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Ukrainian troops flew a wounded soldier off the front line with a heavy drone, the 92nd Assault Brigade says.
Mines and Russian drones made a rescue by ground robot impossible. The soldier survived. The brigade calls it a world first.
Source: t.me/nrk_92sabr/63
More about the drone: gurzufdefence.com.ua/
Albanian police fire rubber bullets as student protests rage
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Houthis attack presidential palace complex in Yemen's Aden, killing two security guards. Yemen's prime minister and cabinet members who were at the Maashiq presidential palace complex were unharmed. reuters.com/world/middle-eas…
Trump claims Russia and Ukraine agree to energy ceasefire. Zelensky tells @axios the announcement "was news for me. But if Russians agree to an energy ceasefire, Ukraine will agree."
axios.com/2026/10/11/trump-r…
Trump says he reached a diesel supply deal with Putin axios.com/2026/10/09/trump-p…
The FBI officially announced a new indictment against Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores. They (allegedly) directed high-ranking Venezuelan officials to torture victims through electrocution, rape, prolonged isolation, starvation, and other forms of abuse.
Venezuela's Maduro to face new US charges over alleged torture of Americans, official says. reuters.com/world/americas/m…
Asked whether the Kingdom of the Netherlands had refused landing requests for flights carrying @MariaCorinaYA to Aruba, Curaçao or Bonaire, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in an emailed response that "it is not for the Netherlands to comment on possible travel movements or intentions of María Corina Machado." The ministry added: "The Kingdom of the Netherlands has for years been working tirelessly towards a democratic transition in Venezuela, as evidenced by our support for the opposition, including Machado and her team." It did not address the question of whether any landing had been refused, or on what grounds.
Seven failed attempts, three in (the last) 24 hours: How María Corina Machado has been denied return to Venezuela voz.us/en/world/260923/39327…
Aruba's transport minister Wendrick Cicilia tells @volkskrant that refusing Venezuela's María Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) permission to land on Aruba was "certainly coordinated with the Netherlands." He says PM Eman was in contact with The Hague.
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In a Foreign Affairs committee debate on human rights, FM Berendsen (@ministerBZ) called Venezuela "a very complex field", including the Kingdom's Caribbean countries. On Machado's travel and whether The Hague was behind the landing refusals: silence, citing diplomatic interest
Spanish prime minister calls snap election after mass protests independent.co.uk/news/world…
The month before the Maduro raid, Trump spent hours quizzing Musk's @grok about his presidency in the Oval Office, TIME reports, citing an official present. One question: how would Venezuelans react if the US captured Maduro? Grok's answer: many would likely celebrate.
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Dutch National Indicted and Arrested for Unauthorized Computer Access Conspiracy. Fouad Eltibrizi, aka "Archduke", allegedly a member of the Kill Security Ransomware Group (KillSec), was indicted by a federal grand jury in Puerto Rico and arrested in Manchester, UK
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The Trump administration has told Germany and France to draw down emergency diesel inventories to help to ease global fuel prices or face a potential US diesel export ban reuters.com/business/energy/…
UK in emergency talks with European allies over releasing diesel stocks
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Explosions heard in Ethiopia's capital as war waged in north
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U.S. military expands drug war in Latin America with drones, troops and intelligence operations targeting cartels wsj.com/politics/national-se…
23 years after the 2003 invasion, justified by claims of Iraqi WMD stockpiles that were never found, the last US troops based in Iraq are due out today. US forces left in 2011, returned in 2014 at Baghdad's request to fight ISIS, and that mission now formally ends.
Iraq's PM says Washington and the militias have pledged no attacks for 90 days. A fragile promise: Iran-backed factions repeatedly attacked US bases during the US-Iran war, and the hardliners still refuse to disarm. Whether it holds depends on groups Baghdad does not control.
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman @SeanParnellASW on the Conclusion of the U.S. Military Mission in Iraq war.gov/News/Releases/Releas…
