British tourists on the island on Kefalonia showed their gratitude and paid for water bottles for the firefighters battling the big blaze on the island in the Ionian Sea over the weekend. Local media kefaloniapress.gr reported about the spontaneous “Thank you!” incident that apparently occurred on Sunday, August 2. The post published today, Tuesday, August […]
Brussels (dpa) – The European Commission has opened a probe into the US tech company X over its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok after it created sexualised images of women and children.
“Non-consensual sexual deepfakes of women and children are a violent, unacceptable form of degradation,” EU Commission Vice-President Henna Virkkunen said on Monday.
The investigation is to probe whether X has complied with its obligations under European Union law, including the duty to “diligently assess and mitigate systemic risks,” the Commission, which acts as the EU’s digital watchdog, wrote in a statement.
“This includes risks related to the dissemination of illegal content in the EU, such as manipulated sexually explicit images, including content that may amount to child sexual abuse material,” it said. “These risks seem to have materialised, exposing citizens in the EU to serious harm.”
Elon Musk‘s social media platform has come under heavy criticism in recent weeks after Grok allowed users to digitally replace women’s clothing with bikinis and, in some cases, create sexualized depictions of minors.
After prolonged international outrage, X introduced some restrictions in mid-January.
These include preventing Grok “from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis” and restricting the image creation feature of the AI chatbot to paid subscribers, X said in a statement.
The Commission stressed that the opening of a probe does not prejudge its outcome. (26 January)
Dopo l’estensione del 2020, il golden power ha ridotto le operazioni di fusione e acquisizione nei settori più innovativi dell’economia italiana. L’effetto è stato particolarmente intenso nel primo biennio, per poi attenuarsi fino a scomparire.
Um escritor brilhante, um músico arrebatador e um político que marcou a história recente. O dia 4 de agosto une de forma curiosa Hans Christian Andersen, Louis Armstrong e Barack Obama. Hans Christian Andersen morreu neste dia, em 1875. Louis Armstrong (1901) e Barack Obama (1961) partilham o 4 de agosto como data de nascimento. […]
Hoje é dia de recordar Isabel Allende, uma das grandes escritoras sul-americanas, que nasceu a 2 de agosto de 1942. Mostrou-se ao mundo com ‘A Casa dos Espíritos’ e tornou-se numa referência da literatura chinela. Isabel Allende é uma reputada jornalista e escritora chilena, que nasceu a 2 de agosto de 1942. É filha de […]
A 1 de agosto de 2009 morre Corazón Aquino, uma lutadora pela liberdade nas Filipinas, que se tornou Presidente. Faltou o Prémio Nobel da Paz, para o qual foi nomeada, em 1986. María Corazón Cojuangco Aquino, também conhecida por Cory Aquino, foi presidente das Filipinas a partir de 25 de fevereiro de 1986, data que […]
di Cesare Sacchetti Epstein è un nome salito ai (dis) onori delle cronache solo nei tempi più recenti per via del famigerato Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein è stato molto di più di un uomo che ce l’ha fatta. La sua parabola è quella di un personaggio che è stato preparato meticolosamente, prim’ancora che il suo nome […]
di Cesare Sacchetti All’Addaura, uno splendido tratto di costa di Palermo, ci sono molti ricordi del passato, e soprattutto diversi misteri della repubblica di Cassibile. Era una calda giornata di giugno del 1989, quando il giudice Giovanni Falcone si preparava a ricevere due illustri ospiti quali i giudici svizzeri Carla Del Ponte e Claudio Lehmann, […]
di Cesare Sacchetti Il suo portamento era aristocratico, il suo sguardo sincero e la sua fede dotta e incrollabile. Il Santo Padre, Pio XII, al secolo Eugenio Pacelli, è stato senza dubbio uno dei pontefici più importanti e influenti non solo della storia del’900, ma di tutta l’epoca moderna sorta dopo l’avvento dell’infausta rivoluzione francese. […]
di Cesare Sacchetti Nel mezzo della seconda guerra mondiale, in Italia c’era una diffusa aria di malcontento, tristezza e sfiducia riguardo le sorti del conflitto. Tra i vertici politici e militari dell’epoca era già maturata la convinzione che l’Italia non sarebbe mai uscita vincitrice da quel conflitto. Troppo forti gli avversari, e soprattutto troppo ancora […]
di Cesare Sacchetti Ci sono alcune storie così incredibili che a volte si può pensare che si è usciti dal confine della storia per essere approdati in quello della finzione letteraria. Questa storia è certamente incredibile, ma non appartiene al campo dei romanzi o dei gialli che raccontano di intrighi politici internazionali e di trame […]
di Cesare Sacchetti A Roma, tra la fine degli anni’60 e i primi anni’70, si respirava ancora un’aria di “innocenza” nei giri della malavita locale. I fatti violenti nella città non erano ancora divenuti all’ordine del giorno, le armi c’erano, ma non nella quantità e nella disponibilità degli anni a venire. Il malavitoso romano era […]
A Festa da Ria Formosa – Seafood Festival está de volta a Faro para mais uma edição dedicada aos sabores da Ria Formosa, à música e à animação. Entre 30 de julho e 9 de agosto, o Largo de São Francisco transforma-se num ponto de encontro para celebrar a gastronomia algarvia, com entrada livre e um programa para toda a família.
