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08:34ZIDFOFFICIAIDF: Initial report - Sirens sound in the areas of Nahal Oz and Alumim. The details are under review.08:33ZWFWITNESSWhite House Military Office: Nine USAF C-17 Globemaster IIIs are supporting two concurrent VIP missions to Eu…08:33ZAMKMAPPINGSiren sounding east of the Gaza Strip.Likely false alarm. Checking.08:33ZTHEJERUSALRocket & Missile Attack — Gaza Envelope (2 locations).Enter the safe room and remain until instructed otherwi…08:33ZWFWITNESSRed alert sirens are sounding in the Gaza Envelope region, Southern Israel.08:31ZRNINTELA wave of Israeli airstrikes against targets across southern Lebanon.08:31ZHINDUSTANT#WATCH | In a sharp defence of India's Russian energy purchases, external affairs minister S Jaishankar on Th…08:30ZWARTRANSLAThe Taneko oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, Russia, was struck overnight.Ukraine's SOF, working with t…08:34ZIDFOFFICIAIDF: Initial report - Sirens sound in the areas of Nahal Oz and Alumim. The details are under review.08:33ZWFWITNESSWhite House Military Office: Nine USAF C-17 Globemaster IIIs are supporting two concurrent VIP missions to Eu…08:33ZAMKMAPPINGSiren sounding east of the Gaza Strip.Likely false alarm. Checking.08:33ZTHEJERUSALRocket & Missile Attack — Gaza Envelope (2 locations).Enter the safe room and remain until instructed otherwi…08:33ZWFWITNESSRed alert sirens are sounding in the Gaza Envelope region, Southern Israel.08:31ZRNINTELA wave of Israeli airstrikes against targets across southern Lebanon.08:31ZHINDUSTANT#WATCH | In a sharp defence of India's Russian energy purchases, external affairs minister S Jaishankar on Th…08:30ZWARTRANSLAThe Taneko oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, Russia, was struck overnight.Ukraine's SOF, working with t…
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Vol. I · No. 163
Friday, 12 June 2026
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Washington tells NATO: fewer jets, fewer ships, more Europe

At 04:51 UTC on 12 June 2026, Iran's state-affiliated Mehr News Agency moved a wire under a one-line summary that has since rippled through European defence ministries: The New York Times is reporting that Washington is preparing to reduce the number of air…

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08:34:12ZIDFOFFICIAIDF: Initial report - Sirens sound in the areas of Nahal Oz and Alumim. The details are under review.
08:33:48ZWFWITNESSWhite House Military Office: Nine USAF C-17 Globemaster IIIs are supporting two concurrent VIP missions to Europe — five are staged i
08:33:17ZAMKMAPPINGSiren sounding east of the Gaza Strip.Likely false alarm. Checking.
08:33:07ZTHEJERUSALRocket & Missile Attack — Gaza Envelope (2 locations).Enter the safe room and remain until instructed otherwise
08:33:07ZWFWITNESSRed alert sirens are sounding in the Gaza Envelope region, Southern Israel.
08:31:57ZRNINTELA wave of Israeli airstrikes against targets across southern Lebanon.

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