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Europe targets Belarus with new war sanctions plan – POLITICO

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The European Union is set to slap on a fresh sanctions package against Belarus after EU ambassadors okayed the raft of measures at a meeting this Wednesday.

The sanctions are set to include export restrictions on dual-use goods like drones or computers that can be used on the battlefield against Ukraine, as well as aviation parts.

The latest package also includes new listings against 38 individuals and 3 entities, according to four EU diplomats who were granted anonymity to speak

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Ukrainian troops liberate southern village, while Russia shoots down drone attack on Moscow – POLITICO

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Ukrainian forces have recaptured a strategic village in the Russian-occupied southeast, as their troops continue a southbound advance in a summer counteroffensive.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that troops had reclaimed the village of Staromayorske in the Donetsk region. It is the first major gain in days. Battles are continuing around Bakhmut for the villages of Klishchiivka and Andriivka.

“The 35th brigade and the Ariy territorial defense unit have fulfilled their task and liberated the village of Staromayorske. Glory

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China secretly sends enough gear to Russia to equip an army – POLITICO

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The pictures posted on the Chinese company’s website show a tall, Caucasian man with a crew cut and flattened nose inspecting body armor at its factory.

“This spring, one of our customers came to our company to confirm the style and quantity of bulletproof vests, and carefully tested the quality of our vests,” Shanghai H Win, a manufacturer of military-grade protective gear, proudly reported on its website in March.

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The Potemkin lobby shaping the EU’s agricultural policy – POLITICO

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BRUSSELS — The European Union’s biggest farming lobby claims to represent all the bloc’s agricultural workers, but Stela Zămoiu doesn’t believe it speaks for farmers like her.

Zămoiu, 61, remembers when the land around her was full of smallholders. Today, her three hectares in eastern Romania are surrounded by large, industrial farms. When she dies, she expects her property to be swallowed up by one of her neighbors.

“The village has grown old,” she says. “After the elders die, the

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War comes to Putin’s doorstep: Wealthy Moscow region is hit by kamikaze drones

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Moscow was attacked this morning by suspected Ukrainian kamikaze drones just hours after Vladimir Putin unleashed a volley of similar strikes on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

Buildings were damaged in wealthy suburbs in the south-west of the Russian capital were hit, including the elite district of Rublyovka. 

Explosive drones struck blocks of flats in Leninsky Prospekt and Profsoyuznaya Street about six miles from the centre of Moscow, reportedly wounding several residents and damaging the buildings.

Russia’s defence ministry claimed

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The Unseen Soldiers of America’s Privatized Wars

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On the night watch – POLITICO

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It’s an hour before dawn breaks over the North Sea. Aboard the KV Bergen, the officer of the watch is wide awake. 

The 93-meter long Norwegian Navy Coast Guard vessel is on patrol, 50 miles out to sea. The sky is dark, the sea darker. But off the starboard bow, bright lights gleam through the rain and mist. Something huge and incongruous is looming out of the water, lit like a Christmas display.  

“Troll A,” says Torgeir Standal, 49, the

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How McKinsey steers the Munich Security Conference – POLITICO

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MUNICH, Germany — Many of the biggest names in business and politics will cross the red carpet of the stately Bayerischer Hof hotel this weekend for the Bavarian capital’s annual Munich Security Conference. But to identify the real power behind the A-list event, turn to page 169 of the conference’s annual bible, the “Munich Security Report.”

There, in baby blue letters at the bottom half of the page, is

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Gangs smuggling Iranian missiles and drugs in the Gulf to be hunted by 100 new drones

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Terrorist gangs smuggling Iranian missiles and drugs in the Middle East will soon have a fleet of 100 robo-ships hunting them down, Britain’s most senior military commander in the Gulf has revealed.

The new naval force, made up of drones that can operate around the clock, will be up and running by the summer, claimed Commodore Adrian Fryer.

It comes as the top officer insisted he remained ‘alive’ to the ever-present threat posed by Iran after a series of recent

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France’s Mr. Privacy turns cybersnooper – POLITICO

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PARIS — Eric Leandri was once the darling of France’s tech sector, lauded as a defender of digital privacy and a paragon of Europe’s ability to compete against Silicon Valley. 

Qwant — the search engine Leandri co-founded in 2011 — received more than €50 million in French and European public funding and

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