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Only days after the Trump administration celebrated what it called a landmark civilian nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia, the president himself appeared to place the entire arrangement in jeopardy. In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump declared the deal “totally subject” to Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords and normalizing with Israel — a condition absent from the administration’s own announcement barely a day earlier. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt then confirmed that, without normalization, “the deal is off.

Five years after the assassinations in Haiti of Monferrier Dorval, Diego Charles, and Antoinette Duclaire, justice remains elusive. Four years after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, accountability is still incomplete. Yet international reporting on Haiti continues to foreground outputs: workshops on gender and youth participation, deployments, and decrees. International organizations, including the United Nations, and the donor community measure what they do. Meanwhile, the Haitian public measures what actually changes.

The Space Force has contracted three companies to mature Space-Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator capabilities and broaden the vendor pool that’s developing the technology, the service announced Tuesday.
The three other transaction agreements are worth a combined $615 million and are the second task order the Space Force has given for the SB-AMTI program. According to Space Systems Command, the new contracts are designed to accelerate development of emerging systems, leverage commercial tech and demonstrate novel SB-AMTI capabilities.

Washington has maintained an intense policy of opposing nuclear proliferation around the world for more than 8 decades.

Not only have U.S. officials sought to prevent countries from building deployable arsenals of nuclear weapons, but those officials also try to discourage technologically sophisticated countries from developing even the capability to build such weapons at a later date if a subsequent government there abandons the existing commitment to a nonnuclear status.

Fat Boy Nuclear Bomb At U.S. Air Force Museum. Photo Credit: Harry J.

In what is becoming a common and everyday occurrence, late at night on 3 August and into the following morning, Ukraine’s military launched a widespread drone attack on Russia.

As with many of the most recent attacks, logistics centers and oil infrastructure sites in several regions of the country were the main targets.

T-84 Tank Ukraine. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

In what appears to be an isolated incident, a Ukrainian drone that appeared to have been off course crashed onto a crowded beach in Arkhipo-Osipovka, near the Russian Black Sea resort of Gelendzhik.

A Ukrainian long-range drone crashed onto a crowded beach in southern Russia on Monday, killing seven people, including three children.

It is one of the deadliest incidents involving civilians injured inside Russia since Kyiv expanded its deep-strike campaign against Russian military and logistics targets.

Ukraine Drone. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Russian authorities said that another 40 people were injured when the Ukrainian drone exploded near the Black Sea resort village of Arkhipo-Osipovka in Krasnodar Krai. The resort is a popular summer destination for domestic tourists.

On Tuesday Morning, Ukraine launched a large-scale drone attack against Moscow and other regions of Russia, utilizing several hundred attack drones.

According to local reports, the attacks set fire to a building in one of Moscow’s industrial districts and damaged civilian infrastructure in the area.

Shahed Drone from Ukraine. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

In the Leningrad region, a drone attack reportedly hit another Wildberries logistics warehouse, while another warehouse in the Tver region was also struck.

The United States has burned through most of its long-range precision munitions during the ongoing war with Iran, raising concerns about the Pentagon’s ability to respond to other crises around the globe, in particular a potential showdown with China in the Pacific or in Europe against Russia.

Ukraine is not now, and has never been, a member of NATO. However, the question of whether it ever will be is a major part of the now four-and-a-half-year-old war between Russia and Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has long argued that the threat of NATO expansion, which would bring the defensive alliance to Russia’s doorstep and threaten to “encircle” it, was part of his justification for invading Ukraine.

T-14 Armata Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

The former top Ukrainian military commander, now the country’s ambassador to the UK, was quoted on Monday as saying there was no prospect of the country joining NATO, an aspiration entrenched in the constitution.

Valery Zaluzhnyi, a former top Ukrainian military commander and now the country’s ambassador to the UK, was cited by media outlet Evropeiska Pravda as telling a meeting of Ukrainian ambassadors that Ukraine in no way met the military standards needed to join the alliance.