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Special Envoy for Situation of Children of Ukraine at an event in Reykjavik: “Without prospect of justice for children, any promise of rebuilding Ukraine will be empty” Special Envoy of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe on the Situation of Children of Ukraine Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjord…

Old maps contain many intriguing place names: strange spellings for recognizable places, rumors of lands which once existed, and mysterious unknowns. One such enigmatic toponym which appeared on European and American maps from the 13th to the 19th century is “Tartary” – no Tartary can be found on a…

Reuters Published on: 20 Jun 2025, 6:57 pm The Netherlands has launched operation Orange Shield to protect next week's NATO summit, deploying combat sea patrols, helicopters, over 10,000 military and police personnel, bomb squads and air defence systems. About 6,000 delegates and leaders from 32…

MILITARY Spain rejects Trump’s NATO spending demands By Jordi Bou June 24, 2025 - June 25, 2025 - Spain’s resistance to Donald Trump’s demand that allies boost their defence spending to 5% of GDP risks disrupting a high-stakes NATO summit aimed at placating the U.S. president. Leaders of the…

LYMAN, DONETSK REGION- “I don’t need your f***ing American shells,” Vadim Adamov muttered as he packed the Pringles can full of sulphate and plastic explosive. It was early 2024, and he had been fighting outside Avdiivka, a small town near the occupied city of Donetsk that had been a major Russian…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Residents of the Tucson, Arizona area were startled earlier this week by a group of helicopters, including at least one Russian-made Mi-17 Hip, making very low nighttime…

NATO defense spending tracker How are allies contributing to collective defense? SCROLL TO EXPLORE Top takeaways The Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative has launched a real-time NATO Defense Spending Tracker to offer a clearer and fuller picture of how allies are contributing to…

Gimme a fix Radio navigation set to make global return as GPS backup, because cyber GPS killed the radio nav in 2010, but a high-def version is set to return. Sean Gallagher – Aug 7, 2017 2:40 pm | 139 This is the way we used to find our way around. Credit: National Air and Space Museum This is the…

A Wide-Area Multi-Application PNT Resiliency Solution By Stephen Bartlett, Gerard Offermans and Charles Schue INNOVATION INSIGHTS with Richard Langley WHERE HAVE ALL THE SYSTEMS GONE, long time passing? Radionavigation systems, that is (and apologies to Pete Seeger). If we look at the 1990 Federal…

We found it nostalgic to watch [ve3iku] fire up an old Loran-A receiver and, as you can see in the video below, he got it working. If you aren’t familiar with LORAN, it was a common radio navigation technique before GPS took over everything. LORAN — an acronym for Long Range Navigation — was a US…

The opening phase of Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, which began on June 12-13, focused on infiltrated covert operators hunting high-value targets with small strike drones and anti-tank guided missiles. It bears significant similarities to Ukraine’s Spider’s Web operation, less than two weeks…

Brad Lander, New York City’s comptroller and mayoral candidate, has been arrested by masked federal agents while visiting an immigration court and accompanying a person out of a courtroom. Lander’s campaign spokesperson confirmed to Fox5NY that Lander was indeed arrested by Immigration and Customs…

The time and location data provided by GNSS systems are widely used in navigation systems, and signal disruptions can cause unexpected failures in positioning and ship autopilot systems. GNSS interference makes navigation more difficult for ships, increasing the risk of accidents, including serious…

[By Captain Harifidy A. Alex Ralaiarivony] The WIO region serves as an essential gateway linking Asia, the Pacific, and the Middle East, occupying a central position in the world’s economic and strategic balance. This criticality is underscored by the significant maritime traffic transiting through…

PRAGUE—European officials worry that NATO’s ambitious new targets for military capability may not be enough to deter Russia from “testing” how the alliance would respond to an attack on a member nation within the next three to five years. Russian President Vladimir Putin increasingly perceives…

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Ukraine Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, right, examines the site of a missile strike that ruined a residential building during Russia's massive missile and drone air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday. Efrem Lukatsky/AP KYIV, Ukraine — One of the largest Russian attacks in months killed at least…

Introduction On May 4, 2025, the Houthis launched a missile from Yemen—built with Iranian-supplied components—that evaded Israeli and American air defenses and struck within the perimeter of Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport. The strike triggered a cascade of flight suspensions that grounded…

TWO crude oil tankers have collided at the eastern entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, just 15 nautical miles off Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. Frontline-owned, Liberia-flagged, 299,550 dwt VLCC Front Eagle (IMO: 9855343) and Antigua and Barbuda-flagged, 164,551 dwt suezmax Adalynn (IMO: 9231767)…

New Lines Institute Home / Captagon After the Fall of Assad: Transformations, Challenges, and Regional Implications Captagon After the Fall of Assad: Transformations, Challenges, and Regional Implications June 17, 2025 20 min read A man throws a bag onto a pile of burning illicit drugs as Syria’s…

Slovenia’s Ministry of Defense announced on 13 June it had placed an order for 12 CAESAR 6×6 wheeled self-propelled howitzers from France, with deliveries set to begin in 2028. Army Recognition reported the deal, which places Slovenia among several nations waiting for delivery of the in-demand…

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KANANASKIS — Prime Minister Mark Carney said his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Alberta on Tuesday was a "necessary" step toward rebuilding the relationship between the two countries. However, Carney refused to say whether he had directly raised…

The contemporary security environment defies traditional categorizations of war and peace. We exist in what some analysts increasingly term a “hybrid Cold War,” that is, a persistent state of competition that blends conventional capabilities with irregular tactics, cyber operations, and information…

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Today, there are interesting updates from the Russian Federation. Here, the increasing number of warnings, which have evolved into outright open threats from Russia, has pushed the Kazakhstan government to take decisive steps towards establishing an alliance with Western countries. From changing key…

SUMY REGION, UKRAINE -- A wounded Ukrainian soldier has just been carried into a medical stabilization point close to the front line in Ukraine's northern Sumy region. A piece of shrapnel is lodged in his leg. "What time did they put the tourniquet on?" asks one medic. Another looks down, "It says…

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Five years ago — and certainly a decade ago — coercive annexation of Taiwan by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) might have seemed an extreme scenario. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case. The rising crescendo of PRC air and maritime pressure operations near the island, missile firings, and…

Dubai and Kyiv, June 17, 2025: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator, announces today that Kyivstar, VEON’s digital operator in Ukraine, has joined forces with Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation to develop Ukraine’s first national large language model (“LLM”) trained on…

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