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Greece scrambles F-16s as 'Turkish drone' flies over airport
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Greece scrambled F-16 fighter jets Friday as a drone reported to be from Turkey flew over one of the country's airports, media and a military source said.
Swiss nuclear plant fully back online after heatwaves
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
The Beznau nuclear power plant in Switzerland, which was shut down multiple times over the last two months due to summer heatwaves, is fully operational again, ...
China removes high-ranking officers from key military body
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
China removed two high-ranking officers from the country's main military body on Friday, state media reported, seven months after it was announced that Zhang Yo...
Israel says killed three militants in rare West Bank airstrike
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
The Israeli military said it struck and killed three militants on Friday in the occupied West Bank, a rare airstrike in the Palestinian territory that has seen ...
Iran warns Washington that pressure "doesn't work"
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Iran warned the United States on Friday that "pressure doesn't work" against the Islamic republic, calling on Washington to honour its commitments, after six mo...
Drones hit Zaporizhzhia power plant: IAEA
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
The UN nuclear watchdog on Friday said there had been three incidents this week involving drones at the Zaporizhzhia plant in Ukraine, injuring two employees, a...
Ousted Ukraine defence chief accepts job advising Italian minister
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Ukraine's ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov -- whose sacking last month prompted rare wartime protests -- has on Friday said he had accepted a job workin...
CORRECTED: Israel says killed three militants in rare West Bank airstrike
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
The Israeli military said it struck and killed three militants on Friday in the occupied West Bank, a rare airstrike in the Palestinian territory that has seen ...
Ousted Ukraine defence chief accepts job advising Italian minister
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Ukraine's ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov -- whose sacking last month prompted rare wartime protests -- on Friday said he had accepted a job working as...
French Foreign Legion soldier kidnapped in southwestern Colombia
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
A soldier in the French Foreign Legion was kidnapped earlier this month in an area dominated by guerrillas in southwestern Colombia, the country's army said Thu...
US court rules Pentagon ban of Anthropic unlawful
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
A US federal judge ruled Thursday that sanctions imposed in February by the Trump administration against AI giant Anthropic were illegal, finding that the gover...
Iran says still open to diplomacy as war with US hits six months
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
Iran left the door open to diplomacy on Friday, six months into a war with the United States that has upended the Middle East, but only if Washington abandons i...
China's help critical, but unlikely, for US to choke off Iran
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
The United States has threatened the "economic asphyxiation" of Iran, but analysts say that a successful chokehold would require unlikely cooperation from China...
No signs Russia prepping military attack on NATO countries: EU official
Aug 27, 2026 (AFP)
European intelligence agencies see no sign Russia is planning a military attack on European NATO countries, a senior EU official said Thursday, after US reports...
Iran, Qatar hold Hormuz talks as US blockade chokes Iran oil imports
Aug 27, 2026 (AFP)
Iran's top diplomat met his Qatari counterpart on Thursday in Tehran for talks on the strategic Strait of Hormuz, as a US naval blockade squeezes oil supplies t...
CORRECTED: Iran-Oman talks on Strait of Hormuz: What we know
Aug 27, 2026 (AFP)
Iran and Oman are negotiating the opening of a temporary shipping corridor and the clearance of mines in the blockaded Strait of Hormuz, which both nations bord...
US sounds out NATO allies over Europe force review
Aug 27, 2026 (AFP)
A senior Pentagon official pressed NATO allies Thursday to explain how they were stepping up to meet US demands to take responsibility for Europe's defence as W...
Stars and Stripes journalists sue US Defense Dept over firings
Aug 27, 2026 (AFP)
Three staff at the storied US military publication Stars and Stripes on Thursday sued the Department of Defense, saying it had fired them in violation of their ...
12 killed in Chad strike near Sudan border: security source
Aug 27, 2026 (AFP)
At least 12 people were killed on Thursday in an airstrike in Chad near the Sudanese border, a Chadian security source told AFP, with N'Djamena and Washington a...
Alleged 9/11 mastermind to go on trial in June 2028
Aug 27, 2026 (AFP)
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, will go on trial before a US military court in June 2028,...
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