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💰 Canada to provide Ukraine with $253M in air defense interceptor missiles 🗣 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Canada is ready to join the European FREYJA anti-ballistic missile program 🖊 The 2 countries signed a declaration on a 100-year partnership
Washington provides intelligence and targeting support for Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Houthis in Yemen, US media reports 📍 More than 100 US military advisers are reportedly on ground in Saudi Arabia, with assistance including real-time battlefield and ‘geospatial’ targeting support
📌 Yemen’s National Defense Council says Houthi gains are ‘temporary’ 🗺 Council says any attempt by the Houthis to turn 'a temporary field gain into a permanent political or geographic reality' is 'an illusion' 🤝 It also condemns recent Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and reiterates Yemen’s 'full solidarity' with the kingdom
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejects reports drone threatened Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plane in Moldova, calling alleged threat ‘ephemeral’ ▪ Peskov claims detention of Ukrainian carrying drone and explosives at Moldovan border was Kyiv-staged ‘provocation’ aimed at drawing West deeper into war ▪ He also says Russia values UAE’s readiness to host potential Russia-Ukraine peace talks and offer its…
Netherlands reports 9 new locally contracted West Nile virus cases, bringing this year’s total to 18, health institute RIVM says 📌 Three people have died from virus this year, while infections have been recorded across 6 Dutch provinces
Trump administration secretly explored energy deal offering Cuba US oil and investment in exchange for major economic and political changes, according to media reports 🛢 Washington sought privatization of Cuba’s state energy company CUPET and US investor control, but Cuban resistance and political pressure in Miami derailed proposal
🚨 Eight people, most of them children, injured in drone attack by paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on Sudanese capital Khartoum, local authorities say 📍 Attack hits Al-Fath area west of Omdurman, as Sudanese army air defenses respond to drones targeting capital
Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin rejects Israel’s ‘overreaction’ to UK sanctions on illegal settlements, urging respect for decisions driven by humanitarian concerns 🚨 Martin says ‘terrorist settlers’ are uprooting Palestinians in occupied West Bank, breaching their rights and undermining prospects for two-state solution 🗣 He calls Gaza’s ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ ‘morally unacceptable,’ urging breakthrough ‘for…
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius considers withholding Germany’s highly classified defense plan from Saxony-Anhalt if AfD forms government there, German media reports ⚠ Move reportedly driven by fears Russia-friendly AfD politicians could pass 1,000-page OPLAN Deutschland to Moscow, increasing Germany’s security risk
📍 Israel and Lebanon expected to hold new round of talks in Rome next week, Israeli media reports 📌 Talks aim to establish force to verify pilot areas are cleared of Hezbollah presence, as US seeks broader Israeli withdrawal and transfer of control to Lebanese army ⚠ Lebanese army says Israel committed 7,700 violations since June framework deal, warning continued violations threaten existing understandings and…
Acting US Navy Secretary Hung Cao acknowledges extensive damage from Iranian strikes that ‘blew the hell out of’ naval base in Bahrain 🛑 Cao says damage left USS Abraham Lincoln with ‘no place for them to pull in,’ before aircraft carrier made its first regular port call in nearly 9 months in Thailand after unusually long deployment that drew scrutiny over conditions and sailor morale
UN Security Council’s 5 permanent members clash over legality of reimposed UN sanctions against Iran under 2015 nuclear deal’s ‘snapback’ mechanism Russia and China argue mechanism was never legally activated and sanctions mandate expired, warning moves deepen divisions US, UK and France insist sanctions were legally restored, as council votes 11-2 to reject Russian-Chinese bid to halt meeting
