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On a single day (Thursday), the number of deaths of American troops doubled, with the crash of a tanker plane in Iraq (the situation could have been even worse if the second damaged aircraft had not landed safely). After two weeks of intensive U.S.-Israeli bombing, the conventional threat to the U.S. military, regardless of which bases in the  Middle East...

România are termen până în mai să transpună directiva UE anti-SLAPP, menită să protejeze jurnaliștii și activiștii de procese abuzive. Un raport ActiveWatch analizează 17 cazuri în care ziariști și redacții au fost hărțuiți în instanță, cu daune cerute de peste 7 milioane de euro, scrie Marionela Toma la Context.ro. Printre aceste cazuri se numără și cel al Universul.net,...

Romania’s Army scrambled two jets Friday morning after radar systems detected drones had fallen in eastern Romania. The air defense systems were put on alert, and two F-16 aircraft from the 86th Borcea Air Base were lifted for investigating and monitoring  the airspace, the defense ministry said. At 10.05 a.m., a warning message was issued to residents in the targeted...

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed legislation that would have enabled Poland to access nearly €44 billion in European Union defense loans. Why? He argued that while he agreed that Poland must strengthen its military, it should do so “on its own terms.” This radical decision escalates an ongoing conflict between the nationalist president and the centrist government of Prime Minister Donald...

In the latest episode of Critical Conditions, Claire and I took stock of the increasingly chaotic war around Iran — and reached a grim conclusion: something fundamental in the strategy has to change. The early optimistic on the side of the attackers — despite their massive military advantage — is fading. The discussion began with Claire’s fury. In her view,...

Romanian President Nicușor Dan on Thursday said Romania will produce drones with Ukraine after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Bucharest. The two leaders signed three documents during the one-day visit. One was on cooperation in the energy sector, the another on the co-production of defense materials in Romania, and the also was a declaration on the establishment of a strategic...

Days after Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei took over from his father, it’s been reported that he is in a coma. Sources have claimed he’s lost one leg and suffered serious stomach injuries in a US-Israeli air strike. It remains unclear when Mojtaba suffered the injuries, but the reports come just days after he was appointed to take over from his father Ali...

UiPath's earnings report for last quarter was a good one. The company managed to beat the revenue and profit targets and gave better guidance than the market's expectations. But the road ahead is still complicated, in a technological environment where artificial intelligence is shaping investors' expectations but also their fears for the growth of the sector, writes eToro analyst...

He was to visit an F-16 fighter jet training center Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived on Thursday in Romania, where he was to visit an F-16 fighter jet training center and meet Romania's leader, before visiting France later this week. The visits come at a time of uncertainty over planned peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow that have been led by...

Since when did AUR come to feel embarrassed by Donald Trump's warlike impulses? A month or so ago, George Simion was cutting a cake in the shape of Greenland, at a MAGA party in the USA, a sweet sign of his support for President Trump’s attempt to annex the Danish island. Two months ago, Petrișor Peiu, AUR's omnipresent communicator, had no...