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13.03.2024 16:30 The Director of National Intelligence is disclosing the aggregate amount of $73.4 billion in requested appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2025 National Intelligence Program .

13.03.2024 16:30 Today, the Department of Defense released the Military Intelligence Program top line budget request for fiscal year 2025. The total is $28.2 billion and is aligned to the strategic priorities of the Secretary of Defense.

13.03.2024 16:30 Russia has successfully relaunched its spy operations against the West after hundreds of its operatives were ejected following Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, according to analysts. They warn that the Kremlin is using a network of proxies to infiltrate European nations and carry out a range of intelligence operations.

13.03.2024 16:30 Members of Congress on Tuesday turned a hearing about President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents into a charged referendum on a question central to the upcoming presidential election: the 81-year-old's mental fitness.

13.03.2024 16:30 During China's top legislative meetings this year, which wrapped up Monday, Chinese leader Xi Jinping ordered the military to develop what he called "new quality combat capabilities," a phrase analysts say highlights a focus on the use of artificial intelligence, high-tech and intelligent warfare. It also could signal, they say, plans to build forces of unmanned ships and submarines to support military operations.

13.03.2024 16:30 The naval forces of China, Iran and Russia on Monday launched an exercise near the Gulf of Oman in a joint effort to safeguard regional maritime security, without targeting any third country or current regional tensions, experts said on Tuesday.

13.03.2024 16:30 The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to approve legislation Wednesday that would force the popular TikTok video app to either separate from its Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance or sell the U.S. version of the software.

13.03.2024 16:30 China has launched a new push to repair relations with the EU in recent weeks, deploying its special envoy on Eurasian affairs on a "shuttle diplomacy" tour through several European countries while calling on Brussels to prioritize the common interests rather than differences between the two sides.

13.03.2024 16:30 The Arakan Army has captured a key township near a major Chinese special economic zone in western Myanmar's Rakhine state, the ethnic rebel group said Tuesday, in the latest setback for the country's military junta in the country's three-year civil war.

13.03.2024 16:30 Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control is taking action in coordination with the Kingdom of Bahrain against key Iran-based operatives and a financial facilitator for designated terrorist group Al-Ashtar Brigades. The Department of State designated Al-Ashtar Brigades as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in 2018.

13.03.2024 16:30 On 11 March 2024, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland referred the former Vice-President of the Syrian Arab Republic and former officer of the Syrian army, Rifaat AL ASSAD, to the Federal Criminal Court for trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The accused is charged with ordering homicides, acts of torture, cruel treatments and illegal detentions in Syria

13.03.2024 16:30 Swiss prosecutors referred Rifaat Assad — the uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad — for trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity that he allegedly committed as a military commander in 1982.

13.03.2024 16:30 The White House announced Tuesday that it will provide Ukraine with another package of security assistance worth 300 billion U.S. dollars, funding made possible by cost savings in the Pentagon's contracts with domestic weapons manufacturers.

13.03.2024 16:30 The first consignment of aid through the Cyprus-based corridor left on Tuesday morning for Gaza, with more aid expected to be shipped soon, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides announced.

13.03.2024 16:30 An indigenously made light combat aircraft "Tejas" belonging to the Indian Air Force crashed in the western state of Rajasthan on Tuesday during a training, confirmed an official source.