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Athens · Wednesday, 4 November 2026

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Taiwan holds live-fire drill on Kinmen, while Pratas faces “pressure without invasion” South Korea launches the submarine Seo Hui, the second 3,600-tonne Jangbogo-III Batch-II boat Belousov in Beijing: Russia-China partnership at an “unprecedentedly high level”, ahead of the APEC summit in Shenzhen US to ask NATO allies for more money for PURL, with a gap of about $2 billion in approved weapons packages Latvia: second drone alert in two days, in the Balvi and Ludza municipalities near the Russian border Poland deploys counter-terrorism units on the Kaliningrad border after sabotage warnings Coalition of the Willing: first major exercise in Poland, Koalicja, with 2,800 troops from 11 countries Israel: Eisenkot’s bloc meets for the first time; what it wants to control before the mandate is handed out Witkoff: new round of Ukraine-Russia-US talks in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11, with a stop in Brussels first Israel asks Beirut to keep Hezbollah out of any new war with Iran; Netanyahu presses Trump while Trump says there is “no rush”

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