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One year and a half since the start of the program, GDELS’ Spanish entity Santa Bárbara Sistemas officially handed over the first Latvian-assembled HUNTER infantry fighting vehicle to the Latvian National Armed Forces during a ceremonial event. The contract concluded between GDELS–Santa Bárbara Sistemas, and the Latvian Ministry of Defense provides for a total of 84 such combat vehicles to Latvia by 2029, with at least 30% local industrial participation in the execution of the program. The HUNTER infantry fighting vehicle is the last generation of the ASCOD tracked platform specially designed to meet Latvia’s requirements and operational needs. HUNTER…

The first Gripen fighter built outside Sweden through the collaboration between Saab and Embraer, marks another milestone in the Gripen programme. The first Gripen fighter built outside Sweden has taken to the skies, completing its historic maiden flight from Embraer’s Gavião Peixoto aerodrome in São Paulo State on 6 October at 10:21 local time. Flown by Saab chief test pilot Jakob Högberg, the sortie aimed to verify the aircraft’s basic system functions and assess its initial performance. The flight was classified as the fighter’s first production acceptance test and initiated the final phase of the manufacturing process at Embraer. Embraer…

The intersection of criminal legal system involvement and housing is a pressing social issue. In the United States, individuals with criminal records face significant barriers to stable housing, often leading to a cycle of homelessness and recidivism. This entry explores the multifaceted challenges people with criminal records experience—with a focus on how gender relates to those experiences—and identifies promising solutions. It focuses on people with felony convictions, especially those previously incarcerated, as they experience the most acute barriers to housing. Gender influences the ways in which individuals experience both the criminal legal system and housing instability, highlighting unique challenges and…

The signing of the trilateral pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan on 7August 2026, has sparked interests, leading to suggest that a new “Atlantic Alliance” is taking shape in a geopolitical arena of primary importance for the balance of power not only regionally but globally This new pact joins a long series of treaties and alliances which marked the region, starting from the Arab League, all falling short of initial expectations and promises, or miserably failed or forgotten. The Joint Defence Agreement and foremost appears to combine the hegemonic ambitions and strategic anxieties and concerns of its signatories, while…

Continuing to build upon my idea of showcasing you, my readers, a lot more about myself, the games I enjoy personally but may not talk about on the website for several reasons: Those might be related to game relevancy at the time, overall public indifference to them, or I might just not have the time to cover them in depth in my already busy website schedule. And yet, I still play these games a lot of the time, because they’re the sort of comfortable experience I can rely on and fall back to whenever I feel like I need a…

Home › Boxing News › BKB › Rolando Dy Makes Big Proposal Involving LT Nelson’s BKB Middleweight Belt Post-BKB 60 Rolando Dy is the BKB super welterweight champion, but he has aspirations for more gold inside the Mighty Trigon. LT Nelson is also on Dy’s radar, and the pound-for-pound juggernaut in bare-knuckle currently holds the middleweight and super middleweight belts. But first, Dy defends his Police Gazette diamond belt this weekend on October 10th at BKB 60 when he battles five-time BKB champ, Scott McHugh. The history-making defending champ, who became the first Filipino fighter to capture bare-knuckle gold, looks…

The U.S. will livestream the Army’s upcoming firing squad execution on Dec. 3 of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in a 2009 shooting spree, a Pentagon official said, in what would be an unprecedented move.Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, is set to become the first person to be executed by firing squad by the U.S. military since 1945, shortly after the end of World War II.The Pentagon official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, did not offer more information and said details would follow.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier told the Human Events Daily podcast…

A U.S. senator was recently denied access to the largest military installation in the Middle East, calling it a “cover-up” over the damage suffered during the Iran war.Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., visited the Middle East this week on a Congressional Delegation trip, speaking with Gulf region leaders and visiting American facilities to assess damage done by the Iran war. Murphy was denied access to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, which had suffered damage from drone strikes during the conflict.“They are using every tool they can, including withholding information about damages, slow walking the pace of reports about casualties and denying…

PARIS — France will begin training Ukrainian pilots on the Rafale fighter jet next month, Armed Forces Minister Catherine Vautrin said in a parliamentary hearing on Thursday.“We are continuing our discussions regarding the combat aviation component, particularly regarding the Rafale,” Vautrin told French lawmakers in response to questions about aid to Ukraine during a 2027 defense-budget hearing here. “From November, we will begin the first training of Ukrainian pilots on Rafale.”Ukrainian pilots will soon begin training on Rafale aircraft in France, a major step forward for Ukraine’s combat aviation, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a Telegram post on…

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 14: Alex Pereira of Brazil walks to the Octagon in the UFC interim heavyweight championship fight during the UFC Freedom 250 event on the South Lawn at the White House on June 14, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)