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Newsflash obtained the video from Ukraine’s Centre for Strategic Communications (Stratcom), headquartered in Kyiv, on Monday, April 25th. Stratcom said: “Ukrainian defenders shot down an enemy plane in the Kharkiv region. “According to preliminary data, it was an all-weather two-seater fighter-bomber Su-34, according to the Air Command East.” The Air Command East appeared to confirm the strike through its official channels. According to reports, the warplane was shot down near the city of Balakliya, which is currently under Russian occupation....

Reed, 29, initially faced two third-degree criminal sexual conduct charges stemming from a March 29, 2014 incident in which a woman accused him of drugging and raping her at a Detroit hotel. But those charges were dropped two weeks ago as part of an agreement with prosecutors that saw Reed plead no contest to a misdemeanor aggravated assault charge. MORE: Disgraced athletes Reed has said the two had consensual sex....

Juve 21/20 to win Serie A Allegri’s side were 2-1 up when Mario Mandzukic had a goal ruled out after referee Antonio Damato watched video replays of an elbow to the face of Alejandro Gomez by Stephan Lichtsteiner that earned the Swiss defender a yellow card. Towards the end of the game, Damato again referred to video replay as he awarded Juventus a penalty — subsequently missed by Paulo Dybala — for an alleged handball by Andrea Petagna, despite the ball appearing to strike the player’s shoulder....

First meets third in Turin on Tuesday for the opening leg of the tie, with Roma and Lazio meeting in the other last-four contest. Allegri: Serie A in our hands Napoli come into the game having lost 2-0 at home to Atalanta on Saturday, their first league defeat for 15 matches. Allegri says Juve, who had been the previous side to beat Napoli domestically in October, are prepared for a fierce reaction....

On the verge of his 40th birthday and just before the release of a tell-all Showtime documentary, the former Philadelphia 76ers standout recently told Complex he realizes he had no business trying to drop a rap album back in 2000 during the height of his NBA super stardom. MORE: Allen Iverson says money problems are a ‘myth’ | Allen Iverson loves Russell Westbrook | Must-see Allen Iverson photos Iverson released a profanity-laden single called “40 Bars” under the moniker ‘Jewelz’....

To help, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a list of distinct and overlapping symptoms for COVID-19 and spring allergies. And Verywell talked to doctors about how even the overlapping symptoms can be distinct for each condition. Overlapping COVID-19 and Spring Allergy Symptoms Cough, the first overlapping symptom listed by the CDC, can actually be quite different for the two conditions, Anupama Kewalramani, MD, an allergist and professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, tells Verywell....

But Hamad may have recently run afoul of another American battle: a campaign against money laundering. After the British island of Jersey tightened its anti-money-laundering laws, a bank informed authorities three years ago of its suspicion that three trusts controlled by Hamad might contain criminal proceeds. Jersey’s attorney general opened a criminal investigation into whether more than $150 million held in the trusts could be kickbacks that Hamad obtained from companies seeking to do business with the Qatari government....

Although the condition attacks hair follicles, it doesn’t destroy them, so there is no scarring and hair will re-grow over time. Children, teens, and adults can be affected and genetics play a part in who develops it. Even though alopecia areata usually resolves itself, some treatment options exist, as well as coping strategies when hair loss causes anxiety and embarrassment. Symptoms of Alopecia Areata People who have this condition are, for the most part, otherwise healthy....

Withdrawing would be stupid if Hillary had a reasonable chance to win the nomination, but she doesn’t. To win, she would have to do more than reverse the tide in Texas and Ohio, where polls show Obama already even or closing fast. She would have to hold off his surge, then establish her own powerful momentum within three or four days. Without a victory of 20 points or more in both states, the delegate math is forbidding....

The story of the no-shows tells you a lot about the state of the GOP. Some—like John McCain—had longstanding conflicts. But Mitt Romney was considered a likely guest until the last possible minute, then chose instead to speak at another cancer event, hastily scheduled this week by Republicans at the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer research. The best explanation for Romney’s decision to stiff Armstrong is that he didn’t want to face questions from co-moderator Chris Matthews about why he was running away from his innovative health care plan in Massachusetts....

Which ticket would he run on? It’s not even close. Bloomberg was a lifelong Democrat who became a Republican not out of conviction but because he couldn’t win a Democratic primary for mayor of New York. (It wasn’t possible to run as an independent.) His politics have remained fairly liberal. In fact, his positions on issues like abortion, gun control, gay rights and government regulation actually put him slightly to the left of the Democratic Party mainstream....

Unfortunately, this common phrase often leaves surviving family members and friends uncertain if they should or shouldn’t send flowers as an expression of love and support if they desire. Why Is ‘In Lieu of Flowers’ a Problem? According to the Society of American Florists, a national trade association representing all segments of the U.S. floral industry, the phrase “In lieu of flowers…” became a nationwide problem in the 1950s....

Cluster bombs open as they drop, releasing 202 bomblets the size of soda cans. At least 5 percent fail to go off, and State Department officials estimate that as many as 11,000 of the bomblets may be scattered across Kosovo. “Where they land is random,” says a U.S. mine expert. “You can’t even survey them.” In the northern Adriatic, where allied pilots dumped bombs rather than land with them, fishing has been temporarily banned, and much of Italy’s scenic Lago di Garda is also off-limits....

Until World War II, Reggio was known more for the quality of its wine and ham than for the excellence of its schools. But as the Germans retreated, the women of Reggio decided to build a school from the rubble. In Villa Cella, then a borough of Reggio, parents and children gathered stones and sand from the river, made bricks and hauled wood. In 1946 a teacher named Loris Malaguzzi rode over on his bicycle to take a look at the work in progress....

It was a painful scene, but supposedly one with a purpose. Bill Clinton emerged from his 75-minute meeting with Lani Guinier last week looking like a mourner at the funeral of his best friend. It was “one of the most difficult meetings I ever had in my life,” said the president, announcing his decision to pull the plug on his nominee as head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division....

This Thursday a strikingly similar scene will play out. Barring last-minute glitches, Takeshita will testify before Japan’s Parliament about his alleged role in the latest of Tokyo’s unending skein of political scandals, the Sagawa Kyubin affair. His cooperation is part of a deal struck last week between the LDP and the opposition that guarantees passage of critical budget legislation. This time Takeshita’s political career may be on the line....

The home side took the lead three times only to be pegged back by the visitors on each occasion in an enthralling contest at AAMI Park. Bruno Fornaroli scored twice for City after Tim Cahill’s early goal but also missed two of his three penalties in the 90 minutes, including one in second-half injury time that followed straight red cards for Dino Djulbic and Fernando Brandan. Diego Castro hit a double for Glory and Chris Harold grabbed the final equaliser to deny City the chance to climb above rivals Melbourne Victory into third in the table, while the visitors remain six points further back in sixth....

Riezenman contacted the Texas Department of Health, which in turn alerted the national Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta. CDC officials knew that anencephaly, although rare, occurs naturally at a rate of around three or four per 10,000 live births in the United States. A cluster of five cases, in Brownsville, a city of around 100,000, could be a statistical anomaly, but perhaps nothing more than that. Few were prepared for what the CDC found: that in 1989 and 1990 (and continuing up to the present) Brownsville and surrounding Cameron County had an incidence of anencephaly five times the national average....