A partir de 4 de agosto, a festa continua com uma programação musical diversificada:
4 de agosto – Chave d’Ouro
5 de agosto – Jorge Guerreiro
6 de agosto – Belito Campos
7 de agosto – Fernando Correia Marques
8 de agosto – The Suitcase Band
9 de agosto – ArtMusa
Durante estes dias, o público poderá ainda desfrutar de comida e bebida, num ambiente de convívio e celebração junto à Ria Formosa.
Local: Largo de São Francisco, Faro Datas: 4 a 9 de agosto de 2026 Entrada livre Horário: 18h00 às 01h00
Venha divertir-se e comer bem na Festa da Ria Formosa!
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The war in Iran began five months ago. Headline news about the conflict tends to focus on when and how it might end. In the meantime, the impacts of the conflict are felt worldwide—by drivers, farmers, business owners, and families. The Associated Press shares the stories of seven people suffering because of the war. Among them is Edgar Funelas, a jeepney driver in the Philippines who lives with his ten-year-old daughter:
He uses laundry soap—harsher, but cheaper—to wash his body and his clothes in the same motion, stretching what little money he has. Even before the war in Iran, he was living on the margins. A fire took their home and their belongings, forcing them to move into the brightly colored minibus he drove.
He’d hoped to be able to rent a room by now. Then diesel prices surged, and he could no longer afford the fuel to run his jeepney.
He hasn’t earned a single peso in days. There will be no breakfast. Hunger gnaws, but it’s the small rituals of privacy that he misses most: to be able to wash out of sight, to sleep behind walls, to keep his desperation from being laid bare.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) held a week-long counter-drone exercise to strengthen its capabilities against low-cost unmanned aerial systems.
The primary goal of the exercise, dubbed “Rotor Clap-III”, was reportedly to assess and refine operational principles to address emerging aerial threats from unmanned systems. The exercise concluded on August 2.
The Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) drill was held at the Pokhran Field Firing Range in the Thar Desert.
The site is best known as the location of India’s nuclear tests in 1974 and 1998, but its vast, sparsely populated expanse near the India-Pakistan border supports secure live-fire practice, helicopter operations, and high-intensity training while closely matching the terrain, climate, and conditions of the western theatre.
The drills were also aimed at improving the IAF’s helicopter fleet’s operational capabilities against threats posed by drones.
#IAF Helicopters undertook, Exercise ROTOR CLAP III themed "Counter-UAS" in Rajasthan.
Several IAF helicopter units participated in the exercise, conducting tactical missions such as coordinated actions against both aerial and ground-based threats, soldier insertion, reconnaissance, precision attacks, battlefield support, and casualty evacuation.
The drills evaluated integrated helicopter tactics, procedures, and coordination in simulated combat conditions.
Moreover, the aircrew and operational units had the opportunity to test and validate mission planning, inter-unit coordination, quick response, and cooperative operations in near-war scenarios throughout the exercise. According to reports, special emphasis was placed on ensuring smooth coordination among multiple helicopters in the desert terrain.
Notably, helicopters are increasingly being employed worldwide in counter-UAS roles, especially against slower, low-cost loitering munitions and reconnaissance drones. Russia and Ukraine, for example, routinely use military helicopters for this purpose, whereas Gulf countries have recently started deploying their own choppers to down Iranian drones.
File: IAF helicopters participated in ROTOR CLAP III themed “Counter-UAS” in Rajasthan
In general, helicopters make good counter-UAS platforms because many of them cruise at speeds similar to those of propeller-driven drones such as the Shahed class, enabling them to close the distance, match altitude, and make repeated engagement passes—advantages not available to fast jets, which are limited to a single high-speed pass.
Typically, helicopters can also operate from dispersed or improvised sites, fly low and slow, and loiter over threat areas. Equipped with thermal or electro-optical sensors and night-vision systems, they are effective at detecting and engaging low-flying drones after dark.
Once the helicopter matches the drone’s path, gunners or automated systems use proximity-fuzed rockets or brief bursts of cannon or machine-gun fire to neutralize a drone.
Therefore, these armed helicopters form one mobile layer alongside ground-based guns, electronic warfare, interceptor drones, and high-end surface-to-air missiles (SAM).
Using helicopters as counter-drone platforms is also cost-effective, given that machine guns, cannons, and rockets are far cheaper per engagement than surface-to-air missiles or fighter sorties. In fact, the US has now integrated its Apache helicopters with APWKS laser rockets to further reduce the cost of hunting drones.
