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27.03.2024 13:21 In his first remarks following the assault on a concert hall outside Moscow on March 22, more than 18 hours after gunmen killed at least 139 people in the deadliest terror attack in Russia in 20 years, President Vladimir Putin made no mention of the extremist group Islamic State, which had already claimed responsibility.

27.03.2024 13:21 Belarusian authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka said on March 26 that the gunmen who attacked a concert hall near Moscow last week tried to flee into his country but were unable to because of additional security measures.

27.03.2024 13:21 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on March 26 dismissed Oleksiy Danilov from the post of secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, replacing him with Oleksandr Lytvynenko, who has served as Ukraine's foreign intelligence chief.

27.03.2024 13:21 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Tuesday to push forward with his campaign to eliminate the Hamas militant group, while also criticizing a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.

27.03.2024 13:21 There are "reasonable grounds" to believe that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories said on Tuesday.

27.03.2024 13:21 Top Biden administration officials urged Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to abandon plans to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where more than 1.4 million Palestinian civilians seek safety, as U.S.-Israel tensions brew over Israel's conduct in its six-month-old war against Hamas.

27.03.2024 13:21 Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III stated today that the U.S. remains committed to supporting Israel's efforts to defeat the Hamas terror group in Gaza, with the understanding that such efforts must prioritize keeping Palestinian civilians out of harm's way.

27.03.2024 13:21 Five individuals were arrested in Laredo, Hebbronville, and Falls City, Texas, last week for allegedly trafficking military grade firearms to a drug cartel in Mexico.

27.03.2024 13:21 Beijing's chargé d'affaires at its London embassy was summoned by Britain Tuesday to hear complaints about a series of cyber attacks, blamed on alleged China-backed hackers.

27.03.2024 13:21 New Zealand said Tuesday a Chinese state-sponsored hacking operation targeted New Zealand's parliament in 2021, an allegation that came a day after the United States and Britain took actions in response to their own attacks by China-backed hacking groups.

27.03.2024 13:21 When a group linked to the ISIL terror organization claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall on 22 March, one of the pretexts reportedly given for the killings was Russia's engagement in the Syrian civil war, which has turned into a proxy war involving several foreign powers.

27.03.2024 13:21 UK security will be bolstered through a new contract worth £135 million that will equip the Royal Navy with new decoy launchers to counter missile and drone threats.

27.03.2024 13:21 The United States is eyeing April 18 for the potential resumption of Sudan peace talks in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as part of Washington's efforts to mitigate a dire humanitarian disaster and prevent the conflict from escalating into a regional war.

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27.03.2024 13:21 The Defense Innovation Unit is launching the first trilateral prize challenge through AUKUS Pillar II— a defense and security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom , and the United States — to identify electromagnetic spectrum technologies that help give a strategic edge in targeting and to provide protection against adversarial electromagnetic-targeting capabilities.