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China is using more law enforcement vessels to encroach on the West Philippine Sea (WPS), the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said on Tuesday.

Marking another attempt to smear China's legitimate actions over Huangyan Dao, a Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) spokesperson claimed that China's possible "militarization" of the island could allow it to dominate much of the South China Sea and threaten freedom of navigation. Chinese experts said the claim deliberately hypes the so-called "China threat" rhetoric and turns the facts on their head, arguing that while Manila itself has been strengthening its military presence and fueling regional tensions, it appears to be demanding unrestricted access for its own vessels to waters around China's Huangyan Dao under the guise of "freedom of navigation."

Escalating conflict in Yemen is killing and injuring a growing number of civilians, the UN human rights chief warned on Monday, as Houthi rebels also strike Saudi Arabia and Red Sea shipping linked to the wider Iran-US confrontation.

An official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday said they have coordinated with authorities on the augmentation of security in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) beefed up checkpoint operations and other security deployments in the wake of the ambush attempt against Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) interim Chief Minister Abdulraof Macacua in Maguindanao del Norte last Aug. 15.

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The UN is scaling up humanitarian assistance in western Colombia as needs continue to grow following last week's devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake, according to the latest update released on Tuesday.

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Units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine already use more than 70 different systems powered by AI and computer vision technologies to strike enemy targets.

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Russia has the right to view the UK's declared direct participation of its missile forces in strikes against Russia as direct participation in a war, with all the ensuing consequences, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated.

The Russian armed forces struck a dry cargo ship carrying military equipment for the Ukrainian armed forces in the Black Sea southeast of Odessa, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

Ukraine has derailed the planned August 20-21 visit of IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant and the town of Energodar, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Russian forces have liberated Orekhovatka and Krasnopodolye in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

A Russian citizen who collected and passed information on Russian Defense Ministry facilities and the region's defense-industrial and fuel-and-energy complexes to Ukrainian military intelligence has been detained in the Ryazan Region, the Russian Federal Security Service's Public Relations Center said.

Ukrainian armed formations, ignoring the norms and principles of international humanitarian law, carried out deliberate strikes against medical facilities and medical transport in Russia on August 10-16, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said.

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