🇺🇸🛸📃 — 📰 Fox News: U.S. Air Force F-16 that shot down an unknown object over Lake Huron yesterday missed on its first attempt, U.S. officials say.

It’s not clear where the first missile landed. A second Sidewinder air-to-air missile was needed.

Each Sidewinder AIM-9X costs over $400,000.

🇳🇱❌🇷🇺 — 🇳🇱🪖 Ministry of Defense of the Kingdom of Netherlands: Two Dutch F-35s carried out a first interception over the Skies of Poland.

It concerned 3 aircraft: a Russian Federation IL-20M Coot-A that was escorted by two SU-27 Flankers. F-35s escorted them from a distance and handed over escort to NATO partners.

🇸🇾🆘📹 — 🇬🇧📰 British Media, Sky News on Twitter:
— "Commander of the HTS rebel group, Abu Mohammad Al-Julani says "we've lost a lot of lives due to the weak response of the international community""

🔗 Sky News (@SkyNews)

🇺🇸🦆🦠 — 📰 The Associated Press: Wild ducks found dead in Maine test positive for bird flu

— "Wildlife authorities in Maine said six wild ducks found dead in a stream in Winthrop have tested positive for bird flu.

The hooded mergansers were found dead in Mill Stream and tested positive for a highly pathogenic avian influenza, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said Friday.

The wildlife department said the National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Iowa confirmed the strain to be the kind circulating in Maine. The department said the strain is highly contagious and can spread and mutate between wild and domestic flocks of birds."

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🇮🇳❌🇬🇧 — 📰 AFP: India tax department raids BBC Delhi office

Indian tax authorities raided BBC's New Delhi offices on Tuesday, a journalist at the broadcaster told AFP, weeks after it aired a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"There's income tax raid in office, they're confiscating all phones," the journalist said

🇦🇷🏴📃 — If Mr. Milei wins this year election in Argentina, the South American nation could be the first major nation in world to be led by an outspoken Anarcho-Capitalist

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 📰 FT: Ukraine’s allies prepare pledges of more ammunition and air defences
— "Western capitals will lay out additional pledges of ammunition and air defence equipment for Ukraine at a meeting on Tuesday to bolster Kyiv’s forces, officials told the Financial Times, in a gathering of allies that coincides with a planned large-scale offensive by Moscow.

The fresh promises of military support come as Kyiv and Nato warn of ammunition shortages confronting Ukraine’s military in the face of Russia’s full-scale invasion, and as western capitals grow concerned at the effect of strained defence supply chains and dwindling domestic stockpiles.

These immediate needs trumped longer-term requests for materiel such as fighter jets or quicker shipments of western battle tanks, officials said, given Russia’s new offensive, which Nato said on Monday had already begun."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Footage published by Russian channels show T-90M of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation targetting the fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Svatovo-Kremennaya sector of the frontline with the fire of a 125-mm tank gun and a 12.7-mm "Kord" machine gun