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• Joint Statement from the U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of National Defense of the Republic of Niger AFRICOM 08 Jul 2024 -- The effective cooperation and communication between the U.S. and Nigerien armed forces ensured that this turnover was finished ahead of schedule and without any complications.
• 405th AFSB's Germany battalion assumes mission command of Coleman APS-2 worksite Army News 08 Jul 2024 -- Army Field Support Battalion-Germany assumed mission command of the Coleman Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksite in Mannheim July 8 in the final step of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade's multi-year regional alignment and transformation initiative.
• 82nd Airborne joins 3rd, 10th SF Groups to airdrop test new weapon sights Army News 08 Jul 2024 -- Airborne and Special Forces Soldiers here are testing after nightfall, the latest small arms weapon sights.
• Exercise Sea Breeze 24, a Ukraine/US Led Multi-national Mine-Countermeasure Exercise Successfully Completed in Scotland US Navy 08 Jul 2024 -- Exercise Sea Breeze took place of the west coast of Scotland for the second year where NATO and Ukrainian warships were supported by staff from 11 countries based in King George V docks in Glasgow.
• USS Blue Ridge and USCGC Waesche Arrive in Cam Ranh, Vietnam US Navy 08 Jul 2024 -- The U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) and U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche arrived in Cam Ranh, Vietnam for a five-day joint Navy - Coast Guard routine port visit on July 8.
• U.S. Navy Installations to Conduct Citadel Pacific 2024 US Navy 08 Jul 2024 -- Navy installations will exercise their security forces during Citadel Pacific 2024 (CP24), an annually reoccurring force protection exercise assessing emergency response in Navy Joint Region Marianas, and Region Japan (July 15-19), Navy Region Korea (Aug. 19-23), and Navy Region Hawaii, (Oct. 28-Nov. 1).
• Treasury Issues Proposed Rule to Expand CFIUS Coverage of Real Estate Transactions Near Military Installations US Treasury 08 Jul 2024 -- Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury), as Chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM or proposed rule) that would expand CFIUS's jurisdiction over certain transactions by foreign persons involving real estate in the United States. Pursuant to legislation that Congress passed in 2018, CFIUS has the authority to review certain real estate transactions near specified military installations and to take action in appropriate circumstances. This proposed rule would add over 50 military installations, across 30 states, to the existing list of installations around which CFIUS has jurisdiction, including over land purchases.
• Investigation: EU Shell-Production Capacity, Supplies To Ukraine Fall Far Short Of Promises RFE/RL 08 Jul 2024 -- The European Union's capacity to produce 155 mm artillery ammunition may be less than half as large as public estimates by senior EU officials indicate, affecting the bloc's ability to keep promises about supplies to Ukraine, Schemes and its partners in a journalistic investigation have found.
• Chinese training aircraft provide new foundation for aviation forces Global Times 08 Jul 2024 -- Acting as a foundation in building strong aviation forces, China's training aircraft are sophisticated, reliable, of outstanding performance, and can be built in large quantities, with one of the top products, the intermediate trainer jet K-8, having won a 70 percent international market share, the Global Times learned recently.
• China, Belarus begin joint anti-terrorism exercises VOA 08 Jul 2024 -- China and Belarus began joint anti-terrorism exercises Monday in Brest, Belarus, that will last for 11 days.
• Australian Government announces acquisition of precision loitering munition Australia DOD 08 Jul 2024 -- Australian soldiers will be equipped with the Switchblade 300 precision loitering munition, providing a critical combat edge and adding to drone capabilities available to the Australian Defence Force (ADF).
• Projects of Concern Summit held in Canberra Australia DOD 08 Jul 2024 -- A Projects of Concern Summit was held today on the Civil Military Air Traffic Management System (OneSKY-CMATS).
• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with members of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Prime Minister of Canada 08 Jul 2024
• Sweden attends first NATO Summit as member of the defence Alliance Government Offices of Sweden 08 Jul 2024 -- On 9-11 July, NATO's 32 member countries are gathering for the NATO Summit in Washington DC. Sweden is represented by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, Minister for Foreign Affairs Tobias Billström and Minister for Defence Pål Jonson. The Summit is the first one Sweden is attending as a full member of the defence Alliance.
• Sweden's national security - for a safer and more secure Sweden in uncertain times Government Offices of Sweden 08 Jul 2024 -- The Government has adopted Sweden's new national security strategy, which includes five guiding principles for management of Sweden's security. It constitutes the framework for the Government's work on national security until 2030.
• Data on interceptions of aircraft completed near the Baltic States' borders on July 1-7, 2024 Lithuania MND 08 Jul 2024
• Ministry of National Defence acquires MSHORAD air defence system Lithuania MND 08 Jul 2024 -- The Defence Materiel Agency under the Ministry of National Defence has signed final agreements with Sweden's' Saab Dynamics AB on acquisition of the RBS70 NG (MSHORAD) system worth of approx. EUR 147 million with estimated delivery period between 2025 - 2027.
• In China's shadow, Philippines and Japan sign groundbreaking defense pact Radio Free Asia 08 Jul 2024 -- The Philippines and Japan signed a defense pact Monday that will allow troops to be deployed in each other's country, a landmark agreement seen as a counterweight to China's growing assertiveness in the South China Sea.
• PH, Japan seal defense pact in Malacañang Philippine News Agency 08 Jul 2024 -- The Philippines and Japan on Monday signed the Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) that would facilitate mutual visits between Filipino and Japanese armed forces for training and joint exercises.
• PAF contingent in Australia for 'Pitch Black' drills Philippine News Agency 08 Jul 2024 -- The Philippine Air Force (PAF) has deployed an initial contingent to participate in the "Pitch Black" exercises hosted by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) scheduled from July 12 to Aug. 2.

