Japan has long banned arms exports but has significantly eased restrictions in recent years and is now developing next-generation fighter jets with the UK and Italy while finalizing a deal to sell frigates to Australia.
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Mari Yamaguchi,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Dec. 2025
Destroyers, frigates, fighter jets and bombers also carried out simulated strikes on maritime targets.
Cable-cutters can also tune into the NFL championship through a variety of Live TV streamers with access to NBC, such as DirecTV, Hulu + Live TV and Sling TV (in select markets).
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Anna Tingley,
Variety,
8 Feb. 2026
Multiple aircraft, cutters and small boats searched 1,047 square miles over 24 hours, finding debris near the location where the EPIRB was activated, along with one body and an unoccupied life raft that had been deployed.
Like sailboats, ice boats are wind-powered, but sit upon three ice blades.
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Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
7 Feb. 2026
Along the western edge of the Netherlands, where long stretches of blue sea meet shores painted with pine trees, windmills, and sailboats, lies Domburg—a 16th-century village in the maritime province of Zeeland.
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