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“In the Poltava region, a drone hit company warehouses, killing one person, regional military head Vitalii Diakivnych said.”
“Less than half of Republicans, 48%, say the U.S. should continue military action in Iran”
“At just 12 years old, he spent nights hiding from air raids during the 1999 NATO bombing of Belgrade.”
“Jordan's air defence systems successfully shot down all five incoming missiles.”
“Ukraine could field combat lasers against aerial targets within two to three months”
“Jordan’s air defenses intercepted five missiles launched from Iran early Wednesday.”
“It said soldiers had entered a house in the village to search for suspects throwing stones, and separately, that they had detained one person taking part in what it called a 'violent riot'.”
“Months later, as the Ford government faced a scandal over the labour minister’s handling of the $2.5 billion skills development fund, Joe Mancinelli raced to the government’s defence, calling allegations of wrongdoing “absolute nonsense.””
“Russian Defense Ministry said that air defenses downed 258 Ukrainian drones overnight.”
“and only 23% of U.S. adults say it should continue”
“During the NATO bombing campaign, they spent 78 straight nights waking up around 2 or 3 a.m. and taking shelter in the basement of Novak’s grandfather’s apartment as bombs fell across Belgrade.”
“At least 20 Iran-aligned fighters were killed and 32 wounded in the operation.”
“Ukraine had become roughly the fifth country in the world to possess a laser weapon and could shoot down aircraft at altitudes above two kilometers”
“U.S. military said it had knocked down an Iranian missile barrage.”
“Earlier this month, a Russian warship, shadowed by a Royal Navy vessel, carried out a live-fire artillery exercise just 46 miles (74km) south of Plymouth.”
“A Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crossed into Poland overnight, violating NATO airspace, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on X.”
“TNMK has raised more than $250,000 during three U.S. tours.”
“I put the protesters of PojK in the same category as India and consider them as enemies”
“The resulting blaze spread to three neighbouring gas tankers before being contained, with all crew safely evacuated, according to maritime security firm Ambrey.”
“drones and cruise missiles engaged out to three kilometers, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft to five kilometers, and sensor dazzling to ten kilometers”
“did not connect the intrusion to its own internal testing until staff found evidence in system logs the weekend of July 18, and did not contact Hugging Face until July 20”
“Ukrainian intelligence has evidence that Russia has shared satellite imagery with Tehran, enabling Iran to attack US military facilities and Gulf states.”
“The Japanese Defense Ministry said it dispatched aircraft to the area to assess the situation.”
“The Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) built a multi-billion-dollar business empire spanning oil, banking, and real estate, engaging in illicit smuggling and sanction-bypassing oil sales, generating billions annually.”
“Japanese defence minister Shinjiro Koizumi said about 3,600 self-defense forces personnel had been deployed across the disaster-hit region to assist firefighters and emergency crews in search-and-rescue operations.”
“The IRGC also attacked three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, directly defying Mr Trump's threat to target Iranian bridges and power infrastructure in response to such actions.”
“the trailer-mounted configuration destroys FPV drones at 800 to 900 meters and reconnaissance UAVs at around 1,500 meters, with work continuing toward Shahed-class interception at ranges approaching five kilometers”
“began around July 9, and the agent started infiltrating Hugging Face’s systems on July 11, continuing through July 13”
“So far, the US government says the war has cost $37.5bn (£28bn), and the vast majority of that has been spent on munitions.”
“Ukraine's long-range drones are repeatedly hitting Russian oil and gas facilities, causing fuel shortages, and weakening the Kremlin's ability to wage war. Kyslytsya argues the Russian army is no longer making meaningful advances on the ba…”
“July 26Trump had a 39% approval rating and 61% disapproval rating in a CBS News/YouGov poll of 2,193 U.S. adults taken July 21-24 (margin of error 2.7), as approval of the U.S. taking military action against Iran has declined from 44% in M…”
“The first policy directive establishes a comprehensive, women-centric approach by ushering in a gender-neutral framework for the induction of officers into the ICG. The highlights of the policy include induction of women candidates into bo…”
“Marc Andrew, a Royal Navy veteran from the Devon village of Highampton, is preparing to tackle the 25km sponsored trek across Dartmoor next September.”
“roughly 15 people were working on it”
“Commercial shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz was at a three-week low, a maritime body overseen by the U.S. Navy said Sunday, adding that no new attacks had been confirmed in the past 72 hours.”
“By the time a tenuous ceasefire took effect on 8 April, US forces had struck over 13,000 targets across Iran, according to the White House.”
“The war resulted in the deaths of 649 Argentine soldiers, 255 British troops, and three civilians residing on the islands.”
“The policy highlights include the authority to declare an ICG personnel missing at sea while on duty as 'presumed dead' for the purpose of ex-gratia.”
