HEIDELBERG, Germany, Aug. 19 -- U.S. Army Europe and Africa issued the following news release: * * * 7ATC Hosts 'Sky Soldiers' to Enable Readiness in Saber Junction 26 GRAFENWOEHR, Germany -- Saber Junction is an annual Combat Training Center readiness and lethality validation exercise series for U.S. Army Europe and Africa's permanently assigned brigades. This year, the 173rd Mobile Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) is the primary training audience with approximately 3,360 troops training alongside other U.S. DoD units and European allies and  more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Aug. 18 -- CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION, San Jose, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 12708297 B2, initially filed Dec. 5, 2022) developed by five inventors Roman Ogirko, Lviv, Ukraine; Volodymyr Bihday, Lviv, Ukraine; Igor Musiichuk, Lviv, Ukraine; Yaroslav Berko, Zhovkva, Ukraine; and Richard Sweet, Jr., San Diego, California, for "Continuous electrochemical monitoring." more PT

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. 18 -- The European Union issued the following news joint statement: * * * Ahead of World Humanitarian Day on 19 August, Kaja Kallas,High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, and Hadja Lahbib Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management, issued the following statement: "On World Humanitarian Day, we honour the extraordinary courage of aid workers who put themselves in harm's way every day to deliver food, water, shelter, and medical care to p more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -- The Jamestown Foundation issued the following commentary on Aug. 18, 2026, by Eitvydas Bajarunas, senior fellow with the Democratic Resilience Program in the foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor: * * * Lessons Learned From Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Case of Lithuania Executive Summary: * Lithuania faces sustained Russian hybrid pressure that blends cyber, informational, economic, and kinetic tactics. This alters peacetime assumptions and makes resilience, infrastructure protection, and rapid decision-making core more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: * * * Kelly, Tillis Press Trump Administration to Reverse Cuts to Joint Military Exercises with South Korea Bipartisan senators warn that scaling back exercises will degrade military readiness at a time when North Korea is deepening ties with Russia and China - Today, U.S. Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) pressed the Trump administration to reverse its decision to substantially reduce joint military exercises between the United States and more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (TNSLrpt) -- The Migration Policy Institute issued the following report in July 2026 entitled "Beyond Control Signalling: Designing integration policies for better outcomes and public trust." Here are excerpts: * * * Executive summary Across many high-income countries, public sentiment about migration has swung between compassion and alarm over the past decade. Many citizens have welcomed successive cohorts of refugees, but frustration with how governments manage migration has grown. Radical-right and populist figures ha more PR

EVANSTON, Illinois, Aug. 18 (TNSjou) -- Northwestern University posted the following news release: * * * What Ukraine's wartime blood supply transformation can teach the US 'Your blood can fight' slogans and 24-hour blood centers increased donations in Ukraine * U.S. could adopt best practices on expanding blood collection to prepare for mass casualty events * Study offers a rare look at how a national blood system can remain operational during a prolonged crisis * Study published amid the American Red Cross' second-ever national blood cr more PR

NOTRE DAME, Indiana, Aug. 18 -- The University of Notre Dame posted the following news: * * * Notre Dame announces inaugural Arts Biennial featuring prominent artists from around the world * The inaugural Notre Dame Arts Biennial, which runs January through June 2027, will feature more than 100 public events, including exhibitions, performances, community workshops, and guest artists slated to visit the South Bend area for a six-month festival of visual, literary, spatial, and performing arts. Most events are free to attend. The biennial-t more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Aug. 18 -- 12 PENTAGONS LLC, St. Louis, Missouri has been assigned a design patent (No. US D1142779 S1, initially filed April 22, 2024) developed by Jon-Paul Wheatley, St. Louis, Missouri, and Shepel Oleksandr, Kyiv, Ukraine, for "Soccer ball." more PT

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Aug. 18 -- An inventor from Dnipro, Ukraine, Volodymyr Zatirukha has been awarded a patent (No. US 12708372 B2, initially filed Nov. 4, 2022) for "Styptic harness tourniquet." more PT

ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 17 -- Emory University Rollins School of Public Health posted the following news release: * * * TB Preventive Treatment for People with HIV Shown Effective in Real-World Settings * Tuberculosis (TB) is responsible for about a quarter of all AIDS deaths. In 2024, it was also the leading cause of death among people with HIV. This is despite TB being a preventable and curable disease. Although clinical trials have shown the benefit of TB preventive treatment in people with HIV, implementation in program settings was slo more PR

NEW YORK, Aug. 18 -- The United Nations Population Fund issued the following statement by Executive Director Diene Keita on the need to protect motherhood in crises on World Humanitarian Day: * * * Every day, we witness the courage of the millions of pregnant women and mothers who do all they can to protect new life as conflict upends their own. This unwavering commitment to nurturing the most vulnerable should compel us to do everything we can as an international community to ensure their protection, even - or especially - in the most acute  more PR

BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon, Aug. 18 -- The United Nations Population Fund issued the following news: * * * Humanitarians under fire: In Lebanon, Batoul's family remember "the joy of our home" "Batoul was the joy of our home," said Hashem Qallaji, in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon. "She was the laughter. When you sat and talked with her, it was as if she breathed life back into your soul." For almost a decade, his sister Batoul Qallaji supported women and girls through her work for the Amel Association, a local partner of UNFPA, the United Nations P more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Missouri. *** Wirelessly Configuring Climate Control System Controls ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Aug. 18 -- COPELAND COMFORT CONTROL LP, St. Louis, Missouri has been assigned a patent (No. US 12710189 B2, initially filed Oct. 16, 2023) developed by five inventors Austin John Cibulka, St. Louis, Missouri; Nayan Jyoti Mishra, Richmond Heights, Missouri; David L. Vie, Union, Missouri; Michael J. Moran, St. Louis, Missouri; and John F. Broker, Warrenton, Missouri,  more ST

PARIS, France, Aug. 18 -- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization issued the following news release: * * * UNESCO Director-General reaffirms the Organization's commitment to Ukraine During his first official visit to Ukraine, UNESCO Director-General Khaled El-Enany met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and members of the Ukrainian Government to review UNESCO's activities across education, culture, science, communication and information and discuss priorities for further cooperation. Working closely with nationa more PR

LEXINGTON, Virginia, Aug. 19 -- Washington and Lee University issued the following news: * * * Sociology Professor Receives Distinguished Dissertation Award Ivan Shmatko was cited by the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies after receiving a nearly perfect score from the program's eight expert judges. By Brian Laubscher Ivan Shmatko, assistant professor of sociology at Washington and Lee University, was recently selected as one of two winners of the 2026 CAGS-ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award presented by the Canadian Associat more PR