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Americas Raytheon won a $18 million deal that provides non-recurring engineering in support of providing a comprehensive and cost-effective redesign of the Tomahawk Fin Controller Electronics Unit Circuit Card Assemblies, as well as addressing parts obsolescence for the Navy and Foreign Military Sales customers. Work is expected to be completed in August 2028. This order was not competed. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. Northrop Grumman won an $8.3 million deal for the procurement of 50 rudders in support of the F/A-18 aircraft. The delivery order does not include an option period. All work will be performed in El Segundo, California, and work is expected to be completed by December 2027. NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity. Middle East & Africa Iran has pulled the curtain back on three new combat drones: Homa, Dideban, and Shahin-1, each designed to bolster its growing fleet of domestically built unmanned systems. Revealed at a drone base in southeastern Iran, the trio adds new capabilities ranging from vertical take-off to kamikaze strikes and electronic warfare. Homa is a VTOL drone that can climb to 12,000 feet (3,657 meters) and is fitted with night vision gear. […]

South and Central America are at the core of Xi Jinping's new global security initiative, as the Chinese leader deploys a broad and profound strategy to infiltrate Washington's backyard and diminish US influence. [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron's strategic adviser, Xavier Chatel de Brancion, has been following every step in Poland's submarine programme Orka for the acquisition of four new submarines for the Polish navy. Warsaw is expected to have chosen a bidder by [...]

Donald Trump has announced plans to secure the United States with his "Golden Dome" missile defence project. But far from [...]

Mere months after being appointed in late 2024 as the internal security attaché to the French embassy in Moscow, Thierry [...]

The company may not yet have announced it publicly, but the main interested party has already informed the British authorities [...]

SpaceNews dropped a bombshell regarding the potential 2026 budget under the Trump administration in the middle of 2025's GEOINT symposium: [...]

Note to the reader: For the purposes of this article, we have only disclosed the full names of those individuals [...]

Jakarta's anti-drug agency linked the 2-ton meth seizure to a syndicate in the Golden Triangle, which has seen a spike in narcotics production over the past decade.

America needs a new Asian alliance to counter China.

Sanctions relief is not enough.

Qui sera le nouveau chef du Parti socialiste français ? Selon des résultats provisoires communiqués par les entourages des candidats, le sortant Olivier Faure est arrivé en tête du premier tour, dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi, tout juste devant son rival de 2023 Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol. Boris Vallaud, arrivé troisième, jouera le rôle d'arbitre lors du second tour prévu le 5 juin.

189 people lost their lives when Lion Air flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea, 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta's Soekarno–Hatta International Airport.

Opening yesterday's 46th ASEAN Summit, the Malaysian leader also hailed the “significant” progress in efforts to end the civil war in Myanmar.

And what it reveals of current China-Japan relations.

Germany’s international and European policy environment is changing drastically. This necessitates a reorientation of Germany’s European policy. The European Union (EU) is becoming increasingly important for Germany as a powerful community of action and should be further developed into an economic and security life insurance policy for Germany and the EU’s other member states. In the coalition agreement between the CDU / CSU and the SPD, the new governing parties are claiming a prag­matic leadership role for Germany in European policy. To realise this ambition and advance key policies that are crucial for European self-determination, the new gov­ernment should provide leadership that is marked by enhanced European policy coordination, grounded in an expanded partnership strategy, and aimed at strengthen­ing the Union’s overall capacity to act.

With the reconfiguration of international supply chains, Mexico has gained impor­tance as a location for new foreign investments. The country has been able to benefit from nearshoring, that is, the relocation of services or production processes closer to consumer markets. This is associated with lower logistics costs and often better manage­ment of supplier relationships. However, this boom in investments has abated due to various uncertainties – not least being Washington’s threats to raise tariffs, which burdens the economic prospects associated with nearshoring. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is attempting to counter this trend, but in view of the increasingly urgent demand by the United States for third countries to adopt an anti-Chinese course, Mexico is at risk of being caught in the trap of “security-shoring” and losing its autonomous room for manoeuvre. This is already forcing Mexico – as well as its economic partners who have invested there – to realign their production processes.

'The rules for tobacco taxation are no longer fit for purpose,' a source told Euractiv.

Criticism is growing after several top positions go to members of the president's ethnic Yoruba group.

En Roumanie, pays stratégique sur le flanc est de l'Otan face à la menace russe, un grand chantier est en cours sur la base militaire de la mer Noire. Il s'agit d'une première étape qui consiste à construire une nouvelle piste d'avion. Mais si le projet final est mené à terme, elle pourrait devenir la plus grande base aérienne d'Europe et accueillir près de 10 000 soldats permanents. Des inquiétudes émergent cependant, avec la possibilité de retrait de troupes américaines sur le continent. Reportage de Marine Leduc à Constanța et à Mihail Kogălniceanu.