Hezbollah adopts a new weapon: Fiber-optic drones, used widely in the war in Ukraine – NBC News

  1. Hezbollah adopts a new weapon: Fiber-optic drones, used widely in the war in Ukraine  NBC News
  2. Hezbollah Using Fiber-Optic Drones Against Israeli Targets  The New York Times
  3. Sgt. Liem Ben Hamo, 19, killed by Hezbollah drone in south Lebanon  The Times of Israel
  4. How Hezbollah’s fibre optic drones test Israel’s sophisticated radar system  Al Jazeera
  5. Israel Now Using Netting To Protect Combat Vehicles Against Scourge Of Hezbollah Drones  The War Zone
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Trump again criticizes Germany’s Merz, tells him to stop interfering over Iran – Reuters

  1. Trump again criticizes Germany's Merz, tells him to stop interfering over Iran  Reuters
  2. Trump’s call to reduce US troops in Germany shocks Pentagon  Politico
  3. Trump threatens to pull some US troops from Germany, Italy and Spain amid spat over Iran war  CNN
  4. Trump news at a glance: president doubles down on rift with Germany’s chancellor  The Guardian
  5. Trump slams Germany’s Merz again as rift over Iran war widens  Al Jazeera
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Brazil’s congress approves bill reducing prison sentence of former president Jair Bolsonaro – The Guardian

  1. Brazil’s congress approves bill reducing prison sentence of former president Jair Bolsonaro  The Guardian
  2. Brazil Congress overturns Lula veto on bill cutting Bolsonaro coup sentence  Reuters
  3. Jair Bolsonaro’s prison time likely to be reduced as Brazilian lawmakers block Lula veto  Financial Times
  4. Brazil’s Congress overrides Lula’s veto of a bill to reduce Bolsonaro’s sentence  AP News
  5. Brazil Congress Shortens Bolsonaro Sentence in Defeat for Lula  Bloomberg
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Brazil’s congress approves bill reducing prison sentence of former president Jair Bolsonaro

President Lula’s veto of the bill was overturned by Brazil’s congress and senate, meaning it now awaits confirmation by supreme court

Brazil’s largely conservative congress has approved a bill reducing the prison sentence of the far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was convicted last year of attempting a coup.

The bill had initially been passed by congress in December, but President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vetoed it in January in a symbolic move marking three years since Bolsonaro supporters ransacked the capital, Brasília.

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