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Last weekend, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of the Russian private military company the Wagner Group, made comments on a social media video that appeared to contradict the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Immediate action needs to be taken by the international community to address conditions in Haiti, otherwise "it's hard to imagine a decent future" for the Caribbean nation, said the head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday.

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Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov of Bulgaria to NATO Headquarters on Thursday (29 June 2023) to discuss final preparations for the upcoming Vilnius Summit.

The Navy accepted delivery of the future guided missile destroyer USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), the Navy's first Flight III destroyer from Huntington Ingalls Industries' (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division on June 27.

An immense explosion near Sudan's army headquarters was felt across Khartoum on Thursday, according to locals.

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The US Department of Defense announced Tuesday a package of additional military assistance for Ukraine worth $500 million, including 30 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 25 Stryker armored personnel carriers, Stingers, as well as more munitions for Patriot defense systems and HIMARS systems and other military equipment.

The increase that is reminiscent of the Cold War-era is necessary because the Swedish Armed Forces need to grow. At the same time, the military bears increased costs because of inflation and must replace the arms it has donated to Ukraine - an ever-growing list that includes tanks, howitzers, fighting vehicles and anti-tank weapons.

The European Union has assembled a new support package meant to mitigate the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine on Moldova and "bring the country closer" to the 27-member bloc, the European Commission has announced.

Meta's oversight board on Thursday ordered the removal of a video posted on Facebook by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in which he threatened violence against his political opponents and called for an immediate suspension of his accounts.

The prime minister of Solomon Islands has called for a review of a security treaty with Australia as he hosts the country's defense minister in the capital Honiara, amid concerns by China that Canberra is playing into US-led competition in the Pacific.

Australia has offered to extend its military and police deployment in the Solomon Islands as the Pacific island country, which has cultivated security and economic ties with China, prepares to host a regional sporting event later this year and hold postponed elections in the first half of 2024.

A Hungarian parliament committee has postponed a vote on Sweden's bid to join the NATO military alliance, guaranteeing that the Nordic nation will not join the US-led bloc before or during its summit in July.

The Bolivian government has signed lithium agreements with Russian state nuclear firm Rosatom and China's Citic Guoan Group as the South American country looks to develop its untapped resources of the battery metal.

The presence of U.S. military forces and equipment in the Philippines would put the country in danger, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said.