“His Dartmoor challenge forms part of a wider programme of seven fundraising hikes that Help for Heroes has organised throughout this year.”
““We already have systems that use more than just gliding. They now carry turbojet engines to increase their employment range to between 100 and 200 kilometers,” said Lebedenko.”
“The U.S. military on Saturday said its recently reimposed naval blockade against Iran continued, with a dozen commercial ships redirected, two disabled and two boarded.”
“American air defences intercepted over 1,700 Iranian drones and ballistic missiles over the same period.”
“In a post on X, Argentina’s vice-president Victoria Villarruel shared an old clip of what appeared to her country’s soldiers landing on the islands in 1982 and wrote: “it wasn’t just another match.””
“Rajnath exuded confidence that these forward-looking policies will further strengthen the morale and operational efficacy of the force as it marches toward its golden jubilee in 2027.”
“July saw participants tour 30 military sites across London”
“This task was set in 2024. We did not have any such manufacturers in the country. Now there are already seven. They already know how to do it,” said Lebedenko.”
“Iran halted its attacks following the American pause, Tehran’s army spokesperson told Iranian state TV on Sunday.”
“Last week, he told the Senate Appropriations Committee that the Pentagon needed another $87bn (£68bn) to address "critical shortfalls", including equipment.”
“CVN-73 began its 2026 deployment on May 10, 2026, when it departed from its homeport at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan. The patrol is expected to last around six months, similar in length to the time the carrier spent at sea in 2025, its first…”
“Because I think, in many ways, it's his decision," Netanyahu told Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures. "If he can do so without returning to intense military fighting, that's fine. Why not? But one way or the other, they have to end their nuc…”
“Saint-Medard-en-Jalles in Gironde lies just 12 miles from the fire - with the former commune containing a mammoth 435-hectare facility which manufactures combustible materials for Ariane rockets and missiles.”
“Ukraine's Brave1 defense innovation platform announced the country's first indigenous guided aerial bomb after approximately 17 months of development. The weapon carries a 250-kilogram warhead designed to strike fortified positions, comman…”
“More than 1,000 Tomahawks have been fired during the war, the CSIS estimates, and the stockpile may not return to pre-war levels until 2031.”
“The USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group, led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with the embarked Carrier Air Wing 5 (CVW-5), also includes the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Robert Smalls (CG-62) and the Arleigh …”
“Israel has recently agreed to allow the Lebanese Army to deploy in parts of southern Lebanon under a pilot arrangement, with the next round of talks between Israel and Lebanon scheduled to take place in Rome next week, according to the US …”
“The camp is just a stone's throw away from leading aerospace firm Dassault, which produces commercial and military jets. [...] The site is home to around 2,280 hectares of natural land and is used as a base for the 13th Parachute Dragoon R…”
“Ukraine claims to have done so with an FPV drone that cost them "only several thousand dollars."”
“According to the CSIS, the latest variants of the TLAM cost about $2.6m (£2m) per missile.”
“In fact, there was a U.S. Coast Guard vessel in the region at the time that this happened and actually helped stand between the two sides and allowed the individual who was injured to be rescued and brought back for medical treatment,” Rub…”
“The contract, valued at $441 million, marks the first domestic PAC-2 order in over thirty years.”
“The plant previously produced approximately 20 per cent of the world's LNG, and full repairs are expected to take years.”
“Oryx, an open-source intelligence blog, putting the number at over 40 confirmed Buk kills since the conflict began.”
“According to the CSIS estimate, as many as 1,430 were used during the conflict from an estimated pre-war stockpile of about 2,330.”
“CVN-71 departed its homeport of San Diego on June 15, 2026. The carrier arrived in Hawaii on June 23, in advance of RIMPAC maritime exercises, which will conclude on Friday. ... the USS Theodore Roosevelt is expected to continue its schedu…”
“Analysts estimate that between 1,060 and 1,430 Patriot interceptors were fired in 2026 alone, according to US based The War Zone.”
“Ukraine's security service assessed as having destroyed some $7 billion in Russian military hardware, including aircraft no longer in production.”
“Each Patriot interceptor costs approximately $4m - an expensive but effective option repeatedly used to shoot down Iranian drones that themselves only cost between $20,000-50,000 each.”
“However, CVN-72 has now spent 249 days deployed since the carrier departed from Naval Base San Diego on November 21, 2025. What is also noteworthy is that the supercarrier has been at sea for more than 228 days since it made a one-day visi…”
“While being less sophisticated than the newer PAC-3 MSE, which costs over $5 million per missile, GEM-Ts are cheaper and larger, offering a practical solution to replenish depleted interceptor inventories.”
