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Alexei was married to a woman in Russia before fleeing both his marriage and the country for the safe haven of Argentina. “[In Russia] there’s a lot of pressure to be in a relationship at a young age,” the 24-year-old dental student told the Herald. “I thought that being in a heterosexual marriage…

The Kremlin on April 7 announced it is “closely monitoring” oil markets after the price of its key export grade, Urals crude, plunged towards the $50 mark. “We are very closely monitoring the situation, which is currently characterized as extremely turbulent, tense, and emotionally overloaded,”…

An Indian-made component was identified in a Russian weapon system for the first time, while nearly all American-made parts have been phased out, Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) reported on April 7. "For the first time, a component made in India — a clock buffer from Aura Semiconductor — was…

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Lisa was eating takeout at a friend’s place when the email from her university landed. She clicked into her inbox and skimmed the message: “ISS [International Student Services] is writing to inform you that your SEVIS record was terminated …” The wording felt unfamiliar. She read it again, but it…

On Sunday, the crew of the Philippine Coast Guard cutter BRP Cabra narrowly averted a head-on collision with an aggressive China Coast Guard cutter, according to the PCG. On Saturday, BRP Cabra intercepted the China Coast Guard cutter CCG-3302 at a position about 85 nautical miles off the coast of…

Cybersecurity agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States have published a joint advisory about the risks associated with a technique called fast flux that has been adopted by threat actors to obscure a command-and-control (C2) channel. "'Fast flux' is a technique used to…

The shift towards the digitalisation of shipping operations is changing the maritime industry’s risk landscape. While technologies – such as blockchain-based shipping documents, e-navigation, and Internet of Things-enabled sensors – improve efficiency and transparency, they also introduce new…

7 April, 01:02 PM Share: Russia has upgraded its Shahed drones. (Photo: REUTERS / Roman Petushkov) Author: Russia is working to minimize its use of components from countries that have imposed sanctions, particularly in the electronic warfare shielding of its Shahed drones, which has now largely shed…

This was reported by the Command of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces. According to the report, the strikes were carried out by operators from the 414th Separate Unmanned Systems Battalion "RAID", working together with the "Dzhmil" combined unit from the 78th Airborne Assault Regiment. The pilots…

Russian forces launched six ballistic missiles at Ukrainian territory on 6 April, with only one successfully intercepted by Ukraine’s Air Force. The remaining missiles struck Kyiv and surrounding areas. “Unfortunately, of the six ballistic missiles, only one was destroyed. The others — regrettably —…

Ukrainian Defense Forces have eliminated the commander of a Chechen unmanned aerial vehicle squad – the Ahmat special unit of the Russian Ministry of Defense – with the call sign Amur, according to the unit’s commander, Apti Alaudinov. Since the beginning of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine, the…

The British military has found Russian sensors in seas around the country that it believes were attempting to spy on its nuclear submarines, the Sunday Times reported. The Royal Navy found some devices planted on the sea bed while several washed ashore, the newspaper reported. Military and…

Buildings housing the editorial offices of the state-owned International Broadcasting Multimedia Platform of Ukraine were severely damaged in a Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv on the night of 5-6 April. Source: Dim, a Ukrainian TV channel Details: The channels of this company are Freedom,…

Sailors attached to the fast-attack submarine USS Iowa (SSN 797) man their newly commissioned submarine during a ceremony in Groton, Conn., April 5, 2025. (Joshua Karsten/U.S. Navy) The USS Iowa (SSN 797) was commissioned in a ceremony on Saturday at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn.…

Eleven years ago, members of the Ottawa treaty banning the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of antipersonnel mines agreed a deadline for completing their obligations: 2025. The ambitious timeline reflected the immense progress made since the pact was signed in 1997. Back then, 25,000 people…

04/06/2025April 6, 2025Indonesia says no retaliation against Trump tariff Indonesia has issued its first response to Donald Trump's new 32% tariff on Southeast Asia's largest economy. Chief Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto said in a statement that Indonesia would pursue diplomacy and…

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Europe | Made in Ukraine Investing in the country’s defence industry is the best way to keep it in the fight Photograph: Eyevine A CEASEFIRE BETWEEN Russia and Ukraine remains a distant prospect, and Europe has made slow progress towards creating a “reassurance force” to help support one. American…

