3 Years Ago It Was a Casting Agency. Now It Has $1 Billion in Drone Contracts.
Among the flood of Ukrainian defense start-ups, one stands out to both its supporters and its critics: the drone maker Fire Point.
Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine
If Silicon Valley start-ups began in garages, the origin story of Ukraine’s defense start-ups lies in basements. There, many workshops cobbled together drones from off-the-shelf parts, going underground to avoid Russian missiles.
These once small-scale, volunteer-run outfits are now transforming into defense corporations, in a process encouraged by the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky to scale up innovations. Among the companies, one stands out to both its supporters and its critics for the speed and scale of its rise: an emerging drone-manufacturing giant called Fire Point.
A remote spy base and a ‘criminal’ blockade raise questions about Australia’s complicity in Gaza war
Sun 26 Oct 2025 14.00 GMT
A protest over Pine Gap’s claimed role in genocide has refocused attention on the secretive US satellite base near Alice Springs
Straight and bare, Hatt Road runs south-west from Mparntwe-Alice Springs before it suddenly swings north through a narrow gap in the MacDonnell Ranges.
It is what lies beyond that draws protesters here time and time again.
Hatt Road – unremarkable save for the fierce signs insisting “No Photography From This Point On” and demanding drivers “Turn Around Now” – is the main road into Pine Gap, the highly secretive joint Australian–United States satellite communications and signals intelligence surveillance base.
Roots in the PastThe Rising Power of Right-Wing Fraternities in Austria
FPÖ politician Walter Rosenkranz occupies Austria's second-highest political office despite his membership in a German-nationalist fraternity. Such organizations have recently been gaining in power in Austria. And Germany as well.
By Lucia Heisterkamp und Antonia Raut
For a brief moment, the Austrian National Council president seems slightly troubled by the sight of demonstrators in front of the monument. It is November 8, 2024, in Vienna and Walter Rosenkranz has arrived at a memorial for Jewish victims of the Shoah to lay a wreath. But a group of people, arms linked, has assembled in front of the concrete structure to block his path. One of them is Bini Guttmann, a grandson of Holocaust survivors. "We don’t want you to spit in the face of our ancestors,” he calls out to Rosenkranz.
Kurdish PKK says it is withdrawing all forces from Turkey to northern Iraq
The militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said on Sunday it was withdrawing all its forces from Turkey to northern Iraq and urged Ankara to take the necessary legal steps to protect the peace process. Its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan in May for the group to disarm after decades of violence that killed some 50,000 people.
The Kurdish militant PKK said Sunday it was withdrawing all its forces from Turkey to northern Iraq, urging Ankara to take legal steps to protect the peace process.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) formally renounced its armed struggle against Turkey in May, drawing a line under four decades of violence that has claimed some 50,000 lives.
Sudan's RSF says it seized control of Darfur's el-Fasher
Kalika Mehta | Louis Oelofse Reuters, AFP
Paramilitary fighters from the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan say they captured the army headquarters in el-Fasher The RSF had besieged the city, capital of North Darfur state, for the past 18 months.
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, say they've taken control of the army's headquarters in el-Fasher, the last major city in the Darfur region not previously under their control.
In a statement, the RSF claimed it had "extended control over the city of el-Fasher from the grip of mercenaries and militias," referring to the Sudanese army.
Fears Gaza ‘temporary’ ceasefire line could become permanent new border
Yellow markers installed by IDF entrench divide that cuts strip in two, as hopes of moving to next phase of truce fade
Sun 26 Oct 2025 11.55 GMT
Asupposedly temporary yellow line marking Gaza’s ceasefire is taking an increasingly physical form as the precarious truce shows signs of stalling, with potentially dramatic consequences for Palestine’s future.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops have started installing yellow concrete markers every 200 metres to delineate the area remaining under Israeli control during the first phase of the ceasefire.
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