Senegal president says no more 'foreign military presence from 2025'

Senegal's President Bassirou Dioumaye Faye said that 2025 would see an end to all foreign military presence in the west African country, in a speech on Tuesday to mark the new year. Faye's statement came a month after he announced that former colonial master France would have to close its military bases in Senegal. "I have instructed the minister for the armed forces to propose a new doc…

 https://www.africadaily.net/reports/Senegal_president_says_no_more_foreign_military_presence_from_2025_999.html 

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US strikes take out Houthi radar site, weapons-production facility in Yemen

U.S. Navy ships and aircraft struck several Houthi targets in Yemen's capital city of Sana'a and coastal areas controlled by Houthis on Monday and Tuesday. U.S. naval forces conducted multiple precision strikes against a Houthi command and control facility and advanced conventional weapons-production facilities that produced missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, Central Command officer

 https://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Navy_Air_Force_take_out_Houthi_radar_site_weapons-production_facility_in_Yemen_999.html 

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Boeing Statement on Jeju Air Flight 2216

 https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2024-12-28-Boeing-Statement-on-Jeju-Air-Flight-2216 

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Manhunt launched after passengers flee plane that made emergency landing at Malta Airport

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/turkish-airlines/manhunt-launched-after-passengers-flee-plane-that-made-emergency-landing-at-malta-airport/ 

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FAA's Hydrogen-Fueled Aircraft Safety and Certification Roadmap, December 2024 [pdf]

https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/step/disciplines/propulsion_systems/hydrogen-fueled_aircraft_roadmap 

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Ukrainian Surface Drone Equipped with R-73 Air-to-Air Missiles Shot Down Russian Mi-8 Helicopter

https://theaviationist.com/2024/12/31/ukrainian-magura-usv-r-73-vs-mi-8-helicopter/ 

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FAA Investigating: United Airlines New Year's Eve Boeing 757 Hawaii-Bound Flight Returns To LAX Due To Engine Issues

https://simpleflying.com/united-airlines-new-years-ev-boeing-757-flight-hawaii-returns-lax-engine-issues/ 

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South Korea air crash investigators extract black box data as grieving families mourn the victims

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/grieving-families-of-victims-of-south-korean-plane-crash-visit-site-for-a-memorial-service/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_boeing-aerospace 

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JAL A350 collision: Tokyo Haneda runway-conflict system ‘difficult to rely on’

Japanese investigators have indicated that a runway conflict alert was active for over a minute before the fatal collision between a Japan Airlines Airbus A350 and a De Havilland Dash 8 at Tokyo Haneda.

https://www.flightglobal.com/safety/jal-a350-collision-tokyo-haneda-runway-conflict-system-difficult-to-rely-on/161253.article 

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Narrowly avoided runway collision at Los Angeles Airport involving college basketball team

https://www.aviation24.be/airports/los-angeles/narrowly-avoided-runway-collision-at-los-angeles-airport-involving-college-basketball-team/ 

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Top Aces Continues to Support Royal Canadian Air Force’s Training with Upgraded A-4 Skyhawks

https://theaviationist.com/2025/01/01/top-aces-a-4-aaf-rcaf-training/ 

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New Zealand Defence Force issues RFP to replace B757s

The New Zealand Ministry of Defence has released a request for proposals (RFP) to replace two ageing and increasingly unreliable B757-200s operated by the Royal New Zealand Air Force (KIW, Auckland Whenuapai) (RNZAF) with B737-8 or A321neo aircraft by the end of 2027.

https://www.ch-aviation.com/news/148743-new-zealand-defence-force-issues-rfp-to-replace-b757s 

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Boeing on track to be 2024's biggest loser in Dow Jones Index | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-track-be-2024s-biggest-loser-dow-jones-index-2024-12-31/ 

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