Poland has opened a production line for the Hornet, a domestically developed long-range attack drone described as Poland’s answer to the Iranian Shahed. The facility in Sochaczew, west of Warsaw, is a joint venture between the state-run ITWL and the Boryszew industrial group.
The U.S. has decided to postpone a $400 million aid package for Ukraine until 2029.
Russian journalist Grigory Nekhoroshev, who in 2008, as editor-in-chief of Moskovsky Korrespondent, broke the story about Vladimir Putin’s alleged relationship with gymnast Alina Kabayeva, has died at the age of 69 in Riga, Latvia. The cause of death is believed to be poisoning from toxic mushrooms he had picked himself.
Police had been monitoring the perpetrator of the attack on Berlin Pride for weeks via a camera at his home. According to Bild, his behavior was assessed as “unremarkable,” after which monitoring was scaled back for budgetary reasons.
The United States is pausing its attacks on Iran, and according to multiple reports, a severe shortage of certain types of ammunition is a factor. This is reported by BBC News and Reuters. President Donald Trump denies that there is a genuine shortage, but both within and outside his administration, the impression is growing that stocks of crucial interceptor missiles and precision-guided weapons are under strain.
Iran has once again publicly executed two men for their role in the anti-government protests that broke out in late December and early January. According to the judiciary-affiliated news agency Mizan, they were convicted of, among other things, “waging war against God” and seriously disrupting public order and security.
Benjamin Netanyahu has once again lashed out at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whom he accuses of “fomenting hatred” by suggesting that he would have the Israeli prime minister arrested if he attends the UN summit in New York in September. According to Netanyahu, he's not afraid of the threat and will attend the United Nations General Assembly as planned.
In his first major interview as British prime minister, Andy Burnham says he will speak up to Donald Trump if it's in Britain’s interest. At the same time, he doesn't want unnecessary confrontation, but he does want to be clear about what he sees as the United Kingdom’s national priority.
One person was killed and 29 were injured in an attack on the Pride parade in Berlin on Saturday evening. German authorities are treating the attack as an Islamist terrorist act and are conducting a large-scale manhunt for the main suspect, 21-year-old Abdul Ballout.
Europe is sounding the alarm ever more loudly about what many policymakers now view as a broad-based Chinese shadow war. Over the past two years, at least thirty agents and operatives working for Beijing have been exposed in Europe and its immediate vicinity, while German lawmakers speak of a Chinese security apparatus employing up to 800,000 spies.