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NATO's future
Major cyberwarfare exercise in Estonia with 29 NATO countries

Last week, NATO conducted its largest cyberwarfare exercise to date in Estonia. Hundreds of soldiers from 29 countries and seven partner countries, including Ukraine, participated, reports The Guardian. The exercise lasted a week and included, among other things, handling sudden power outages and disrupted satellite connections.

For Sweden, the exercise began by handling malicious code in an email system used at the base in Lithuania.

- Other allies have similar attacks. Then it became the satellite system, says Swedish Major Tobias Malm to The Guardian.

The hackers activated several attacks against a satellite-based internet service that had a crippling effect on everything from GPS services to power grid monitoring.

- There are no borders in cyberspace. That's why it's important that we communicate with each other and build trust and relationships, says exercise leader Brian Caplan.

Security around the Baltic Sea
Lithuanian airport closed after new balloon alarms

Operations at Vilnius airport have been suspended after a balloon flew over it, several media outlets report.

No planes can take off and planes that were on their way to the airport are being diverted to Helsinki, among other places.

Similar incidents have occurred about ten times this fall, forcing air traffic closures in the Lithuanian capital. The Lithuanian government has previously stated that smugglers from neighboring Belarus sent the balloons, but has also accused the country's President Aleksandr Lukashenko of allowing the "hybrid attacks" to continue.

Nobel Prize
Machado travels to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan María Corina Machado will travel to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee announced this, AFP reports.

It has long been unclear whether the opposition leader could leave Venezuela. Last month, Venezuela's chief prosecutor Tarek William Saab told the news agency that Machado would be wanted if she left the country.

"Given the security situation, we cannot say more about the date or how she will arrive," Kristian Berg Harpviken, head of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, told AFP. 

The war in Sudan
33 children killed in attack on kindergarten in Sudan

50 people, including at least 33 children, were killed in a drone attack on a kindergarten in the Sudanese state of South Kordofan on Thursday, the Sudan Doctors Network said, according to the AP.

The paramilitary RSF is accused of being behind the attack.

The kindergarten was hit in a drone strike and when ambulances arrived, another attack came. A third attack was then carried out in the same area, also targeting civilians. The death toll is expected to rise.

UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk warns of a similar development in Kordofan as when the RSF recently captured al-Fashi, a conquest that was marked by mass executions and accusations of ethnic cleansing.