Category: World
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Russian drones keep crossing into Moldovan and Romanian airspace, and the record shows detection and notification rather than interception. Three reasons: interceptors cost more than the drone, a downed drone still falls on someone, and a small state without an alliance absorbs the consequences alone.
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Recorded violent incidents in north-west Nigeria rose 78 per cent in the first half of 2026. The armed groups responsible hold territory, tax communities and kidnap at scale — but they are called bandits, and that word keeps the story out of the news.
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New Delhi is lit up ahead of a BRICS summit. The grouping has no treaty, no tariff, no defence commitment and a name invented by an investment bank. What actually holds it together, and the two competing readings of whether it matters.
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Eight foreign ministers including Türkiye’s have welcomed Britain’s ban on settlement imports. Joint statements cost nothing — but they signal who would stand together, and Israel’s retaliation has so far been aimed at Britain alone.
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A destroyer moves fifteen kilometres while a ballistic missile is in flight, so hitting one requires a seeker that finds the target in the final seconds. An electro-optical seeker looks rather than emits — which is why radar jamming does not stop it.
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Oil has hit a four-month high as Iran attacks US warships and America strikes Iranian tankers. Part of the rise is lost supply and part is risk premium — and the two behave very differently when a conflict eases.
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Trump told the RNC midterm convention in Dallas that the war with Iran will end immediately after the November elections. The prediction is one claim; the timing is another, and it implies something other than the military situation is setting the schedule.
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Diesel in Guatemala has gone from 25 quetzales a gallon in January to 46.39 — a record — and the energy ministry blames the Strait of Hormuz. Blockades shut 17 highways. Congress passed a price cap on Tuesday night, and nobody is paying it yet.
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Norway buried King Harald V in Oslo on Wednesday, with heads of state walking behind the coffin. State funerals are also among the few occasions that assemble a continent’s leadership without a summit agenda — and concentrate its security risk on one published date.
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Norway’s prime minister says a drone almost hit Zelensky’s plane leaving Moldova. Zelensky’s own office calls that exaggerated. A second Ukrainian source says it’s true. Moldova says the drone came down 160km away. One afternoon, three accounts.