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The Canadian Armed Forces today issued the following statement regarding Canada's participation in a Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity (MMCA) this week in the Philippines' Exclusive Economic Zone:

At around 1 p.m. on a cloudy day in September last year, a bus containing Belarusian political prisoners approached the Lithuanian border.

A joint firepower attack drill of long-range artillery and missile units of the combined units at all levels of the Korean People's Army took place on Sept. 12.

US President Donald Trump brushed aside a report that Tehran acquired satellite images of a base in Jordan from Chinese entities before an attack that killed three US troops in July.

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Chief of the Naval Staff India, Admiral Krishna Swaminathan, and his delegation have conducted an official visit to New Zealand this week as military ties between the countries grow.

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. cited stronger diplomatic ties, investment commitments and expanded cooperation in key sectors as gains from his recent visit to India for the 18th BRICS Summit.

Chinese President Xi Jinping's attendance at the BRICS summit in India is of strategic significance for steering the high-quality development for greater BRICS cooperation, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Sunday.

As journalists from across the Global South and beyond filled the media center some distance from the main BRICS summit venue, Bharat Mandapam, Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded his two-day visit to India on Sunday by proposing five initiatives to advance "greater BRICS" cooperation.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus welcomes the decision of the United States (US) Government to renew the waiver suspending the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) restrictions concerning the Republic of Cyprus for fiscal year 2027. This decision allows for the export, re-export and transfer of defence articles and defence services from the US to Cyprus for the designated period.

According to the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), displacement in Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, has now reached 85,818 people, up sharply in recent days (82,164 since beginning of September alone ) as fighting continues along the West Coast. Families are being forced from their homes, and some are now fleeing the country altogether.

A planned meeting in Oman between Iran and Gulf Arab states regarding the Strait of Hormuz has been postponed until conditions are more "conducive" to dialogue, Omani and Iranian state media reported.

Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian has again said Tehran is not seeking nuclear weapons, even as a lawmaker said parliamentarians were preparing a bill for Iran to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and called for the country to conduct the tests needed to develop a nuclear weapon.

Russia continued to pound the Ukrainian civilian population, killing at least nine people in attacks throughout the country, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy repeated he'd be willing to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin at the upcoming G20 summit -- something the Kremlin called "impossible."

Two Russian drone strikes hit near the Polish border early on September 13, Ukrainian authorities have reported, attacks that Kyiv said was Moscow "knocking on the doors of the EU and NATO" and urged further sanctions.

US President Donald Trump has called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop targeting Russian diesel infrastructure amid Russia's relentless attacks across Ukraine, including near the Polish border.

Iraqi authorities announced the closure of several border crossings on Saturday as part of "administrative and security" measures and an investigation into unspecified "breaches and violations," following drone strikes on a major oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia, Anadolu Agency reported.

Iran's Foreign Ministry confirmed Sunday that a planned meeting of foreign ministers from Persian Gulf coastal states has been postponed at the request of some regional countries.

Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi has announced that a regional meeting on the Strait of Hormuz, which had been scheduled for Monday in Salalah, has been postponed.