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“Russian forces have increasingly hit apartment blocks, ports, schools and hospitals, among other urban targets, killing close to 17,000 civilians, according to the United Nations.”
“620 drones were detected flying toward the broader Moscow region”
“The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier left San Diego on November 21, 2025, and has remained at sea for more than 250 days, according to reports.”
“US Navy veteran Jonny Burnell spent 111 days aboard the battleship USS Vinson during the US war with Afghanistan in 2001.”
“74% of Georgians surveyed support NATO membership”
“Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed 87 Palestinians so far this year, according to Palestinian health officials.”
“€7billion (£6billion) is needed to help pay for increased defence spending and the economic hit from cutting off trade ties with Moscow following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.”
“Ukrainian missiles struck the village of Koloskovo in the Valuysky district of the Belgorod region on Monday, killing six people and wounding four others, including a child, the acting governor said.”
“The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) assigned it an identifier - CVE-2026-65400 - and gave it a severity rating of 9.6/10 (critical).”
“Mediazona and the BBC Russian Service have verified by name the deaths of 239,350 Russian military personnel in the war in Ukraine.”
“Their maker had been created a “Royal Academician Extraordinaire” in 1948. Since then, the auction market for his work has boomed. Once the property of Angelina Jolie, that Marrakech scene was sold by Christie’s in 2021 for £8.2m. However,…”
“On Friday alone, crews were tackling 43 wildfires across the country and had declared 11 major incidents, stretching resources to the very limit and requiring military support.”
“The demand, made in an interview at the government chancellery in Riga, amounts to almost half of the €15.1 billion Latvia expects to spend on defence across the 2028-2034 budget period.”
“The death toll of 437 Ukrainian civilians in July was 70% higher than the same month in 2025, it said last week.”
“Around 180 of these uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) were 'destroyed' around Moscow”
“We have 39,000 soldiers over there, guarding you from Kim Jong Un”
“99% hype," says retired Navy Lt Commander Steve Rogers, Director of the Association of the United States Navy (AUSN).”
“the country took part in two exercises in 2026”
“The cash would amount to nearly half of Riga’s €15.1billion (£12.9billion) defence budget between 2028-2034.”
“In a separate operation, Russian units struck a patrol boat and fuel storage tanks in Odesa. The local governor reported damage to a civilian Togo‑flagged vessel and four injuries.”
“Apple said it fixed it with improved state management, addressing the bug in macOS Sequoia 15.7.9, macOS Sonoma 14.8.9, macOS Tahoe 26.6.1.”
“Among the identified dead are 87,749 volunteers, 26,416 recruited prisoners and 19,778 mobilised soldiers.”
“In June, the Pentagon requested an additional $80 billion to cover its costs from the Iran war, the Wall Street Journal reported.”
“Since the US-mediated ceasefire reached in October 2025, more than 1,250 people have been killed in the Israeli attacks, most of them civilians, according to Gaza health officials.”
“Ukraine also has successfully targeted depots owned by Wildberries, Russia’s main online retailer, as far as 2,000 kilometres from Ukraine’s border.”
“more than 150 drones were shot down in the area around the capital”
“Yemen's Houthis attacked what they described as a Saudi military ship along with four escort vessels using missiles, according to the group's military spokesperson Yahya Saree on Telegram.”
“of the 11 active aircraft carriers in the US military”
“During the two-day event”
“Latvia shares a 176-mile border with Russia”
“Monero is considered an “altcoin” - a cryptocurrency built as an alternative to Bitcoin. It is one of the oldest active altcoins out there, having been launched more than 12 years ago.”
“The total also includes 7,533 officers, among them 15 generals.”
“...the munitions-carrying version of which is currently being built on a $23.9 million contract for the U.S. Marine Corps...”
“four Israeli soldiers have been killed in this time in Gaza.”
“Around 600 drones targeted Moscow between Saturday night and Sunday morning”
“From a towering 5,921-metre summit, two Indian mountaineers made history by paragliding directly to a roadhead in Ladakh, combining a high-altitude ascent with a pioneering aerial descent, the Army said Monday. Colonel Hem Chandra Singh, p…”
“did not discover any widespread issues during the three days on board.”
“representatives from NATO’s 32 member states”
“Riga is estimated to be spending 4.92% of its national income on defence.”
“Officers made up as much as 10 per cent of fatalities in the opening phase of the war, a share that fell to between 2 and 3 per cent by November 2024, according to Mediazona.”
“In March, Anduril won its biggest contract yet: an expanded deal with the U.S. Army worth up to $20 billion over the next 10 years.”
“Israeli troops have occupied and depopulated two-thirds of the enclave, leaving nearly all its more than two million residents confined to a tiny strip of land under Hamas control along the coast, most in makeshift tents or damaged buildin…”
“Ten people were killed and another 17 were injured in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region overnight after a Russian missile strike”
“Two drones launched from Iranian territory targeted the office of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and the residence of the region's security chief early Monday, with no casualties reported, Kurdish author…”
“Those 5,000 people comprise a community.”
“The 5,000 crew members of the USS Abraham Lincoln”
“The date of death is known in 221,500 cases, about 93 per cent of the confirmed total.”
“The Bolt winds back and dives like a roller coaster, shooting downward at a vertiginous 85 degrees.”
“The Israeli military said its aircraft struck two Islamic Jihad and Hamas militants in Khan Younis and Nuseirat, leaving at least five Palestinians wounded in the strike that hit a tent encampment.”
