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25.05.2024 13:40 Today, the Department of Defense announced a significant new security assistance package to meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs.

25.05.2024 13:40 The United States will provide a new $275 million military aid package for Ukraine to help the beleaguered country repel Russia's assault on Kharkiv, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Friday.

25.05.2024 13:40 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has challenged Central Asian leaders to put aside concerns of angering Russia, which considers the region part of its sphere of influence, and attend a summit in Switzerland next month aimed at achieving peace in Ukraine.

25.05.2024 13:40 Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, of Honolulu, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to gather and deliver national defense information to the People's Republic of China .

25.05.2024 13:40 Prosecutors with Romania's anti-organized crime agency on May 24 announced the arrest of a Romanian man suspected of spying for Moscow since 2022.

25.05.2024 13:40 The United States and several allies issued a joint statement Friday voicing support for Taiwan to take part in the World Health Organization's World Health Assembly, which formally opens Monday in Geneva.

25.05.2024 13:40 The Chinese People's Liberation Army and the China Coast Guard continued to conduct drills around the island of Taiwan on Friday, forming what some experts call a new normal of "anti-salami-slicing" against provocations by the "Taiwan independence" secessionist forces.

25.05.2024 13:40 World leaders reacted to a ruling Friday by the U.N. International Court of Justice that Israel should "immediately halt its military offensive" in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The decision intensifies international pressure on Israel regarding its assault on Gaza, but Israel has said it will not comply.

25.05.2024 13:40 The International Court of Justice on Friday issued new provisional measures that order Israel to immediately end military operations in Rafah in southern Gaza and to open the governate's border crossing for urgent aid deliveries.

25.05.2024 13:40 Humanitarians warned Friday that the situation in North Darfur's capital, El Fasher, is growing more dire by the day, as the state's only functioning hospital has about a week's worth of supplies left and as casualties mount.

25.05.2024 13:40 United Nations agencies warn the humanitarian situation for an estimated 800,000 people in and around the Sudanese city of El Fasher is rapidly deteriorating as clashes escalate between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

25.05.2024 13:40 The humanitarian situation for some 800,000 civilians in El Fasher, Sudan, and surrounding areas in North Darfur continues to deteriorate amid ongoing clashes between rival military forces, the UN reported on Friday.

25.05.2024 13:40 The United States has announced visa restrictions on Georgian government officials and a comprehensive review of bilateral relations with Tbilisi over a "foreign agent" law recently pushed forward by the ruling Georgian Dream party despite weeks of mass protests.

25.05.2024 13:40 Opponents of Georgia's controversial "foreign agent" bill marched in Tbilisi on March 24, expressing their opposition to the legislation and the Interior Ministry's handling of earlier protests that turned violent.

25.05.2024 13:40 The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Brazil of UH-60M Black Hawk Helicopters and related elements of logistics and program support for an estimated cost up to $950 million, which includes initial acquisition of $450 million in Major Defense Equipment, and up to $500 million in other equipment and services. The Defense Security Cooperation