Global emergency oil release follows attacks on ships in Strait of Hormuz

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March 11, 2026

Mar 11(Jowhar)-Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Mudane Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud iyo wafdi uu hoggaaminayo ayaa gaaray magaalada Jabuuti ee Caasimadda dalka aan walaalaha nahay ee Jamhuuriyadda Jabuuti, halkaasi oo si diiran loogu soo dhoweeyay.

Israel oo saldhig ay ka weerarto Xuutiyiinta ka dhisaneyso Somaliland

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March 11, 2026

Mar 11(Jowhar)-Wargeyska Bloomberg ayaa qoray warbixin qotodheer oo uu ku sheegayo in Israaiil ay qorsheynayso iney saldhig milatari ka sameysato afka Badda Cas, gaar ahaan goob istiraatiiji ah oo 100 kilometer galbeedka kaga beegan magaalada Berbera.

Ukraine eager to share Iranian drone know-how with the United States

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March 11, 2026

Ukraine keen to share Iranian drone expertise with US — Ukrainian ambassador to the United States Olha Stefanishyna spoke at the Ukrainian embassy in Washington DC about her country's drone technology

When the Sky Feels Like a Threat: Ukraine’s Quiet Lecture in Drone Defence

It started as a night at the embassy — soft lighting, the buzz of conversations, the clink of coffee cups — and then the talk turned, inevitably, to explosives in the sky. In the atrium of Ukraine’s mission in Washington, D.C., diplomats and defence entrepreneurs were less intent on condolence than on action. They spoke like people who have learned their lessons the hard way and are ready to hand those lessons to anyone who will listen.

“We don’t want to offer just sympathy,” Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, told reporters. “We want to offer immediate help that secures cities and saves lives.”

Her words landed against a sharply practical backdrop: Ukrainian specialists, equipment and strategy are already being dispatched to the Middle East this week, at the request of nations scrambling to defend themselves from waves of Iranian-launched drones in the aftermath of Operation Epic Fury.

From Kyiv’s Battlefields to New Frontiers

It is a strange sort of export — expertise forged in conflict, traded not in barrels of oil but in algorithms, tactics and counter-drone choreography. President Volodymyr Zelensky said 11 countries have asked Ukraine for help dealing with Iranian drones that Tehran has fired in retaliation to US-Israeli strikes. The teams leaving Ukraine are not mercenaries but engineers, coders and air-defence technicians whose curriculum vitae reads like a who’s who of modern, improvised warfare.

“We learned early on what it means to face swarms,” one Ukrainian engineer, who asked to be called Maksym, told me in a phone interview. “In our workshops in Lviv and Kharkiv we turned cheap parts and old sensors into something that can see a hundred micro-drones at once. Now we package that know-how and bring it to cities that are used to a different kind of threat.”

Numbers That Shape Strategy

Numbers sharpen the contours of this exchange. Iranian forces have launched more than 1,500 drones since the operation began, an onslaught that — though many were intercepted — still resulted in tragedy: six US service members were killed in a strike in Kuwait on 1 March. Meanwhile, Ukrainian operators tell a darker, longer story: according to Iryna Zabolotna, representing Brave 1, a Ukrainian government platform that rallies defence innovators, Ukraine intercepted more than 15,000 drones in February alone.

“That is not a typo,” Zabolotna said on Irish television. “We don’t use missiles for this job because it’s financially unsustainable. Our interceptors cost roughly $5,000 to $15,000 each — far cheaper than launching multimillion-dollar Patriot missiles every time.”

What that price tag really means

Consider this: a single US-made Patriot interceptor can run into the millions. When a nation is under a barrage of small, low-cost aerial systems, using high-end interceptors is like bringing a sledgehammer to a watchmaker’s task. Ukraine’s pitch is practical and global: deploy the right tools for the job, and teach others how to use them.

People, Not Just Platforms

Behind the figures are people learning to react under pressure. In a briefing room crowded with representatives from 17 Ukrainian defence companies — part of a roadshow bringing know-how to Washington — conversations moved from patent details to human moments. Engineers described blackout drills that look like rehearsed dances: when the warning tone starts, a dozen eyes flick to screens and hands fly to steering wheels. They made me picture municipal workers in faraway towns learning to do the same in the space of days.

