North Korea said on Monday that it had test-fired upgraded ballistic missiles equipped with cluster warheads a day earlier, with leader Kim Jong Un personally overseeing the launches.

One person has died after being critically wounded in a suspected cluster munition impact in central Israel, according to first responders.

Foxconn (2317.TW) announced on Friday that its $1.4 billion supercomputing center, built in collaboration with Nvidia (NVDA.O), will be operational by the first half of 2026, becoming Taiwan’s largest advanced GPU cluster.

A Russian missile strike overnight on August 12 targeted a Ukrainian military training facility, killing one soldier and injuring 11 others, according to Ukraine’s Ground Forces.

Lithuania announced on Thursday that it has withdrawn from an international convention banning the use of cluster bombs.

A new report published on Monday highlights that cluster bomblets continue to cause thousands of civilian casualties, primarily among children, and warns that their renewed use is jeopardizing global efforts to achieve a universal ban on these largely prohibited weapons, News.Az reports citing UN Geneva.

The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) which campaigns against the use of this type of munition has concluded that the United States approved five transfers of cluster munitions to Kyiv between July 2023 and April 2024, the international civil society movement said in its latest report, News. Az reports citing TASS.