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Michigan man

arrested

(AP) — A Michigan couple who used social media to chronicle their sailing adventures had a history of contention, including claims of assault on each other.

A Michigan police report reveals that Brian Hooker of Onsted said his wife struck him multiple times in 2015. Lynette Hooker spent a night in jail.

But police said a warrant was denied because it wasn’t clear who started the assault. Lynette Hooker was reported missing Saturday in the Bahamas after her husband told police she fell overboard from a small boat and was carried away by strong currents.

Brian Hooker was arrested Wednesday. Bahamian authorities and the U.S. Coast Guard have opened separate criminal investigations.

Ceasefire

still shaky

ISLAMABAD (AP) — With the ceasefire in Iran still shaky, U.S. and Iranian negotiators are heading to Pakistan for high-level talks with Iranian officials. Many issues could derail the truce and the negotiations aimed at making a broader deal to stop the fighting permanently.

Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim news agency claimed that the talks set for today would not happen unless Israel stopped its attacks in Lebanon. U.S.

President Donald Trump complained that Iran was doing “a very poor job” by not allowing the free flow of ships through the strait, through which 20% of the world’s traded oil once passed.

Ukraine helps

in Mideast

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian military personnel shot down Iranian-designed Shahed drones in multiple Middle Eastern countries during the Iran war, describing the operations as part of a broader effort to help partners counter the same weapons used by Russia in Ukraine.

He made his first public acknowledgment of the operations Wednesday in remarks to reporters that were embargoed until Friday. Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces took part in active operations abroad using domestically produced, battle-tested interceptor drones.

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