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Chinese balloon shot down over Atlantic ‘was equipped to collect intelligence signals’ - US

The Chinese balloon shot down over the United States was part of a huge, military-linked aerial spy scheme targeting more than 40 countries, according to the US government.

Evening Standard

US: Chinese balloon 'clearly' for spying

 WASHINGTON: Images from U2 spy planes showed that the Chinese balloon that flew over the United States last week was unmistakably equipped for collecting intelligence and not weather data, a US official said on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

US intelligence says Chinese spy balloon WAS part of global surveillance operation

Brigadier General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said in a news conference Wednesday that four more balloons have now been spotted flying in the skies above America

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China says it was smeared in Joe Biden's State of the Union speech

It comes after the shooting down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon which had travelled over the United States

Irish Mirror

Biden taunts Xi over balloon incident

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden taunted Xi Jinping in his State of the Union address, saying autocracies had grown weaker around the world and that no one would want the Chinese leader’s job.

Bangkok Post

US Briefed 40 Nations on China Balloon, Diplomats and Officials Say

The United States held briefings in Washington and Beijing with foreign diplomats from 40 nations about the Chinese spy balloon that entered US airspace in late January, a senior administration official and diplomats said on Tuesday. US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman briefed nearly 150 foreign diplomats across 40…

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Navy releases pictures of ‘spy balloon’ recovery

The US Navy has released photos of its recovery of the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot out of the sky.

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US Navy releases first images of Chinese ‘spy’ balloon recovery

US is carrying out an extensive operation to gather all the pieces of the device, which was shot down at the weekend.

Al Jazeera

US Navy recovers shot down Chinese balloon

The US Navy has released images of the recovery expedition to gather the pieces of the massive Chinese spy balloon shot down by a fighter jet over South Carolina on Saturday.

Evening Standard

China’s Spy Balloons May Have Used Ground Penetrating Radar, Former Navy Seal Says

The FBI lab will uncover the satellite's secrets by examining the wreckage in the coming weeks.

Zenger

Navy releases first photos of Chinese balloon debris

The photos offer the closest look yet at the high-altitude aircraft that has further strained relations between the two countries.

Axios

US shares photos of downed Chinese balloon, Microsoft demos ChatGPT integration, and Türkiye and Syria earthquake rescues continue — as it happened

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happen.

ABC News

First images of Chinese spy balloon debris pulled from Atlantic Ocean released by US Navy

The photographs are dated 5 February, the day after the balloon was shot down off the coast of South Carolina

The Independent UK

US military releases photos of mission to salvage debris from downed Chinese ‘spy’ balloon

Balloon falls six miles off the coast of Carolina after being shot down by US military

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Roll Call

Congress digesting details on Chinese balloon - Roll Call

General says the Air Force initially didn't shoot down a Chinese surveillance balloon over Alaska because it was not a military threat.

Irish Mirror

China accuses US of indiscriminate use of force over balloon

The US shot down the balloon after it travelled over sensitive military sites across North America

Al Jazeera

US Navy working to recover debris from Chinese ‘spy balloon’

The craft, which Beijing says was a meteorological airship blown off course, was shot down in the Atlantic Ocean.

Reuters

China's balloon over the U.S. seen as bold but clumsy espionage tactic

China's flight of a suspected surveillance balloon over the United States appears to mark a more aggressive - albeit puzzling - espionage tactic than relying on satellites and the theft of industrial and defense secrets, security experts said.

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Malcolm Turnbull says Labor has failed to answer if Aukus deal compromises Australian sovereignty

Former PM says if operation of nuclear subs depends on US then that is ‘a momentous change which has not been acknowledged’

Asharq Al-Awsat

French Forces Seize Iranian-Supplied Weapons Bound for Yemen

The French naval special forces, along with their US and British counterparts, are now involved in combating the smuggling of Iranian weapons to the Houthi militias in Yemen, an indication of a noticeable change in France’s policy. Paris announced that its Elite special forces seized a boatload of Iranian-supplied weapons…

Reuters

Memorial held for former US Navy Seal killed in Ukraine

Former U.S. Navy SEAL Daniel Swift, who was killed fighting for Ukraine, was commemorated in a memorial service in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Tuesday.

ABC News

Fresh AUKUS concerns as submarine headaches emerge in United States over dry dock closures

The US Navy suspends submarine repair work at four West Coast dry docks, prompting fresh concerns about the AUKUS agreement just weeks before a new announcement on an "optimal pathway" for Australia to develop nuclear-powered submarines.

Reuters

Odds 'very high' of U.S. military conflict with China, top Republican says

A top Republican in the U.S. Congress said on Sunday the odds of conflict with China over Taiwan "are very high" after a U.S. general caused consternation with a memo that warned that the United States would fight China in the next two years.

Daily Mirror

Sailor says swarm of UFOs buzzed around US Navy warship in way no human craft could

The witness, who spoke under anonymity to UFO researchers Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp for their new podcast Weaponized, was aboard the USS Paul Hamilton

Asharq Al-Awsat

100 Houthi-Bound Drone Parts Seized in Yemen

Yemeni security agencies seized on Monday a shipment of some one hundred drone parts that were bound to the terrorist Iran-backed Houthi militias. The shipment was busted in the eastern al-Mahra province. Yemeni official sources said security forces seized the shipment while inspecting a truck at a crossing point. The…

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