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17.04.2024 16:41 Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III held his first engagement with Adm. Dong Jun, defense minister of China, today via video teleconference at the Pentagon.

17.04.2024 16:41 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken left for Capri, Italy, on Tuesday night for a Group of Seven foreign ministers meeting, where he will discuss Washington's concerns about China's support for Russia's defense industrial base, the State Department said.

17.04.2024 16:41 China's top spy agency is cranking up its propaganda campaign warning of foreign "spies" to mark National Security Education Day, in a bid to get more people to inform on each other and steer clear of anything linked to the West, analysts said this week.

17.04.2024 16:41 The United States said it is working with allies on a coordinated response to Iran's drone and missile strikes on Israeli soil over the weekend. At the same time, it continues to urge Israel to exercise restraint and avoid igniting a wider regional conflict.

17.04.2024 16:41 Iran's unprecedented attack on Israel has put the Middle East in uncharted territory.

17.04.2024 16:41 Israel's defense minister said Tuesday Iran's threats will not deter his nation from responding to Sunday's unprecedented aerial attack on the Jewish state.

17.04.2024 16:41 Efforts to foster dialogue and address the concerns of Libyan politicians are being met with "stubborn resistance, unreasonable expectations and indifference" on their part, contrary to the national interest, the UN envoy to the North African nation said on Tuesday.

17.04.2024 16:41 The Security Council met this morning on the situation in Libya. Briefing the Council was Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya. The Council also heard from the representative of Japan as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 .

17.04.2024 16:41 South Korea is cautiously optimistic about alliance upgrades that the U.S. and Japan have planned to bolster security in East Asia and the Indo-Pacific region.

17.04.2024 16:41 The U.S House committee on China said Tuesday that the Chinese government is seeking to fuel the fentanyl epidemic in the United States by subsidizing precursors, or substances necessary to make the drug and other synthetic opioids.

17.04.2024 16:41 Huang Shu-kuang , a retired admiral who heads Taiwan's Indigenous Defense Submarine program and serves as an adviser to the National Security Council , has recently submitted his resignation, according to local media reports.

17.04.2024 16:41 EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says he will request that the EU's diplomatic service start work on an expansion of sanctions in response to Tehran's weekend attack on Israel.

17.04.2024 16:41 Noisy, colorful parades brought traffic to a standstill in the Solomon Islands capital Honiara on the last day of election campaigning as thousands also left the city on ships and ferries to vote in hometowns and villages across the archipelago.

17.04.2024 16:41 Israel is placing "unlawful restrictions" on humanitarian aid going into and being distributed in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations human rights office said Tuesday.

17.04.2024 16:41 Scaling up assistance in Gaza remains a challenge in the face of continued access denials, delays and other impediments, the head of the UN humanitarian affairs office in the occupied Palestinian territories said on Tuesday.