salwan Momika, shot dead in Sweden — report

At the time of the incident, Momika might have been livestreaming on TikTok, meaning some parts of the shooting could have been captured on video, the SVT channel adds.

Two years ago, the Iraqi citizen publicly burned the Quran several times, which caused a storm of indignation around the world.

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📹📍Radar footage captures the moment of the collision between a US military helicopter and an airliner near Reagan National Airport.

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📹💥Russian soldiers use drones to target and destroy the position of a Ukrainian UAV crew in the Severny district of Chasov Yar.

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❗️Ukrainian losses in the Russian Kursk region amounted to more than 240 militants, Russia's Defense Ministry informed

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Here’s why the DC helicopter-plane midair collision is a ‘PUZZLE’

It is hard to fathom how the January 29 deadly air collision above Washington DC could have happened since the pilots of the Black Hawk helicopter should have seen the incoming aircraft, aviation industry specialist Capt. Desmond Ross tells Sputnik.

▪️With all the air traffic to and from Washington’s three airports, one does not simply “fly around there at low altitude without keeping a very, very sharp lookout through the canopy.”

▪️While the helicopter crew could have been “focused on instruments only and not really looking out of the aircraft,” such conduct would have been “improper.”

▪️The fact that the air traffic controllers apparently were aware of the collision risk and tried warning the helicopter, but got no response from it, is “confusing as well.”

“It’s a puzzle,” stated Capt. Ross, an aviation industry specialist with 25 years at senior executive management level and consulting.

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🔉SOUND ON: Excerpt from air traffic controllers’ negotiations MOMENTS after the midair collision above DC.

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❗️Russia's State Duma Chairman sent an appeal to the US Congress regarding the alleged discussion between Biden and Blinken on the organization of an assassination attempt on Putin.

In the document, the deputies demand a thorough investigation into the data recently announced by Tucker Carlson.

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❗️The bodies of more than 30 people have been recovered from a river after a plane and a helicopter crashed near Washington, NBC reports, citing sources.

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📹Footage capturing the transfer of Israeli hostage Arbel Yehud to the Red Cross

Yehud was supposed to be among the first two groups of hostages released on January 19 and 25 during the first phase of the interim ceasefire agreement, the New York Times reports, referring to the Israeli authorities.

She is believed to be one of the last civilian women held in Gaza, the newspaper added.

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🇷🇴Romania's presidential candidate bets on Ukraine’s SPLIT after the war ends

"The world is changing. Borders will change. More than that – where do we stand? Northern Bukovina, Bugeac, North Maramures... Transcarpathia for Hungary, Lvov for Poland," Romania's leading presidential candidate Calin Georgescu said in his latest interview.

Speculations on territorial division of Ukraine have been ongoing since the start of Russia’s special military operation.

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📹Crowds have gathered to watch the ceremony of Hamas fighters and Al-Quds Brigades handing over the third group of Israeli hostages to the Red Cross.

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❗️No survivors likely after midair collision over DC

Twenty-seven bodies have been recovered from the plane and one from the helicopter following the collision near Reagan National Airport in Washington DC, according to a US official.

The official says that authorities are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation and that no survivors are likely to be found.

American Airlines CEO says the cause of why the military aircraft came into the path of a passenger aircraft is unknown.

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💬 Here's what Edward Snowden has to tell Tulsi Gabbard ahead of her Senate confirmation as Director of National Intelligence

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