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05.12.2025 13:20 On November 25, 2025, the Honourable David J. McGuinty, Minister of National Defence, officially established the Canadian Joint Forces Command , a new Canadian Armed Forces command designed to strengthen leadership, coordination, and accountability for joint military capabilities across the CAF.

05.12.2025 13:20 The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Canada of Air Strike Weapons and related equipment for an estimated cost of $2.68 billion. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress.

05.12.2025 13:20 US President Donald Trump is preparing to announce a sweeping new governance structure for Gaza, including a personally led so-called "Board of Peace," as part of the second phase of the US-brokered ceasefire deal, according to US officials and a Western source involved in the talks.

05.12.2025 13:20 Today, the Commission is presenting a new EU Drugs Strategy and an Action Plan against drug trafficking, as well as updated rules for monitoring and controlling drug precursors.

05.12.2025 13:20 On Wednesday, 3 December, at the National Armed Forces base in Lielvārde, H.E. Mr Daniel Olsson, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to Latvia, and representatives of the Swedish company Saab formally handed over "Giraffe" 1X air surveillance radars to the Latvian National Armed Forces Air Force.

05.12.2025 13:20 UK announces sanctions against the GRU as Dawn Sturgess Inquiry report finds Putin personally ordered their activity in Salisbury in 2018.

05.12.2025 13:20 The Federal Office for Defence Procurement armasuisse has completed the evaluation for a new service pistol and selected a type. The model SIG Sauer P320 has been selected as the new pistol. The manufacturer has assured that production will be set up in Switzerland. This complies with the Armament Policy Strategy of the Federal Council to retain and set up security-relevant industrial capabilities in

05.12.2025 13:20 Air Mobility Command welcomed the 99th and 100th KC-46A Pegasus delivered to the U.S. Air Force, during an arrival ceremony at Travis Air Force Base Dec. 2.

05.12.2025 13:20 Every week in Gaza, at least 15 women give birth outside any health facility, often without a trained midwife, pain relief or basic medical supplies.

05.12.2025 13:20 UN experts* today expressed deep concern about mounting pressure from the United States on Venezuela, as indicated by a recent declaration from the US President that Venezuela's airspace should be considered closed.

05.12.2025 13:20 UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday warned that Sudan risks "another El Fasher" as fierce fighting spreads across the Kordofan region, raising fears of a fresh wave of atrocities.

05.12.2025 13:20 Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the territories controlled by Kiev will be liberated either by military means or by the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces and the cessation of killings there.

05.12.2025 13:20 Ukrainian negotiators have met with European officials in Brussels, and later US officials in Florida, days after a five-hour Kremlin meeting with a visiting White House delegation where President Vladimir Putin doubled down on his hard-line conditions to end the war on Ukraine.

05.12.2025 13:20 With more than 100,000 people newly uprooted in recent weeks and over 600,000 still displaced across Mozambique, the Director General of the International Organization for Migration , Amy Pope, is warning that urgent, collective durable solutions are needed to help communities regain stability as the surge strains services and livelihoods.

05.12.2025 13:20 Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen , Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement urging Congress to take up legislation to put additional pressure on Putin after a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs hearing entitled "The Abduction of Ukrainian Children by the Russian Federation" which the Ranking Member attended: