Spain’s railway network is facing renewed scrutiny over maintenance funding and operational safety following the Urda train disaster in Toledo province on Wednesday, 28 October, less than nine months after a collision
Spain’s railway network is facing renewed scrutiny over maintenance funding and operational safety following the Urda train disaster in Toledo province on Wednesday, 28 October, less than nine months after a collision
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Satellite imagery from the European Union’s Sentinel programme is being withheld for 24 hours over Gaza, parts of the West Bank and surrounding areas, delaying independent verification of military activity and demolitions,
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The Pentagon has privately urged several NATO allies to tone down their public rhetoric about the threat posed by Russia, arguing that statements by some European leaders and officials could undermine security
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Germany’s response to the July 2026 attack in Berlin illustrates a gap between identifying a terrorism threat and taking effective preventive action, according to an analysis published in the latest issue of
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Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, one of al-Qa`ida’s most durable assets may be a name rather than a commander, training camp or headquarters. Usama bin Ladin has been dead since
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The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has built an ideological case for suicide attacks that differs sharply from the religious justifications used by many militant organisations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Rather than promising
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The US needs to creatively combine two counter-drone capabilities it already has and do it quickly to deal with swarm attacks of drones and cruise missiles. The Russians are already doing it.
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Ukraine’s campaign of long-range strikes against Russian military and industrial targets has expanded rapidly, with specialised drone units using increasingly sophisticated weapons, intelligence networks and detailed mission planning to hit facilities deep
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France’s latest wave of protests has exposed a widening divide between citizens demanding economic relief and better public services, and those who increasingly view violence as a legitimate means of confronting the
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China has lodged a formal diplomatic representation with the United Kingdom after Chinese nationals, including trade delegates, tourists and people visiting relatives, were subjected to extended questioning and the confiscation of personal
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China appears to be developing a second unusually configured vessel that could serve as a mothership for large underwater drones, adding to evidence of a potential effort to extend the country’s uncrewed
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A four-legged robot designed to move autonomously through agricultural land and analyse crops using artificial intelligence is being developed in Spain, with researchers aiming to give farmers more precise information about fruit
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Mitoe Matsumoto was three years and four months old when an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki at 11.02am on 9 August 1945. Eighty-one years later, the 84-year-old Japanese survivor says the experience
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China has established near-real-time satellite broadband communications between researchers in the Arctic and its Qinling research station in Antarctica, marking a significant advance in its efforts to develop an independently controlled communications
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Ukraine is approaching the fifth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion with little movement along the front line, intensifying attacks on civilian infrastructure and growing uncertainty over the reliability of its most important
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