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🌍 Global·X/@zagazolamakama·17 days ago

MEDIUMINVASION

Farmers-herders clash over farm encroachment in Kaduna; security forces intervene

Farmers, herders clash over alleged farm encroachment in Kaduna By: Zagazola Makama Security forces have contained a clash between farmers and herders over an alleged attempt to encroach on farmland at Mahauta Village in Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Zagazola Makama reports that the incident occurred at about 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 22, when troops of Sector 7, Operation ENDURING PEACE (OPEP), deployed at Manchok, responded to a report of the confrontation. The troops move

🇷🇺 Russia·TASS·17 days ago

Russia concerned about military-biological activities of several countries — Lavrov

According to the Russian foreign minister, half a century after the BTWC took effect in 1975, "the problem of ensuring biological security has not lost its urgency"

MEDIUMESCALATION

Azerbaijan pardons French national; EU sanctions relief tied to Russian oligarchs

Azerbaijan pardons jailed Frenchman after EU lifts sanctions on Russian billionaires ➡️ https://t.co/ECpLVpbgmy https://t.co/EnpwqYYJau

🌍 Global·X/@france24_en·17 days ago

NATO's Rutte:

NATO's Rutte: Article 5 is deliberately ambiguous, so we will never exactly tell anyone when Article 5 is exactly triggered or not. Because we don't want to make our adversaries any wiser. But when it comes to hybrid, let me assure you, we have all the response options we need. Some of them you will not see because they are simply not public.

🇺🇦 Ukraine·TASS·17 days ago

Finnish politician says NATO should return to its 1990s borders to reach peace in Ukraine

"The west will re-arm Ukraine if any peace deal were made," Armando Mema said

NATO's Rutte on Iran:

NATO's Rutte on Iran: You could argue that it would have been impossible to do Operation Epic Fury without having Europe as a power projection platform for the U.S. 5,000 planes have taken off from European bases in support of Epic Fury since February 28th this year.

🌍 Global·Breaking Defense·17 days ago

The future of European airpower might be unmanned

With one sixth-gen fighter program in Europe dead, could the future for European airpower be drones?

🌍 Global·South China Morning Post·17 days ago

PLA chiefs’ downfall eliminated ‘political danger’, military mouthpiece says

The expulsion of two former leaders from the Chinese armed forces and Communist Party “eliminated a major hidden political danger”, China’s military mouthpiece said on Wednesday. The party expelled Zhang Youxia, former vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and fellow former CMC member Liu Zhenli for factionalism and disloyalty, state media reported on Monday. The CMC is the country’s top military authority and is chaired by President Xi Jinping. “The serious investigation and..

🇺🇦 Ukraine·War on the Rocks·17 days ago

Winning by the Rules: Optimizing Weapons Reviews in the Age of Technological Innovation

We spare the reader another detailed story from Ukraine to establish the now-familiar point that battlefield technology changes faster than militaries can acquire, review, and field it. The villain in this story is easy to identify: bureaucracy. The fashionable remedies are equally familiar — cut the red tape slowing procurement, or revise the policy review requirements for autonomous weapon systems. But bureaucratic reform, however necessary, cannot eliminate the fundamental challenges machine-

HIGHNuclear/Missile

UK to launch military squadron to protect satellites in space

New RAF unit will warn of incoming missile attacks, and support offensive and defensive operations A new military unit dedicated to defending satellites, protecting services people need on earth and potentially supporting offensive operations is being launched by the UK. The No III Space Effects Squadron will be announced on Wednesday, with the defence secretary, Wes Streeting, warning that Britain needs to “keep pace in the new space race”. Continue reading...

🌍 Global·Guardian World·17 days ago

U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker on U.S. strategic priorities:

U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker on U.S. strategic priorities: Number one is the homeland. Number two is our own hemisphere. Number three is the Pacific. Number four is Europe. It doesn't mean we're abandoning Europe. We're just asking Europeans to step forward and equalize.

🇷🇺 Russia·France 24·17 days ago

Azerbaijan pardons jailed Frenchman after EU lifts sanctions on Russian oligarchs

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday pardoned a French national imprisoned for espionage a day after ‌the ⁠EU lifted sanctions on Russian billionaire ‌Alisher Usmanov following what ⁠diplomats said was pressure from Baku.

