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USS Abraham Lincoln’s visit to Thailand lifts hope and sex-tourism risk

The USS Abraham Lincoln will visit Thailand this week. Thai officials are anticipating an economic boost but warning of ...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Hitting a High Point: The Australia-Indonesia 2+2

The significance of the 2+2 is the growing web of cooperation between Canberra and Jakarta.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
What Zheng He’s Changing Role Reveals About China’s Maritime Strategy

The historical figure has been invoked to advance different symbolic ends as Beijing’s goals and capabilities change.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Sanae Takaichi’s strong poll position masks a brittle mandate

Japan’s prime minister faces no election for years, but her economic agenda still has everything to prove.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Wong’s own logic makes the case for more Ukraine aid

Ukraine’s ambassador argues the Foreign Minister’s own framework is a case for backing Kyiv further.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
In space, the UAE is choosing capabilities, not camps

Washington and Beijing frame space as a binary contest, but the UAE is quietly building capability from both.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Rebuilding Nepal without repeating the mistakes of 2015

The Himalayan flood exposed a risk that begins beyond Nepal’s borders – and demands a response that does too.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Media briefing: BepiColombo's next milestone towards Mercury

Video: 01:09:40 Rewatch the European Space Agency's 31 August 2026 online press briefing on the latest developments of t...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
More Persecution of the Baha’i in Qatar 

One might have thought that a Middle East war that has badly reduced Qatar’s natural gas exports and greatly harmed its ...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Russia Reports Hottest July on Record

Nationwide average temperatures in July surpassed the previous record set in 2010, Russia’s national meteorological serv...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
⚡ Weekly Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy, AI Agents Go Off-Task, Router Backdoors and More

The boring parts caused most of the trouble. A router shipped ready to listen. A fake check turned the user into the ins...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Jordan Sees Bigger Threat From Israel Than Iran

For Amman, Israeli annexation of the West Bank looms as an existential risk.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
How kidnapping became an industry in Nigeria

Insecurity has been a pivotal issue in Nigerian elections for decades — underscoring governments’ inability to tackle th...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
New Zealand ground forces drill to dock onto larger armies

Kiwi ground forces train to integrate their units with larger armies, Australia's especially, for maximum effect in batt...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Sri Lanka’s Luxury Property Boom Is Outrunning Its Regulations 

As Colombo's luxury towers rise, the laws and institutions meant to oversee them lag far behind. Financial history shows...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Washington's Africa chief starts second trip to continent

The US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs will visit Zambia, Ethiopia, and Kenya from Aug. 30 to Sept. 10.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Speed to Field Starts Below the Prime

I have spent much of my career looking at the defense industrial base from different vantage points: as a warfighter, in...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
It’s Time to Rein in Trump’s ‘Wars on Terror’

Congress must act to address new and old executive abuses.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Valterra bets on China platinum demand surge

China’s push into hydrogen-powered freight trucks could deliver a fresh wave of demand for the metals.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Zambia charges opposition leader with treason

The case that threatens to taint Lusaka’s image as a relatively stable southern African democracy.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Nigeria restored to FTSE Russell Index

The country was dropped from the index, which measures equities in frontier markets, following concerns about the abilit...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Western hawks are pushing Ukraine to draft its women

Ukraine is already suffering a severe demographic crisis as a result of the decision to eschew peace talks and pursue mi...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Starlink Closes In on Fibre as Zimbabwe’s VSAT Subscriptions Hit Record 86,488

Starlink has narrowed the gap to the fibre subscriber base in Zimbabwe, driving the country’s VSAT subscriptions to a re...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
What Six Years as an Iran Hostage Taught Me About the Regime

Since the start of Operation Epic Fury, I have watched and listened to nearly every piece of news coverage and analysis ...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
NASA's next "great observatory" begins mission to widen our view of the Universe

"We would need over half a million 4K TVs to fully display the single Roman image from our largest survey."

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
The US military gets its own ChatGPT today

After months of security testing, Pentagon adds an OpenAI product to the list of AI tools approved for unclassified work...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Space Force struggling to integrate commercial space data: Officials

“We have to have a better linkage between our acquisitions officers, or staff, and our operators,” Col. Tim Trimailo, he...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
After 25 Years, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Faces an Uncertain Future

The SCO faces an uncertain future. Its key members fear each other at least as much as they need each other.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Putin Arrives in Kyrgyzstan for SCO Summit

The Russian president will also hold a series of bilateral talks with the leaders of China, India and other nations duri...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
US and Iran exchange fire for the first time in over a month

The US hit two rocket launchers, saying they were about to deploy mines into the Strait of Hormuz.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Japan’s Record 2027 Defense Budget Request Is Only the Opening Bid

Tokyo is building a force around AI, unmanned systems, a high-low weapons mix, and greater staying power.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Nigeria’s worsening insecurity tests president’s second-term bid

Security challenges in Africa’s most populous country are becoming a defining issue in its election campaign.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions

The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
The Iran war is no Vietnam. But it may become an economic quagmire for the Gulf.

Five costs related to the Iran war are compounding across the Gulf and its trading partners, and none will be eliminated...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
‘Every step towards disarmament matters,’ nuclear testing survivors warn

He was born without arms, a legacy of four decades of nuclear explosions at the Semipalatinsk test site in his native Ka...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Commercial space is not an endless field of innovation: an assessment of the good, the bad, and the ugly

The growth of the commercial space industry is seen by some as a way to help the US government to do more with less. Cha...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Space has a billionaire problem, but it also has a billionaire solution

Many in the public see space as primarily a playground for billionaires. Kelsie Goddard argues that while that reputatio...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Learning from a satellite servicing mission's failure

In mid-August, NASA announced it was calling off an effort to reboost the orbit of its Swift space telescope because of ...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets

Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX's artificial intelligence (...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Securing Claude Code: The New Compliance API, Local Visibility, and Identity Governance

Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a develop...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail

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