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UN Security Council renews the Libya mission UNSMIL for 12 months with resolution 2835, the UK says U.S. Army says Project Convergence Capstone 6 was its largest yet: 9,700 soldiers tested 90 technologies for next-generation command and control UN: two aid vehicles hit by drones in Ukraine as Fletcher urges Oleshky ceasefire to open the way for relief Drums of war with Iran: Trump is briefed on military options as air-defence systems deploy around Mar-a-Lago Cat’s Head Nebula: Hubble and Webb capture a haunting stellar nursery in the Carina Nebula Yemen: UNHCR says over 280,000 displaced and aid is too dangerous to reach many, with Kharaz refugee camp near the front line Teghaza 001: a Martian meteorite more than 4.1 billion years old, among the oldest ever found on Earth, reveals Mars’s ancient crust Voyager 1: NASA regains the signal after a two-day outage and saves power with the “Big Bang” swap Future Interceptor: the US Army picks Lockheed Martin to develop its next-generation air-defence missile, a $1.08 billion effort CISA adds a critical GitLab flaw and a Cisco ASA/FTD vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Middle East & North Africa

Libya – Election process stopped

The head of Libya's High National Electoral Commission (HNEC) ordered the dissolution of election commissions across the country, practically postponing the country's presidential…

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Middle East & North Africa

Iran preparing its air defence over tensions

Ongoing tensions over Iran's nuclear program have prompted the country to carry out an air defence exercise over its Boushehr nuclear power…

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Middle East & North Africa

LIBYA | Elections postponement scenarios

Libya's presidential and parliamentary elections tend to be canceled or be postponed, just one week before polls open, with many…

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