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• 8 July 2024 - Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General United Nations 08 Jul 2024

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• US officials in Cairo for cease-fire talks between Israel, Hamas VOA 08 Jul 2024 -- The White House national security spokesman said Monday that U.S. officials are in Cairo for discussions designed to lead to a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
• After nine months of war in Gaza, another UN school suffers Israeli airstrike UN News 08 Jul 2024 -- The war in Gaza passed the nine-month mark on Sunday with humanitarians left assessing the damage of a fresh Israeli airstrike on a UN school.

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• Security Council Extends Mandate of United Nations Mission to Support Hudaydah Agreement for 12 Months, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2742 (2024) UN Security Council 08 Jul 2024 -- The Security Council today decided to extend, until 14 July 2025, the mandate of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA), which was established on 16 January 2019 following intra-Yemeni peace consultations held in Stockholm, Sweden.
• The UK is committed to securing a sustainable peace and long-term stability for Yemen: UK explanation of vote at the UN Security Council UK FCDO 08 Jul 2024 -- UK explanation of vote delivered by Ambassador Barbara Woodward, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, following the Security Council adoption of the renewal of the UNMHA mandate.
• UN envoy highlights alarming violence and neglected humanitarian crisis in DR Congo UN News 08 Jul 2024 -- The security situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has resulted in alarming levels of violence and widespread civilian displacement, the UN envoy for the country reported on Monday.
• Military Group's Expansion in Democratic Republic of Congo 'Carries Very Real Risk of Provoking Wider Regional Conflict', Mission Head Tells Security Council UN Security Council 08 Jul 2024 -- A careful, incremental approach is vital to the three-phase withdrawal of the longstanding United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, speakers told the Security Council today, stressing the need to avoid a domestic security vacuum and the regional spillover of conflict between the Government forces and other armed groups.
• The UK calls on all parties to the conflict to uphold the humanitarian truce in the Democratic Republic of Congo: UK statement at the UN Security Council UK FCDO 08 Jul 2024 -- Statement by Fergus Eckersley, UK Political Counsellor, at the Security Council meeting on the Democratic Republic of Congo.
• Multinational force in Haiti 'committed' to curbing instability, Kenyan leader says VOA 08 Jul 2024 -- The leader of the multinational force led by Kenya tasked with curbing gang violence in Haiti expressed determination Monday to ensure democratic elections and prevent further instability in the country. However, he did not take questions during his nationally broadcast briefing.
• Renewed fighting drives 50,000 people from homes in northern Myanmar Radio Free Asia 08 Jul 2024 -- Some 50,000 people have fled their homes over the last five days amid renewed fighting around Lashio, the capital of northern Shan state, residents and relief workers told Radio Free Asia.
• Some 13,700 schools in Myanmar are closed due to civil war Radio Free Asia 08 Jul 2024 -- More than a quarter - or about 13,700 - of Myanmar's 48,753 public schools have been closed due to the country's civil war, the military junta's Ministry of Education said.
• Rebel army closes in on 2 townships in western Myanmar Radio Free Asia 08 Jul 2024 -- Ethnic minority insurgents seized two junta bases in Myanmar's west and killed more than 750 soldiers, the group said in a statement, as its fighters close in on the main town in the west of Rakhine state, and make advances in the south.
• Myanmar still getting jet fuel despite calls to cut supply: rights group Radio Free Asia 08 Jul 2024 -- Shipments of aviation fuel are reaching Myanmar despite calls to deprive its military of the resources needed to carry out unlawful air strikes against insurgents battling to end army rule, international human rights group Amnesty International said on Monday.

