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New explosion at Riyadh airport: injured and flights cancelled as Turkey condemns the Houthis
A powerful explosion hit King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday, October 10. A diplomatic source cited…
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Syrian foreign minister in Ankara: Fidan and Kalın discuss SDF integration, ISIS, Israeli strikes and sanctions relief
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani met Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and intelligence chief İbrahim Kalın in Ankara…
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Ethiopia and Eritrea accuse each other of war: Addis Ababa tells the UN of an “all-out invasion”, Asmara cites a “war of aggression”
Ethiopia’s foreign minister told the UN Security Council that Eritrean troops have advanced up to 60 km into…
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Putin: Russia ready to supply oil to the US; Zelensky calls Trump’s diesel decision “weak”
After his phone call with Donald Trump on October 9, Vladimir Putin said in a written statement that…
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Oruç Reis off Kyrenia: Turkish minister says a gas pipeline to the occupied north could carry Cypriot gas to Europe
Turkey’s seismic research vessel Oruç Reis has reached waters off Kyrenia to survey the route of a planned…
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Mitsotakis on the GSI: “It is no longer only a Greek and Cypriot project, it is a European one”
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a SKAI interview on October 9 that the Great Sea Interconnector is…
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Turkish interior minister in Athens: “Greece must not become a haven for criminals”, asks for extraditions of Gülen movement members
Turkish Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi asked Athens to speed up extraditions of wanted persons and members of the…
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Analysis: the Bergamini frigates, why the Hellenic Navy wanted them so urgently and what they change against the Turkish fleet
Analysis: The Hellenic Navy’s official programme on the Bergamini and Fasan FREMM frigates. What kind of ships they…
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Analysis: Barak MX, the common air-defence “dome” of Greece and Cyprus with missiles out to 150 km that troubles Ankara, with IAI’s official video
Analysis: IAI’s official video of the Barak MX, its four interceptors from 15 to 150 km, the architecture…
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South Korea: first successful test of a homegrown hypersonic glide vehicle, a “key strategic asset” for the battlefield
South Korea has carried out the first successful test of a domestically designed hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), the…
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Oruç Reis off Kyrenia: Turkish minister says a gas pipeline to the occupied north could carry Cypriot gas to Europe
Turkey’s seismic research vessel Oruç Reis has reached waters off Kyrenia to survey the route of a planned…
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Putin: Russia ready to supply oil to the US; Zelensky calls Trump’s diesel decision “weak”
After his phone call with Donald Trump on October 9, Vladimir Putin said in a written statement that…
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Cyprus and Israel back at the table over “Aphrodite”: new round of talks next week
Cyprus and Israel will hold a new round of online talks next week on the cross-border gas reservoir…
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Montenegro detains founder of Russian channel Rybar; Medvedev threatens to “replenish the exchange pool”
Montenegrin police detained Mikhail Zvinchuk, founder of the pro-Kremlin war blog Rybar, his wife and three associates in…
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Black Sea: Ship carrying Ukrainian grain sinks in Romania’s EEZ with two dead; Zelenskyy blames Russian drone strike
A cargo ship carrying Ukrainian grain sank in Romania’s EEZ after a fire, leaving two dead and eleven…
Balkans
Black Sea drones hit two merchant ships in Bulgaria’s EEZ; one sinks, another attack kills a sailor off Ukraine
Alfa Watan sank and Able’s 18 sailors were rescued after drone attacks in Bulgaria’s EEZ on October 6.…
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Riyadh under fire, its ‘partners’ absent: Turkey and Pakistan ‘play China’ as Saudis pay for ‘multipolarity’
The Houthi escalation is testing Saudi Arabia’s multi-alignment strategy, China ties and the new Mecca defence agreement with…
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Hezbollah’s Leadership on the Brink: Can Nasrallah’s organization recover from Israel’s Relentless Strikes?
Since October 8, 2023, Israel has launched a decisive military campaign against Hezbollah, focusing more on the group’s…
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Analysis: Chios, 8 October 1996, anatomy of the Mirage 2000 and F-16D dogfight that was never closed
Analysis, 30 years on: what is known about the 8 October 1996 engagement off Chios in which a…
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Operation Varsity: The Allied airborne assault across the Rhine
Operation Varsity on 24 March 1945 placed British and American airborne forces east of the Rhine in support…