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“The camel also died on the spot.”
“During his 16 years in the British military”
“Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security" signed by US President Donald Trump to ensure that it has an operating army-regulated nuclear reactor on a domestic military site by September 30, 2028”
“Spain will deploy its military to restore order at its border with Morocco in Ceuta after thousands of migrants streamed into the tiny Spanish territory, with at least nine dying in the attempt.”
“In late May 2025, it increased the number of jets it ordered from 16 to 40 and the overall value of the deal from $1.6 billion to $4.2 billion”
“£8.4billion funding boost”
“police found the dead camel lying beside the road and a badly damaged black Tata Safari SUV (registration number GJ39CC1403) near the Army boundary wall.”
“Purja joined the British Army in 2003 and became a Royal Marine in 2009.”
“one of three finalists in the Pentagon’s Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations program”
“Spain's government said it would send the Armed Forces to help the Civil Guard 'maintain security in the city of Ceuta.'”
“The HQ-9BEs, which came with at least 70 surface-to-air missiles with an estimated range of approximately 155 miles”
“four new Dreadnought class submarines”
“The body of Major Hamza Arif has been shifted to the mortuary at Jawahar Hospital, Jaisalmer, where a post-mortem examination is being conducted.”
“He was 17 when he joined the nationwide protests against the military coup in Myanmar in 2021.”
“Juan Jesús Vivas, the head of Ceuta's regional government, called for the national government to declare an emergency on grounds of national security, asking for more police and for the army to be deployed on the border 'to guarantee the i…”
“In an estimated $300 million deal, it acquired two advanced S-300 PMU-2 air defense missile systems from Russia in 2011, along with an estimated 200 48N6 missiles with an approximate 90-mile range”
“22,000 defence apprenticeships by 2035”
“claiming to have knocked out three American F-35s”
“The soldiers left the village after one month.”
“103 House Democrats unsuccessfully voting on an amendment to eliminate $3.3 billion of U.S. military and humanitarian aid to Israel. Ninety-eight Democrats voted to preserve the funding, while 10 abstained by voting 'present'.”
“Around that time, it ordered its first Barak missile system from Israel along with 40 Barak-LRAD (long-range air defense) and 40 Barak-ER (extended-range) missiles with 43-mile and 93-mile ranges, respectively, as part of a larger $1.6 bil…”
“minimum three per cent on GDP on defence by 2030”
“two tankers with oil for India slipped out this week after going “dark””
“Last month Myanmar's military ruler General Min Aung Hlaing was given a red-carpet welcome by China's Xi Jinping”
“The announcement comes more than nine months after a U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire was signed.”
“In 2021 amid heightened tensions with Iran, Azerbaijan even briefly considered acquiring Israel’s advanced Arrow 3, an exoatmospheric anti-ballistic missile, which would’ve been a true game-changing capability. It seems it settled for addi…”
“3.5 per cent by 2035”
“The United States has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth up to $58.6 billion to produce Patriot interceptor missiles”
“Eight people, including three children, have died during a Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine, according to local officials.”
“Baku simultaneously ordered 100 9M38 and another 100 9M317 missiles for these systems directly from Russia.”
“about 13th in the Nato league tables on spending on defence”
“The US Army said the contract converts a previous one-year, $4.7 billion agreement awarded in April into a seven-year procurement framework covering fiscal years 2026 to 2032”
“Russia had launched more than 70 missiles and over 280 drones at the country overnight.”
“Reports in November 2023 indicate that Azerbaijan ordered Barak MX systems as part of a $1.2 billion deal”
“According to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the US military currently has fewer than 1,000 Patriot interceptors”
“caused a 10m-wide (33ft) crater”
“While enduring a drone attack against Nakhchivan International Airport in its eponymous western exclave on March 5, Azerbaijan did not come under any other fire so far in the Iran war that started on February 28”
“Lockheed Martin said the new agreement would support its plan to triple PAC-3 MSE production capacity by the end of 2030 and increase employment at its Camden, Arkansas, manufacturing facility by more than 50%, from around 1,200 workers to…”
“All the indications are that it was a Russian Kh-101 ballistic missile”
“In April, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Azerbaijan with a delegation and proclaimed the country’s readiness “to share its experience and assist in organizing and strengthening the air defense system.””
“The company has also committed to investing $8 billion to $9 billion through 2030 to modernise more than 20 US facilities”
“about 100km (62 miles) from the border with Ukraine”
“Near the end of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War, one of these missiles reportedly intercepted an Armenian Russian-made 9K720 Iskander quasi-ballistic missile”
“Lockheed had previously announced plans to raise annual Patriot PAC-3 interceptor production to 2,000 missiles”
“There were no reports of casualties in Thursday's incident”
“On Monday, the Pentagon announced agreements with L3Harris Technologies and Lockheed Martin to expand weapons production capacity for components of two missile interceptors over the next seven years.”
“Earlier this year, the US also reached a similar framework agreement with RTX, Raytheon's parent company, to increase annual production of Tomahawk cruise missiles from around 60 missiles to as many as 1,000”
“A number of Russian drones and one unarmed Russian missile have landed in Poland since Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine began in February 2022.”
“The White House requested $11.4 billion in procurement funding for the THAAD in fiscal year 2027, $10.5 billion of which it slated for a potential reconciliation bill. It requested the rest, $907.2 million, through regular appropriations.”
“Russia fired more than 70 missiles, many of them ballistic, and over 280 attack drones overnight, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.”
“Two Polish farmers were killed by a missile that landed just over the border from Ukraine in November 2022”
“Meanwhile, $10.9 billion of the president’s $12.2 billion request for PAC-3 MSE interceptor procurement relies on reconciliation.”
