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18.09.2025 14:10 The political parties behind the Defence Agreement have decided to procure additional ground-based air defence systems. The decision entails the procurement of eight systems, comprising both long-range and medium-range capabilities. This is the largest single investment ever in Danish Defence.

18.09.2025 14:10 The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Norway of MK 54 MOD 0 Lightweight Torpedoes and related equipment for an estimated cost of $162.1 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale today.

18.09.2025 14:10 Security in Sweden's neighbourhood has deteriorated dramatically in recent years. The Government is therefore carrying out the most sweeping modernisation of Sweden's total defence since the end of the Cold War. In the Budget Bill for 2026, the Tidö Parties propose a new package for stronger civil defence.

18.09.2025 14:10 The UN has welcomed Colombia's first convictions under its transitional justice tribunal, calling sentences handed down to former rebel commanders "a crucial milestone on the path to accountability," in the words of human rights chief Volker Türk.

18.09.2025 14:10 On the surface, they come from different worlds, one a U.K. combat medic on her first operational deployment, the other a seasoned U.S. Army flight paramedic with hundreds of flight hours under her belt.

18.09.2025 14:10 On During a visit by the new commander of U.S. Central Command on Sept. 16, U.S. and Saudi forces led the Middle East's largest live-fire counter-unmanned aerial system exercise focused on improving the detection, tracking and elimination of modern drone threats.

18.09.2025 14:10 Chief of the Air Force Reserve and Commander of Air Force Reserve Command Lt. Gen. John Healy is expanding international partnerships through a strategic engagement tour across Europe this month. The tour advances the Reserve Allies and Partners Program's mission to build interoperable reserve capabilities and strengthen international partnerships in support of combatant commander priorities.

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18.09.2025 14:10 The European Defence Agency and the EU Military Staff have begun consultations with Member States for the next Coordinated Annual Review on Defence , the EU's 'State of the Union' in defence.

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18.09.2025 14:10 For millions of girls in Afghanistan, it has been four long years since the ban on secondary education came into force, one of many rights abuses rolled out by the de facto authorities since they regained control of Kabul.

18.09.2025 14:10 As the head of the United Nations presence in Afghanistan told the Security Council today that the country's de facto authorities seem caught between pragmatism and ideology, so too were the organ's members on the conditions for international engagement with the Taliban.

18.09.2025 14:10 Statement by Ambassador James Kariuki, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan.

18.09.2025 14:10 Afghanistan is confronting "a perfect storm" of overlapping crises, the UN's outgoing envoy warned the Security Council on Wednesday, as an Afghan women's rights advocate told the body that Taliban policies amount to "gender apartheid" which are suffocating a whole generation of girls.