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Jalel Harchaoui, associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and a specialist on Libya, said the periodic roundup and expulsion of foreign workers was, “something of a tradition in southern Libya since even during the time of Gadafi”, but that this incident was notable and different because of the large number of people expelled in one go.

Ukraine makes a surge in the Kursk region closing down on Russian troops, says RUSI’s Matthew Savill: “They used troops mechanised and electronic warfare to create windows where Russian observation was obscured or denied. The Ukrainians were able to coordinate how they advanced.”

Trump’s comments will be “music to many ears in Moscow and Beijing,” according to Professor Michael Clarke, former director-general of the Royal United Services Institute in London. “Another drift back into an imperialist world where the big powers think they have a natural right to take whatever they want,” he wrote on X.