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Athens · Saturday, 17 October 2026

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South Korea: Two Hanwha laser weapons shot down all three target drones in an Army exercise – Cheongwang and a vehicle-mounted 30 kW laser Morocco is negotiating with Israel for LORA ballistic missiles, Israeli sources say – alarm in Spain over the range South Korea weighs sending the Cheonghae Unit to the Gulf of Oman – Seoul: “Under no circumstances” will we be involved in war IDF: Nukhba cell commander who stormed the Re’im base on October 7 killed – “Hamas rebuilding in violation of the ceasefire” Cypriot NAVTEX for KOBI RUEGG’s surveys for the East to Med Corridor cable – second counter-NAVTEX from Antalya over a “Turkish continental shelf” Iran: “If the US leaves the region, the Strait of Hormuz will open” – “If they don’t leave, we will drive them out” Trump calls Ukraine’s refinery strikes a “disgrace”; Zelensky, in Brussels, answers: “Yesterday we had a thousand drones” – and asks the EU for €70 billion and 300 Patriot missiles Taiwan MND: 8 Chinese aircraft sorties, all crossing the median line, and 9 PLA Navy ships around the island on 16 October

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