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Over the course of the four-year war, Russian President Vladimir Putin has increasingly relied on North Korea to supply artillery shells and missiles. Bringing in North Korean troops is raising concerns about Moscow transferring its own military know-how to the regime of Kim Yong Un in Pyongyang. “Russia is helping North Korea learn how to wage war, improve its weapons, and gain real combat experience in using them,” Zelenskyy said. “All of this is a threat to everyone in Asia who is within range of North Korean missiles. We will counter this,” he said.

Welcome back. Of course, let me start with the most important news of the week: Spain won the World Cup. Surprised? Well, you shouldn’t be, because bad punditry aside (and there was plenty of it) it was the logical conclusion. Football is a team sport, and that’s something the Spanish have mastered, because it’s a system, a school of thought, that defines the game, not a star player. The coach can swap midfielders, you won’t notice it on the pitch because the structure remains: dominate passes, own the ball and ultimately score. There was something of poetic justice to it…

A Romanian fighter jet on Sunday shot down a third drone that had entered its national air space in as many days, prompting President Nicușor Dan to blame Moscow for the “inadmissible and intolerable” incursions. Sunday’s incident marked the latest escalation for the NATO member. The series of incursions comes as Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Danube region have increasingly spilled over the border. “It is inadmissible and intolerable for the Russian Federation to continue violating Romania’s airspace, which is, at the same time, NATO airspace and European Union airspace,” Dan said on Sunday.

Published on 26/07/2026 – 11:58 GMT+2 Spain’s prime minister has thanked the media for their work in communicating accurate information and the public for their exemplary behaviour during these wildfires. Sánchez added that people needed to “exercise extreme caution”. Sánchez said there were still “difficult hours of work ahead”, although he confirmed that the work carried out overnight had been very positive. The president of the Castile and León region, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, described the cooperation between institutions as effective: “All the different tiers of government have been working together.” Here is a summary of the situation regarding the wildfires…

Mount Olympus has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The mythical Greek mountain was unanimously recognised as a natural and cultural asset of outstanding universal value to humanity during the 48th session of the World Heritage Committee, which has been meeting since 19 July in the city of Busan in South Korea. The inclusion of Olympus on the List “represents one of the most important international distinctions in the field of protecting cultural and natural heritage, as it recognises the outstanding universal value of the wider Olympus area, placing it among the most emblematic monuments,” according to a joint…

Since then, the Air Force has offered up unused land on five installations for private companies to build data centers. The Army has already entered into two conditional agreements with private companies to build “commercial hyperscaled data centers” on its installations, the branch said in a news release. The investment firm Carlyle Group will build a data facility on 1,384 acres on Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, by 2027. Data center developer CyrusOne will build a facility on 1,201 acres on Utah’s Dugway Proving Ground by 2029, according to an Army fact sheet. The Army has stated that the projects will come at…

Russian strikes across Ukraine have killed at least eight people and injured dozens more over the last 24 hours. On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said one person was killed and nine were wounded in a drone attack on the northeastern city of Kharkiv. “All the necessary emergency services have been deployed at the site,” Zelenskyy said, adding that residential buildings had been hit. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, two women aged 35 and 74 were killed after Russia struck three districts in the area with drones, artillery, and aerial bombs on Saturday, per local authorities. One person died and 12…

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A species that resembles a jellyfish but, unlike a jellyfish, has no stinging cells reached Europe in the 1980s. As W.M. Graham and K.M. Bayha point out in the bookBiological Invasions by Marine Jellyfish (source in Polish), it was carried there by ships calling at Black Sea ports from the Atlantic coasts of North and South America. It soon became one of the dominant organisms in those waters. In 1988, at the height of the invasion, the density of Mnemiopsis leidyi reached as many as 400 individuals per cubic metre. Shortly afterwards, however, as it consumed huge quantities of zooplankton,…

Published on 26/07/2026 – 10:36 GMT+2 A third drone has been shot down by Romanian forces in just three days, Romanian President Nicușor Dan has announced, adding to a string of drone-related incidents in the country. In a statement on social media, Dan said a Romanian air force F-16 fighter jet had intercepted a drone over Romania’s territorial waters at around 10:13 am on Sunday morning. The incident reportedly occurred in the Sulina–Chilia area of the Danube Delta, close to the border with Ukraine. “I would like to congratulate the Romanian pilots and ground crews on the professionalism, courage and…