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A.A. Kadochnikov. Some of you may remember the old Western cowboy television series with a masked man and his Indian sidekick where at the end of a show someone would ask as the pair rode-off, “Who is that masked man?” The answer was, “Well, he’s the Lone Ranger!” Many of us had the same question after viewing archival video footage of Russian hand-to-hand combat scenes with a white-haired man in both military and civilian dress who dominates all of his opponents regardless of the situation. “Who is that man with the white hair?” “Well, he’s Alexey Alekseevich Kadochnikov!” My journey…

PARIS, Sept 24 (Reuters) — France will send troops and defense systems to Saudi Arabia to help protect the Red Sea port city of Yanbu, which is key for energy transport, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday.Macron also said a U.S. ban on diesel exports, which the White House has denied is under consideration, would be “catastrophic,” both globally and for the U.S. economy.Macron was speaking in a wide-ranging primetime television interview on the international situation, in which he also warned about possible Russian attacks on French soil.Facing growing pressure at home over high energy prices, Macron sought to…

Home › UFC Predictions › Norma Dumont and Ailin Perez Make Their Feud Personal Ahead of UFC Vegas Fight Norma Dumont and Ailin Perez have turned their UFC Vegas 121 matchup into one of the card’s liveliest stories, with accusations, old tension and a dispute involving Dumont’s boyfriend, UFC middleweight Marco Tulio. The women’s bantamweights meet Saturday, September 26, at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, serving as the co-main event beneath Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Raoni Barcelos. Dumont enters at 13-3 and Perez is 13-2, with the Brazilian ranked second and the Argentine fifth in the UFC’s women’s bantamweight…

Versailles – 23rd September 2026 – KNDS France announces the delivery to the French Army, during summer 2026, of the first EBRC (Engin Blindé de Reconnaissance et de Combat) Jaguar armored vehicles at R3 standard. This milestone, confirmed on 18 September 2026 by the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, marks a further step forward for the SCORPION programme to modernise France’s land forces. As of 18 September 2026, close to 25 EBRC Jaguar vehicles at R3 standard had been delivered to or retrofitted for the French Army. Deliveries and retrofits to this standard will continue through 2026. This standard…

An investigation has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing uninformed plans to increase detention capacity, and the total will likely rise due to ongoing mismanagement. The U.S. Government Accountability Office report released Thursday documents costly problems with several initiatives ICE has pursued since President Donald Trump returned to office and ordered the mass detention and deportation of people who were in the country illegally. Among the outlays singled out in the report was nearly $3 million spent on tents at Guantanamo Bay that were never used and $20…

Building bigger biceps is not about finding one magic exercise. It is about consistently exposing the elbow flexors to enough challenging tension, using a technique you can repeat safely, and gradually making your training more demanding over time. Dumbbell curls and cable curls can both do that extremely well. Neither exercise has been proven to be universally superior for biceps growth. The best choice depends on how well each movement lets you train hard through a useful range of motion, how it feels on your elbows and wrists, and whether you can progress it over weeks and months. That said,…

CAMP LEMONNIER, DJIBOUTI – The Kenyan Counter Terrorism Bureau, United States Africa Command, and the British High Commission announced the first trilateral counterterrorism reporting platform in East Africa on September 19, 2026. The platform goes live on October 15, 2026, and contains an online portal and a toll-free hotline serving as an anonymous channel to report suspicious or known terrorist activities. The toll-free hotline can be reached at 0800-900-900 from any phone in Kenya. The complex security environment in the Horn of Africa requires close coordination and no one nation can solve it alone. This multilateral collaboration ensures strategic unity…

NEW DELHI — The U.S. Air Force’s F-35 fighter jets are joining a multinational air exercise hosted by India, bringing a fifth-generation fighter to Indian air drills for the first time and giving the Indian Air Force and other participants direct exposure to operating alongside an advanced stealth aircraft.The drills get underway Saturday at the Jodhpur air base in Rajasthan state, which lies about 200 kilometers from India’s border with Pakistan. Eight countries are participating and 32 more are attending as observers.India does not have a fifth-generation fighter aircraft. It will deploy its major fighters such as Rafales, Su-30MKIs, Tejas…

When the United States began bombing Iran, it expected to quickly overwhelm the country’s government. In the war’s first 24 hours, American and Israeli forces hit roughly 1,000 targets. Over the following 37 days, they blew up 12,000 more, laying waste to much of Iran’s military infrastructure. The strikes killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iran’s minister of defense, and the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.But more than six months later, the Iranian regime not only remains intact; it is perhaps stronger than before. It immediately replaced lost officials and struck back at Washington and its regional partners.…

The SIS Building in London, the home of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), also known as MI6, which Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has proposed as a model for Tokyo’s own Foreign Intelligence Agency. (SIS Building, Vauxhall Cross – geograph.org.uk – 4541871 by Richard Cooke is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0)In recent weeks, various details have emerged regarding Japan’s plan for to establish a dedicated foreign intelligence service which, like the United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, commonly known as MI6) or the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), would be tasked with collecting human intelligence (HUMINT) from overseas.Provisionally…