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☆ Trump picks Kimberly Guilfoyle and Tom Barrack to be ambassadors to Greece and Turkey
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Zoë Richards | Zoë Richards Is A Politics Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would nominate former Fox News personality Kimberly Guilfoyle and his longtime billionaire friend Tom Barrack to be ambassadors to Greece and Turkey, respectively. Trump made the announcements in a pair of social media posts. "For three decades, Tom successfully managed a global private equity firm," Trump wrote of Barrack on Truth Social. Last month, Trump said he would nominate Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner, to be ambassador to France in his incoming administration. He also named Massad Boulous, whose son is married to Trump's younger daughter, Tiffany Trump, as a senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs.

Persons: Donald Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Tom Barrack, Trump, Tom, Barrack, Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr, ”, Kimberly, Ronald Johnson —, —, Ron, Marco Rubio, Johnson, Trump's, Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner, Massad Boulous, Tiffany Trump Organizations: Fox News, Truth, Colony Capital, United, United Arab Emirates, FBI, America, . Special Operations Command, Army, Alabama National Guard Locations: Greece, Turkey, United Arab, Mexico, El Salvador, France

☆ New missiles could help Ukraine's future F-16 fighters to take on Russian jets, but the planes will likely be more useful for other missions
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

The Pentagon plans to send highly capable air-to-air missiles that the jets can carry. A US Air Force aircraft fuels craftsman marshals a US F-16 at Rovaniemi Air Base in Finland during Astral Knight 23 Part 6 on August 23, 2023. These capabilities, coupled with its physical design, make the F-16 a formidable opponent for Russian fighter jets like the MiG-31 and Su-35, experts and former pilots say. AdvertisementAdvertisementAn F-16C Fighting Falcon from the 85th Test Evaluation Squadron flies a test mission March 19, 2019 near Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Snodgrass said these missiles are "fairly comparable" to Russian air-to-air missiles like the R-27 and R-77.

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