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A U.S. aircraft flying in international airspace over the Mediterranean Sea was intercepted three times by a Russian fighter jet during a 175-minute period Tuesday, according to the 6th Fleet. One of the interactions ndash; the second ndash; was deemed to be unsafe by the U.S. because the Russian SU-35 passed at high speed directly in front of the U.
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