AIR BASE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that a facility for a branch of Qatar's armed forces will be built at the Mountain Home Air Force Base south of Boise, Idaho. Pilots from the Qatar Emiri Air Force, and their F-15s, will join a base that already houses members of the Republic of Singapore Air Force.

UKRAINE: Russian drone and missile strikes wounded at least 20 people in Kyiv, damaged residential buildings and caused blackouts across swaths of Ukraine early Friday, authorities said. A child also was killed in separate attacks in the southeast of the country.

PAKISTAN: Violent clashes erupted Friday between police and Islamists in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore after security forces tried to stop thousands of demonstrators from leaving for the capital, Islamabad

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