U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker:

U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker: The United States believed for a long time that we could fight a two-front war globally. We're kidding ourselves.

🌍 Global·X/@zagazolamakama·17 days ago

MEDIUMBOMBARDMENT

Nigerian troops prevent kidnapping, rescue 3 victims in Plateau

Troops foil kidnap attempt, rescue three victims in Plateau @DHQNigeria @HQNigerianArmy https://t.co/ycx8N44sVu

HIGHInsurgency

SBU detains Russian agent preparing terrorist attack in central Rivne

The counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has prevented a terrorist attack in the center of Rivne and detained a Russian agent who was preparing an explosion near a state institution in the downtown area.

🇺🇦 Ukraine·Interfax Ukraine·17 days ago

Netanyahu on AI:

Netanyahu on AI: I am setting a goal: within five years, we will be the third AI power. There is the United States, there is China — not small countries — but I want Israel to become, and with God’s help it will become, the third power.

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković:

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković: Ratko Mladić was a convicted war criminal responsible for the Srebrenica genocide, the first genocide in Europe since the Holocaust. The military and official honors accorded to Mladić in Serbia were an affront to his victims and to the judgments of international courts. The public acclaim that accompanied the ceremony is totally incompatible with the values of a union Serbia seeks to join.

🌍 Global·X/@zagazolamakama·17 days ago

MEDIUMBOMBARDMENT

Troops foil kidnap attempt, rescue 3 victims in Bokkos, Plateau State

Troops foil kidnap attempt, rescue three victims in Plateau By: Zagazola Makama Troops of Sector 5, Operation ENDURING PEACE (OPEP), Bokkos, have foiled a kidnap attempt and rescued three victims along the Sha-Daffo road in Daffo District of Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State. Zagazola Makama reports that the incident occurred at about 9:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 22, following a distress report on suspected kidnapping activities along the route. The troops swiftly responded to the

🇷🇺 Russia·Ukrinform·17 days ago

Updated: Russian attack on Kyiv leaves one dead, eight injured

A man injured in a Russian attack has died in a Kyiv hospital, while eight people were injured.

Netanyahu:

Netanyahu: Milton Friedman, a Nobel Prize winner and one of the great economists of the past hundred years, wrote a letter when I began the reforms as finance minister. He said that Israel could be like Singapore, but that it required a change in direction — away from bureaucracy and government restraints. And he said, fortunately, there is a finance minister who understands economics and is capable of doing it.

Netanyahu:

Netanyahu: The Economist ranks the State of Israel — pay attention, after three years of war — as one of the three most dynamic economies in the world. It’s unbelievable. For me, it is also divine assistance, but it is also policy — simply a policy of a free market.

🇾🇪 Yemen·Dawn·17 days ago

Pakistan stands 'shoulder to shoulder' with Saudi Arabia in safeguarding its sovereignty, security: PM Shehbaz

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday reiterated Pakistan’s commitment to “safeguarding” Saudi Arabia’s sovereignty and security in his message to the Gulf state on its National Day. The National Day, observed every year on September 23, marks the unification of the kingdom at the hands of King Abdulaziz in 1932. In a post on X, PM Shehbaz congratulated the country on its “remarkable journey of progress and transformation” and reiterated Pakistan’s condemnation of the recent Houthi attacks

Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister Prévot:

Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister Prévot: Twelve people find themselves in a forest on an island. The guide who led them there is sitting among them. He's dead, but they don't know it yet. They are waiting for him to return. They hear the wind, the sea, the voices around them. They know they are not alone. Yet they can barely tell where the others are. At one point, one of the characters says: "Years and years we have been together and we have never seen each other." That line comes back

🇸🇩 Sudan·AllAfrica·17 days ago

Sudan: Somoud Anti-War Forces Call On UN Security Council for Immediate Truce in Sudan

[Dabanga] New York -- Civilian forces opposed to the war in Sudan have called on the UN secretary-general and members of the Security Council to take urgent international action to make an immediate, comprehensive humanitarian truce in Sudan a priority, alongside measures to protect civilians and ensure humanitarian aid can reach those in need.