“The deadliest strike hit the Dnipropetrovsk region, where six people, including a six-year-old girl and boys aged 11 and 17, were killed after a ballistic missile destroyed a home.”
“about 20 objects were seen close to Polish airspace overnight”
“The appropriations committee approved $1.3 billion in PAC-3 MSE procurement funding while recommending about $174 million less in procurement funds for the THAAD program than the White House requested through regular appropriations.”
“Elsewhere, one person was killed in a drone strike in the neighbouring Poltava region, while a 31-year-old man died in a ballistic missile attack on Kyiv.”
“Poland's military detected the object at about 03:40 on Thursday (01:40 GMT)”
“Last week, the department announced an award for more than $35 billion to Lockheed Martin to produce THAAD interceptors.”
“It also claimed to have intercepted 258 Ukrainian drones overnight as Kyiv continued its long-range strikes inside Russian territory.”
“Air raid sirens blared in Lublin and Krasnystaw further to the south-east because of the Russian airstrikes that killed eight people in neighbouring Ukraine”
“On Wednesday, the U.S. Army awarded the company a $54 billion contract to produce PAC-3 MSE interceptors.”
“The unidentified object crashed in an undeveloped area near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia in Poland's eastern Lublin province, around 90 kilometres from the Ukrainian border.”
“Residents in Tarnawa Kolonia reported hearing a loud bang at about 04:00 and police found the crash site about an hour later”
“Ukraine’s Air Force confirmed the loss of an F‑16 fighter jet on July 29 after the aircraft suffered an in‑flight emergency during a combat mission.”
“equating to 53% of Gaza's territory.”
“Denmark pledging 19 aircraft”
“the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) controlled more than 60%.”
“the Netherlands 42”
“The barriers now stretch more than 42km (26 miles) and cover 85% of Israel's Yellow Line, with the longest section already 13.8km (8.5 miles).”
“Belgium has promised an undisclosed number of aircraft to be transferred to Ukraine, even claiming its entire fleet of 53 would be made available”
“One section of the embankment near the al-Mawasi camp is more than 1.5km beyond where the Yellow Line was originally mapped.”
“The Netherlands supplied the first batch of 18 aircraft in December 2023”
“Another section in Khan Younis is positioned more than 500m over it.”
“By May 2025, the Netherlands had completed delivery of 24 aircraft”
“The IDF says it is working to 'clearly and visually mark the location of the Yellow Line on the ground' to 'reduce friction'.”
“President Donald Trump had agreed to grant Ukraine licences to manufacture Patriot missiles”
“The Israeli military told the BBC their 'defensive posture' includes 'a security zone, a physical barrier, intelligence capabilities, technological means, and operational activity by IDF troops'.”
“US and Israel expended 1,700 Patriot missiles in the opening weeks of the war”
“These measures are intended to prevent infiltrations and hostile activity, and to protect both the troops and surrounding communities.”
“Russia now produces an estimated 1,440 ballistic missiles annually, outpacing America’s 650 Patriot missie production”
“To the east of the central city of Deir al-Balah, families living on farmland told the BBC they were given two days' notice by the Israeli military before the area was razed.”
“United States on Wednesday cleared funding for Patriot missies worth $60 billion”
“Satellite images show tank tracks and destroyed structures in the area, with an olive grove more than 500m beyond the Yellow Line apparently torn down.”
“Russian missile strikes on Kyiv, which killed at least one civilian”
“Verified video shows three yellow blocks recently placed there, the furthest of which is more than 300m from the Yellow Line mapped after the ceasefire.”
“Russia launched a wave of overnight air strikes across Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least 13 people, including one in Kyiv.”
“The founder of intelligence analysis firm MAIAR, Tony Reeves, analysed satellite images and estimated that one section of the embankments in Gaza was up to 7m tall.”
“In the western city of Lviv, near the Polish border, rescue workers searched through the debris after Russian missiles damaged two apartment buildings and injured 15 people, according to local officials.”
“In June, days before beginning construction of the barrier near the southernmost city of Rafah, Israeli troops destroyed structures and rows of greenhouses in its path, satellite images show.”
“in Zelenskyy's hometown of Kryvyi Rih, six more people lost their lives after what local officials said was a direct strike by a Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile.”
“By July a barrier had been constructed nearby and many more buildings were destroyed.”
“In July alone, satellite imagery shows scores more buildings had been destroyed beyond the Yellow Line in Khan Younis, Deir al-Balah, Zeitoun, and in the northern towns of Jabalia and Beit Lahia.”
“Fourteen new positions have been established since the October ceasefire, including two currently under construction, while a further seven set up before the ceasefire have been paved or extended.”
“Retired Israeli brigadier general Assaf Orion, a senior researcher at Israel's Institute of National Security Studies (INSS), said the construction of barriers and bases suggests 'the IDF is preparing for a long stay along the Yellow Line,…”
“Dr Andreas Krieg, a security expert from King's College London, said the BBC's findings indicate that 'Israel is turning the Yellow Line from a temporary withdrawal boundary into a de facto internal border'.”
“Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire.”
“Israel moves Yellow Line deeper into Gaza, satellite images show.”
“On Wednesday, Japan's defence minister Shinjiro Koizumi announced the delivery of 300 air conditioners to Kumamoto, with 150 of the units bound for evacuation centres.”
“Seven people, including two children, have died during a Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine, according to local officials.”
“Two girls, aged 5 and 12, were among the six killed in a village near the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih when a ballistic missile hit a private house, a local official said.”