“We taught them to see the sky differently,” said Lara Ivanova, a systems integrator who was showing a municipal official how to fuse radar, cameras and radio-frequency detection. “This is not remote warfare. This is about someone’s grandmother, someone’s school. We think in terms of civilians first.”

How Do You Build an Answer to an Answer?

There is an irony to the global spread of Iranian drone tactics: the same systems Kyiv faced when Russia was an early adopter of Iranian loitering munitions are now being used in other conflicts. “These Shahed drones were developed and shipped to the Russian Federation deliberately to attack and target cities to kill civilians,” Stefanishyna reminded the room, noting the technological lineage that has made this crisis transnational.

So nations are asking: when a state begins to export lethal drone capabilities, what is the global responsibility? Is it enough to intercept? Or must there be diplomacy and regulation to starve these systems of supply and legitimacy?

Voices from the Ground and the Beltway

In Washington, officials are listening — and worrying. Pentagon briefings have reportedly warned lawmakers that waves of Iranian-launched drones are sometimes punching through layered defences. “We are seeing saturation tactics designed to overwhelm conventional systems,” a defence analyst said on background. “The challenge is not just the hardware, it’s the doctrine.”

President Donald Trump, in public remarks, claimed Iranian drones are being “blown up all over the place,” even at manufacturing sites. Whether those strikes are surgical or not, the broader reality remains: when drone fleets proliferate, they change the economics and ethics of targeting.

Local Color: The Embassies, The Workshops, The Coffees

If you want to see the human dimension, wander into one of the back rooms at the Ukrainian embassy’s event or a workshop in Kyiv. You’ll find whiteboards scrawled with radar arcs, schematics pinned beside photos of towns, and a jar of sunflower oil on the counter — an oddly comforting nod to home. Engineers bring pastries. Diplomats trade phone numbers. There are jokes about bureaucracy, yes, but also a seriousness that fills the air: this is not charity; it is practical solidarity.

Why This Matters to You

Ask yourself: would you rather your city spend millions on high-end interceptors or learn to stop a drone wave for a fraction of the cost? The choice is not just financial. It speaks to how the world distributes risk and resilience. When one country refines an approach to a problem others will surely face, sharing that approach can be an act of global public health — adapted to the age of swarm tactics.

Ukraine’s offer to export defence experience is an invitation to think differently about alliance and learning: not only asking for hardware, but delivering human expertise that multiplies the value of every system on a city’s rooftop.

Looking Ahead

There are no easy answers. The skies over conflict zones are changing rapidly, and so too must policy: export controls, sensor networks, municipal preparedness and international norms about the use of unmanned systems. The next phase will test whether the international community can turn tactical know-how into strategic change.

As the Ukrainian teams board flights and rollcases stuffed with laptops and antennas are wheeled into terminals, the image that lingers is a quiet one: technicians teaching city officials to watch the sky, municipal workers learning to act fast, and diplomats negotiating something more durable than a one-off military sale — a curriculum in survival crafted in the crucible of war.

What will the world do with that curriculum? That is the question now — and it may determine not only how cities defend themselves in the months ahead, but what kind of global order we choose to build in the age of drones.

Ciidamada dowlada oo la wareegay degmada Xawaadley

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March 11, 2026

Mar 11(Jowhar)-Ciidanka Xoogga Dalka Soomaaliyeed ayaa la wareegtay degmada Xawaadley ee gobolka Shabeellaha Dhexe,halkaa oo ay kooxda Alshabaab ay maamulayeen bilihii la soo dhaafay.

Global February ranked fifth-warmest on record, EU monitor reports

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March 11, 2026

World sees fifth hottest February on record - EU Monitor — The climate monitor said global temperatures last month were 1.49C above pre-industrial times

When February felt like July: a month of contrasts that left Europe soaked and the globe watching

Last month read like a weather diary written in extremes.

Across the globe, February 2026 ranked among the hottest on record — the fifth warmest for that month — with an average temperature about 1.49°C above the 1850–1900 pre-industrial baseline. But step onto the streets of Madrid or Lisbon and you felt something different: a raw, wet winter. Step further north into parts of Scandinavia and you encountered lingering cold. The result was a patchwork of climate realities stitched together by the shifting circulation of our planet’s atmosphere.

