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Russians are being blinded from monitoring Ukrainian air space after losing another A-50 AWACS. An Indian expert suggests that the footage of A-50 Beriev ‘flying radar’ being hit indicates that Ukrainians are targeting Russian assets flying at a distance of over 200 km by modifying a drone to receive targeting data from Western surveillance and launching a heat-seeking missile. But the video points at Ukraine operationalizing something akin to the American Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)’s “Project Longshot.” In 2023, the Longshot project reached its third and final demonstration and test phase. During the same attack, a Russian Ilyushin...

At least three federal officers in Portland may not recover their vision after earlier this week demonstrators, who have shown up in crowds of over 1,000 for more than 50 consecutive nights, shined lasers in their eyes and threw fireworks at a federal courthouse, officials said. During Monday night's confrontation, one person also threatened to cut off the water supply to federal officers inside the building. Federal Protective Service (FPS) Deputy Director of Operations Richard “Kriss” Cline said at a press conference on Tuesday that a crowd of more than 1,000 “rioters” surrounded the Hatfield Federal Courthouse and began removing...

The leech man: Lawyer hopes nightly blood-sucking treatment will help return his sight after his 'schizophrenic son blinded him'A lawyer is hoping that a nightly blood-sucking leech treatment will help return his eyesight after his schizophrenic son allegedly blinded him in a blitz attack. John Dunlap, 80, is placing his trust in an experimental treatment that requires him to attach several leeches around his eyes so that one day he might see again. The lawyer from Memphis started the bizarre therapy after his bipolar and schizophrenic son Andrew, 41, allegedly attacked Dunlap and blinded him in 2015. With the help...

RUSH: Vinny in Long Island. Vinny, it's great to have you back on the program. It's been a while. It's good to see your name up on the board there. How you doing? CALLER: Hi, Rush. Maybe that's another Vinny, but I'm a first-time, longtime, and probably a 95-percenter, which means -- RUSH: Oh, so you're not the usual Vinny? Okay. CALLER: No, there's a lot of conservative Vinnies from Long Island (chuckles), as you can imagine. RUSH: Well, there's a lot of people in Long Island, so, yeah. It would makes sense that there are a lot of them...

A UK diplomat has been mugged, leaving him blind in one eye, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has said. George Fergusson, 56, was assaulted and robbed at about 19:30 BST on Friday while walking in Margravine Cemetery and Park, in Hammersmith, west London. Metropolitan Police officers are appealing for information. Mr Fergusson, who lost a small amount of cash in the mugging, works for the Foreign Office and is due to take up the post of governor of Bermuda. The governor acts as the Queen's official representative in Bermuda. A spokesman for the FCO said Mr Fergusson had had...

Erumeli, Mar 12, 2008 / 10:41 pm (CNA).- At least 50 in India have been blinded after staring at the sun in the hope of seeing an apparition of the Virgin Mary, the Telegraph reports. Devotees have flocked to a hotel manager’s house in Erumeli, near where the apparition is rumored to have occurred. The hotelier claimed that statues of the Virgin Mary in his house had been crying honey and bleeding oils and perfume. The hotelier has since moved, but the house has been the object of attention for months. Health authorities in the Kottayam district have tried to...

I check a website called ProMed, which discusses human and animal disease outbreaks from all over the world, and was surprised to see this one from Alabama. 2 blind alligators were trapped last month near Ocean Springs, Alabama, in response to citizen reports of "nuisance" alligators. Both gators had a small cavity eaten away-through flesh and bone-and the left eye of one was almost completely eaten away.Tox reports from US Fish&Wildlife service are pending. Some 54 blind gators have been trapped in this area in the past year.In addition, there have been at least 12 pelican deaths, according to the...