The delay has prompted questions from new parents, who often anticipate receiving the most recent edition. Petäjä noted that the timeline could still shift in either direction depending on how quickly remaining stock is used. Each year, Kela pre-orders the packages about two years in advance, basing…

Russia's so-called "shadow fleet" of aging tankers, used to evade sanctions, has been accused of dragging anchors to damage undersea infrastructure. Aboard the NRV Alliance, a NATO research vessel, scientists from the Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) have developed technology…

Matt Simon Senior Staff Writer Published Jul 29, 2025 Topic Climate Share/Republish The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place. Since 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault — set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost — has accepted nearly 1.4…

Trump Is Changing Corruption—and Making It More Dangerous Michael Johnston August 6, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., August 2025 Jonathan Ernst / Reuters MICHAEL JOHNSTON is Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Colgate University. He is the author of…

Amid high inflation, Russia is preparing to cap prices on staple food items, a move analysts say signals a shift toward a command economy that could trigger shortages, long queues, and public discontent. According to a report by Russian pro-government media outlet Kommersant, the Agriculture…

The government has, for the first time, proposed creating a counter-intelligence mechanism in a new draft Bill on the National Intelligence Act, which is currently under consideration at the Bills Committee of the Cabinet. At present, the National or Investigation Department (NID) does not have a…

Russia’s quiet attempt to lease passenger aircraft from Ethiopia has fallen apart, marking another blow to the country’s sanction-strangled aviation sector, as, according to Addis Insight, Ethiopia’s Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA) rejected a Russian delegation’s request on August 6. Ethiopia…

The long-delayed overhaul and modernization of the Russian Navy’s large anti-submarine ship Admiral Chabanenko will not be completed in 2025 as previously planned, sources told Russian media Izvestia on August 6. The sources were unable to offer a new target date for the completion of work or the…

Ukraine on Wednesday reopened its Bystre Canal at the mouth of the Danube, which had been closed since a dredger exploded in late July, the Ukrainian state Seaport Authority said. Ukraine had been transporting grain on the Bystre and the Danube as an alternative route for its exports while access to…

DELTA System Scalable to All Levels of Command #Ministry of Defense #Ministry of Defense of Ukraine #Ukraine #War with Russia Illustrative image of the DELTA interface. Photo credits: Denys Shmyhal The national system of automated troop management DELTA will be implemented at all levels of command…

Drone Strike Hits Tatsinskaya Rail Junction in Rostov Region #Fires #Russia #UAV #War with Russia #World Fire after drone flight over Tatsinskaya station. Photo: Exilenova+ Strike drones operated by the Ukrainian Defense Forces targeted the Tatsinskaya railway hub in Russia’s Rostov region,…

Souvenirs rain down from heavy mortars Striking deep into the enemy's lair The last word is had by the Sich gunners Advertisement: Rostov gets its grim cargo of despair, (c) Ukrainian band Komu Vnyz, "Artillery March" (words by Dmytro Savchenko) Sumy is a cornerstone of Ukrainian artillery. This…

Ukraine (MNN) — A chance to give hope to children hurt by war is too precious to miss. “Their children often will panic; some will wet themselves. They struggle with sleeplessness and emotions every time the siren goes off…” Eric Mock from Slavic Gospel Assosiation recounts conversations he had with…

Ukraine's Defense Intelligence (HUR) reported the information. According to the statement, the unit hit a Russian Project 02510 BK-16 landing craft and destroyed several radar systems, including the Nebo-SVU, Podlyot K-1, and 96L6E. “After suffering significant losses to its air defense assets on…

"A signal of unwavering solidarity with Ukraine": Romanian Foreign Minister visited "Okhmatdyt" after missile strike Kyiv • UNN August 7 2025, 11:29 AM • 1926 views Romanian Foreign Minister Oana-Silvia Țoiu made her first visit to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion. She visited the…

Another solar power plant has been installed at a Ukrainian hospital as part of the ‘Sun for Ukraine’ initiative, led by Brno-based NGO Nesehnutí. The power plant, built thanks to Czech donors, will reduce power costs and ensure supply at the St. Nicholas Children’s Hospital in Lviv, part of one of…

Drones operated by Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) struck multiple high-value Russian military targets in occupied Crimea, including a fast assault landing craft and three radar stations, the agency reported on Aug. 7. Among the targets hit was a Project 02510 BK-16 vessel, a high-speed…