Rain, rivers and ruined roads: western Europe pays the price

In towns along Portugal’s central spine, cars floated like toys down streets lined with orange trees. In Andalusian hills, olive groves sogged in muddy water that would normally sit under cold winter skies. Across Spain, Morocco and parts of Ireland, torrential downpours triggered floods that killed dozens and displaced thousands, according to an analysis by the World Weather Attribution network.

“We woke to the sound of the river inside the house,” said Ana Pereira, a schoolteacher in a riverside village outside Coimbra. “My neighbor’s grandmother called for help with her dog. We carried mattresses into the church and watched the water climb the tiled walls—azulejos and all. It felt like the sea had decided to come for a walk inland.”

Those stories are not isolated. Emergency services worked around the clock moving people out of low-lying towns, and local farmers surveyed fields buried under silt. Roads washed away. Basements turned into aquariums. One coastal market in southern Portugal reported losing nearly an entire week’s catch after sea swell and river overflow converged.

Why this February was different

Scientists point to a trio of forces that combined to make the rains so damaging.

Warmer seas: Ocean surface temperatures for February were the second-highest on record — and warm waters feed moisture into the atmosphere.
More moisture in the air: A warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor. For every degree Celsius of warming, air can hold about 7% more moisture — a simple physics rule with profound consequences.
Atmospheric rivers: Narrow, powerful corridors of humid air streamed from the Atlantic and dumped exceptional amounts of precipitation where they met continental landmasses.

“When you stack warm seas on a moister atmosphere and then aim a string of atmospheric rivers at coastal regions, the system simply releases far more rain than usual,” explained a European climate researcher who asked not to be named. “That’s how you end up with seven or eight major storms back-to-back, and ground so saturated it can’t absorb a single drop.”

Contrasts across the map: heat in one place, cold in another

Globally, large swathes warmed: parts of the United States, northeast Canada, the Middle East, Central Asia and the eastern reaches of Antarctica all recorded above-average temperatures. Sea ice in the Arctic meanwhile sat at one of its smallest extents for February — roughly 5% below the long-term average — a reminder that the polar regions are not immune to the planetary shifts underway.

Yet Europe itself presented a mixed picture. On average the continent’s temperature anomaly for February was near the cooler end of the last decade and a half, with many countries — notably northwestern Russia, the Baltic states and Finland — feeling colder than usual. Meanwhile, the west, south and southeast of Europe were noticeably warmer than the long-term baseline.

Think of it as the atmosphere rearranging the chessboard. Some squares end up scorched; others iced.

Voices from the ground: sorrow, resilience, and questions

In a café in Cork, an elderly woman named Maeve O’Leary stirred her tea and watched the rain drum against the window. “We never saw so much so fast. We’re used to a wet winter, sure — but this was relentless. The fields are waterlogged; the hedges are knocked flat. My grandson’s school closed three times in a week.”

Across the Strait of Gibraltar in Tangier, a vegetable seller spoke of lost earnings. “We had boxes of tomatoes that float now,” said Hassan, wiping mud from his hands. “Customers came but the bridges were cut. We did what we could. We helped each other. That’s how it is here.”

Local authorities, relief volunteers and municipal workers have been praised for rapid responses — sandbagging neighborhoods, opening emergency shelters, and delivering supplies — but the scale of the damage has raised hard questions about infrastructure and preparedness.

“This is a stress test for our drainage systems, for our urban planning,” said a municipal engineer in Lisbon. “We built for storms of the past, not for the storms we are increasingly seeing. It’s time to invest in nature-based solutions — floodplains, permeable pavements, restored wetlands — alongside concrete defenses.”

Not just weather: a reflection of a warming world

Every such event invites the same uncomfortable question: how much of this is human-driven climate change?

Attribution science has become more precise. Studies conducted by independent teams, such as those in the World Weather Attribution consortium, indicate that human-induced warming made these extreme downpours both more likely and more intense. In plain terms: we have not invented the storm, but we have turned the dial that determines how fierce it becomes.

And the consequences are cascading. Saturated soils mean higher runoff, which amplifies flooding and erosion. Damaged harvests mean economic stress for farmers and higher food prices for consumers. Displaced communities place pressure on social services. Cities built without sufficient green space or drainage find themselves unexpectedly vulnerable.

What now? Risk, response and responsibility

This is where policy, planning and personal choices collide. Nations can reduce future risk by cutting greenhouse gas emissions — targeting the root cause. They can also strengthen local resilience: restoring rivers to their natural courses, building flood-resilient homes, and mapping evacuation routes.

