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• CSG-7 Commander Visits USNS Effective in Yokohama US Navy 17 Jul 2022 -- Rear Adm. Rick Seif, commander, Submarine Group (CSG) 7/Task Force (CTF) 74, visited the Victorious-class ocean surveillance ship USNS Effective (T-AGOS 21) in Yokohama, Japan, July 13, 2022.
• U.S. Air Force, Navy Operate aboard Destroyer in East China Sea US Navy 17 Jul 2022 -- During the last week of June, Airmen from 961st Airborne Air Control Squadron joined the crew of USS Dewey (DDG 105) to support operations in the East China Sea.
• How drones will transform battlefield medicine, save lives US Air Force 17 Jul 2022 -- Blood loss or "bleeding out" is the leading cause of preventable death on the battlefield, military health experts say.
• USS Nitze Departs on Deployment US Navy 17 Jul 2022 -- Nearly 360 Sailors aboard guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94) departed Naval Station Norfolk on a scheduled independent deployment, July 17.
• INS SINDHUDHVAJ DECOMMISSIONED AFTER 35 YEARS OF GLORIOUS SERVICE TO THE NATION India PIB 17 Jul 2022 -- INS Sindhudhvaj bid adieu to Indian Navy on Saturday, 16 Jul 2022, serving for a glorious period of 35 years. Vice Adm Biswajit Dasgupta Flag Officer Commanding -in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command was the Chief Guest for the ceremony. The Decommissioning event was attended by 15 of the former Commanding Officers including Cmde SP Singh (Retd), the Commissioning CO and 26 Commissioning crew veterans.
• 14 marines killed in Mexico helicopter crash People's Daily 17 Jul 2022 -- At least 14 Mexican marines were killed on Friday when their helicopter crashed during the arrest and transport of a drug lord in northern Mexico, the Mexican Navy said.

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• Specialized rescue, maritime management stationed in China's Nansha Islands & reefs Global Times 17 Jul 2022 -- A rescue flight brigade of China's Ministry of Transport in the South China Sea, the local marine department and the maritime search and rescue center have been stationed on Nansha Islands and reefs in South China Sea to undertake emergency rescue missions, perform duties such as supervision of maritime traffic safety and prevention and control of ship pollutions in the area and to guarantee navigation safety and production activities in coastal states.
• India Scrambles Fighter Jets Whenever Chinese Aircraft Near Ladakh Border: Air Force Chief Sputnik 17 Jul 2022 -- The 16th round of cross-border Corps Commander talks was held on Sunday to defuse tensions in eastern Ladakh on the Line of Actual Control, an area where over 50,000 troops from each side have been stationed since June 2020.
• Suicide Car Bomb Blast Targets Somali Regional Capital VOA 17 Jul 2022 -- A powerful suicide bomb blast rocked Somalia's town of Jowhar, in Hirshabele state, killing at least three people and wounding seven others. Senior regional administration officials were among those hurt. Militant group Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the attack.

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• US Capitol Riot Panel Expects to See Secret Service Texts VOA 17 Jul 2022 -- The U.S. congressional panel probing the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 of last year expects to be able to look at text messages sent by Secret Service agents from the day before the mayhem and as it unfolded, a member of the investigative committee said Sunday.
• Global heating, human development could drive future waves of disease in east Asia Radio Free Asia 17 Jul 2022 -- Global heating is leading dozens of bat species to migrate to southern China and southeast Asian countries, amid growing concerns that the climate crisis could fuel more zoonotic disease and further deadly pandemics, experts told RFA.
• Why Western predictions on China were mostly wrong in past decade Global Times 17 Jul 2022 -- When commenting on China, some in the West only see a country constantly at the cusp of crisis, ranging from predictions of a "China hard landing" or "China collapse," to "COVID is China's Chernobyl moment" and "the end of Communist Party of China's (CPC) rule." Over the past decade, whenever China encountered difficulties and challenges, some Western politicians, scholars and so-called China experts always repeat wild prophecies about the fate of China and the CPC. Needless to say, none was even remotely right.
• Xi Jinping's inspection tour of Xinjiang People's Daily 17 Jul 2022 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, recently inspected the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China and visited officials and the general public of different ethnic groups.
• Advancing construction of Silk Road Economic Belt core area People's Daily 17 Jul 2022 -- The Urumqi International Land Port Area in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is well on its way to becoming an important growth pole powering the region's opening-up and economic development.
