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NATO Southeastern Flank: Bulgaria Receives Axon Counter-Drone Systems as Black Sea Air Threat Grows

SOFIA, Aug. 18 -- Bulgaria's Defence Ministry confirmed this week that two counter-drone systems supplied by the American firm Axon Enterprise have been delivered to the country's armed forces, a mode... Read More


Germany Gas Storage at 49.68% Entering Autumn as EU Braces for Worst Winter Since 2022 Crisis

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Germany's natural gas storage facilities stood at 49.68 percent of capacity as of August 17, industry data showed on Tuesday, a figure that places Europe's largest economy 17 per... Read More


Bulgaria Receives 2 US Anti-Drone Systems From Axon After Ukrainian Drone Breaches NATO Airspace

SOFIA, Aug. 18 -- Nine days after a Ukrainian drone drifted across Bulgarian airspace and crashed within two hundred meters of a border checkpoint, the first two anti-drone systems ordered by Sofia un... Read More


Russia-Ukraine War: EU Plans Most Far-Reaching Sanctions Package Since War Began, Kaja Kallas Says

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- The European Union is preparing to expand its blacklist of sanctioned Russian individuals and companies by roughly one-third - the most ambitious single addition since the sancti... Read More


Poland Bus Crash: Twelve Pilgrims Killed on Hungary's M3 Highway After Driver Falls Asleep

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- They had completed their pilgrimage. The bus was heading home. roughly 140 kilometers northeast of Budapest - a Polish coach carrying 57 passengers and two drivers veered off th... Read More


UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham Exchanged Texts With Impersonator of Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles

LONDON, Aug. 17 -- When the text appeared on his screen, it looked like a message from the most powerful aide in the White House. For a brief window, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham was exchanging mess... Read More


Italy Museum Heist: Thieves Steal €80 Million in Antonello da Messina Works During Ferragosto

Sometime around 9, Aug. 17 -- The call came late Sunday morning, and museum director Marisa Mercurio could not find the words to describe what Messina had just lost. "We are devastated by what happene... Read More


Morocco Arrests 294 as Navy and Drones Block Organized Mass Crossing Into Spain's Ceuta

CEUTA, Aug. 16 -- He was 25 years old, Sudanese, and had been crouching in the hills outside Fnideq for the better part of two days. Three miles away, across a fence and a customs post, lay the Spanis... Read More


Ukraine Deploys British BAE Systems Drones in Six-Month Deep Strike Campaign Against Russian Oil Refineries

New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- For six months, British-built drones have been crossing into Russian airspace and striking oil refineries hundreds of miles from the front line. The program has remained largely ... Read More


Reform UK Plans £50bn Welfare Overhaul Targeting Millions of Disabled Claimants

New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- a network of local council disability support accounts. Reform UK's Treasury spokesman unveiled what he called the party's welfare overhaul blueprint, a package the party says w... Read More