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A catastrophic Ministry of Defence data breach that exposed the personal details of tens of thousands of Afghans was a “foreseeable failure” covered up by secrecy for “too long”, a damning investigation has concluded.

South Korean authorities ordered civilians to evacuate on Tuesday after a suspected white phosphorus leak at a U.S. military base near the capital, Seoul.

A flotilla of up to 1,000 migrants headed for Britain as French cops watched on despite getting more than £1billion from UK taxpayers to stop them.

Last year was the deadliest for antisemitic attacks outside of Israel in more than 30 years, according to a new report, with 20 people being killed in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

President Donald Trump is facing online scrutiny after a “Tic Tac moment” during the funeral service of Senator Lindsey Graham became one of the event’s most widely shared clips. Videos circulating on X showed Trump passing a box of Tic Tac to Vice President JD Vance while seated in the front row.

North Korea built a facility at its main plant for the production of short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) and then covered it with earth.

A judicial investigation has been launched in France into a former Rafale carrier-based pilot in the French Navy over the alleged transfer of sensitive defense-related information to China.

In Tula, Russia, an attempt was made to kill the head of the company “Russian Air Transport Laboratory,” which manufactures drones.

A lipreader has revealed what she claims Volodymyr Zelensky told Benjamin Netanyahu during a tense exchange in Washington.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov reacted to a new accusation from the Russian FSB by changing his avatar, depicting himself in the image of a terrorist.

Iran is expected to receive within weeks the first shipment of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired air-defense missile launchers under a deal worth $60 million-$70 million, three sources familiar with the agreement told Reuters.

A ukrainian drone strike has obliterated another logistics centre for “Russia’s Amazon” in a further blow to Vladimir Putin’s war machine.

Over the past two months, at least 24 new Pantsir air defense system towers have been built around Moscow, the open source intelligence (OSINT) researcher Jembob recently reported on X after studying new satellite images.

The first road bridge between Russia and North Korea, spanning the Tumen River, could become a key artery for military supplies for the war in Ukraine, The Guardian reported, citing an investigation by the Ukrainian organization Truth Hounds.

Human rights groups have condemned Israel’s plans to build a crocodile-filled moat around a prison holding Palestinian detainees as “vicious” and “nonsensical”.

Syrian authorities said Tuesday that they had arrested members of the ISIS (Daesh) terrorist group and seized weapons, ammunition and explosives in Aleppo and its surrounding countryside in northern Syria, according to Syrian media.

Uganda has declared itself "free" of Ebola after the last patient was discharged in mid-June, marking a significant step even as the virus continues to affect a remote part of neighbouring Congo.

An earthquake registering a magnitude of 7.1 shook Kumamoto on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu late Tuesday afternoon, causing damage and injuries, officials said. A tsunami advisory was temporarily issued but was lifted within two hours, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

Medical giant Johnson & Johnson has offered to pay up to $5.5billion to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits in the US that claim its talcum powder causes ovarian cancer.

As fighting intensifies in Port-au-Prince, only a fraction of its maternity services remain, and they are under constant threat