Ukraine hits Russian chemical with British Storm Shadow missiles in ‘massive’ attack
The facility, located in Bryansk Oblast, produces gunpowder and explosives
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Children among six killed in Kyiv after Russian missile and drone attack
Strikes, involving over 400 drones and 28 missiles, launched hours after Putin-Trump meeting in Budapest cancelledEurope live – latest updatesRussian drones and missiles have pounded the Ukrainian capital and other cities, hours after the cancellation …
Companies want the benefits of AI without the cyber blowback
51% of European IT and cybersecurity professionals said they expect AI-driven cyber threats and deepfakes to keep them up at night in 2026, according to ISACA. AI takes centre stage in threat outlook The main reason for this concern is that most organi…
Ukraine-Russia war latest: US sanctions Russian oil firms as Trump says cancelled Putin summit ‘didn’t feel right’
US president said he has good conversations with his Moscow counterpart but they ‘just don’t go anywhere’
Lithuania’s main airport suspends traffic over smugglers’ balloons sightings
Lithuania suspended air traffic at Vilnius Airport late Tuesday after dozens of suspected smugglers’ balloons entered its airspace, the National Crisis Management Centre said. The Baltic nation is the latest in Europe to face air disruptions after rec…
Kosovo offers to become first country to accept Britain’s refused asylum seekers
Kosovo is an outlier in the region, whose other leaders say ‘looking for places to dump immigrants’ is evidence the UK is in ‘a very dark place’Kosovo has become the first country to indicate it will accept Britain’s refused asylum seekers as part of g…
Boeing taps former defense procurement minister for president of its UK arm
Jeremy Quin’s time as UK defense procurement minister overlapped with the British MoD decision to cut the original Wedgetail order from five to three aircraft.
Salt Typhoon APT Targets Global Telecom and Energy Sectors, Says Darktrace
The China-linked Salt Typhoon APT group attacked a European telecom via a Citrix NetScaler vulnerability in July 2025, Darktrace reports. This follows past US Army and telecom breaches.
Trump won’t be meeting Putin in ‘immediate future’, US official says
A proposed summit between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin appears to be on hold after a US official said that there were “no plans” for Trump to meet with Putin in the immediate future.
Cancelling the Putin-Trump Budapest summit ends the fantasy the US president can deliver peace in Ukraine
Sam Kiley in Dnipro, Ukraine, welcomes the collapse of the Budapest summit and argues that to give peace a chance Kyiv must be able to better make war