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“Seven workers at a steel plant were killed and 21 others injured in the attack, according to the company operating the facility”
“Trump boarded Air Force One on 8 July in view of television cameras before being transported to a military aircraft with the help of a catering truck.”
“sent 198 deadly ballistic and hypersonic missiles.”
“The Home Office insists using military barracks will save taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds after £2.1billion was spent on housing asylum seekers in hotels last year.”
“A Ukrainian drone attack Monday on the Russian city of Nizhnekamsk killed 12 people and wounded 39 others, authorities in the Tatarstan region said.”
“However, citing the drone’s flight path, prosecutors stated in an April 22 communiqué that preliminary findings suggested the act was “likely deliberate.””
“Three more people, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed by Russian drones and artillery in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, officials said”
“In March 2000, then-President Bill Clinton flew from India to the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on an unmarked executive jet that landed after a decoy jet with all the livery of Air Force One.”
“received only a third as many interceptors this year as it did in the same period in 2025.”
“Plans to accommodate almost 5,000 asylum seekers at military barracks have also sparked concern among residents in Barnham, Crowborough, Linton-on-Ouse and Wethersfield.”
“U.S. Tomahawk missile which hit an Iranian elementary school in southern Iran in February, killing 120 children, according to Iranian health authorities”
“Russian troops occupied the plant for 35 days, holding staff hostage.”
“Ukraine's air force said Russia used Zircon anti-ship missiles and Iskander ballistic missiles against Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia, along with 120 long-range attack drones”
“Three years later, the White House claimed that George W Bush would spend Thanksgiving in Texas, only to arrive in Baghdad in a blacked-out Air Force One.”
“just 39 jets against a promised 79”
“His younger brother Maher al-Assad, who commanded the regime's feared Fourth Division, received the same sentence, along with six other former military and security figures including ex-defence minister Fahd al-Freij.”
“The U.S. killed them in an airstrike near Baghdad airport six years ago”
“Minsk is “building roads toward Ukrainian territory and setting up artillery positions,” the Ukrainian president warned in a message on his Telegram channel.”
“Russia's defence ministry said its air defences intercepted nearly 400 Ukrainian drones over 14 regions and Crimea overnight”
“On 8 July, US President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One in plain sight of television cameras as he departed the Nato summit in Turkey.”
“ten additional Patriot systems, missiles for Patriot and other types of systems, as well as $6 billion for drone production—including cheap interceptor drones purpose-built to counter Shahed swarms.”
“Turkey, a key Nato ally, shares a more than 330-mile-long border with the Islamic Republic.”
“raise an estimated £100,000 for the Army Benevolent Fund (ABF)”
“Ukraine's General Staff said its forces also struck an oil refinery in Orsk in Russia's Orenburg region, around 1,500 km from Ukraine”
“announcing in June that it planned to open three more including the site in Bicester, Oxfordshire.”
“The U.S. has more than 800 F16s.”
“Polish border guards, police, and soldiers were scrambled to track down the invaders, and eventually detained 130 of them.”
“The ongoing geopolitical crisis, if countries step up to the 5per cent of GDP target for defence spending suggested by NATO, could cost an extra two per cent of GDP per year.”
“The refinery has an annual crude-processing capacity of about 44 million barrels and produces fuels including gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel”
“Zaporizhzhia - which killed at least six and injured at least 19”
“kick in 30 or more of these aircraft from its current stockpiles.”
“Historical records indicate that HMS Sussex was transporting as much as 10 tonnes of gold coins destined for Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, to fund his military campaign against Louis XIV of France during the Nine Years' War.”
“when the UK could spent three per cent of GDP on the armed forces and security”
“In another attack, at least 12 people were killed and 39 injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on industrial and civilian targets in Nizhnekamsk in Russia's Tatarstan region, according to the city's mayor”
“at least 13 people were killed, including one child”
“$70 billion partner package Kyiv has requested for 2026.”
“The warship was the jewel of King William III's fleet when it departed Portsmouth in 1694, leading 214 vessels into the Mediterranean.”
“since the post was created in 1964”
“Another strike started a fire at a warehouse in Kyiv that spread across around 1,200 square metres, emergency officials said”
“as many as 50,000 North Korean soldiers”
“send 50 or more F16s to Ukraine.”
“sending HMS Sussex to the bottom with 548 of its 550 crew, including its commander, Admiral Sir Francis Wheeler.”
“only one other Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Heseltine over the Westland affair in 1986, has resigned on a point of principle.”
“Security forces launched joint cordon-and-search operations in J&K’s Doda and Poonch districts on being alerted about the sighting of terror suspects”
“Russia fired 120 drones overnight”
“According to an August 6 letter submitted to Congress, Washington is ready to give Ankara the necessary authorization to “retransfer” 12 M270 MLRS launchers and 70 M39 ATACMS missiles to Ukraine. The proposed $256 million deal also include…”
“Israeli airstrikes killed at least four people, two of them children, according to health officials in the territory.”