“We need both mitigation and adaptation,” an adaptation specialist at a European research institute said. “We must hold warming as low as possible, but also accept that some change is locked in and prepare accordingly.”

And citizens? What role do we play?

We can pressure policymakers to act, support community resilience projects, and reconsider where and how we build. We can support those who bear the brunt of these events — donate to local relief funds, volunteer time, or simply check on neighbors after a storm.

Questions to sit with

When you next see a deep storm barrelling across the weather map, will you see only inconvenience — or a message? What does it mean for a coastal town to lose its harvest one year and its homes the next? How do we extend solidarity to places that are hit first and hardest?

These are not rhetorical warming exercises. They are urgent invitations to reimagine infrastructure, economies and community life in a world where weather is no longer reliably seasonal, where warmth and deluge can coexist in the same month.

February 2026 was a lesson. It was a ledger of losses, yes, but also a ledger of choices we still can make. Will we act in time to change the balance of the next month’s account?

Malaayiin Isra’iliyiin ah oo xalay hurdo la’aan ku noqday duqeymaha Iran

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March 11, 2026

Mar 11(Jowhar)-Malaayiin Israa’iiliyiin ah ayaa habeen hurdo la’aan ku qaatay iyagoo u cararaya goobaha gabaadka, mararka qaarna aan helin waqti ku filan oo ay guryahooda uga gaaraan sida uu ku waramaya telefashinka Al Jazeera.

Drone strike in Kharkiv kills two; Ukraine’s missile plant struck

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March 11, 2026

Kharkiv drone strike kills two, Ukraine hit missile plant — Consequences of the destruction caused by airstrikes in a residential area of ââthe city center of Sloviansk, Ukraine yesterday

Nightfall and Fallout: Two Cities, One Conflict, and the New Geography of War

On a chilly evening that felt stubbornly ordinary until the sky lit up, the rhythm of life in eastern Ukraine and Russia’s borderlands was interrupted by explosions that will linger in memory long after the smoke clears.

In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, municipal authorities reported that a Russian drone struck a civilian business, killing two people and wounding five others, all of whom were described as seriously injured. “Unfortunately, there is preliminary information about two people killed,” Mayor Ihor Terekhov wrote on Telegram, his words the thin scaffolding of fact on which stunned residents tried to lean.

Thirty kilometres from the Russian frontier, Kharkiv has become the familiar — too familiar — recipient of strikes since the full-scale invasion in February 2022. It was a city that repelled early advances, then learned to live with the sound of distant and not-so-distant booms. “You never really get used to it,” said Olena, who runs a small bakery two blocks from the blast site. “You go to bed with the windows shut. You wake up and count that everyone is still here.”

Scenes from Kharkiv

The scene after the strike was bitterly familiar: emergency crews in bright gear moving through the smoke, a small fire at the business brought under control, and neighbours gathering in the street, their faces a mixture of shock and weary defiance. Kharkiv Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said the wounded were receiving “necessary assistance” as hospitals braced for casualties.

Local color remains stubbornly human amid the statistics. A stray cat nosed the ash outside a shopfront. A teenager offered his coat to an older woman whose hands trembled. These small gestures are the quiet, stubborn scaffolding of community life under fire.

Across the Border: Explosions in Bryansk

Hours earlier, Ukraine’s forces announced they had struck a plant in Russia’s Bryansk region that they said produced critical components for missiles. President Volodymyr Zelensky declared in his nightly address that British-made Storm Shadow missiles had been used against the Kremniy El factory. The Ukrainian military posted aerial footage — flames, plumes of black smoke, and multiple explosions dotting a wooded area.

The governor of Bryansk, Alexander Bogomaz, posted a markedly different bulletin: he called it a “terrorist missile attack,” said six civilians were killed and 37 were injured, and showed footage of emergency responders at the scene. Notably, he did not acknowledge the plant itself in his initial statement.

Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, accused Kyiv of a deliberate strike on civilians and challenged the United Nations to investigate. “The Kiev regime deliberately struck at the civilian population,” she wrote on Telegram. The UN is not only watching but, as Secretary-General António Guterres has repeatedly urged, calling for an immediate ceasefire as the first step toward a just peace.