“Ukraine's state defense conglomerate Ukroboronprom has unveiled a reusable version of its An-196 Liutyi drone at the Farnborough International Airshow.”
“Supplies were already limited, with CSIS estimating that between 190 and 290 were fired out of an estimated pre-war stock of 360.”
“U.S. Central Command and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday said they're creating the first bilateral task force focused on speeding up the development of artificial intelligence tools for military use”
“Parallel to this, the Department of War has announced two landmark seven-year framework agreements with L3Harris and Lockheed Martin to expand production capacity for PAC-3 MSE and THAAD systems.”
“The standard Liutyi is a propeller-driven, satellite-guided drone with a claimed operational range of nearly 2,000 km per mission today. It carries a 50-to-75 kg warhead and relies on inertial navigation corrected by satellite signals for …”
“It depends on the munition - but one to five years [to make a single missile] is the bottom line... What we're getting [now] are missiles that were funded in 2023.”
“Officials in Washington last month loosened export controls on the United Arab Emirates, making it easier to send AI chips, military items, certain commercial satellites and spacecraft and allowing the UAE government to access advanced com…”
“The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed mandatory inspections of passenger seats on 453 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft registered in the United States after reports that some seat assemblies may have been installed incorrectly.”
“Ukraine has used the standard version to strike oil refineries as far as 1,700 km inside Russia, near the Urals region.”
“Ukraine's ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, said the vessel had been carrying components for drones and missiles from Iran to Russia, not civilian cargo.”
“Project Maven, a machine learning initiative launched by the Defense Department in 2017, now uses artificial intelligence to analyze huge amounts of surveillance footage from drones, satellites and other sources and helps military analysts…”
“The agency said each aircraft could have up to 69 track-mounted passenger seat assemblies, with inspections and corrective work expected to take about one hour per seat assembly without requiring replacement parts.”
“Germany is financing 500 additional Liutyi drones at a cost of roughly $100 million, signaling continued Western interest in the program.”
“In an interview with Sky News, published over the weekend, Zelensky said Tehran was planning to send ballistic missiles to Russia for use in the war (reports suggest that short-range missiles were already being supplied as early as 2024).”
“In May, the Pentagon announced agreements with seven other tech firms, including OpenAI, Alphabet and Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to use their AI tools on classified military networks.”
“Documents released by the US State Department in 2015 revealed that the Indian Air Force had conducted a study in 1981 on the feasibility of carrying out an air strike on the Kahuta facility, according to a report by the US-based Brookings…”
“Each Liutyi airframe reportedly costs around $200,000 to build, a comparatively low price for a long-range strike platform of its kind.”
“The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said its drones had hit an oil platform in the northern Caspian Sea, along with a Russian missile boat and "cargo ships that are under international sanctions."”
“President Donald Trump then ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s technology and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic a 'supply chain risk,' a move that restricted military contractors from using Claude in Penta…”
“Kahuta is located at less than 150 KM from some of the forward bases of the IAF, which would be well within the reach of MiG21/23 and freshly inducted Jaguar aircraft.”
“The reusable variant carries four small missiles reported to have a maximum range of 200 km and speeds above 500 km/h, which is apparently achieved through a small jet engine mounted inside the missile's own fuselage.”
“In Gironde, about 2,500 firefighters, 1,500 military personnel, and 1,200 police officers and gendarmes have been involved in tackling the blaze.”
“The Trump administration has reported 18 deaths and 482 wounded amid the war after it removed four soldiers recently killed in the renewed fighting from the death toll, citing “anomalies” and “temporary data disruptions” as the reason for …”
“On May 18, 1974, in the sweltering heat of the Thar desert in Pokhran, the earth shook as India tested its first nuclear weapon, codenamed Smiling Buddha. India described it as a peaceful nuclear explosion.”
“During the dark days of World War II... Jump ahead to 1981... The Israelis, aware of Saddam Hussein’s plans, executed a daring air attack, using their newly acquired F-16s and F-15s to strike the nuclear facility in what came to be known a…”
“Under the new system, the Defense Casualty Analysis System restored the deaths of four soldiers killed last weekend that had been removed from the website, but placed them in a new category labeled 'overseas operations casualties starting …”
“The change also raised the number of those wounded since July 7 to 207 — 142 more than previously reported — bringing the total to 624 since the war began on February 28.”
“The total number listed as killed is 18.”
“The information currently available suggests that the Department has not consistently provided timely and comprehensive public casualty reporting throughout the conflict.”
“Portugal has deployed over 100 specially equipped military personnel, while Greece and Italy have dispatched two Canadair firefighting aircraft each.”
“the US has used at least 1,500 Patriot interceptors since the conflict began, leaving an estimated inventory of fewer than 1,000”
