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25.02.2025 18:00 On the third year mark of the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Council adopted today a wide-ranging 16th package of economic and individual restrictive measures.

25.02.2025 18:00 The Government is planning to provide NOK 3.5 billion for the procurement of military equipment for Ukraine from the Ukrainian defence industry.

25.02.2025 18:00 The Nordic-Baltic countries will provide equipment and training for a Ukrainian brigade-sized unit. This is in response to a request by Ukraine.

25.02.2025 18:00 The Government intends shortly to authorise the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration to procure RBS 70 and Tridon Mk2 air defence systems for donation to Ukraine.

25.02.2025 18:00 Iran's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Polish chargé d'affaires to Tehran to protest Warsaw's "biased and baseless" remarks regarding military cooperation between Iran and Russia in the Ukraine war.

25.02.2025 18:00 The top U.S. Army officer for the Asia-Pacific region began a two-day visit to Cambodia Monday in a trip designed to expand and improve frayed ties between the two nations.

25.02.2025 18:00 To ensure that peace and stability will prevail in the Indo-Pacific Region, Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani on Monday said his country would further deepen its "bilateral cooperation" with the Philippines in the areas of operational cooperation, people-to-people exchange, and defense equipment and technology cooperation.

25.02.2025 18:00 The Department of Foreign Affairs on Monday confirmed that the United States has exempted its security aid to the Philippines from its pause on global foreign aid.

25.02.2025 18:00 The humanitarian crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is worsening as M23 rebel attacks continue to drive tens of thousands from their homes and claim hundreds of lives, UN humanitarians warned on Monday.

25.02.2025 18:00 The Navy Reserve's KC-130T Hercules fleet, upgraded with the NP200 propeller system, is cleared to aerially refuel a significantly wider range of aircraft across the carrier airwing following envelope expansion testing at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division which concluded in early 2025.

25.02.2025 18:00 The Iranian Army has debuted a new advanced jet during major joint maneuvers enlisting the force's various divisions in the country's southern coastline and waters as well as part of the Indian Ocean.

25.02.2025 18:00 Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control , and the U.S. Department of State are imposing sanctions on over 30 persons and vessels in multiple jurisdictions for their role in brokering the sale and transportation of Iranian petroleum-related products. Among those sanctioned today are oil brokers in the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong, tanker operators and mangers in

25.02.2025 18:00 Three years into Russia's aggression in Ukraine, China is closely monitoring U.S. President Donald Trump's strategy to end the war, as Beijing calculates its moves to position itself as a strategic partner for Ukraine while maintaining a no‐limits partnership with Russia, according to experts and former officials.

25.02.2025 18:00 Friedrich Merz, the presumptive next German chancellor and a longtime supporter of transatlantic ties, said he now seeks security "independence" from the United States and expressed doubts about the future of NATO, the alliance that has underpinned Western defense interests since World War II.

25.02.2025 18:00 U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that tariffs on Mexico and Canada will "go forward."