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Athens · Sunday, 1 November 2026

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Iran puts the Royal Navy and the RAF on its list of terrorist organisations and calls MI6 a “hostile group” Erdoğan and Zelensky in Istanbul: “We cannot accept” attacks on civilian ships in the Black Sea, and a joint push for the grain corridor Ukraine: 433 Russian drones in one night, with energy infrastructure hit in four regions 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

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