Mes: septiembre 2019

Updated 7:28 PM ET (CBS/AP) ANKARA, Turkey – Syria said Friday it shot down a Turkish military plane that entered Syrian air space, and Turkey vowed to “determinedly take necessary steps” in response. It was the most clear and dramatic escalation in tensions between the two countries, which used to be allies before the Syrian revolt began in March 2011. Turkey has become one of the strongest critics of the Syrian regime’s brutal response to the country’s uprising. Earlier, CBS News correspondent David Martin reported U.S. officials confirmed that Syrian air defenses shot down a Turkish jet off the coast of Syria. The circumstances of the incident remain unclear. The jet — a Vietnam-era F-4 — was supposed to be on a routine training mission over the eastern Mediterranean. Late Friday, Syria’s state-run news agency, SANA, said the military spotted an “unidentified aerial target” that was flying at a low altitude and at a high speed. “The Syrian anti-air defenses counteracted with anti-aircraft artillery, hitting it directly,” SANA said. “The target turned out to be a Turkish military plane that entered Syrian airspace and was dealt with according to laws observed in such cases.” Turkey issued a statement Friday night following a two-hour security meeting led by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying Syrian forces downed the plane and that the two Turkish pilots remain missing. It said...

(CBS) Just days before Monaco’s royal wedding, the principality’s palace is denying rumors that princess-to-be Charlene Wittstock is getting cold feet. The website of the French magazine L’Express reports that Prince Albert II’s fiancee bought a one-way ticket to her home country of South Africa after learning that her future husband “was not as exemplary as she imagined.” Pictures: Charlene WittstockPictures: Prince Albert II and Charlene WittstockSpecial section: Monaco’s royal wedding According to the report, she was stopped at a French airport by officials, who were acting on a request from the palace, before she could depart. But the allegations simply aren’t true, 충청북도출장업소 says Christiane Stahl, a chief advisor to Prince Albert at the Monaco Palace. “Please believe me, none of this is true, and we think it comes from utter jealousy,” Stahl told People magazine on Tuesday. “Charlene never left to go to the airport, nothing like that ever happened. She was never upset and never wanted to stop the wedding.” “The Prince’s Palace firmly denies the allegations made in the press this morning on the web site Express.fr,” the palace said in an official statement, obtained by the magazine. “These rumors spread a few days before the wedding ceremonies of H.S.H Prince Albert and Miss Charlene Wittstock have only one purpose to seriously damage the Sovereign’s image and by consequence that of Miss Wittstock and to cause serious...