Russia’s war casualty toll in Ukraine up by 1,520 over past day (2026-07-19 05:32 UTC)
Kurz: Russia’s total combat losses since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine have reached approximately 1,428,930 personnel, including 1,520 troops over the past 24 hours.
Poland rules out troops in Ukraine but pledges key role in Coalition of the Willing (2026-07-19 04:55 UTC)
Kurz: Poland does not plan to deploy troops to Ukraine as part of a possible stabilization mission but will remain one of the key members of the Coalition of the Willing by serving as its main logistics and operational hub.
Russian ballistic missiles rock Kyiv (2026-07-19 03:40 UTC)
Kurz: Fires broke out across the Ukrainian capital after Russia’s latest missile attack. Several people have been injured in Kyiv and emergency services are at the scene.
Ukraine reportedly strikes Russian oil depot in Stavropol Krai, hits targets in occupied Crimea, Luhansk (2026-07-19 02:28 UTC)
Kurz: Ukraine struck an oil depot in Russia’s Stavropol Krai and hit several targets in the occupied territories overnight on July 19, monitoring channels reported.
Israeli military closes area around Gaza ahead of settler march, report says (2026-07-19 05:53 UTC)
Kurz: Israeli military closes area around Gaza ahead of settler march, report says Israeli military has declared the entire Gaza periphery region a closed military zone, ahead of a march planned by a right-wing group that seeks to reestablish Israeli settlements inside the territory, I…
Palestinians bid farewell to teenage footballer shot during settler raid (2026-07-19 05:03 UTC)
Kurz: Palestinians bid farewell to teenage footballer shot during settler raid Palestinians have bid farewell to a 17-year-old footballer, Fadi Al-Naasan, who died on Saturday of bullet wounds sustained during an Israeli settler attack on the village of Al-Mughayyir in the occupied Wes…
UN human rights commissioner: ‘Sudan’s war economy fuelling conflict, tainting global supply chains’ (2026-07-16 10:14 UTC)
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Video of US flag desecration by Somali army trio sparks uproar amid stepped-up support (2026-07-13 11:07 UTC)
Kurz: Troops involved in a video that showed the American flag being stepped on and kicked were detained and an investigation is underway, the Somali defense ministry said.
US pulls troops from Nigeria following anti-ISIS mission, focuses on ‘African-led’ future (2026-07-06 10:42 UTC)
Kurz: The U.S. has withdrawn most of the troops that were sent to Nigeria earlier this year to help root out Islamic State insurgents, according to the head of U.S. Africa Command.
China team cuts 3D optical chip production time from hours to seconds (2026-07-19 02:00 UTC)
Kurz: Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving unprecedented demand for computing, placing photonic chips at the centre of the race to develop next-generation AI hardware. By transmitting data with light rather than electricity, photonic technologies are widely seen as a way to overcome…
USNI News Western Pacific Pulse: July 17, 2026 (2026-07-17 19:33 UTC)
Kurz: The following is a summary of major ship movements and exercises in the Western Pacific over the last week. In Hawaii The U.S. Navy-led Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2026 exercise is currently in its at-sea phase. The exercise began June 24 and runs through July 31 and is taking pl…
Philly Shipyard to Build ‘Golden Defender’ Ship as part of New Missile Defense Program (2026-07-17 20:41 UTC)
Kurz: Hanwha Philly Shipyard will build a new missile-range instrumentation vessel for the U.S. Navy that will support the Trump administration’s Golden Dome effort, White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought announced Friday. Dubbed the “Golden Defender,” the shi…
Kurz: Two earthquakes that hit north-central Venezuela on June 24 have killed at least 4,829 people, injured 16,740, and displaced approximately 18,000, according to government figures. The disaster has overwhelmed Venezuela’s emergency services and slowed political developments that h…
The Blood Bank and the Logistics of Wartime Medicine (2026-07-17 08:00 UTC)
Kurz: Before the twentieth century gave armies antibiotics, the leading killer of American soldiers in wartime was neither enemy fire nor shrapnel. Two-thirds of the roughly 620,000 deaths in the U.S. Civil War came from diseases like typhoid and dysentery. Spread through contaminated …
Andrew Tate, brother arrested in Miami, UK seeks extradition (2026-07-19 00:14 UTC)
Kurz: Andrew and Tristan Tate were taken into custody by the US Marshals Service in Miami on a sealed warrant. The UK has requested their extradition on charges that include trafficking and rape.
Navy, Army risk wasting money, time without unified hypersonic missile strategy: GAO (2026-07-17 21:10 UTC)
Kurz: The GAO determined that the Navy is already roughly two years behind schedule on modernizing the Zumwalt-class destroyers as part of the more than $50 billion hypersonic effort.
New ‘Golden Defender’ missile monitor ship to be built at Hanwha Philly shipyard (2026-07-17 17:20 UTC)
Kurz: The ship, which will support the Golden Dome effort, will be based on the national Security Multi-Mission Vessels Hanwha Philly Shipyard builds for the US Maritime Administration.
Kurz: More than 256,000 people in Djibouti – around 25 per cent of the population – are likely to face crisis or emergency level hunger over the coming months, a UN-backed global food monitoring network warned in a new report released Friday.