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Ukraine’s soldiers shop for their own drones online, and they have ordered more than 1.5 million of them. Since the DOT-Chain Defence marketplace opened in July 2025, combat units have procured over 1.5 million drones through it, worth more than $2 billion, the Defense Ministry said. DOT-Chain Defence operates likeContinue Reading

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Russia is burning down Ukraine’s power grid by hitting the parts no one managed to shield. Only a third of the main transformers at substations of the state-owned electricity transmission operator Ukrenergo are housed in reinforced-concrete sarcophagi. Now, drones go after the unprotected rest, Serhii Nahorniak, a lawmaker on parliament’sContinue Reading

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Rights commission appeals to Niger president over alleged abuses against Mahamid., Rights commission appeals to Niger president over alleged abuses against Mahamid. The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has appealed to Niger’s president over alleged violations of the fundamental rights of the country’s Arab Mahamid community, amid reportsContinue Reading

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The photograph of Roy Cohn that graces the cover of Kai Bird’s new biography, American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey From Joe McCarthy to Traitor 47 , was actually the author’s second choice. As Bird describes in the book’s acknowledgements, he was denied the right to use his preferred option,Continue Reading