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26.07.2024 19:42 Russia on July 25 attacked the Ukrainian Danube port of Izmayil for the second day in a row, damaging infrastructure critical for Kyiv's grain exports, while in neighboring Romania, NATO scrambled F-18 warplanes as drone debris was found near the border with Ukraine.

26.07.2024 19:42 The transfer of arms to Ukraine was the focus of debate in the UN Security Council on Thursday in the latest meeting convened by Russia to address the issue.

26.07.2024 19:42 Officials in Ukraine's Odesa region said Thursday that Russian drones attacked the southern port city of Izmail for a second consecutive night, destroying an administrative building and injuring two people inside a house.

26.07.2024 19:42 The North American Aerospace Defense Command on Wednesday "detected, tracked, and intercepted" two Chinese and two Russian military aircraft operating together in international airspace off the coast of Alaska, but said the activity was "not seen as a threat."

26.07.2024 19:42 China hosted a series of high-profile diplomatic meetings this week aimed at projecting an image as a global peacemaker in two major global crises, the Russia-Ukraine war and the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

26.07.2024 19:42 NORAD detected, tracked, and intercepted two Russian TU-95 and two PRC H-6 military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone on July 24, 2024. NORAD fighter jets from the United States and Canada conducted the intercept.

26.07.2024 19:42 John Chen, 71, of the People's Republic of China and Los Angeles, California, and Lin Feng, 44, a PRC citizen and resident of Los Angeles, California, pleaded guilty to acting as unregistered agents of the PRC and bribing an IRS agent in connection with a plot to target U.S.-based practitioners of Falun Gong — a spiritual practice banned in the PRC.

26.07.2024 19:42 A Myanmar insurgent army said it had captured a junta regional military headquarters in an embattled northeastern town on Thursday, which, if confirmed, would be one of the most significant losses for the military in years.

26.07.2024 19:42 Thailand is to set up a task force to investigate transactions by its financial institutions that help the junta in neighboring Myanmar acquire weapons it uses against domestic opponents battling to end military rule since a 2021 coup.

26.07.2024 19:42 The Justice Department issued the following statement from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on the arrests of alleged leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael Zambada Garcia and Joaquin Guzman Lopez:

26.07.2024 19:42 A grand jury in Kansas City, Kansas, returned an indictment on Wednesday charging North Korean national Rim Jong Hyok for his involvement in a conspiracy to hack and extort U.S. hospitals and other health care providers, launder the ransom proceeds, and then use these proceeds to fund additional computer intrusions into defense, technology, and government entities worldwide. Their ransomware attacks prevented victim health care

26.07.2024 19:42 This week, as Taiwan was preparing for the start of its Han Kuang military exercises, its air defense system detected a Chinese drone circling the island. This was the sixth time that China had sent a drone to operate around Taiwan since 2023.

26.07.2024 19:42 Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on the Congo River Alliance, known by its French name Alliance Fleuve Congo , a coalition of rebel groups that seeks to overthrow the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and is driving political instability, violent conflict, and civilian displacement. The principal member of AFC is the U.S.-

26.07.2024 19:42 Azerbaijan threatened on July 25 to take large-scale military action against Armenia in response to what it called Armenian "provocations" along the border between the two countries.

26.07.2024 19:42 U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday brought Israel's leader into the calm eye of America's political storm, as the two tried to hash out a lasting peace to silence the suffering in Gaza. But it was Biden's vice president who took a sharper tone with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying she had "serious concern" about the scale of human suffering in the besieged exclave.