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U.S. Navy accidentally throws $64 million jet overboard off the coast of Yemen

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A F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet fell from the aircraft carrier into the Red Sea on Monday .

None of the crew were harmed, except for a sailor who suffered minor injuries.

The U.S. military has been fighting a war in Yemen against the Houthi government.

At least 158 civilians have been killed in Yemen by U.N. air raids since March 15 .

He later accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , who has been warning Trump against a "bad deal," of trying to "sabotage" diplomacy. "I think a deal is going to be made there. It's going to happen. Pretty sure it's going to happen," Trump told reporters on Sunday . "We'll have something without having to start dropping bombs all over the place." But in Yemen , that's exactly what he's been doing—dropping bombs all over the place..

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