A major Russian assault operation in eastern Ukraine has ended in disaster, Forbes reports. The attack, which targeted areas west of Russian-occupied Andriivka and north of Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, was thwarted when two Russian platoons were caught in a well-prepared Ukrainian ambush. “Presumably,…

In the Pokrovsk sector in Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast, the Russians continue to push forward with small infantry groups, according to Romeo, head of the medical service of the 152nd Separate Jaeger Brigade, speaking on Army TV. At the same time, after a prolonged period of mostly infantry assaults in…

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After the Estonian startup KrattWorks dispatched the first batch of its Ghost Dragon ISR quadcopters to Ukraine in mid-2022, the company’s officers thought they might have six months or so before they’d need to reconceive the drones in response to new battlefield realities. The 46-centimeter-wide…

Naval News Navy 2025 On April 5, 2025, Anduril Industries announced via its official LinkedIn account the successful delivery of its first Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to the U.S. Navy’s Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Squadron 1 (UUVRON-1). This milestone represents a significant…

“People think that data is in the cloud, but it’s not. It’s in the ocean.” Jayne Stowell, Google’s former undersea cable project manager.” 99% of all intercontinental internet traffic is transmitted through a network of undersea cables. This network is under increasing threat. Almost all internet…

More and more people are using AI-driven chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Le Chat or Copilot instead of search engines to find information online. The advantage in this is that these large-language models (LLMs) not only provide links to the information they reproduce but also summarize content in…

Crews from two Ukrainian minehunting naval vessels are training in Britain to prepare for a future mission to clear explosives from the Black Sea. They would likely be deployed only once a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine genuinely takes hold. RFE/RL's Roman Pahulych visited the crews in…

A column of smoke rises on the horizon, and birds scatter from the trees as the green van barrels down the muddy road. It’s January 21, the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, and a Ukrainian Army drone unit is on a reconnaissance mission on the border of the Volnovakha region of Donetsk in…

By Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including China. Brendan joined Newsweek in 2018 from the International Business Times and well as English,…

In early 2025, a Ukrainian information resource reported that Russia’s defense industry has ramped up production of its 2S43 “Malva” self-propelled howitzers, a development underscored by a Telegram channel, BTVT.INFO, which published a photograph of a train convoy transporting at least eight of…

The Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, named the most secure messenger among those in existence. He told this in an interview with Anna Maksymchuk. The presenter named such options as Telegram, Signal, Viber, and WhatsApp. "Well, no…

The TWZ Newsletter By signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Black Arrow, also known as the Small Cruise Missile, has completed a guided flight test from an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship, the weapon’s manufacturer, Leidos, has confirmed. The Black Arrow, which is intended…

People are only just realising how big submarines actually are after a photograph of a single part being transported through a UK town has gone viral. While the concept of submersibles allegedly has roots as far back as 332 BC, the first submarine to be officially declared as functional was the…

On the night of April 5, Ukrainian drones attacked the Optic Fiber Systems plant in Saransk. The facility, previously partially owned by the state nanotechnology group Rusnano, produces fiber optic cable used in drones and is the only plant of its kind in Russia. The Russian Telegram channel Baza…

Ukrainian delegates from Special Forces Unit OMEGA at the recent SOFINS 25 conference were wearing combats in the new M23 Pattern camouflage, reports Bob Morrison. ~ Naturally, with the current situation on the ground in Ukraine, examples of the new M23 (sometimes designated MM-23) camouflage…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it dangerous to remain silent about Russia’s guilt in the strike on Kryvyi Rih, stating that doing so only encourages the aggressor country to continue the war and ignore diplomacy. The Russian ballistic missile strike on a residential district in…

Abstract This article examines how the Houthi rebels in Yemen use tribal poetry as a propaganda platform to influence public opinion about the current war crisis in the country. By digitalizing Yemeni oral popular poetry, zamil, in the form of motivational war songs and YouTube videos, the Houthi…

Poetry is politics in the Yemen. When the last Imam of Yemen, who was also the hereditary ruler, was deposed in a coup in 1962, it was a local poet who announced the change of regime on the radio, in verse of course. And the current al-Houthi regime in the north of the country, like all its…