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04.01.2025 09:01 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said presidential and parliamentary elections could happen this year if negotiations bring an end to the "hot phase" of the war with Russia, allowing for the lifting of martial law.

04.01.2025 09:01 It was supposed to be at the vanguard of a modernized Ukrainian Army, trained in Western tactics by French instructors, armed with Western weaponry, equipped to take on a bigger Russian Army on the battlefield.

04.01.2025 09:01 Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III is scheduled to travel to Ramstein Air Base in Germany, Jan. 7, to attend the 25th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, the Defense Department announced today.

04.01.2025 09:01 U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will attend his final meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base in Germany next week, the Defense Department said Friday.

04.01.2025 09:01 Finland's national power grid operator is seeking the formal seizure of the oil tanker suspected of damaging an electric power cable in the Baltic Sea last month.

04.01.2025 09:01 South Korean authorities Friday suspended their attempt to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol following a tense six-hour standoff between investigators and security forces loyal to the embattled conservative president.

04.01.2025 09:01 The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of MK 54 MOD 0 Lightweight Torpedoes and related elements of logistics and program support for an estimated cost of $78.5 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale today.

04.01.2025 09:01 The cybersecurity breach of the U.S. Treasury Department by China-backed hackers is "extremely concerning," said senior American lawmakers, urging Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to provide them with a detailed briefing on the matter.

04.01.2025 09:01 The United States is imposing sanctions today on the Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Technology Group, Incorporated , which has links to the People's Republic of China Ministry of State Security, for its role in multiple computer intrusion incidents against U.S. victims.

04.01.2025 09:01 Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Integrity Technology Group, Incorporated , a Beijing-based cybersecurity company, for its role in multiple computer intrusion incidents against U.S. victims. These incidents have been publicly attributed to Flax Typhoon, a Chinese malicious state-sponsored cyber group that has been active since at least 2021, often targeting organizations within U.S. critical infrastructure sectors.

04.01.2025 09:01 Germany's and France's foreign ministers said Friday that they made clear to Syria's new de facto Islamic leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, that the nation's political transition should be inclusive and not based on Islamic fundamentalism if the country wants Europe's support.

04.01.2025 09:01 The Israeli regime has carried out fresh airstrikes on Syria, targeting positions in the northern province of Aleppo.

04.01.2025 09:01 Today, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro named the Navy's newest Arleigh Burke-class Guided Missile Destroyer, the future USS Intrepid aboard the former aircraft carrier which shares its namesake as the Intrepid Museum in New York.

04.01.2025 09:01 Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation has agreed to pay the United States $15,875,000 to resolve allegations that Booz Allen Hamilton Engineering Services LLC , a wholly owned subsidiary of Booz Allen, violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting fraudulent claims to the United States in connection with a General Services Administration task order to supply computer military training simulators and

04.01.2025 09:01 Hospital workers say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 30 people in central Gaza late Thursday into Friday, adding to a death toll that reached at least 56 people over the past 24 hours.