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Athens · Friday, 30 October 2026

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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 UN Security Council renews EUFOR Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina for 12 months, the UK says unanimously Joint Chiefs chairman Caine tells U.S. Air Force reserve tacticians: solve problems fast, “instead of just admiring them” Taiwan: “the 2027 window still stands,” says the commander of US Army Pacific – readiness by April 2, 2027

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