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India/Rahul Gandhi/Twitter – Blocked by Twitter for political reasons: India’s Rahul Gandhi (Al Jazeera)

Gandhi's Twitter account has 19.5 million followers Rahul Gandhi, the leader of India’s main opposition party, has slammed Twitter for blocking a tweet over...

Ethiopia/Tigray/USA – US envoy heads to Ethiopia to urge end to fighting (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations says 400,000 people are at risk of famine because of the continuing conflict US President Joe Biden is sending his special...

Egypt/North Sinai – Attack kills eight Egyptian troops in Sinai (Al Jazeera)

Egypt has been battling armed groups in northern Sinai for years A roadside bomb exploded in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula,...

Syria – Explainer: What are the clashes in Syria’s Deraa about? (Al Jazeera)

Nearly half of the population of the rebel-held district has fled heavy shelling and ground battles, but the UN warns remaining civilians are cut...

Iraq/Turkey/PKK – Turkish soldier killed in mortar attack in northern Iraq (Al Jazeera)

The PKK has waged a rebellion in the mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey since 1984 that has killed more than 40,000 people Kurdish rebels...

USA/Defense – US Navy nears decisions on new small, medium underwater drones (Defense News)

Megan Eckstein The U.S. Navy is “well on its way” to delivering a replacement small unmanned underwater vehicle for mine countermeasures and is in source...

USA/Defense – Palantir: With Joint All-Domain Command and Control, the Pentagon is finally catching up (Defense News)

Palantir global defense lead Doug Philippone. (Palantir)  Nathan Strout Software company Palantir boldly stated in paperwork filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last year that...

Russia – Russian hypersonic technology expert accused of high treason (Defense News, The Associated Press)

A court in Moscow on Thursday ordered a specialist in hypersonic technologies to be kept in jail pending trial on charges of high treason, in...

USA/Defense – CACI: Military modernization sales will eclipse Afghanistan pullout losses (Defense News)

Joe Gould Defense contractor CACI International on Thursday forecast that its future losses from the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan would be more than offset by the U.S. military’s growing investments...

USA/Defense/F35 – The Pentagon is exploring its options for a more efficient and powerful F-35 engine (Defense News)

Valerie Insinna As the Defense Department starts to put money toward advancements that will keep the F-35 relevant against Chinese threats, incumbent engine manufacturer Pratt...

USA/Defense/Artificial Intelligence – Army Futures Command outlines next five years of AI needs (Defense News)

The Army expects it will need a range of AI-enabled systems to operate on the future battlefield. (Illustration by T'Jae Ellis/U.S. Army) (Army Research Laboratory) Andrew Eversden Army...

Cybersecurity – Google open-sourced Allstar tool to secure GitHub repositories (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Google has open-sourced the Allstar tool that can be used to secure GitHub projects and prevent security misconfigurations Google open-sourced Allstar tool to secure GitHub repositoriesSecurity Affairs

Cybersecurity – Trend Micro warns customers of zero-day attacks against its products (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Security firms Trend Micro is warning its customers of attacks exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in its Apex One and Apex One as a Service products Trend...

Cybersecurity – Magniber Ransomware operators use PrintNightmare exploits to infect Windows servers (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Threat actors behind the Magniber Ransomware are using PrintNightmare exploits in attacks aimed at Windows servers Magniber Ransomware operators use PrintNightmare exploitsSecurity Affairs

Cybersecurity – Threat actors behind the Poly Network hack are returning stolen funds (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini The threat actor who hacked Poly Network cross-chain protocol stealing $611 million worth of cryptocurrency assets returns the stolen funds. Threat actors behind the Poly Network...

Palestine/Israel – Palestinian Rockets in May Killed Civilians in Israel, Gaza (HRW)

Rockets launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel on the evening of May 11, 2021. © 2021 Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via AP Palestinian armed groups’ rocket and mortar...