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Paris, April 8, 2026 – In early April, at the Île du Levant firing range (Var, France), the French Air and Space Force (AAE), in coordination with the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA), successfully conducted test firings of the Hellfire missile from an MQ-9 Reaper drone against drone-type aerial targets.  The AAE’s innovative spirit has enabled the expansion of the use of this munition, initially designed for ground targets, just three months after the Hellfire missile entered service on the Reaper. This success provides a new operational capability to counter the drone threat. The integration of this LAD capability on…

LONDON/PARIS — Russian satellites have made dozens of detailed imagery surveys of military facilities and critical sites across the Middle East to help Iran strike U.S. forces and other targets, according to a Ukrainian intelligence assessment.The conclusions, reviewed by Reuters, also found that Russian and Iranian hackers were collaborating in the cyber domain. They represent the most detailed account yet of how Russia has provided secret support to Iran since Israel and the U.S. launched their assault on Feb. 28.Russian satellites, the undated assessment said, made at least 24 surveys of areas in 11 Middle Eastern countries from March 21…

CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines – Logistics is the pacing function of expeditionary operations. Before a rifleman can eliminate a target, an infantry company can secure an objective, or the Marine Corps can train shoulder-to-shoulder with allies and partners, sustainment and equipment must be readily available at the right place and right time. U.S. Marines and Sailors alongside their Armed Forces of the Philippines counterparts and civilian entities, conducted a Maritime Prepositioning Force offload to prepare equipment and sustainment for Exercise Balikatan 2026, March 1-28. The prepositioning operation showcased effective military-to-civilian and ally-to-ally collaboration. Months of planning between multiple U.S. Marine…

Azerbaijan State News Agency – (AZERTAC) 07.04.2026 [01:09] Baku, April 7, AZERTAC Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Kyiv has proposed a mutual halt to attacks on the energy sector with Russia, Anadolu Agency reports. “If Russia is ready to stop strikes on our energy sector, we will be ready to respond in kind. This is our proposal — conveyed through the Americans — and the Russian side has it,” he said. Zelenskyy added that Ukraine is also working “substantively” with the American side on documents, preparing its proposals and strengthening the framework on security guarantees. “Security guarantees…

DUBAI/WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, less than two hours before his deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face widespread attacks on its civilian infrastructure.Iranian state TV flashed an announcement claiming that Trump had accepted Iran’s terms for ending the war, describing it as a “humiliating retreat” by the U.S. president.Iran said talks between the U.S. and Iran would begin on Friday in Islamabad, Pakistan.Trump’s announcement on social media represented an abrupt turnaround from earlier in the day, when Trump issued an extraordinary…

Johnny Walker faces one-time title challenger Dominick Reyes in a crucial bout in the UFC light heavyweight division on the main card portion of UFC 327 this Saturday in Miami, and there’s a chance his next bout is in a different weight class.Confident in his return to action eight months after a second-round upset over Zhang Mingyang in Shanghai, where he knocked out the Chinese prospect in enemy territory, Walker revealed he’s tired of feeling “depleted” by the cut to 205 pounds and could soon go to heavyweight.“I’m thinking about it because the diet has been rough,” Walker told MMA…

After 10 years as DroneShield’s Chairman since before its Initial Public Offering in 2016, Peter James has announced his retirement from the Board and his decision to not stand for re-election at the Company’s Annual General Meeting on 29 May 2026 (AGM). As part of the Board’s ongoing renewal process, Hamish McLennan will join the Board from 1 May 2026 as Independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman-Elect, and will assume the role of Chairman, at the conclusion of the AGM. McLennan is an experienced executive and board director across private and public organisations with strong focus on building companies and driving…

MENASource April 7, 2026 • 5:35 pm ET Print this page By Judd Olanoff In an industrial zone on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, Emirati state-backed artificial intelligence (AI) company G42 has poured 100,000 cubic meters of concrete to build a cluster of data centers the size of Berkeley, California. The campus will use NVIDIA chips and Oracle cloud services. It will deploy a region-specific version of ChatGPT across the government and vital sectors. It is the largest AI infrastructure project outside the United States, and it’s built on US technology. Five hundred miles to the west, in Riyadh, the…

GOLETA, Calif., — April 7, 2026 — Teledyne FLIR OEM, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), today announced an upgrade to Prism™ SKR (pronounced “seeker”), evolving the software from automated targeting into a unified, closed-loop autonomy platform. The milestone update sets a new defense industry standard by unifying mission execution and intelligent supervision into a single platform for guided weapon systems, including smart, loitering munitions, air-launched effects (ALE), counter-UAS platforms, attritables, interceptors, and first-person view (FPV) drones. Teledyne FLIR OEM’s upgraded Prism SKR software manages the entire mission lifecycle, from tasking through execution by delivering perception-based automatic target recognition (ATR)…

We introduce a conceptual framework and provide considerations for the institutional design of AI incident reporting (IR) systems, i.e., processes for collecting information about safety- and rights-related events caused by general-purpose AI. As general-purpose AI systems are increasingly adopted, they are causing more real-world harms and displaying the potential to cause significantly more dangerous incidents—events that did or could have caused harm to individuals, property, or the environment. Through a literature review, we develop a framework for understanding the institutional design of AI incident reporting systems, which includes seven dimensions: policy goal, actors submitting and receiving reports, type of incidents…