Collateral Realities

Ukraine’s general staff called the plant “a critically important link in the chain of production of Russian high precision weapons,” claiming the target made semiconductors and microchips used in missiles. Satellite imagery and independent verification tied the video to the area around Kremniy El, Reuters reported, lending an additional layer to an already tense narrative.

For people on both sides of the border, the line between military target and civilian harm has become a hauntingly thin one. “We live 15 kilometres from that factory,” said Pavel, a resident of a village near Bryansk, his voice tight. “We hear the alarms and we run. We are not soldiers. We are not factories. We are trying to get through the day.”

Drone Diplomacy: Ukraine in the Gulf?

Layered on top of these strikes is a diplomatic pivot: President Zelensky announced that Ukrainian teams are en route to the Gulf to help protect lives using Ukraine’s experience with drone warfare. “Our team is now on its way to the Gulf region, where they can help protect lives and stabilize the situation,” he said on social media, adding that 11 countries had previously requested help countering Iranian drones.

Zelensky argues that Ukraine has unique operational expertise in both deploying drones and defending against them. “This is the right way forward: to partner with us in the production and use of drones,” he said, urging partners to coordinate air-defence measures while continuing to support Ukraine’s own defenses.

It is a striking development: a country still at war offering its battlefield know-how to others. Does this underline a new, transactional reality of conflict, where tactics and technologies are exported as both weapons and lifelines?

What Experts Say

“What we are seeing is an acceleration of conflict diffusion,” said Marta, a Kyiv-based security analyst. “Drone technology levels the playing field in some ways. It also creates new vulnerabilities. States with battlefield experience now find themselves consulted as technical partners.”

Storm Shadow missiles: used by Ukrainian forces in the reported strike (as claimed by Kyiv)
Casualties reported: 2 dead, 5 injured in Kharkiv; 6 dead, 37 injured in Bryansk (local official reports)
Distance: Kharkiv sits roughly 30 km from the Russian border
Diplomatic reach: Zelensky said 11 countries requested Ukrainian assistance against Iranian drones

Why This Matters Globally

There is a disquieting arithmetic to these events. Precision weapons, long-range drones, multinational supply lines, and the export of battlefield techniques create a new ecology of war — one that shades into neighboring regions, complicates neutral zones, and raises questions about accountability and proportionality.

For civilians living under the shadow of nights like these, the math is painfully concrete: how many hospitals can withstand another influx of trauma cases? How many schools will be shuttered because parents fear the journey? How long before the ordinary fabric of life unravels further?

And for the international community, is the right response to double down on sanctions and condemnation, to expand air-defence networks, or to pursue a renewed push for diplomacy? António Guterres’ call for a ceasefire — made poignant by the fourth anniversary of the 2022 invasion — remains both urgent and elusive.

On the Ground, Facing Tomorrow

When asked what she wanted people far away to know, Olena, the baker in Kharkiv, looked at the loaf cooling in her window and said simply: “We are still here. We bake bread. We love our city. We want to remember lives, not just losses.”

That desire — to be seen as a place of lives, not merely as coordinates in a geopolitical ledger — is a thread that runs through both Kharkiv and Bryansk tonight. It is a plea that policymakers often miss when debates turn on missiles and munitions: the human geometry of conflict.

What do you see when you hear of another overnight strike — another headline, another tally? A distant problem or the symptom of a global age in which local scars accumulate into international fractures? The answers we choose will shape what happens next, on streets like those in Kharkiv and in the shadowed plant yards of Bryansk.

For now, people sweep glass from doorways, mend a roof, hold a hand. And the world watches, argues, and contemplates its next move.

Kuuriyada Waqooyi oo taageero xooggan u muujisay Iran

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March 11, 2026

Mar 11(Jowhar)-Wasaaradda Arrimaha Dibadda ee Kuuriyada Waqooyi ayaa si kulul u cambaareysay hawlgallada militari ee ay Maraykanka iyo Israa’iil ka fuliyeen gudaha Iran. Wasaaraddu waxay sheegtay in weerarradaasi ay yihiin “dagaal gardarro ah oo aan la aqbali karin”, isla markaana ay ka tarjumayaan waxa ay ku tilmaantay siyaasad awood sheegasho ah oo Washington ay ku dhaqmeyso.

Bus blaze in Switzerland kills at least six, police confirm

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