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Deadly Overnight Barrage on Kyiv Exposes Growing Strain on Ukraine’s Air Defences
Russian ballistic and cruise missiles, alongside waves of drones, struck residential districts, a children’s hospital and other civilian sites across the Ukrainian capital, killing at least 13 people and intensifying pressure on Kyiv’s depleted missile-defence network. Kyiv endured one of…
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Israeli Military Opens Criminal Probe Into Killing of Hind Rajab After Admitting Troops Fired on Family Car
More than two years after the five-year-old Palestinian girl was killed in Gaza, Israel’s military has acknowledged that its forces opened fire on the vehicle carrying her family and has ordered a criminal investigation into the incident. Israel’s military has…
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Britain Defies Kremlin Warning as Burnham Reaffirms Military Support for Ukraine
The British prime minister has rejected Moscow’s threat of “consequences” over reports that UK-made drones are being used for long-range attacks inside Russia, insisting that London will remain a steadfast supporter of Kyiv as the aerial war intensifies. British Prime…
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Trump Scales Back Korea Military Exercises in Bid to Reopen Door to Kim Jong Un
The U.S. president has ordered the Pentagon to substantially reduce joint exercises with South Korea, arguing that the drills are costly and unnecessarily provocative as he signals renewed interest in diplomacy with North Korea. President Donald Trump has ordered the…
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Ukraine Unleashes Massive Drone Barrage Deep Inside Russia
Hundreds of Ukrainian drones strike targets from the Moscow region to southern Russia, killing at least six people according to Russian authorities and setting a major logistics warehouse ablaze as the cross-border air war intensifies. Ukraine launched one of the…
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Deadly Israeli Airstrikes Test Lebanon’s Fragile Postwar Truce
Eleven people were killed and 19 wounded in attacks on southern Lebanon, marking the deadliest escalation since the June ceasefire framework and raising new concerns over whether the fragile arrangements between Israel, Beirut and Hezbollah can hold. Israeli airstrikes across…
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West Bank Crisis Deepens as Palestinian Families Are Driven From Qusra Homes
Israeli forces move residents during an operation following days of settler intimidation in Qusra, while former prime minister Ehud Olmert describes the events as a coordinated attempt to remove Palestinians from their land. A confrontation in the occupied West Bank…
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West Bank Families Trapped as Settler Confrontation Deepens
Palestinian residents in Qusra say Israeli settlers have surrounded their homes, disrupted water and electricity supplies and restricted access to food and medical assistance, as the Israeli military faces growing scrutiny over its response. Two Palestinian families in the occupied…
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Black Sea Conflict Threatens a New Shock to Global Food and Energy Trade
Escalating Russian attacks on Ukrainian grain infrastructure and Ukrainian strikes against Russian shipping are turning the Black Sea into an increasingly dangerous commercial corridor, raising freight costs, disrupting exports and exposing global markets to another geopolitical supply shock. The Black…
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U.S. Helicopter Strike Disables Vessel Accused of Defying Iran Maritime Blockade
The Panama-flagged Vela Nova was hit in the Gulf of Oman after its crew allegedly ignored repeated warnings, marking a significant escalation in Washington’s enforcement campaign against Iranian ports. U.S. forces fired on a Panama-flagged commercial vessel in the Gulf…
