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February 25, 2026
Seven people are killed and ten others are injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on a fertilizer plant just outside of Dorogobuzh in Smolensk Oblast, Russia. The Cuban coast guard trades fire with an American marked speedboat registered in Florida 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) off of Cuba. According to Cuban government sources, the boat's occupants fired on coast guard personnel who approached it for identification, and injured a coast guard commander in the shootout, with returning fire killing four and injuring six unidentified gunmen.
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Seven people are killed and ten others are injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on a fertilizer plant just outside of Dorogobuzh in Smolensk Oblast, Russia.
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The Cuban coast guard trades fire with an American marked speedboat registered in Florida 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) off of Cuba. According to Cuban government sources, the boat's occupants fired on coast guard personnel who approached it for identification, and injured a coast guard commander in the shootout, with returning fire killing four and injuring six unidentified gunmen.
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Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) fighters allegedly attack Iranian security forces near Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's headquarters in Tehran. Both MEK and Iranian government sources claim dozens of MEK fighters were killed or arrested, though MEK additionally asserts that government forces also suffered "heavy losses" during the alleged clashes.
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