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Earlier on Thursday, a DeSantis spokesperson said the governor’s office had contracted cargo planes to send drones, body armor and helmets to Israel and worked to “get weapons and ammunition to Israel through private parties.” In an interview with Reuters, however, Maor Elbaz-Starinsky, the Israeli consul general in Miami, said his office did not work with the governor to send any weapons or ammunition to Israel through private parties, though he had once been in contact with the governor’s office about a plane that was carrying rifle parts. “I am not aware and would find it very, very bizarre to...

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), a leading Senate advocate for supporting Ukraine’s war against Russia, crossed into Ukraine Sunday and called on the Biden administration to step up its shipments of artillery. Portman announced his visit while at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing at Palanca. “I also had the opportunity to speak with several Ukrainians crossing the border and hear about their concerns about what Russia was doing to their country,” he tweeted.

Amazon is banning sellers from shipping any non-essential items to its warehouses as it grapples with overwhelming demand for basic staple items as the coronavirus pandemic continues to grow. The Seattle-based e-tailing giant sent an email to sellers Tuesday announcing that it would only be accepting “household staples, medical supplies, and other high-demand products” for the next three weeks so that it can “more quickly receive, restock, and deliver” the products to customers. “We are seeing increased online shopping, and as a result some products such as household staples and medical supplies are out of stock,” Amazon told sellers, according...

Navy officials: US warship heads to Yemeni waters to intercept Iranian weapons shipments.

Factory orders edged up 0.3% to $453.5 billion in September...Economists polled by MarketWatch had anticipated a 0.1% fall...

Health Care Workers Begin Receiving Flu Shots Hospitals today began to receive the first doses of a vaccine designed to ward off a potential H1N1 flu pandemic -- this, after months of anticipation and debate over who would be the first to be vaccinated. Le Bonheur Hospital in Memphis and Wishard Health Services in Indiana were among the very first hospitals in the nation to receive vaccines on Monday, vaccinating about 150 and 100 staffers respectively. And though rollout was limited to healthcare workers, both said that so far, at least, the deployment of immunizations has gone smoothly. Hospitals in...

Britain, the US and nine other countries have agreed to press ahead with plans to intercept shipments of weapons of mass destruction by boarding ships, forcing suspected planes to land and inspecting cargoes. The agreement, which came at the end of a two-day meeting in Paris, contained a set of principles outlining steps members should take to increase co-operation on uncovering transfers of weapons, delivery systems and related materials. Part of the US government's Proliferation Security Initiative, the statement committed members to change national and international laws to strengthen those efforts, and to share intelligence on weapons movements. The guidelines...

<p>ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. and Dutch authorities have agreed to install equipment at Rotterdam, Europe's busiest seaport, to detect hidden shipments of radioactive material.</p> <p>"Terrorist groups and rogue nations trying to smuggle components for nuclear weapons is a serious threat that must be addressed," U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham said, surveying the sprawling expanse of cargo facilities at the port of Rotterdam.</p>

The US administration has called on Syria to halt any arms deliveries to Hizbullah and urged Lebanon to deploy the Lebanese Army in the South, according to US Ambassador Vincent Battle. Speaking to Friday’s issue of the Beirut-based French-language weekly, Magazine, Battle said that his country’s concern was mainly over “Syria’s support to terrorist networks, specifically Hizbullah.” In the interview, which was faxed to The Daily Star by the magazine, added that negotiations with Lebanon and Syria regarding the issue went very far. “We are talking about an issue which is very important to the United States,” the ambassador said....

<p>April 3 — Shifting protests against the war in Iraq to a new level, a San Francisco group says that it will set up a picket line Monday to block supplies being shipped to U.S. forces fighting in Iraq. The group, Direct Action to Stop the War, said will attempt to “shut down the war merchants” at the port of Oakland by urging members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union to not cross the picket line.</p>

HHungary's parliament today gave its near-unanimous approval to a proposal allowing Nato to use the country's roads, railways and airspace to carry military support to Turkey. Politicians voted 335-3 to approve permission for transports up until December 31, 2003. A two-thirds majority was required. A decision on Nato's request was postponed last week after opposition parties said they were not given enough time to study the proposal. The opposition said any transports should be linked specifically to Nato's defence of Turkey and successfully pushed for a provision ruling out military transports for any other purpose. "This bill is the guarantee...

<p>WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) Free-trade agreements and corporate greed were blamed for the closing of the C.F. Hathaway Co. shirt factory during a rally held at the central Maine plant.</p> <p>The AFL-CIO organized Saturday's rally as part of a tour of dying manufacturing sites in Maine. Production had ceased a day earlier at Hathaway, the nation's last major shirt manufacturing plant.</p>