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Novorossiysk Drone Attack Halts Russian Oil Exports

November 14, 2025 6:53 am

Russia halted oil exports from its Black Sea port of Novorossiysk on Friday after what authorities described as a major Ukrainian drone attack, disrupting one of the country’s most important energy export routes, according to industry sources who spoke to Reuters.

The strike—one of the most significant on Russian oil-exporting infrastructure in recent months—comes amid Ukraine’s expanded campaign to degrade Moscow’s ability to finance its war by targeting refineries, ports, and pipeline systems.

Two industry sources said oil loadings at Novorossiysk were suspended after drones struck port facilities overnight. Russia’s pipeline operator Transneft also halted crude supplies to the port, …

Drone Strikes Plunge Sudan’s Capital Into Darkness

September 9, 2025 10:28 am

Drone strikes by Sudan’s powerful paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), struck critical infrastructure in and around Khartoum this week, triggering widespread blackouts across the capital and further straining a nation already battered by civil war.

Local media and witnesses said the attacks late Monday targeted both military and civilian sites, including the Wadi Seidna military zone, the Al-Markhiyat electricity substation in Omdurman, and areas surrounding the Al-Kalakla district, where a military factory is located. The town of Al-Jaili — home to Sudan’s largest oil refinery — was also hit.

Footage circulated on social media showed transformers at the …

Tension As Drone Attack On Russian Fleet Leaves Over 5 Dead

August 1, 2022 5:39 am

Tension is brewing currently after a drone attack on the Russian fleet in the Crimean port of Sebastopol on Sunday left no fewer than five people, the Russian-annexed city’s mayor Mikhail Razvozhayev disclosed.

‘This morning, Ukrainian nationalists decided to spoil the Day of the Russian Fleet’ being celebrated on Sunday, he said on Telegram, adding that five people, including employees of the army staff, had been wounded.

All festivities had been ‘cancelled for security reasons’, he said, asking residents of the city to remain indoors ‘if possible’.

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The Deadly U.S Drone That Killed Soleimani

January 7, 2020 12:48 pm

The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (sometimes called Predator B) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) primarily for the United States Air Force (USAF).

The MQ-9 and other UAVs are referred to as Remotely Piloted Vehicles/Aircraft (RPV/RPA) by the USAF to indicate their human ground controllers.

The MQ-9 is the first hunter-killer UAV designed for long-endurance, high-altitude surveillance.

In 2006, the then–Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force General T. Michael Moseley said: “We’ve moved from using UAVs primarily in intelligence, surveillance, and …

Drone Project Aims To Put Floating Lagos Slum On Map

November 29, 2019 4:40 pm

John Eromosele records the coordinates of a bustling canal on his smartphone from aboard a dug-out canoe navigating the floating slum of Makoko in Nigerian megacity Lagos.

The waterway is “like a boulevard, there’s always traffic here,” the computer coding specialist laughed as other boats jostled for space between rows of wooden houses on stilts.

Officially Makoko does not exist.

Its estimated 300,000 inhabitants — no one knows for sure how many — and their ramshackle homes do not appear on any city development plans or maps.

A South Africa-based NGO, Code for Africa, wants to change that.

It wants

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Israeli army intercepts unmanned drone in Gaza

July 8, 2019 10:24 am

Israeli army said on Monday that its troops intercepted a drone after it crossed the border from the Gaza Strip.

“Troops identified an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that crossed from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory,“ a military spokesperson said in a statement.

“In response, the troops downed the UAV and took it in for examination,’’ it added.

The unusual incident came amid tensions between Israel and Hamas movement which runs Gaza, the coastal enclave.

Israel and Hamas have reportedly reached initial understandings as part of Egypt’s efforts to broker a …