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The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of the Netherlands of MQ-9A Block 5 aircraft and related equipment for an estimated cost of $611 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale today.

With the conflict between rival militaries in Sudan entering its third month, the people of Darfur are "trapped in a living nightmare", the UN's top aid official has said.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has accused Azerbaijan of "ethnic cleansing" with its continued blockade of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.

The UN is providing "multifaceted support" to Mali ahead of this weekend's constitutional referendum, the head of its peacekeeping mission in the country, MINUSMA, said in a briefing to the Security Council on Friday.

A senior Iranian law enforcement official says President Ebrahim Raisi has approved an increase in the number of surveillance cameras around the country in the face of ongoing civil disobedience against the mandatory hijab law for women.

Pakistan is in a debt crisis. It must pay billions in debt servicing, but the state's coffers are almost empty. As hopes for reviving a bailout deal with the International Monetary Fund fade, experts say the country may escape default this month, but the situation will grow increasingly grave.

After weeks of underwater scouring, South Korea's military Thursday recovered a sizable chunk of a North Korean rocket that failed to send a spy satellite into orbit 15 days earlier.

On June 7, the United States, Italy, and Saudi Arabia held the 18th meeting of the Counter ISIS Finance Group (CIFG), a working group of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. The event was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with over 40 member states and observers attending in person and virtually.

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on the Hernandez Salas transnational criminal organization (TCO), a human smuggling organization based in Mexicali, Mexico, as well as several members and entities in its support network. The practice of human smuggling and the facilitation of fraudulent documentation undermines the U.S. asylum system, damaging public confidence in the vetting

Taiwan should overhaul its reservist training system to create a more effective military reserve force rather than maintaining one that is large but "not so useful," Taiwan's former Chief of the General Staff Lee Hsi-min (李喜明) said Friday.

Russia confirmed Friday that it had started exporting oil to Pakistan and had agreed to accept Chinese currency as payment, clarifying that the South Asian country did not receive any exclusive discounts on the purchase deal.

Nearly 200 settlements have been affected by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Friday.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Friday resumed its service delivery to Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, a senior UN official announced.

A Chinese envoy on Friday called on parties in Mali to resolve their differences through dialogue and create favorable conditions for Sunday's constitutional referendum.

The United States needs to work with China to bring bilateral relations gradually to the track of stable growth, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Friday.

China is mulling several policies to promote sustained recovery of its economy, according to a State Council executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Qiang on Friday.

The 8th Enlarged Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) opened at the office building of the WPK Central Committee on June 16.

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has released a statement dismissing as false the media reports on Iran's agreement with re-installing 10 IAEA cameras in Natanz.

Reiterating Moscow's nuclear posture, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the country may deploy nuclear weapons only if Russia's existence is threatened.

Over 80 percent of trade settlement between Russia and China is now conducted in Russian rubles and Chinese yuan, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday, according to media reports.