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[l] at 8/26/26 10:57am
Problems with the US military’s Drone Dominance initiative stem from a broad assortment of issues, the biggest of which is a “longstanding departmental cultural and institutional lethargy and a kind of neo-Luddism inside the Pentagon,” Lt. Col. (ret.) Karen Kwiatkowski, a former DoD analyst herself, told Sputnik.
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[l] at 8/26/26 9:15am
TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that reaching a "good" agreement with Iran's authorities is impossible.
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[l] at 8/26/26 9:13am
BEIRUT (Sputnik) - The Israeli army used white phosphorus munitions in southern Lebanon, leading to large fires and damage to agricultural and forest lands, a Lebanese military field source told Sputnik on Wednesday.
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[l] at 8/26/26 9:12am
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Cuba denounces a decision by the United States to extend for another year its economic embargo against the island, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has said.
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[l] at 8/26/26 9:10am
KALININGRAD, Russia (Sputnik) - The Russian Baltic Fleet forces have carried out air defense tactical drills to repel a mock enemy air raid, with all crews of ships based at the Russian Navy base in Baltiysk completing their assigned training tasks, the fleet's press service said on Wednesday.

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[l] at 8/26/26 9:08am
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US Department of the Treasury has issued a Russia-related general license authorizing transactions related to imports of certain categories of diamonds, the department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said on Wednesday.
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[l] at 8/26/26 8:28am
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Nine people were killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on a bus in the Lugansk People's Republic, the region's head Leonid Pasechnik said on Wednesday.

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[l] at 8/26/26 6:45am
TEHRAN (Sputnik) - Iran and Oman have agreed to share revenue from shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spokesman Hossein Mohebbi said on Wednesday,
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[l] at 8/26/26 4:29am
The West is pursuing a policy of blackmail against Armenia, which is entirely consistent with its dishonest schemes to oust Russia from the South Caucasus region, the Russian Foreign Ministry told Sputnik on Wednesday.

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[l] at 8/26/26 3:57am
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Europeans' refusal to acknowledge the systemic problems in Ukraine's leadership is a grave mistake, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.
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[l] at 8/26/26 3:57am
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Europeans' refusal to acknowledge the systemic problems in Ukraine's leadership is a grave mistake, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.
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[l] at 8/26/26 3:43am
Russian forces have liberated the settlements of Nezhenka in the Zaporozhye Region and Pisarevka in the Sumy Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

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[l] at 8/26/26 3:35am
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa highlighted the importance of a memorandum on reorganizing the Khmeimim airbase and the logistics support facility in Tartus, the Kremlin said.

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[l] at 8/26/26 3:25am
Russia returned 10 prisoners of war to Kiev during a humanitarian action on August 24, and Ukraine responded by handing 10 soldiers to Russia on Wednesday, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova said.
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[l] at 8/26/26 1:23am
BEIJING (Sputnik) - Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Bishkek, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

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[l] at 8/26/26 1:23am
BEIJING (Sputnik) - Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Bishkek, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

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[l] at 8/26/26 12:34am
Once among Ukraine’s most coveted Western weapons, tanks like the German-made Leopards now mostly sit idle, The New York Times reported.
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[l] at 8/25/26 11:50pm
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - CIA Director John Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow was related to "contacts between security services," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Washington Post.
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[l] at 8/25/26 10:45pm
Iranian missile and drone strikes have caused unprecedented damage to US intelligence sites and surveillance equipment across the Middle East, with repairs expected to cost billions of dollars, NBC News reported.
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[l] at 8/25/26 10:42pm
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi dismissed Trump’s claim that the Strait of Hormuz has been cleared of mines.
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[l] at 8/25/26 10:39pm
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi clarified details of the Iran-Oman understanding on the Strait of Hormuz, stressing that the arrangement does not mean the strait will reopen immediately, Tasnim reported.
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[l] at 8/25/26 10:08am
Forced mobilization in Ukraine affects only clergy members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), while representatives of other religious confessions are generally not targeted by military enlistment officers, said Mikhail Melekh, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s special representative for international cooperation on freedom of religion.
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[l] at 8/25/26 10:02am
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is collaborating with a with Swiss-based DFINITY Foundation to develop AI software aimed at helping governments reduce their reliance on US and Chinese technologies, Axios reported on Tuesday.

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[l] at 8/25/26 8:09am
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia (Sputnik) - Rosatom may construct a large-capacity seawater desalination plant at the El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Egypt, the Russian state nuclear corporation's CEO Alexey Likhachev said on Tuesday.

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