The IAF operates a range of different military choppers—AH-64 Apache, the aging Mi-25 and Mi-35 attack helicopters, the LCH Prachand, Chinook Heavy-lift transport helicopter, the Mi-17 Medium utility helicopter, and the ALH Dhruv
Sources said the exercise reaffirmed the IAF’s commitment to high operational readiness and adaptation to new security challenges. It forms part of India’s broader push to strengthen counter-UAS capabilities at a time when inexpensive small drones, loitering munitions, and sophisticated unmanned systems have upended the cost calculus of conflict and changed the face of conventional warfare that India has participated in.
India’s Counter-Drone Effort Inspired By Op Sindoor
India’s heightened focus on counter-drone measures is driven by global trends, persistent cross-border drone activity, and, most significantly, experience gained during Operation Sindoor in May 2025, which it launched against Pakistan-based terror infrastructure.
Pakistan retaliated almost instantly and employed large numbers of drones as a core element of its response codenamed Operation Bunyan al-Marsus.
Indian official briefings stated that Pakistan launched swarms of drones in major coordinated waves. According to the Government of India’s official press briefing, Pakistan launched 400–500 drones in a coordinated reconnaissance and SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) operation. These were intended to clutter Indian radars, force air-defense systems to expend ammunition and attention, probe for gaps, and mask the presence of a smaller number of more capable surveillance or attack drones.
Pakistan has invested heavily in drone manufacture using indigenous capabilities acquired from allies like Turkey and China, as previously explained in detail by the EurAsian Times. During the conflict,it used Turkish Asisguard Songar, Turkish Yiha-III, Bayraktar TB2 drone, and Chinese drones like the CH-4 and Wing Loong II, to name a few.
India stated that the large majority of incoming drones were neutralized by a combination of kinetic systems (anti-aircraft guns, including the L-70, ZU-23, and Schilka, as well as surface-to-air missiles such as Akash), and non-kinetic measures (spoofing and jamming).
File Image: Akash Missiles
While India has significantly expanded its own inventory of drones, many of which were used successfully and decisively against Pakistani targets during the war, the intensity of drone use by the Pakistani military during the four-day intense conflict has accelerated Indian investment in counter-drone programs and tactics.
For example, counter-drone grids are being incorporated into Mission Sudarshan Chakra, a long-term, AI-enabled, multi-layered national air-defense shield announced last year.
In early July 2026, the Defense Acquisition Council granted Acceptance of Necessity for procurement proposals worth approximately ₹52,000 crore. These include the indigenous Akash Tarang anti-UAV electronic-warfare system for the Army, Very Short-Range Air Defense Systems (V-SHORADS) to bolster low-altitude defense against drones, and jet-powered kamikaze drones, underscoring the priority now attached to both unmanned systems and counter-UAS capabilities
A range of new counter-drone systems developed jointly by public- and private-sector entities are at various stages of testing.
Last year, for instance, India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) unveiled the D4 (Drone Detect, Deter, Destroy) anti-drone system, which is now being deployed along key border areas. This integrated counter-drone solution is designed to detect and neutralize rogue unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with precision.
Earlier this year, the Indian Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced the completion of development trials of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Launched Precision Guided Missile-V3 (ULPGM-V3) in air-to-ground and air-to-air modes. The ULPGM is designed for UAV integration to destroy soft and hard targets, on the ground and in the air.
Similarly, India-based Zen Technologies launched an enhanced variant of its counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) that is already in service with the Indian Armed Forces in May 2026. The new variant of the system reportedly has increased detection and jamming ranges and is integrated with AI for improved threat detection.
These are just a few examples of India’s counter-drone effort.
The armed forces are also conducting dedicated counter-drone exercises based on lessons from Operation Sindoor. In October 2025, for instance, India’s largest drone and counter-drone warfare drill, Exercise Cold Start, was conducted in Madhya Pradesh to evaluate the effectiveness of the existing air defense
Therefore, the recently concluded Rotor Clap-III, focused on the IAF’s helicopter fleet, is another step in preparing for operations on a battlefield increasingly dominated by drones.
Contact the author at sakshi.tiwari13 (at) outlook.com
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Todos os interessados que pretendam vacinar os seus cães, ou proceder à respetiva identificação eletrónica, poderão fazê-lo de acordo com a seguinte calendarização:
Quelfes – Junta de Freguesia – 11 junho 10:00 – Poço Longo – 25 de junho 10:00 – Restaurante Cavaleiro – 02 julho 10:00
Pechão – Parque Desportivo – 09 julho 10:00
Moncarapacho – Armazém da Junta de Freguesia – 23 julho 10:00
Fuseta – Junta de Freguesia – 06 agosto 10:00
Para além dos locais e datas indicados, a vacinação antirrábica podem ser efetuados no Consultório Municipal, às segundas, quartas e sextas feiras, das 11:00 às 12:30.
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