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The report, compiled by the U.N. monitoring team that tracks global jihadi threats, said that terror groups tend to prosper when other forces aren’t putting pressure on them. With U.S. pressure soon to be absent from Afghanistan, any mitigation of their threat could experience “further deterioration,” the report said. The U.N. said that parts of West and East Africa as especially susceptible to the growing presence of terror groups, “where affiliates of both groups can boast gains in supporters and territory under threat, as well as growing capabilities in fundraising and weapons, for example, in the use of drones....

As a result, we at Sportskeeda bring you the UFC news roundup – A weekly roundup of all the news from the world of UFC and the latest updates from the top MMA promotion in the world. Get your fix of UFC news from one place and one place only every week – here at Sportskeeda. This week has been exciting as far as news goes, with a video of Conor McGregor going on the attack surfacing, UFC 241 taking place, and more....

The fight card is stacked as the Heavyweights, Alistair Overeem and Jairzinho Rozenstruik, will be facing each other in the Octagon in the main event of the night. In the co-main event, Marino Rodriguez will be taking on Cynthia Calvillo. With several other fights to look forward to, let’s take a look at the UFC fight card, as well as where to see the event! UFC on ESPN 7: Location, Date and Start Time Location: Capital One Arena, Washington, D....

Headlined by lightweight savages Dustin Poirier and Justin Gaethje, this card was highly anticipated within the hardcore set. It featured an outstanding blend of established favorites and emerging talents mixing it up inside the cage. While events carrying that kind of anticipation can often fall flat, Saturday’s card in the desert certainly did not. POUND-FOR-POUND RANKINGS: Johnson still reigns supreme Here are five key takeaways and talking points from UFC on Fox: Poirier vs....

Heard that one before, have you? MORE: Season of supremacy | The 37 craziest things UK has done this season | Must-see Sweet 16 photos So along comes young Daxter Miles, a freshman guard for West Virginia who hands these fine people a fresh, tasty angle free of charge, like a New York strip on the house at Morton’s. He insisted the day before the Wildcats and Mountaineers met that at the conclusion of their game in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 that previously undefeated Kentucky would stand at 36-1....

The fine was handed out by the UK’s data watchdog which give Facebook the maximum possible fine set out in the 1998 Data Protection Act. For a company which posted a $13 billion profit last quarter, that’s a drop in the bucket and regulators have said that it would have been “significantly higher” under the EU’s GDPR regulations that arrived in May. Take a look at our guide on how to keep yourself safe online....

The wave of strikes is widely understood to be Russia’s retaliation for an explosion this past Saturday on the Kerch Strait Bridge, mainland Russia’s logistical link to occupied Crimea. The bridge bombing, which disrupted both civilian traffic and Russian military supply shipments to its forces in occupied Kherson and Zaporozhia regions, is widely understood to have been carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). The cosmetics warehouse which was struck this morning by a Russian rocket belonged to Lamel, a UK-based company founded by Ukrainian entrepreneur Natalia Iaromenko....

The U.K. Ministry of Defence [MOD] said part of the push by Ukraine’s forces in the country’s south has been an advance on a broad front located west of the Dnipro River, focusing on three axes within the Kherson region occupied by Russia. Kherson fell to Russian forces early in the war and has significant value for both sides due to its strategic location at the mouth of the Dnieper River’s exit into the Black Sea....

Russia had lost 530 tanks as of March 24, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including some that were captured by Ukrainian forces. The ministry also said that more than 15,800 Russian military personnel have been killed since the beginning of the conflict. Forbes, citing Oryx, a military website that monitors open-source information on social media to work out losses of military equipment during the war, on Friday said that Ukraine has lost at least 74 tanks since Russia started the war on February 24, but it had captured at least 118 Russian tanks....

Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Operational Command South, said Monday that Ukraine’s armed forces launched an offensive “in many directions in the south of Ukraine,” as the “tense” situation reported by the Kyiv Independent has been controlled by Ukrainian soldiers while Russians refrain from attacking following successful Ukrainian counter-aggression. Ukrainian officials previously pushed U.S. officials for more help in targeting Russian supply chains that have aided its occupation of Kherson, Foreign Policy reported on August 10....

“We have been prompted to call for an emergency special session as the level of the threat to the global security has been equated to that of the second World War, or even higher following Putin’s order to put an alert Russian nuclear forces,” Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya said during the UN meeting. “What a madness.” “If [Putin] wants to kill himself, he doesn’t need to use nuclear arsenal. He has to do what the guy in Berlin did in a bunker in May 1945,” he added, in reference to Hitler’s suicide on April 30, 1945....

The released footage appears to show Ukrainian artillery targeting entrenched Russian positions in the area. It is unclear where exactly in the Kherson Oblast region of southern Ukraine the images were filmed but they were obtained Monday evening from the 36th Separate Marine Brigade, which is part of the Ukrainian Navy, and they said: “The Nikolaev Marines are actively preparing to take part in the ‘Kherson referendum’!” Iryna Vereshchuk, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister and minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, has urged locals in the Kherson region to evacuate the area so as to help Ukrainian forces “de-occupy” the area....

The Belarusian Foreign Ministry said that the Ukrainian ambassador and an additional four diplomats would be permitted to stay in the country, Reuters reported. Those who are leaving must do so within 72 hours, the ministry said. Belarus is one of the only nations that have maintained ties with Russia since it launched its attack on Ukraine late last month. The decision to expel the diplomats came after KGB, the Belarusian security service, accused eight Ukrainian diplomats of espionage on Tuesday, Reuters reported....

While speaking at the Defense News Conference on Wednesday, Dr. William LaPlante said that Ukraine had been given Harpoon anti-ship missiles by a U.S. ally he did not specify. A $1 billion Ukraine aid package that the Pentagon announced on June 15 included two Harpoon coastal defense systems. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also announced in May that Denmark had agreed to provide Ukraine with Harpoon missiles and a launcher, Reuters reported....

The bout, scheduled for July 25 at the United Center in Chicago, will be a rematch of their fight in UFC 173 last May, when Dillashaw scored the upset with a fifth-round stoppage. The UFC announced two other bouts for the card during “America’s Pregame” on Fox Sports 1: Former lightweight champion Anthony “Showtime” Pettis will face off against top 10 contender Myles Jury, and Miesha Tate will battle Jessica Eye....

Understandably, this UFC Fight Night is nowhere near as star-studded as the last two events produced by the promotion, but it should still have enough to make it watchable. With that in mind, here are the predicted outcomes for UFC Fight Night: Max Holloway vs. Yair Rodriguez. #1: UFC featherweight division: Max Holloway vs. Yair Rodriguez While this fight doesn’t pique the interest like the big UFC title fights on last weekend’s event, it could still produce an instant classic and may well end up being one of 2021’s better clashes....

White spoke to TMZ Thursday and was asked about Mayweather saying he plans to slap the UFC star the next time he sees him. MORE: Ronda Rousey puts Mayweather, McGregor in their place for ‘worship of money’ After making fun of Mayweather’s height (The boxer is only an inch shorter than McGregor), White said this: “His hands are like peanut brittle, he has to wrap them a million times so he doesn’t break his hands....

It’s Mike Perry, so it shouldn’t be that surprising. Despite putting on a typically buoyant performance, Perry lost the fight via a close split decision to Luque, and also walked away with a broken nose. Luque started slowly as Perry was the aggressor from the opening bell. It took time for Luque to get his range going and once that was looked after, the Brazilian landed more shots. Perry tried to be creative with his angles and combinations, and took the first round in the books....