“791 drones”
“The drones, identified as Hadid-110 aircraft, targeted Barzani's private office and the residence of the head of the region's Security and Intelligence Agency.”
“has been deployed as part of the US-Iran war since 11 December”
“The 5,000 crew members of the USS Abraham Lincoln have been at sea for 270 days as of Tuesday”
“In a separate estimate published on 9 May 2026 using Russian probate‑registry data, Mediazona and Meduza calculated that approximately 352,000 Russian military personnel had been killed by the end of 2025.”
“‘Our munitions production rate and our stockpiles are at a dangerous level,’ says Schimpf.”
“The group's military wing, the Qassam Brigades, carried out the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.”
“"substantially reduce" the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises, which began Monday and involve about 18,000 South Korean troops”
“The Memorandum of Understanding between the US and Iran, signed on 18 June, was designed to bring about a ceasefire...”
“in its ninth month at sea and fifth month of combat operations against Iran”
“The Ukrainian General Staff reports overall Russian personnel losses of about 1,467,320 as of 16 August 2026, though it does not break the figure down by category.”
“Take the Qatari-gifted Air Force One, which took its inaugural flight yesterday. Trump took the $400 million jet as a gift to taxpayers and then spent at least that much in taxpayer dollars to make it 'the world’s most luxurious plane.'”
“The annual Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) exercise are scheduled from August 17 to 27, with about 18,000 South Korean military personnel participating.”
“The US military has also reportedly lost at least 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones during the war, about 25% of its fleet.”
“On 8 July, Trump said the ceasefire was "over" and blasted Iran's leadership as "scum" and "cuckoo" after fresh exchanges of fire.”
“The USS George Washington, which is based in Japan, will replace the Lincoln”
“Volodymyr Zelensky told Fox News on 31 July 2026 that Ukraine had lost about 50,000 soldiers killed and 400,000 wounded, after putting the number of dead at 55,000 in February.”
“Moody’s economist Mark Zandi says the Iran war has already cost the typical U.S. household about $1,000 through higher gas, diesel, airfare, groceries, military spending, and borrowing costs.”
“South Korea and the US have conducted joint military exercises for over 70 years.”
“The US Army has used much of its global stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to people familiar with the data.”
“On 8 July, Trump said the ceasefire was 'over'”
“the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln has stepped foot on land only two days since leaving San Diego”
“introduced the term UAP in August 2020 when Washington set up a UAP Task Force to investigate unexplained incidents in restricted airspace”
“I know of someone who was rejected by the German army over a decade ago on the grounds that he was overqualified.”
“The long-range missiles cost more than $1 million each and are important because they allow accurate strikes from a distance.”
“there were 43 fires and 11 major incidents which 'stretched resources to the very limit' and required military support.”
“The Lincoln’s deployment started on Nov. 21 and was expected to end in May, but it has been extended several times without a confirmed end date.”
“A 2017 report revealed that the U.S. Navy had released footage of UAPs captured during military flights”
“In just over half those states, the more forgiving deadlines apply only to ballots cast by military and overseas voters.”
“Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group on Monday claimed it had launched a ballistic missile attack on a Saudi military landing ship and four escort boats in the Red Sea off the southwestern port city of Mocha.”
“there were 43 fires and 11 major incidents which "stretched resources to the very limit" and required military support.”
“A Spanish soldier died while assisting in a major wildfire in Aragon”
“more than 200 operatives were arrested”
“On Sunday, 14 separate fires were being tackled by crews working across south Wales, including soldiers supported by army helicopters.”
“The Indonesian Air Force said it was airlifting 13 tonnes of emergency aid in two Hercules transport planes and a Boeing, and deploying helicopters to reach isolated communities, according to the commander of El Tari Air Base in Kupang.”
“coordinated operations were carried out across 14 states”
“80 soldiers coming into the house, shooting indiscriminately and breaking doors and windows down is not an experience anybody would want to go through.”
“Six people have been killed and four injured in Ukrainian missile strikes on Russia's Belgorod region overnight, its acting governor has said.”
“A 14-year-old child was among those injured, Alexander Shuvaev wrote on Telegram early on Monday.”
“The strikes come a night after what officials called the 'largest-scale' attack launched by Ukraine this year, in which at least seven people were killed.”
“Shuvaev said that the latest strikes had burned a building and damaged a car in the village of Koloskovo in the Valuysky district, which is close to Russia's border with Ukraine.”
“The injured child had been sent to hospital while two others had received medical assistance, he added.”
“Nine people have been killed and 23 injured, including a child, in Ukrainian strikes on Russia, local officials have said.”
“Ukraine said two people were killed in Russian drone attacks on the north-eastern Sumy region, and another two in the eastern Donetsk region.”
“The strikes come a night after what Russia described as the 'largest-scale' attack by Ukraine this year, in which at least seven people were killed.”
“In Ukraine, two people were killed in Russian strikes on the cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk in the Donetsk region, the state emergencies service DSNS said.”
“It also reported that 54 trading pavilions were set ablaze at a local market in Sloviansk.”
“On Saturday night, Ukraine fired some 822 drones towards Russia, with 600 aiming for Moscow, according to its regional governor, who said the Russian capital suffered 'one of the most massive drone attacks in recent memory'.”
“Ukraine's defence ministry said the latest attack meant that seven out of 10 of the largest Wildberries logistics centres had been 'disabled'.”
“The Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz said on Monday that Russia had attacked its facilities 13 times during the past week.”
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 13 regions had come under attack last week, with Russia launching more than 1,550 attack drones, nearly 1,560 guided aerial bombs and 62 missiles.”
