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Iran Weighed Missile Strike on Ukraine After Caspian Ship Attack

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Iran's government prepared a retaliatory ballistic missile strike on a Ukrainian port after Kyiv struck an Iranian cargo vessel in the Caspian Sea, a plan abandoned only after direct foreign-minister diplomacy, revealing how close the separate Iran and Ukraine wars came to formally merging.

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Iran-Linked Hackers Breach 30+ Minnesota Water Systems

Iran-linked hackers using the CyberAv3ngers persona breached more than thirty Minnesota water utilities in a coordinated weekend intrusion, exposing the fragility of America's operational-technology-dependent critical infrastructure amid unresolved US-Iran hostilities.

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Tehran, Muscat Near Hormuz Transit Deal as Trump Pauses Strike

Iran's foreign ministry says a new Strait of Hormuz transit route with Oman is nearing finalisation after Trump paused a planned strike on Iran pending rapid deal terms, though no signed text exists and both sides continue preparing for renewed conflict.

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Iran-Linked Hackers Breach 30+ Minnesota Water Systems

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Tehran, Muscat Near Hormuz Transit Deal as Trump Pauses Strike

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Drone Strike on Egyptian Soil Signals Iran War's Widening Arc

An unclaimed drone strike on Egypt's Damietta LNG terminal represents the first attack on Egyptian territory since the U.S.-Iran conflict began, confirming the war's expansion beyond the Persian Gulf into Mediterranean energy infrastructure.

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Hackers Breach Water Systems in Seven States, Iran Link Probed

Malicious cyber actors breached industrial control systems at municipal water utilities across at least seven U.S. states, prompting a joint FBI-EPA advisory and a CISA warning on Iranian-affiliated targeting of critical infrastructure.

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Ukraine's Deepest Strike Yet Forces NATO's Hand on Missiles

Ukraine executed its largest long-range drone strike of the war against Russian strategic bomber bases as Germany agreed to host US Tomahawk missiles, signaling both sides' shift toward deeper, longer-range confrontation.

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Russian Hackers Weaponize European Security Cameras Against NATO Logistics

Dutch intelligence services have confirmed that Russian state hackers hijacked civilian-owned internet-connected security cameras across the Netherlands and other NATO states to track weapons shipments to Ukraine and, in Ukraine itself, to help target military personnel.

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NATO Command Breach: Canadian Intern Held on Espionage Charges

Belgian federal prosecutors have charged a vetted Canadian intern who spent a year inside NATO's SHAPE command with espionage and criminal-organization membership, exposing a vetting gap at the alliance's military headquarters.

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NATO Intern Arrested at SHAPE on Espionage Charges

Belgian authorities arrested a Canadian intern at NATO's SHAPE headquarters on espionage charges, surfacing a delegated-vetting blind spot that Chinese intelligence has now reached at least four times across NATO territory since January 2026.

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Iran's CIA Facility Strikes Trigger Russian Involvement Probe

US intelligence officials are investigating whether Russia supplied targeting data or advanced drone technology that enabled Iranian strikes on CIA facilities in Saudi Arabia and Iraq during the 2026 war.

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