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British forces on Sunday intercepted a sanctioned oil tanker belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet in the English Channel
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The Israeli military said two drones, suspected to have been launched by the militant group Hezbollah from Lebanon, struck northern Israel on Sunday but caused no casualties
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Dozens protested Saturday outside a foreign ministry office in Iran’s northeastern city of Mashhad, chanting slogans against top diplomat Abbas Araghchi
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North Korea denounced on Saturday a joint statement by South Korea and the European Union that condemned Pyongyang’s military ties with Russia throughout the Ukraine war
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Sweden said Saturday it had scrambled two pairs of JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets a day earlier to intercept two Russian combat aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea near its airspace
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Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has called US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in protest after American strikes on three largely Indian-crewed merchant vessels off Oman killed three Indians, upping the diplomatic ante
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Palestinian and Israeli civil society groups urged support for a two-state solution, saying “the window of opportunity” was closing, as they met in Paris on Friday
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Gunmen killed 17 farmers in northwestern Nigeria on Friday in the latest violence against agriculturalists since the start of the farming season
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A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and wounded at least three others in southern Russia, with nearly 100 people fighting to extinguish a fire caused by the strike
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The United States and Iran have “never been closer” to a deal on ending the war in the Middle East, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday
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The US Army selects ATX Defense for the Next-Gen Commercial Operations in the Defending Enclave cybersecurity program
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Ultra Maritime completes the first in-water trial of its new Multistatic Active Receive Sonobuoy in Scotland
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Alta Ares, developer of AI-enabled air defense systems, secures $57 million in a funding round to accelerate production
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Finnish synthetic aperture radar satellite operator ICEYE secures more than $1.1 billion in new financing
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Russia could make military “advances” against NATO countries relatively soon if Kremlin finds timing favorable, Sweden’s parliamentary defense committee warned Friday
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Nigeria kills more than 13,000 “terrorists” in past year, President Bola Tinubu said Friday, adding that death toll from country’s jihadist insurgency is down 81 percent since he took power in 2023
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Foreign spies fitting turtles and fish with sensors to create underwater maps of China’s coastline, Beijing warned Friday
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Israeli defense firm Plasan has unveiled three protection systems targeting the threat types that have defined armored vehicle vulnerability in recent conflicts: drone top-attacks, mine blasts, and shaped charges
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Northrop Grumman is advancing a new gallium nitride microchip designed to act like a tiny “brain,” improving the strength, clarity, and speed of wireless signals
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Drone strikes on the strategic Sudanese city of El-Obeid killed 23 people, a rights group and witnesses said on Thursday
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