Trump has so far declined to intervene against UK-led sanctions targeting Israeli settlements in the West Bank, despite Israel asking Washington for help.

Trump has so far declined to intervene against UK-led sanctions targeting Israeli settlements in the West Bank, despite Israel asking Washington for help. Rubio initially suggested the U.S. might respond, but two weeks later no action had been taken. Source: The Times of Israel

🇵🇰 Pakistan·Dawn·17 days ago

CRITICALNuclear/Missile

'India cannot set aside int'l obligations when inconvenient': Dar raises IWT issue at OIC meeting

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🇺🇦 Ukraine·War on the Rocks·17 days ago

Seoul Needs a Playbook for Hormuz, Ukraine, and What Comes Next

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump shared a Washington Post opinion piece on his social media, arguing that South Korea should send its Cheongung-II air-defense system to Ukraine. Additionally, the Trump administration continues to pressure Seoul to send troops to the Strait of Hormuz. Neither the U.S.-Iranian conflict nor the Russo-Ukrainian War is new, yet the simultaneity of U.S. pressure on Seoul to help in its war with Iran and to support Ukraine is striking.While such diverging ask

CRITICALNaval

Updated: Russians attack warehouses in Odesa region and cargo ship in Black Sea – captain killed

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🇷🇺 Russia·Ukrinform·17 days ago

HIGHBOMBARDMENT

Vehicle struck in Mawasi, Khan Yunis; casualties reported

A vehicle was hit in Mawasi, Khan Yunis. Gaza reports dead and wounded. https://t.co/PNJjdfMmUO

🕌 Middle East·X/@osint613·17 days ago

NEW: Tigrayan forces seized Mekelle's Alula Aba Nega Airport today.

NEW: Tigrayan forces seized Mekelle's Alula Aba Nega Airport today. Ethiopian Airlines cancelled flights to Mekelle, Axum, and Shire. Just two days ago, seven armed groups including the TPLF, Amhara Fano, and OLA announced an alliance to overthrow PM Abiy Ahmed. Taking the airport gives Tigray control over its main air link to the rest of Ethiopia and signals the Pretoria framework is effectively collapsing. Source: AFP

🕌 Middle East·X/@osint613·17 days ago

HIGHBOMBARDMENT

Ukrainian MiG-29 downs Russian drone with R-60M missile

A Russian drone is downed by an R-60M fired from a Ukrainian MiG-29. Cockpit view. https://t.co/GglmUcaP9w

🇾🇪 Yemen·Dawn·17 days ago

Pakistan stands 'should to shoulder' with Saudi Arabia in safeguarding its sovereignty, security: PM Shehbaz

🇮🇱 Israel·Al Jazeera·17 days ago

Pakistan’s new drone deal is with Trump-backed firm also selling to India

The company's cofounder is also an ex-Israeli soldier. Pakistan does not recognise Israel.

HIGHPolitical

Oil falls $1 on better supply outlook, hopes for US-Iran talks

PERTH/SINGAPORE: Oil prices extended declines on Wednesday as investors eyed improved Gulf supply after Saudi Arabia restarted operations at a critical pipeline. Hopes for a diplomatic solution to ‌the US-Iran war also weighed on prices. Brent crude futures fell $1.09, or 1.1 percent, to $98.16 a barrel as of 07:21 a.m. Saudi time while West Texas Intermediate futures fell $1.50, or 1.67 percent, to $89.01 per barrel. Both contracts have declined for six consecutive sessions to around two-week

🇮🇷 Iran·Arab News·17 days ago

CRITICALAerial

No peace with Israel 'if rights of Syrians are usurped', Sharaa says

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🇷🇺 Russia·Middle East Eye·17 days ago

🌍 Global·Deutsche Welle·17 days ago

South Africa: 11 killed in attack on house party

The motive for the shooting was not immediately clear.

🇷🇺 Russia·Ukrainska Pravda·17 days ago

Russian attacks on Kyiv railway: Ukrainian Railways chief urges caution and advises passengers what to do

Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, Chairman of the Board of Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways), has warned that railway facilities in Kyiv remain under Russian attack, urged passengers to exercise extreme caution and provided recommendations on what to do in the event of a threat.