Dutch drone-detection firm Robin Radar is rapidly expanding as demand for counter-drone systems surges.

The company is investing €7 million in a new Delft factory and plans to triple manufacturing capacity.

Around 300 of its 800 radars are deployed in Ukraine, with others sent to the Middle East, the U.S. and major events including the Paris Olympics.

Source: Bloomberg

North Rhine-Westphalia Premier Hendrik Wüst is on a three-day visit to Türkiye and will meet President Erdogan in Ankara. The meeting was added to his schedule at short notice and is unusual because heads of state do not normally meet German state premiers.

Wüst has called for modernization of the EU–Türkiye customs union, saying reform is overdue and could offer major economic opportunities.

Wüst, a senior CDU politician, is being discussed in Germany as a possible successor to Chancellor Friedrich Merz amid tensions within the party.

Source: WELT

New photos emerged of Türkiye's HAVA SOJ stand-off jammer — a Bombardier Global 6000 converted by TUSAŞ with ASELSAN electronic warfare systems.

Still in factory primer, showing ventral jamming fairing, dorsal SATCOM dome, and Growler-style wingtip receiver pods.

Designed to jam enemy radars and comms from beyond 500 km.

Four aircraft planned for the Turkish Air Force.

Intended to work alongside KORAL ground jammers, AEW&C aircraft, and strike packages including future KAAN fighters.

Comparable to the US EA-37B Compass Call and Australia's MC-55A Peregrine.

South Korea’s military said North Korean land mines likely caused a DMZ explosion that injured three South Korean soldiers, two severely.

The military said it would hold North Korea responsible and take “appropriate and corresponding measures” if the investigation confirms the finding.

Source: Yonhap

NEW: Houthi-linked source threatens to target bridges in Saudi Arabia, including Riyadh, telling Lebanon's Al-Akhbar it would be a "legitimate response" to Saudi airstrikes on Yemeni bridges.

Targeting Riyadh's urban overpasses would mark a shift from energy/military sites toward civilian mobility infrastructure in the capital.

NEW: Netanyahu denies reports of Egyptian pre-October 7 warning:

"In the months before October 7, PM Netanyahu did not meet or speak with Abbas Kamel, then head of Egyptian intelligence, and no Israeli intelligence body conveyed an Egyptian warning to the PM."

He ordered a libel suit filed on this matter too, adding he "never meets foreign intelligence chiefs without Israeli counterparts present."

He called the reports a "despicable lying campaign" by left-wing media aimed at shifting Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar's failures onto him, backed by "hostile foreign actors including Arab states" trying to topple his government.

South Korea's defense agency approached Türkiye's TEI about buying PD170 drone engines after repeated failures of domestic military drones.

At a September 16 defense drone expo, a KAI jet-powered UAV crashed immediately after takeoff.

In August, two kamikaze drones launched from the navy's Marado ship both plunged into the sea within seconds.

Meanwhile, the PD170 powers Türkiye's combat-proven Bayraktar TB2/TB3 and Anka/Aksungur drones, with Aksungur logging 45 hours endurance and 42,000 ft altitude.

South Korea's defense exports are booming (Chunmoo rockets, K2 tanks, Cheongung-II missiles) but the drone sector lags significantly behind.

Source: Yonhap

Hendrik Wüst, 51, CDU premier of Germany's most populous state (NRW, 18 million people) and widely watched as a potential successor to Chancellor Merz.

Ran NRW since 2021 in a CDU-Greens coalition.

He told ZDF he wants to stay as Minister-President — "trust is rebuilt by governing, not personnel debates."

But hasn't issued a hard "never Berlin" pledge.

Next NRW election April 2027. CDU polling down from 2022 but still first.

This week he visited Türkiye for the 65th anniversary of the German-Turkish labor agreement.

Has called the AfD "the main opponent of democracy" and is open to examining a party ban.

Background: Münsterland lawyer, CDU member since age 17, youngest CDU state MP when elected in 2005, former transport minister under Laschet.

📸 Turkish President Erdogan received North Rhine-Westphalia Minister-President Hendrik Wüst at the Presidential Complex in Ankara.

The Trump administration moved quickly to open Venezuela’s gold industry to U.S.-linked companies after Maduro was removed from power, arguing that the deals would redirect gold away from criminals and U.S. adversaries.

But a New York Times investigation found that hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Venezuelan gold is now sitting in U.S. warehouses because refiners are unwilling to certify that it is free from criminal financing, corruption and environmental abuses.

The Times found that some gold entering the supply chain was linked to miners who pay protection money to the Tren de Guayana gang. Another U.S.-backed investor, Heeney Capital, has taken over operations at the El Chocó mine, where contractors have also reportedly paid gang protection money.

Source: NYT

OpenAI agents accessed a UN Trade and Development website more than 16,000 times between April and June, according to an independent research report.

The agents were reportedly trying to retrieve public information but used aggressive methods when blocked, including bypassing a website filter and other restrictions.

OpenAI said it is reviewing the findings, contacted the UN and acknowledged other cases where its agents bypassed security controls or disrupted websites.

Source: WSJ

Erdoğan Receives Wüst on First Türkiye Visit by a German State Premier

A last-minute presidential reception gave Hendrik Wüst’s three-day Türkiye visit added political weight as the NRW premier presses for customs union reform and easier business visas.

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Trump Asked Xi About Buying American Arms, US Ambassador Says

Ambassador David Perdue says Trump asked Xi Jinping about buying American weapons. Washington denies any offer or plan, while a $14 billion arms package for Taiwan remains on hold.

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BIG: Five men arrested near RAF Fairford are being released on police bail after “extensive interviews,” Counter Terrorism Policing said.

All five are British nationals from London.

German Critics Claim Lavrov Ridiculed Germany’s Foreign Minister

CDU lawmaker Kiesewetter and adviser Nico Lange accused Moscow of using talks with Johann Wadephul to belittle Berlin, as the foreign minister defended the exchange.

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Egypt, UAE, and the Repeated Warnings Netanyahu Ignored Ahead of Oct. 7

The UAE warned Benjamin Netanyahu about a major operation prior to October 7. Egypt repeatedly issued warnings of an attack. Netanyahu did not even brief Israel's security chiefs.

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WATCH: People escape burning Kyiv science academy through windows after it is hit by a Russian jet-powered drone

Andrew Bailey, one of the FBI’s two deputy directors, is leaving after just over a year, officially for family reasons.

His departure follows reported tensions with FBI Director Kash Patel. People familiar with the bureau told The New York Times that the two often went long periods without speaking, and Patel had increasingly sidelined Bailey.

Bailey joined the FBI in August 2025 as co-deputy director under an unusual leadership structure introduced by the Trump administration. He previously served as Missouri attorney general.

Source: NYT

A Russian Geran-5 jet-powered drone reportedly struck near Ukraine’s Yahodyn border crossing with Poland.

Ukraine’s Border Guard Service said the checkpoint itself was not hit.

Former German Economy Minister Robert Habeck:

There is the conduct and the war crimes that Israel has committed in Gaza. And we have a really major societal task: that both things can and must be said in the same sentence.

We have an obligation toward Israel. Questioning the existence of the State of Israel violates every moral principle on which this country rests.

Nevertheless, legitimate criticism of the Israeli government must be possible.