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23.06.2026 19:02 A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka crashed during a training flight with four people aboard near Harbor Mountain in Sitka, Alaska, Monday.

23.06.2026 19:02 The four Coast Guard crew members involved in a helicopter crash in Sitka, Alaska, Monday, are reported safe with non-serious injuries.

23.06.2026 19:02 U.S. Pacific Command joint forces, along with allied and partner forces, are scheduled to participate in exercise Valiant Shield 2026, June 22-July 1, in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Japan, and at sea around the Mariana Islands Range Complex.

23.06.2026 19:02 Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald returned to its homeport of Naval Base San Diego following a three-month underway to the U.S. 3rd Fleet and 7th Fleet areas of operations, June 19.

23.06.2026 19:02 The Armed Forces of the Philippines and the United States Armed Forces conducted a Maritime Cooperative Activity within the Philippine Exclusive Economic Zone June 14-19 2026.

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23.06.2026 19:02 On 17 and 18 June 2026, Ambassador Kevin Hamilton, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Partnerships, paid an official visit to the Republic of Moldova. He shared views on Moldova's partnership with NATO and on topics of mutual interest for the Alliance and Moldova with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Mihai Popșoi; National Security Advisor to the President of the Republic of Moldova, Stanislav Secrieru; and Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence, Ghenadie Cojocaru.

23.06.2026 19:02 Today, Minister of National Defence Robertas Kaunas met with Federal Minister of Defence of Germany Boris Pistorius.

23.06.2026 19:02 On Monday, June 22, the Estonian Air Defence Wing received the first mobile air defence missile systems IRIS-T SLM at Ämari Air Base, giving the Estonian Defence Forces the ability to engage air threats from greater distances and altitudes than the existing short-range systems. The system was procured by the Estonian Centre for Defence Investments from the German defence company Diehl Defence.

23.06.2026 19:02 U.S. Senator Jim Risch , chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined U.S. Senators John Cornyn , Sheldon Whitehouse , Thom Tillis , Chuck Grassley , Deb Fischer , Peter Welch , and John Kennedy in releasing the following statements after their Preventing Adversary Influence, Disinformation and Obscured Foreign Financing Act, which would help close Foreign Agents Registration Act loopholes that allow unregistered agents of foreign adversaries to lobby in the United States, passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:

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23.06.2026 19:02 "My directive, and that of the Minister of Defense, to the IDF is clear and has not changed: Our fighters in southern Lebanon have full freedom of action to thwart any direct or developing threat to them or to the residents of the North. The IDF has no restrictions on this matter."

23.06.2026 19:02 Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, a key member of Benjamin Netanyahu's hawkish cabinet, has called for rejecting any ceasefire in Lebanon, declaring that the entire country "should be Israel's playground."

23.06.2026 19:02 UNIFIL peacekeepers continue to remain in positions across south Lebanon and along the Blue Line, maintaining a visible and active presence while monitoring and reporting developments on the ground in accordance with Security Council Resolution 1701.

23.06.2026 19:02 Palestinian children are being left increasingly unprotected as human rights defenders and humanitarian organisations are forced to halt or scale back their work in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Gaza and the West Bank, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child warned today.