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Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) formally opened their annual meeting in Manila this morning with a call for unity in the face of maritime tensions and growing global instability. In her opening address at the 59th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, Philippine Foreign Secretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro said that in a world marked by “upheaval, uncertainty and unpredictability,” the region had to respond with “active, deliberate problem solving.” “In a fractured global landscape, no single nation can weather these storms alone. Our strength and resilience lie in our community,” she said. “If we do not move…

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“With the sunset, Shahi Bazar may seem dead and quiet,” wrote Syed Zahoor Shah Hashmi in his 1959 memoir essay in Sichkan magazine, “but soon after, it comes back to life with the lamps lit everywhere, and people crowding to the small tea shops where they would quietly listen to the old mullah [Muslim cleric] who would read the book, “Tilism-e-Hoshruba,” an epic of the magical adventures of the legendary Persian hero Emir Hamza, to his audience, as though the listeners were the mullah’s most devoted disciples.” Hashmi was one of the greatest Baloch writers and scholars. In the 1950s,…

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Home › Turkey › Turkish Defence News › HAVELSAN Clears NATO FMN Spiral 4 Interoperability Tests at CWIX 2026 Turkish Defence News HAVELSAN certified four software systems — DOOB-HQ, KAPI, NONC2 ATA DLP and LYNX — under NATO’s FMN Spiral 4 framework at the CWIX 2026 exercise in Poland. Türkiye’s HAVELSAN has entered NATO’s certification pipeline for four newly developed software capabilities after they passed interoperability testing at the alliance’s Coalition Warrior Interoperability Exercise, or CWIX 2026, the company confirmed on 19 July. The four systems – DOOB-HQ, KAPI, Embedded NONC2 ATA DLP and LYNX – verified their compliance with…

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Author Taslima Nasrin is slated to attend an event in Kolkata in India’s West Bengal state on August 1. The city threw her out and slammed its door shut on her face 19 years ago. A self-proclaimed atheist and feminist, Nasrin is of Bangladeshi origin and was exiled from Bangladesh in 1994, when her book Lajja (“Shame”) created a furor, prompting Islamic fundamentalists to issue a fatwa and death threats against her. After living in Europe and the U.S. for a decade, she moved to Kolkata, where Muslim fundamentalists were against her presence from the start. Before she arrived in…

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Home › North America › Anduril Unveils Thunder, an Autonomous Attack Rotorcraft to Fly With the AH-64 Apache North America Anduril unveiled Thunder, a Group 5 autonomous tiltrotor built with Archer Aviation to fly as a loyal wingman for the AH-64 Apache, at Farnborough 2026. Anduril Industries unveiled Thunder, a Group 5 autonomous attack rotorcraft designed to fly alongside crewed attack helicopters, at the 2026 Farnborough International Airshow on 20 July. The tiltrotor was developed in partnership with Archer Aviation and pitched as a loyal wingman for the Boeing AH-64 Apache and the future Bell MV-75 Cheyenne II, extending the…

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On July 4, Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Tarique Rahman joined the July National Conference-2026, organized to mark the second anniversary of the July revolutionary mobilization. “The conference is being held in remembrance of the bloody July Revolution. The program is dedicated to the martyrs,” Rahman’s additional press secretary Atikur Rahman Rumon said. The July Revolution ended the 15-year authoritarian rule of Sheikh Hasina. This was a 36-day-long mass protest, which initially ignited over civil service quota reforms and then rapidly transformed into a nationwide revolutionary movement that culminated in Hasina’s ouster from power on August 5, 2024. She fled to India…

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