“John Healey resigned as defence secretary over the government’s lack of commitment to raising defence spending to three per cent of GDP by 2030”
“Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and injured two others in Russia's Voronezh region overnight”
“Two women have been injured in a Russian drone strike on Sumy”
“In a news release published Tuesday, Human Rights Watch sharply criticized the deal for including the cluster warheads, which it described as “inherently indiscriminate” as well as “obsolete,” “inaccurate and unreliable.””
“adding to last week’s blow when John Healey resigned as defence secretary”
“Russia's air defence units, reportedly destroyed 15 drones over Voronezh and five districts in the region”
“At least 75 people were injured in the strikes”
“According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s arms transfer database, Ankara also supplied six of its homegrown T-300 MLRS in 2022 and 200 Kirpi armored personnel carriers between 2022 and 2024 and 50 Cobra-2 APCs in …”
“the draft not containing a commitment to the date for raising defence spending from 2.6 per cent of GDP to 3 per cent.”
“The Ukrainian military said it had struck an oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, about 1,200 kilometres from the Ukrainian border.”
“seven of those killed were citizens of Uzbekistan”
“According to Ukrainian military analyst Oleksandr Kovalenko, Iran modified the Shahed-107 to carry additional fragmentation components to, in the words of a report by Ukraine’s Euromaidan Press, increase “their lethality against people and…”
“the current draft only factored in an eight-percentage-point rise in defence spending as a share of GDP by 2030.”
“Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei has appointed six senior commanders to key positions in the country’s military establishment”
“The Royal Navy bought 20 K3 Scout surveillance drones”
“Ukrainian intelligence, which estimates that Tehran supplied more than 350 of these missiles, hasn’t yet seen any indication that Russia has used these Iranian-made CRBMs in the war as of January 2026.”
“the government was set to cut capital budgets by one per cent to fund an uplift in defence spending”
“Major General Ali Abdollahi has been named Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces”
“Eight people have died in the Philippines because of heavy monsoon rains brought on by Dolphin and storms earlier in the week, says the Office of Civil Defence.”
“According to SIPRI, these included 14 Titan-S APCs made by the United Arab Emirates but financed by U.S. aid, 60 German-made Gepard air defense systems from Jordan, specifically the Cheetah version, also financed by U.S. aid. According to …”
“resigned over the £13bn offer in the DIP”
“Brigadier General Kioumars Heydari appointed as his deputy”
“In 2023, The Washington Post reported that Egypt’s government planned to produce up to 40,000 Sakr-45 122mm rockets for Russia. However, within months, Cairo not only shelved that deal but approved an alternative arrangement in which it wo…”
“Brigadier general Ahmad Vahidi has been promoted to the rank of Major General and appointed as the force’s Commander-in-Chief.”
“Replying to journalists' questions on August 8, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again brought up Kyiv’s interest in Israeli military hardware. “We would like to receive air defense systems from them as well,” he said. “We would be …”
“Major General Mostafa Izadi will serve as his deputy.”
“have been at sea for more than 260 days as of Wednesday”
“Rear Admiral Ali Azmaei has been appointed to head the IRGC Navy”
“the deployment, which started on Nov. 21 and was expected to end in May for the 5,000 sailors and Marines on board”
“Hojjatoleslam Walmuslimin Hossein Taeb will lead the Basij Resistance Force.”
“has stepped foot on land only two days since Nov. 21”
“On Sunday, he appointed former IRGC commander Mohsen Rezaee as his representative to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council”
“a meal that came down to half a cup of rice and two tortillas”
“The post was previously held by Ali Larijani, who was assassinated in US-Israeli strikes in March.”
“holds the modern deployment record of 326 days at sea”
“Pezeshkian said the Supreme Leader was 'completely healthy' after what he described as a 'very good meeting' with him”
“Six months. That had been the modern-day standard deployment for the Navy’s carrier strike groups”
“As of Aug. 9, CENTCOM has redirected 55 commercial vessels, disabled 2, and boarded 2 to ensure compliance," it added.”
“One of the Arena-M systems was seen shooting down 7 attacking FPVs in succession”
“As of Aug. 8, CENTCOM redirected 53 commercial vessels, disabled 2, and boarded 2.”
“In general it took from 15 to 20 FPV drones to destroy a tank”
“Ross is one of over 20 U.S. warships deployed to the Middle East supporting military missions, including strict enforcement of the US blockade against Iran.”
“estimated that it generally takes 3-6 FPVs to destroy a tank”
“The U.S. military has also permitted more than 30 ships to pass through the blockade for humanitarian aid.”
“average number of 4-5 FPVs to destroy an armored vehicle”
“Senior Iranian sources have said he suffered facial disfigurement and other injuries in the February 28 strike that killed his father, the first day of US and Israeli air strikes on Iran.”
“"two or three" FPVs are usually enough to destroy an armored vehicle”
“more like $500 than the $200,000 of the Javelin”
“Ukraine aims to supply 7 million drones this year”
“A total of 26 interceptors are arranged with overlapping fields to provide 360-degree protection”
“The new version also fires two interceptors at a time”
“the comparable Trophy system costs in the region of $0.5 – $1m to outfit a vehicle”
“it can take 'ten or more' FPVs to kill a tank”
