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“Driscoll was confirmed by the Senate on February 25, 2025, by a 66-28 vote.”
“Prince William, who is patron or president of “up to 50 charitable, military and public organisations”.”
“In the 16-15 loss to the Buccaneers, the revamped defense looked good, shutting out the Buccaneers in the first half”
“killed 16”
“Overall, 31 percent of U.S. adults said they believe Israel's military actions in Gaza constitute genocide, while 49 percent of ...”
“even in 2021, the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency was buying $200 million worth of batteries annually.”
“Fourteen people were killed in military air strikes at a monastery in Myanmar early on Friday, opposition fighters and a local rescue worker have said.”
“Russian drone and missile strikes killed at least seven people in Ukraine, officials said Saturday”
“About 12,000 examples of the DKW model raised from the Danube were produced in 1944–45, already with grey cast-iron engine blocks because of the shortage of aluminium.”
“roughly 10,000 soldiers gathered”
“Hegseth fired Gen Randy George as Army chief of staff in April without giving an explanation.”
“Fourteen elderly people have been killed in air strikes on a monastery in Myanmar where civilians had gathered for a meditation retreat, according to opposition fighters and a local rescue worker.”
“injured more than 130”
“the site was struck twice.”
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said one person was killed and another wounded in the latest attacks when ballistic missiles hit railway infrastructure in the capital, Kyiv, overnight”
“After the Second World War the Soviets dismantled the entire production line and shipped it to Izhevsk as reparations. There, up to 1951, they manufactured a further 127,000 under the name Izs-350.”
“The 25th Infantry Division, for example, has almost 2,200 devices”
“India launched in May 2025 in retaliation to Pahalgam terror attack.”
“The attack is reported to have happened at around 9am local time in the village of Chhay Hoe O, around 70km (47 miles) west of Mandalay, according to AFP.”
“nine others still missing”
“the victims included 11 men and three women.”
“local authorities said two people were killed Saturday afternoon in a Russian ballistic missile strike on the Kyiv region”
“Of the German-produced machines, only a few dozen – an estimated 30 to 50 – are thought to have survived, some of them in partly original condition.”
“Those attached to the MiG-29, Mirage-2000, Rafale and Su-30MKI squadrons were part of Op Sindoor during those crucial four days.”
“Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, confirmed that the attack killed at least 15 people and injured 130, including 23 children.”
“killed at least six more civilians across Ukraine including a 12-year-old boy and three children”
“Older people had entered the meditation centres," Myaung added, saying the dead were aged between 50 and 70.”
“Russian drone strikes also killed one person overnight in the Zaporizhzhia region, local officials said Saturday, with a daytime attack killing three others and wounding 15”
“Between Christmas 1944 and mid-February 1945 around 100,000 German and Hungarian soldiers defended the Hungarian capital.”
“Indian defence forces had shortlisted 34 targets, but that number was later pruned to nine.”
“Earlier on Friday, two women, aged 73 and 66, were killed and two others wounded in a Russian drone attack on Ukraine's Kharkiv region, said regional head Oleh Syniehubov.”
“22 children were wounded and two children are missing”
“In Russia's southern Krasnodar region, authorities said that two children were killed and two adults were wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike”
“When the breakout was attempted, only 705 German and 36 Hungarian soldiers, together with 44 civilians, reached the German lines.”
“The nine targets were struck on the first day of Op Sindoor.”
“Another Russian attack on Friday evening killed four people, including three children, in Ukraine's southern Mykolaiv region, emergency services said.”
“52 people, including 14 children, were still in hospitals as of Saturday”
“Ukraine shot down or suppressed 107 out of 135 drones launched by Russia overnight”
“The total losses of the Soviet forces and the Romanian troops fighting alongside them may have been around 38,000.”
“In 2016, Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh became the first three women officers commissioned into IAF fighter squadrons.”
“The United Nations said last week that the capital Kyiv was one of the hardest hit cities in July. At least 54 civilians were killed and 202 injured in the city.”
“29 people in a serious condition, including five children”
“Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defenses overnight intercepted 325 Ukrainian drones over 15 Russian regions, as well as Crimea”
“Civilian deaths are estimated at around 23,000.”
“With China on its way to deploying 500 5th-generation J-20 fighters by 2030”
“Also on Friday, Russia pounded Kyiv with scores of missiles and drones in a night-time aerial attack that killed 16 people.”
“9,000-square-meter fire”
“Later Friday, it said its defenses shot down another 211 drones”
“By the end of the siege around 15,000 Jews had died in Budapest.”
“Though the IAF had placed orders for a total of 180 Tejas Mk1A fighter jets long ago”
“Just over two weeks ago, a Russian attack on Kyiv and its surrounding region killed 17 people, while nine were killed in the city two days before that.”
