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G7 leaders have agreed to conduct simulated exercises to test how authorities respond to AI-powered cyberattacks targeting financial systems, as governments seek to strengthen defences against emerging cybersecurity threats.

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A defendant accused of plotting attacks on Iran International journalists in the UK claims that a man he identified as an IRGC officer based in the UK threatened to kill him and his mother. Prosecutors dispute his account.

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Former U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George warned before the war with Iran that U.S. stocks of THAAD and Patriot missile interceptors could remain critically low until 2030, according to U.S. officials cited by CBS News.

His assessment, prepared in December 2025, identified a prolonged shortage of key air and missile defence munitions.

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The FBI, U.S. Capitol Police and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are investigating multiple letters containing suspicious substances that were mailed to addresses nationwide, including several congressional offices, according to a notice sent to Senate staff on October 15.

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The United Kingdom is preparing to supply Ukraine with a new package of Storm Shadow cruise missiles in the coming weeks.

The delivery is intended to strengthen Kyiv’s long-range strike capabilities against Russian military targets as the war continues.

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Satellite imagery released after Ukraine’s overnight cruise missile strike on Borisoglebsk Airbase in Russia’s Voronezh region shows significant damage to the facility.

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The United Kingdom has announced £17 million ($22.45 million) in funding to repair Ukraine’s Chornobyl nuclear power plant, which was damaged by a Russian drone strike last year.

The funding will support repairs to the facility’s protective structure, restoring its confinement and ventilation functions.

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All three of Kyiv’s main combined heat and power plants have lost their ability to generate electricity following Russian attacks, leaving the Ukrainian capital more dependent on power supplies from other regions.

The affected facilities are CHP-5, CHP-6 and the Darnytsia plant, also known as CHP-4, which previously provided up to approximately 1.3 gigawatts of generating capacity.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

I said to Trump that we can do it very quickly. If you will not close Starlink for us, if you will open Starlink on the territory of Russia, we will destroy his ballistic launchers, and that's it for him.

He will sit and speak, and I will not destroy any energy facilities. I don't need it. Give us Starlink. Open it for us. But they closed it. They didn't make it wider. They made it smaller. It's a very serious mistake.

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Starshield satellite communication terminals are working while on the move again for Ukrainian forces, according to sources in Ukraine’s Defense Ministry.

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Ukraine’s Navy says it destroyed six Russian Su-34M fighter-bombers in a strike on Borisoglebsk military airfield in Russia’s Voronezh region.