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Munich, Germany, 30 March 2026 – The Airbus ‘Bird of Prey’ interceptor drone successfully completed its first demonstration flight at a military training area in northern Germany. In a realistic mission scenario, it autonomously searched, detected and classified a medium-sized one-way attack (kamikaze) drone. After successful identification, the Bird of Prey interceptor engaged the target with a Mark I air-to-air missile developed by defence tech start-up partner Frankenburg Technologies.“Against the current geopolitical and military backdrop, defending against kamikaze drones is a tactical priority that urgently needs to be tackled,” said Mike Schoellhorn, CEO Airbus Defence and Space. “With our Bird…

In 2026, WordPress design is shifting toward AI-assisted building, more dynamic, app-like sites, and a renewed focus on ownership. Based on conversations with WordPress experts, a few clear shifts are already shaping how sites are built: from websites behaving more like apps to AI speeding up site creation. To understand the WordPress design trends shaping 2026, we spoke with Allan Cole from the WordPress.com Special Projects design team, Pablo Moratinos, a WordPress.com brand ambassador, and other WordPress design experts. 1. WordPress development is moving from coding to prompting Building a website feature used to mean opening a blank code file.…

The Aviation Funding Solvency Act. The Keep America Flying Act. The Keep Air Travel Safe Act. The Aviation Funding Stability Act. Again and again, members of Congress have dusted off the same idea: ensuring the federal employees who control air traffic and screen passengers and bags at U.S. airports get paid during government shutdowns. Bills to make it happen keep getting introduced in one form or another, sometimes with Democrats and Republicans as co-sponsors. Yet session after session, the result has been the same — agencies receive their annual appropriations, public outrage over long security lines and flight delays fades,…

Iran Press TV Thursday, 26 March 2026 10:21 PM Hezbollah resistance fighters destroyed at least 21 Israeli military Merkava tanks across southern Lebanon and northern occupied Palestine over 24 hours on Wednesday, in what is being described as a new “Merkava massacre.” By Thursday morning, the group reported achieving direct hits on at least 20 more Merkava tanks, bringing the total number of Merkava tanks taken out since March 2 to at least 73. On Thursday, dozens more Merkava tanks were successfully targeted and destroyed by Hezbollah fighters, taking the total number close to 100, as per informed sources. As…

Global Times By Global Times Published: Mar 28, 2026 06:21 PM China and the Philippines reaffirmed their commitment to advancing dialogue and stabilizing bilateral relations, as Manila reiterated its adherence to the one-China policy and stated that it does not recognize Taiwan as a “sovereign state,” according to a statement released by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Saturday after a new round of diplomatic consultations. On Saturday, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong co-chaired the 24th China-Philippines Foreign Ministry Consultations (FMC) with Undersecretary for Policy of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines Leo M. Herrera-Lim in Quanzhou, East…

France – Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères Under the French Presidency of the G7, the first formal G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held on 26 and 27 March 2026, at the Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay, in the Yvelines Department (78). In a context marked by a fragmentation of the international order and an outbreak of conflicts and hybrid threats, this event was held in line with France’s aim to make the G7 a space for dialogue and consultation for the major global economies. It is an important step in preparing G7’s response to geopolitical issues, two and a half…

Self-Propelled K9 Thunder howitzer The Spanish Army’s modernisation of its tracked self-propelled artillery will be provided by a South Korean-developed system. On 24 March 2026, Spain’s Indra Group and South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace executed a binding agreement to jointly develop and manufacture new tracked self-propelled artillery systems based on Hanwha’s K9 artillery system, which integrates Spanish technologies. The programme will deliver 128 tracked 155mm self-propelled howitzers, 120 tracked forward ammunition resupply vehicles, 11 command-and-control vehicles, and 21 recovery vehicles. It has a budget of €4.55 billion (US$5.3 billion). The K9s will replace the US-designed M109A5E with L39 calibre cannon, which…

Arman Tsarukyan and Colby Covington both picked up impressive wins at RAF 7 on Saturday and now they are trying to clash with each other as long as the UFC allows it to happen.Following a dubious RAF debut where Tsarukyan ended up punching opponent Georgio Poullas after the match finished, which ignited a huge brawl, the veteran lightweight was much more composed for the rematch. He scored a huge throw late in the match to deliver an emphatic win over Poullas to move to 3-0 in RAF.Covington accomplished much the same after Dillon Danis actually scored some points on him…

Former women’s flyweight champion Alexa Grasso defeated Maycee Barber in their rematch at UFC Seattle in brutal fashion. The two met in the UFC Seattle co-main event on Saturday and Grasso logged a highlight reel knockout. Grasso connected with a clean left hand that rendered Barber unconscious. Before Barber’s body hit the canvas, Grasso locked on a rear-naked choke. The referee immediately stepped in and Barber was left on her back, eyes wide open on the octagon canvas. COUNTER LEFT LANDS PERFECTLY 🤯@AlexaGrasso wins in round 1 with a perfect shot & RNC! [ #UFCSeattle | LIVE on @ParamountPlus ]…

PARIS — Airbus tested a jet-powered interceptor armed with missiles from defense startup Frankenburg Technologies to engage a one-way attack drone, with the companies trumpeting their solution as a cost-effective way of defending against such drones.The reusable Bird of Prey interceptor drone completed its first demonstration flight at a military training area in northern Germany in a “realistic mission scenario,” the companies said in a joint statement on Monday. The interceptor autonomously searched, detected and classified a medium-sized one-way attack drone, which it then engaged with Frankenburg’s Mark I air-to-air missile.The war in Ukraine and conflicts in the Middle East…