The Russians may be preparing a new assault on Kherson. The occupiers may be attempting to isolate the Kherson neighborhood of Korabel by striking a key bridge and organizing a foothold for a possible landing operation, CNN reports. Kherson was captured by Russian forces in 2022. Later that year,…

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Firefighters in southern Franceare grappling to control a large wildfire that has swept through an area bigger than the size of its capital, Paris. Spain and Portugal are also battling wildfires. Forests are once again burning in many parts of the world. In most cases, forest fires are caused by…

After two closures of traffic on the Crimean Bridge, long queues of cars formed at the inspection points. 2,120 cars are waiting to pass from the Taman side, 1,450 from the Crimea side. Trains are also delayed. As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, on the morning of August 4, there were 1,485 cars in the queue…

Voskhod In the hours after U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, few details were released publicly. Still, pro-Kremlin media had no trouble finding something to report. RIA Novosti, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Lenta.ru, and even the official…

A major Russian cyberespionage unit is attempting to spy on foreign embassies in Moscow by targeting local internet and telecom infrastructure used by diplomatic personnel inside the nation’s capital city, according to findings released Thursday by Microsoft’s threat intelligence arm. The group,…

The Brief August 8, 2025 Inside the Minsk backchannel, Trump's call for a new census, and more 00:00 President Donald Trump is calling for a new census that excludes undocumented immigrants from its population count amid his push to redraw electoral maps in Republicans' favor and weaken the…

OnPoint Subscriber Exclusive Longer Reads provide in-depth analysis of the ideas and forces shaping politics, economics, international affairs, and more. Subscribe Bettmann Contributor/Getty Images en English Longer Reads Aug 8, 2025 Eighty years after the atomic bombings that ended World War II,…

On 7 August, combat medic Maryna "Meri" Hrytsenko of the 3rd Assault Brigade was killed in action while on a combat mission at the front. In civilian life, she served as chief curator of the collections at the Chernihiv Art Museum and was an active member of the Ukrainian scouting organisation…

Four years ago, most of these women fighters had never fired fired a gun or held a weapon in combat. By the time they died, they were operating some of Ukraine’s most sophisticated military equipment. All of them were killed while serving in frontline combat roles when Russia’s full-scale invasion…

On August 6, 2025, President Trump published a new Executive Order imposing secondary tariffs on India in response to its continued importation of Russian-origin crude oil. This marks both an escalation in U.S. trade negotiations with India and the first major Russia-related enforcement action of…

A fire that broke out on the night of August 1 at the Cugir Mechanical Plant in central Romania destroyed approximately 130,000 cartridges of 14.5 mm caliber, with the potential compromise of hundreds of thousands more, local authorities confirmed. According to initial data from the Alba County…

Russian crude is being sold to Indian buyers at discounted rates as European Union sanctions and the prospect of US penalties weigh on demand, Bloomberg reported on August 7, citing data intelligence firm Kpler Ltd. According to Bloomberg, the price of Urals—the OPEC+ producer’s benchmark grade—is…

According to a recent announcement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romania endorsed the Joint Declaration on the Security and Resilience of Submarine Cables in a Global Digitalized World, in coordination with the United States and European Union partners. The diplomatic effort takes place as…

Main News Culture Aug. 7, 2025, 5:35 p.m. Цей матеріал також доступний українською 78 Poster: CRC On the occasion of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center is launching an information storm "Indigenous Peoples Matter for Ukraine". The campaign will…

Georgia's Foreign Ministry called on Russia to withdraw its military units from Abkhazia and South Ossetia, regions that unilaterally declared independence from Georgia, marking the 17th anniversary of the 2008 war. The ministry issued a written statement on Friday on the occasion of the 17th…

Aug 7, 2025 China’s current demographic spiral bears a striking resemblance to that of ancient Rome, where changing social norms and drastic population-control measures led to falling birth rates and irreversible decline. Unless it rebuilds the social and economic foundations of child-rearing, China…

28 July, 03:58 PM Share: The NATO E-3A Sentry aircraft is capable of carrying out a range of missions, including surveillance, tracking, and target detection, Business Insider reported. (Photo: www.defense.gov) Author: The E-3A Sentry surveillance aircraft, better known as AWACS, has been flying at…

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The recent NATO Summit was almost entirely defined by the ambitious spending pledge to spend 3.5% of GDP on core defence expenditure by 2035. This radical increase in spending commitments was partly driven by a widespread recognition of the long overdue need for Europe to pay more toward its own…