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President Donald Trump on Friday said U.S. forces carried out a strike that killed Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, also known as Niño Guerrero, the leader of Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.“At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Nino Guerrero the infamous leader of Tren De Aragua, one of the most bloodthirsty Terrorist Organizations on Planet,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Friday evening.“This action was coordinated closely with our friends in Venezuela, with whom we are working very well.”Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth posted on X…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that a “swift and lethal kinetic” U.S. strike has killed Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, whom he called “the infamous leader” of the Tren de Aragua gang. Tren de Aragua has been labeled by the United States as a terrorist organization. Guerrero Flores was charged in a New York federal court with racketeering conspiracy and other crimes, including lending support to terrorists in crimes that stretched more than a decade, authorities announced in December. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on X that the strike occurred earlier in the week on a Tren de…

Ukraine’s successful combat use of unmanned surface vessels (USVs) and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) in the Black Sea has had a significant impact on the development of robotic maritime systems worldwide As demonstrated by the exhibits at the International Maritime Defense Show (IMDS-2026) in Kronstadt, the Russian Navy, as well as the Russian shipbuilding industry, are drawing certain conclusions from the dynamic development of maritime robotic systems. The results of these conclusions were on display at Russian companies’ stands at IMDS-2026 “Fleet-2026” in Kronstadt. In particular, JSC Rosoboronexport (part of Rostec corporation) showcased several types of Russian USVs and UUVs…

The 1st ADS Festival will be held as a special event focused on integration, learning, and fellowship, open to all athletes from KWU SENSHI and partner organizations. More than a competition, the festival is being presented as an opportunity to strengthen bonds within the martial arts community and promote the continued development of new practitioners. The event will take place with the important support of the Brazilian KWU SENSHI Confederation, reinforcing a shared commitment to the development of Karate and to the formation of future athletes. In this way, the festival represents not only an athletic gathering, but also a meaningful initiative for the growth of the discipline…

A group of 16 Senate Democrats is calling on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to tighten its regulation of prediction markets, citing concerns over insider trading and other consumer harms as betting on future events grows in popularity.The senators, led by Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., asked the CFTC to offer guidance to those participating in bustling prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket in an effort to restrict event contract manipulation and insider trading, according to the June 1 letter.“The volume of event contracts trading on prediction markets has grown exponentially over the past 18 months,” the senators wrote. “These markets…

Introduction There’s no getting around the fact that the genre of wargaming is a complicated one. Some games do make it easier to get into, that’s true. They do so by streamlining or abstracting mechanics, putting some effort into creating a clean and intuitive user interface, and putting a greater emphasis on a part of warfare instead of others, to keep the player centered around it, while everything else is a bit more superficial. However, there’s a substantial portion of titles that are not like that, be that for whatever reason it may be, and it’s often by design, due…

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org Senate lawmakers introduced a bill June 10 to require the Pentagon to consider how it might leverage the commercial space industry’s rush to build on-orbit data centers.  The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), is dubbed the New Horizon Act. It proposes the Defense Department launch a pilot program to assess commercially available cloud computing and data processing hubs and experiment with integrating those services…

Elisandra Ferreira wants to add another piece of gold to her history and display the PFL strawweight belt next to her past trophies and belts.Ferreira makes her debut under the PFL banner this Saturday at PFL Nigeria, battling undefeated Nigerian talent Juliet Ukah in Lagos, and does so after winning the Invicta FC and Karate Combat titles over the past couple of years. At age 28 and training alongside two-time PFL champion Larissa Pacheco, “Lili” feels ready for the spotlight.“[Being champion in other promotions] is very important because they look at me differently,” Ferreira told MMA Fighting. “They say, ‘Wow,…

Global Times By Chen Qingqing and Wang Zixuan Published: Jun 13, 2026 01:17 PM A US senior administration official on Friday laid out elements of a potential short-term agreement between the US and Iran, and said the best degree of confidence that the deal will be signed in the near term is 80 to 85 percent, according to multiple media reports on Friday. Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced on Friday that significant progress has been made toward finalizing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) reached between Tehran and Washington in Islamabad, stating that the agreement has “never been closer”…

PFL Africa’s first trip to Nigeria delivered on its promise: a packed card at Lagos’ Eko Convention Center, a loud home crowd, and a showcase of regional talent trying to turn TV exposure on SuperSport and Canal+ into a real run at PFL money and global opportunities. The organization has framed its African series as a bridge to the main PFL season, and PFL Nigeria felt exactly like that, part tournament stage, part talent scouting, with the crowd treating every local walkout like a title fight. Watch PFL Africa Nigeria The night was built around featherweight finisher Wasi “The Nigerian…