Asia-Pacific
Cyprus-India: National Guard chief meets India’s Defence Secretary, next stop Athens
National Guard chief Lt. Gen. Emmanouil Theodorou met India’s Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh on October 13, with training, security…
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Cyprus
Christodoulides to speak on strategic autonomy in Maastricht before the European Council in Brussels
Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides leaves on Wednesday, October 14, for Maastricht and then Brussels, where he will take part in…
Military & Defense
Future USS Patrick Gallagher, last Flight IIA Arleigh Burke destroyer, reaches Norfolk
The future USS Patrick Gallagher (DDG 127), the final Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, reached its home port of Naval…
Europe
Sweden asks parliament to approve land, naval and air contributions to NATO deterrence in 2027
Sweden's government has submitted a bill to let it deploy land, naval and air units for NATO deterrence and defence…
Africa
Israel’s defence ministry opens first national pavilion at Morocco’s Marrakech Airshow
The Israeli defence ministry says it opened its first national pavilion in Morocco, with eight Israeli companies at the Marrakech…
Drones
Baykar Akinci hits designated target in first firing of Aselsan’s Morfoz guidance kit
Baykar says the Akinci scored a direct hit on its first firing with Aselsan’s Morfoz guidance kit over the Gulf…
Greece
Greek gunboats train in exercise BRONTI 2/26 in the Saronic Gulf and Myrtoan Sea
Gunboats of the Hellenic Navy’s Surveillance Ships Command took part in exercise BRONTI 2/26 on October 8 and 9, with…
Balkans
EU enlargement: Montenegro has closed 21 of 33 chapters, Albania 4; what the Commission announced on the Western Balkans
The European Union provisionally closed three more accession negotiation chapters with Montenegro on Monday, October 12, and one with Albania…
Greece
Guilfoyle: “The allegations are false”; the US ambassador confirms the end of her term in Athens
Kimberly Guilfoyle confirmed that her term as US ambassador to Greece is coming to an end and, for the first…
Greece
Israel returns 22 antiquities to Greece, a first in the two countries’ history, with the Israeli ambassador in Athens present
Twenty-two Greek antiquities that had left the country illegally have been returned from Israel. It is the first time the…
Europe
EU lists 1,569 Russian firms and executives in its largest sanctions package on the military-industrial complex
The Council of the EU has listed 826 Russian companies and 743 executives that supply Russia's arms industry, which it…
Drones
Drone Dome: the €26 million Israeli counter-drone system Greece is buying against Turkish drones
A drone costing a few thousand euros can knock out a radar worth millions, and that is the cheapest threat…