“forcing the evacuation of more than 500 workers”
“The first full-length documentary about the siege of Budapest was made in 2015 and can be viewed here (source in Hungarian).”
“HAL hopes to deliver the first 18-25 Tejas Mk1A only by March 2027”
“Pyongyang’s forces now number more than 8,500 in the war, including roughly 400 drone operators”
“The German motorcycle draws attention to the period when almost 100,000 German and Hungarian soldiers became casualties in Budapest, so that Nazi Germany's Third Reich could buy time against the Soviets.”
“Russia’s defence ministry said it had shot down 457 Ukrainian drones overnight.”
“the rescue effort will continue for another two days”
“at least 14 people were killed and more than 120 wounded when two Russian drones struck a shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih.”
“Dubbed Skeleton 150, the body was discovered alongside seven other casualties of war in Stirling Castle in 1997.”
“121 people were wounded, including 22 children.”
“Carbon dating revealed that five of them, including the skeleton in question, harked back to the 1300s.”
“Twenty-nine people were in serious condition, including five children.”
“the victim’s skull had been smashed in 61 places”
“a ballistic missile strike on Kyiv on Thursday that killed 17 people.”
“nearly 60 bizarre, zigzagging rib fractures”
“At least seven people were killed in fresh Russian missile and drone attacks across Ukraine on Saturday”
“220-pound boulders hundreds of meters into enemy ramparts”
“three people died in a Ukrainian drone strike in Russia’s Krasnodar region”
“could send its payload through two stone walls”
“Russian attack on a shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih killed at least 16 people”
“War Wolf… was the largest ever built up to that point”
“one person was killed and another wounded overnight when ballistic missiles struck railway infrastructure”
“Russian drone and missile strikes killed at least seven people in Ukraine, officials said Saturday”
“In a separate Russian ballistic missile strike on the Kyiv region, which surrounds the capital, two people were killed on Saturday afternoon, local authorities said”
“a day after a Russian strike on a Ukrainian shopping center killed at least 16 people and wounded some 130”
“Russian drone strikes also killed one person overnight in the Zaporizhzhia region, officials said”
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that one person was killed and another wounded in the latest attacks when ballistic missiles hit railway infrastructure in the capital, Kyiv, overnight”
“A daytime attack killed three more people and wounded 15, while three others were wounded in an attack on a minibus in the regional capital, also called Zaporizhzhia, Zelenskyy said”
“In a separate attack, local authorities said two people were killed Saturday afternoon in a Russian ballistic missile strike on the Kyiv region, which surrounds the capital”
“In Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, authorities said two children were killed and two adults wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike”
“Russian drone strikes also killed one person overnight in the Zaporizhzhia region, local officials said Saturday, and a daytime attack killed three others and wounded 15”
“Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said early Saturday that the death toll had risen to 16, with nine people still missing and 130 wounded”
“Zelenskyy said that three people were also wounded in an attack on a minibus in the regional capital, also called Zaporizhzhia”
“He said the resulting fire, which spread across 9,000 square metres, had been extinguished and rescue operations were continuing”
“In Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, authorities said that three people, including two children, were killed and two adults were wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike”
“The UN said Kyiv was among the hardest-hit cities in July, recording at least 54 civilian deaths and 202 injuries”
“Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said in the early hours of Saturday that the death toll had risen to 16”
“the country’s recent 12-day and 40-day wars”
“Later on Saturday he said four people remain missing after the attack, which wounded a further 130”
“Fourteen people, including three women, were killed and 20 others injured when Myanmar's military carried out an air strike on a Buddhist monastery in the central Sagaing region, an opposition group and a villager said.”
“The Ukrainian leader said the fire, which spread across 9,000 square meters (around 97,000 square feet), had been extinguished and rescue efforts were underway”
“The villager, whose mother-in-law was among those killed, said the fighter jet dropped two bombs about 15 minutes apart.”
“Kryvyi Rih has been hit multiple times during the 4½-year all-out war between Russia and Ukraine, with one of the deadliest occurring in April 2025, when 20 people were killed, including nine children”
“The second blast damaged a house near the monastery, where more than 100 people were taking part in a weeklong retreat during Buddhist Lent.”
“The United Nations said last week that Kyiv was one of the hardest-hit cities in July, with at least 54 civilians killed and 202 wounded”
“US energy secretary Chris Wright said the US military had helped move a seven-day average of about 8 million barrels of oil a day through the waterway, down from more than 20 million barrels per day before the conflict.”
“Zelenskyy said Saturday Ukrainian forces struck the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery in Samara, noting it is some 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the front line”
“The former prosecutor then embarked on a five-year-long stint in the Navy, deploying twice overseas.”
“the Rams’ defense is going to be “spectacular.””
