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Athens · Sunday, 1 November 2026

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NASA’s Dragonfly: send your name to Titan by January 15, 2027 North Korea tests a cluster warhead for tactical ballistic missiles, claiming it can reduce 12 to 13 hectares to ashes Kramatorsk: a Russian air strike destroys the city hall, “they will not deprive us of our right to a future” Zelensky meets Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Istanbul and says Russia has killed about 120 clergy 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

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Russia, the war in Ukraine, Belarus, the South Caucasus and Central Asia.