News Reports

• Informal meeting with Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi President of Russia 08 Jul 2024 -- Vladimir Putin held an informal meeting with Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi at the presidential residence in Novo-Ogaryovo, Moscow Region.
• Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian's Regular Press Conference on July 8, 2024 PRC MofA 08 Jul 2024
• Pacific island leaders in China amid intensifying regional competition VOA 08 Jul 2024 -- Jeremiah Manele and Charlot Salwai, the prime ministers of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, are in China this week. Their visits come as Beijing seeks to grow its bilateral ties with the two South Pacific nations and as China is increasingly competing for influence in the region with Australia, the United States and others.
• China extends crackdown on rights lawyers to Hong Kong Radio Free Asia 08 Jul 2024 -- Nine years after the mass arrest of China's most prominent human rights lawyers in a nationwide police operation, the authorities are now including lawyers in Hong Kong in their politically motivated prosecutions, according to a statement from dozens of rights groups.
• PLA activities in the waters and airspace around Taiwan ROC MND 08 Jul 2024
• Press Statement of Vice Department Director of WPK Central Committee Kim Yo Jong KCNA 08 Jul 2024 -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, released the following press statement on July 7:
• North Korean leader's sister denounces South's border drills Radio Free Asia 08 Jul 2024 -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister on Monday denounced South Korea's resumption of live-fire artillery drills near the border as "suicidal hysteria" and warned of possible military action.
• Far-Right National Front Falls Short In Elections, But France Remains Polarized RFE/RL 08 Jul 2024 -- The National Rally (RN) failed not only to secure an outright majority in the second round of parliamentary voting in France on July 7 but finished third, contrary to predictions that the far-right party was on the cusp of snatching power, given its strong showing in the first round of voting.
• Justice Department Reaches Settlement to Recover Los Angeles Mansion Purchased by Family of Former Armenian Government Minister US Dept. of Justice 08 Jul 2024 -- The Justice Department reached a settlement for a civil forfeiture case against a mansion in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles belonging to the family of Gagik Khachatryan, a former government official in the Republic of Armenia.
• Dodon Says He Won't Run In Moldovan Presidential Election, Backs Ex-Prosecutor-General RFE/RL 08 Jul 2024 -- The leader of Moldova's Socialist Party, Igor Dodon, announced on July 8 that he will not run in the presidential election later this year and threw his support behind former Prosecutor-General Alexandru Stoianoglo.
• Orban Push Lands Right-Wing 'Patriots Of Europe' Alliance In European Parliament RFE/RL 08 Jul 2024 -- A new right-wing alliance announced recently by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been accredited in the European Parliament with French National Rally (RN) leader Jordan Bardella as its chairman, a spokesman for the Hungarian leader said via social media on July 8.