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16.05.2024 18:40 Today, the United States Department of Defense and Japan Ministry of Defense have finalized a formal agreement for a Glide Phase Interceptor Cooperative Development Project Arrangement under the U.S.-Japan bilateral Memorandum of Understanding for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Projects .

16.05.2024 18:40 The Department of the Air Force identified six locations May 15, to host experimental Air Task Forces that will test new methods to generate more efficient, integrated deployable Units of Action.

16.05.2024 18:40 United Nations humanitarian workers are calling on Russia to immediately end its armed attacks in Ukraine as the intensification of fighting in the eastern part of the country in recent days causes a surge in civilian casualties and displacement, and the destruction of critical infrastructure.

16.05.2024 18:40 Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Chinese media Wednesday that Russia is ready to negotiate on the war in Ukraine.

16.05.2024 18:40 The United States is fast-tracking $2 billion in military aid for embattled Ukrainian forces, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, as they struggle to stave off a Russian advance in the northeastern Kharkiv region.

16.05.2024 18:40 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Wednesday $2 billion in funding to finance Ukraine's military efforts as he concluded his two-day visit to Kyiv.

16.05.2024 18:40 Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant assailed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday for failing to devise a plan to govern Gaza after the end of Israel's war with Hamas. But the Israeli leader said it was pointless to do so until the militants are defeated.

16.05.2024 18:40 Amid some of the fiercest reported fighting in Gaza yet, UN humanitarians on Wednesday repeated warnings that famine is still an imminent threat because of aid restrictions and a lack of safe access.

16.05.2024 18:40 The European Union called on Israel to immediately end its military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, saying Wednesday that the operation is disrupting humanitarian aid operations and bringing more displacement, famine and human suffering.

16.05.2024 18:40 The United States and the Philippines agreed to boost cooperation on space technology to track ships within Manila's territorial waters and exclusive economic zone, or EEZ, officials from both nations said in a statement released Tuesday.

16.05.2024 18:40 The international community must give greater attention and resources to war-ravaged Sudan, where millions are "trapped in an inferno of brutal violence", the top UN aid official in the country said on Wednesday.

16.05.2024 18:40 Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico remains in critical condition after being shot several times from close range as he walked among a small crowd following a government meeting outside Bratislava, but his injuries are no longer considered life threatening, according to a senior government official.

16.05.2024 18:40 Hundreds of protesters donning gas masks and protective goggles shut down streets in Tbilisi on Tuesday after Georgia's parliament passed a so-called "foreign influence" law that critics call a copy of Russia's foreign agent law, heavily relied upon by the Kremlin to suppress dissent.

16.05.2024 18:40 President Salome Zurabishvili warned that Georgia's survival as a state is in danger after parliament approved a contentious "foreign agent" law despite weeks of popular protests and warnings from the West that the move endangers Georgia's Euro-Atlantic aspirations.

16.05.2024 18:40 Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks Thursday in Beijing, the start of a two-day visit by the Russian leader.