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Athens · Sunday, 1 November 2026

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US: two Chinese MSS agents sentenced to 30 months in prison; one photographed Naval Base Kitsap Hanwha: the first US Navy medium landing ship (LSM) will be built at the Philadelphia shipyard, in a $269 million contract with options for three more Ukraine strikes the Kamensky Combine in the Rostov region with Neptune missiles and drones; it produces fuel for Uragan, Smerch and Tornado-S rockets Oleshky: residents evacuated via Anapa and Belarus arrive in Ukraine, “the mission is complete,” says Lubinets Dnipro: 200,000 families without power after Russian strikes, and a new hit on the railway station where the previous attack left 15 dead Moscow: US embassy warns of a “credible threat” of a mass-casualty incident at Tsaritsyno, and the FSB confirms it received information Cyprus tells the UN: Turkey’s “Akdeniz Arastirma 1” carried out research without permission in territorial waters and the EEZ Israel’s ambassador backs Greece: the Turkish-Libyan memorandum has “no legal standing”, and Israel strongly condemns it AMRAAM in Japan: the US and Tokyo agree on a final assembly and check-out facility for the missile, a “landmark agreement” says Koizumi Ukraine to Musk: it is “technically impossible” that its army violated the Starlink terms of use in drone strikes

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