The defence ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK (E5) met on Monday, and The National reported they would name Russia the greatest threat to Europe. The Financial Times reports that Germany plans to buy Ukrainian Bars cruise missiles, with an agreement on a first batch expected in the coming weeks.
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British jets took part in a French nuclear exercise for the first time, France says, according to Reuters. The Hindu describes it as the first joint nuclear strike simulation by the two air forces, while Politika reports that Poland wants US and French nuclear weapons deployed on its territory.
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A Jerusalem court released nine of ten suspects in attacks on a US journalist and European diplomats to house arrest. On Thursday UN chief Guterres called the West Bank situation "simply out of control".
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Masked Israeli settlers attacked Belgian, French and Polish diplomats and a French mayor near Taybeh on Saturday, a day after a Washington Post photographer was beaten. The EU and US demanded accountability.
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A suspected drone exploded over Lithuania on Sunday, forcing residents to shelter. Ukraine regretted the incident, saying Russian electronic warfare may have diverted its drones.
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SpaceX restricted military Starlink service in Ukraine without warning, Kyiv says, disrupting drone missions. Zelensky says Trump has taken a side that is not Ukraine's.
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Two masked intruders broke into a communications facility near Sofia and set fire to 11 of its 17 Starlink antennas, Bulgarian National Television reported, as cited by Meduza. Prime Minister Rumen Radev says an investigation is under way and Bulgaria is cooperating with partner services, after a similar sabotage case in Poland.
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Germany has detained a fourth person over the suspected sabotage of a Starlink station in Poland, Reuters reports, citing RMF FM. Tusk said two suspected saboteurs were arrested in Germany, and FAZ reports that the pattern of the incident points to Russia.
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NATO's top commander publicly outlined on Monday how the alliance would repel a Russian attack. Germany and Poland warn that Russian sabotage is escalating.
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A man linked to the Polish far right was arrested on Sunday in connection with an assassination attempt against Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his defence minister, Le Monde reports. Interior minister Marcin Kierwinski said it is too early to say whether the attempt was coordinated.
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Poland's interior ministry said on Sunday that Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz may have been targeted by assassination attempts, after police received information about a possible attack. Intelligence agency spokesman Jacek Dobrzynski called the threat extremely serious and said there is a high probability it will be carried out, according to TASS.
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A 21-year-old woman injured three people at an educational institution in Warsaw on Saturday, police said, the third school attack in Poland in less than a week. Police had detained 76 people (Politika reports 79) and checked nearly 50,000 schools after two earlier attacks, one of them fatal according to Politika.
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The New York Times reported on Saturday that Russia ran a covert campaign against Moldova's pro-Western government. Poland said a day earlier that it had detained a man recruited by Russian intelligence for a planned killing.
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Poland detained a Russian recruited by Moscow's intelligence services over a plot to kill a man with Ukrainian and US passports, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday. He called it the first Russian-ordered attack on a US citizen in a NATO state.
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Putin threatened on Wednesday to seize European ships over EU confiscations of Russian vessels. NATO the same day blamed Moscow for drones over Poland and Romania.
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A cyberattack on a Polish medical software provider has exposed personal and health data on nearly 19 million people. Polish authorities disclosed the breach on Wednesday.
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The world's seas outside the polar regions were hotter last month than in any July on record, the EU's Copernicus service said on Monday. Scientists link part of the spike to a strengthening El Niño.
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Twenty-five mostly Democratic-led US states sued the Trump administration on Monday over tariffs of 10 and 12.5 percent on 60 trading partners. They argue the president exceeded his authority to tax imports.
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EU rules obliging professional developers and business users to label AI-generated content took effect on Sunday. Companies now face open questions about how to apply them.
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Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv early on Saturday, killing at least nine people. It was the second major attack on the Ukrainian capital in a week.
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Warsaw protested to Russia's ambassador on Friday after a missile entered Polish territory during Russia's nightly barrage against Ukraine, Al Jazeera reported. Poland asserts the missile was recently made, which it says shows the bombardment is draining Russia's arsenal.
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A cruise missile came down in a field in south-eastern Poland early on Thursday, tearing a crater about ten metres wide near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia and injuring no one. Poland's prime minister said the recovered fragments point to a Russian Kh-101 and that Poland had not been the target, while Poland and NATO switched on ground-based and airborne air defences. Russia has not commented on the incident, and investigators have yet to identify the debris definitively.
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A Russian missile and drone barrage across Ukraine overnight into Thursday killed at least eight civilians, six of them members of one family in the village of Radushne near Kryvyi Rih. In his evening address, President Zelensky said preliminary data indicated the missile that destroyed the family's house was North Korean, which Reuters' sources say would be the first such use in nearly a year. Russia's Defence Ministry says it struck military airfields, arms plants and logistics sites.
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Russian forces attacked Ukraine with ballistic missiles and long-range aviation overnight from 29 to 30 July 2026, hitting Kyiv, Lviv, Kryvyi Rih and Poltava. At least eight people were killed, six of them members of one family in Kryvyi Rih. Poland scrambled fighter jets and sounded air-raid sirens in Lublin while the strikes reached western Ukraine.
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A man drove a van into participants of the Christopher Street Day parade in Berlin's Tiergarten on Saturday evening and attacked people with knives, killing a woman and injuring 29 others according to Le Monde, before he was shot dead during a police operation. Reporting by FAZ and Handelsblatt says the federal prosecutor's office has taken over the investigation and that CDU politicians, including the head of the party's youth wing, are demanding tougher measures against people classified as security threats.
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China has placed Wroclaw University of Science and Technology on an export control list targeting entities linked to Europe's security sector, listing it alongside defence contractors in what the South China Morning Post describes as an unprecedented step. The Financial Times reports in parallel on how Beijing exploits divisions among EU member states over trade policy.
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Beijing has banned shipments of rare earths and related supplies to 14 companies in Europe working in chemicals processing, electric motors and defence, according to reporting by the New York Times published on 24 July 2026. The measure applies China's dominance of rare-earth supply directly to named European industrial and defence firms. The available source does not identify the companies or the exact date the controls take effect.
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