• Rodong Sinmun Calls for Devotedly Implementing Party's Decisions and Instructions KCNA 17 Jul 2022 -- Rodong Sinmun on Sunday in an editorial calls upon all the people to glorify this significant year as a year of proud victory by dint of the great unity and the irresistible force of heroic Korea by giving full play to the revolutionary traits of devotedly implementing decisions and instructions of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
• Iran will respond in kind to any measure against its national security: Senior diplomat Press TV 17 Jul 2022 -- A senior Iranian diplomat says the Islamic Republic will respond in kind to any measure against its national security from any neighboring country, in a veiled reference to the countries that have normalized their relations with the Israeli regime.
• Senior Iranian Official Claims Tehran Capable Of Making Nukes But No Decision Made Yet RFE/RL 17 Jul 2022 -- A senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says the country is capable of making a nuclear weapon but a decision whether to do so has not yet been made.
• At Least 16 Arrested At Protests At Drying Lake In Iran RFE/RL 17 Jul 2022 -- Iranian police have arrested at least 16 people after they protested over the drying up of Lake Urmia in northwest Iran on July 16.
• Biden disputes Saudi minister's account of Khashoggi discussion with Saudi crown prince Press TV 17 Jul 2022 -- US President Joe Biden has disputed remarks made by a senior Saudi diplomat that he did not blame Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) for the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamaal Khashoggi, during his visit to the kingdom.
• Biden: Saudi FM Untruthful About His Exchange With MBS Over Khashoggi's Murder Sputnik 17 Jul 2022 -- During his visit to Saudi Arabia, US President Joe Biden claims to have raised the issue of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, allegedly pinning the responsibility on him. The Saudi foreign minister, however, was quick to claim that he "didn't hear" that any such exchange took place.
• Saudi Minister Al-Jubeir Says He 'Did Not Hear' Biden Blaming Crown Prince for Khashoggi Murder Sputnik 17 Jul 2022 -- US President Joe Biden did not tell Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud that he believed the Crown Prince was responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir told Fox News.
• Saudi Crown Prince Warns US Could Have Only NATO Countries Left to Cooperate With -Reports Sputnik 17 Jul 2022 -- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud told US President Joe Biden during their meeting in Jeddah that if Washington wants to have relations only with countries that share all of US values, it will only have NATO states left to cooperate with, Al Arabiya reports.
• Ousted Pakistan PM's Party Wins Key By-Elections VOA 17 Jul 2022 -- Pakistan's opposition party of deposed Prime Minister Imran Khan swept by-elections in the country's most populous Punjab province Sunday, dealing a serious blow to the central coalition government and possibly paving the way for snap national polls.
• India's Ruling BJP Removes Official Over 'Anti-Islam' Tweet VOA 17 Jul 2022 -- India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has removed its social media head in the northern state of Haryana for an allegedly anti-Islam tweet five years ago, but Indian Muslims are demanding that Arun Yadav be arrested.
• PM Lapid's Remarks at the Start of the Weekly Cabinet Meeting Israel - Prime Minister 17 Jul 2022
• Erdogan, Putin to meet in Iran over Turkish military plan in Syria, grain exports from Ukraine People's Daily 17 Jul 2022 -- Türkiye's plans for another military operation in northern Syria and a possible grain corridor from Ukrainian ports across the Black Sea are high on the agenda of an upcoming meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Iran, experts said.
• Protesters Demand Wickremesinghe's Resignation as Sri Lanka to Choose President in Four-Way Contest Sputnik 17 Jul 2022 -- Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has fixed 20 July as the day for the Presidential election, where all 225 members of the House are eligible to vote and participate. Ranil Wickremesinghe is the front-runner in the four-corner race as Gotabaya Rajapaksa's Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna party announced support for the acting president.
• Sudan security forces fire tear gas at protesters in anti-coup rallies Press TV 17 Jul 2022 -- Sudan's security forces have fired tear gas at demonstrators in Khartoum in an attempt to disperse large crowds of protesters demanding an end to military rule by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
• Germany's Scholz Says EU Can No Longer Afford National Vetoes RFE/RL 17 Jul 2022 -- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says the European Union can no longer afford to allow individual member states to have veto power over the bloc's actions if it wants to maintain a leading role in the determination of global policy.
• North Macedonia Signs Protocol With Bulgaria, Looks To Take Next Step To EU RFE/RL 17 Jul 2022 -- The foreign ministers of North Macedonia and Bulgaria have formally signed a bilateral protocol to ease their disputes and move Skopje on to what it hopes will be eventual European Union membership.
• Thailand Sets 2028 Target to Finish High-Speed Rail Link with China VOA 17 Jul 2022 -- Thailand's recent pledge to finish a long-delayed high-speed rail line linking it to China through Laos within six years is reigniting doubts about the country's commitment and whether the $12 billion megaproject will pay off.