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• First batch-produced AG600 'Kunlong' aircraft completes production test flight Global Times 18 May 2025 -- The first batch-produced AG600 "Kunlong" aircraft successfully completed its production test flight in Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong Province on Sunday, Xinhua News Agency reported.
• China-Cambodia 'Golden Dragon-2025' joint drills signify deeper military co-op: expert Global Times 18 May 2025 -- After China and Cambodia launched the "Golden Dragon-2025" joint exercise at a training center on Saturday, an expert told Global Times on Sunday that with the continuous increase in participating forces and branches, the scale and scope of the joint exercise has expanded, and China's deployment of advanced unmanned combat systems signifies a deeper level of military cooperation.
• Chinese military affairs expert explains J-10CE's advantages in CCTV News report on J-10CE's downing of multiple warplanes Global Times 18 May 2025 -- China's made-for-export warplane, the J-10CE, has recently achieved its first real combat success, drawing significant attention from the public, China Central Television (CCTV) News reported on Saturday.
• Boosting border security: Iran, Azerbaijan hold joint military drills in Karabakh Press TV 18 May 2025 -- Iran and Azerbaijan's special forces launched a joint military drill, dubbed "Aras-2025," in the Karabakh region on Sunday.
• UK Flagship Braces for Houthi Attacks as It Enters the Bab al-Mandeb Strait Sputnik 18 May 2025 -- The HMS Prince of Wales of the Royal Navy warns that it will use its 18 F-35s if the Houthis attack the ship, Daily Mail reports.
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Margaret Brennan of CBS Face the Nation US Dept. of State 18 May 2025

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• Israeli army recalling PTSD-affected troops amid recruitment crisis: Report Press TV 18 May 2025 -- An Israeli media report reveals that a growing manpower shortage has prompted the military to recall soldiers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) amid the regime's relentless offensive in the besieged Gaza Strip.
• Press Briefing by IDF Spokesperson BG Effie Defrin-,May 18, 2025 Israel Defense Forces 18 May 2025
• Israeli attacks put all hospitals in north Gaza 'out of service,' health officials say IRNA 18 May 2025 -- effectively forcing the hospital out of service," the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
• 140 Palestinians killed across Gaza as Israel announces 'extensive' ground assaults Press TV 18 May 2025 -- Israel's relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Sunday killed at least 140 Palestinians, including many children, as the regime announced it had begun "extensive" ground assaults in the territory.
• Hamas condemns killing of 5 journalists across Gaza in a single day Press TV 18 May 2025 -- The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says Israel's latest "simultaneous deliberate" strikes against Palestinian journalists are part of "its ongoing persecution and killing" of media members.
• Israeli military tightens siege on north Gaza Indonesian Hospital, opens 'random' fire Press TV 18 May 2025 -- The Israeli military has besieged the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, indiscriminately firing live ammunition at anyone within or near the premises.
• Over 100 Palestinians killed as Israel escalates assaults on Gaza Press TV 18 May 2025 -- Israel has intensified its deadly bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 101 Palestinians in pre-dawn attacks.
• Brother of late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, his sons killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Press TV 18 May 2025 -- A brother of the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has reportedly been killed in an Israeli airstrike against an area in the central Gaza Strip.
• Hamas rejects Mahmoud Abbas's call to disarm amid Israeli occupation Press TV 18 May 2025 -- Hamas, the governing resistance movement in the Gaza Strip, has rejected Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's call to lay down arms.
• UNRWA Commissioner-General on Gaza: today, the UNRWA staff death toll has surpassed the gruesome milestone of 300 UNRWA 18 May 2025
• UNRWA Commissioner-General says clock is ticking towards famine in Gaza IRNA 18 May 2025 -- Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), has warned against the Israeli blockade in Gaza and said the clock is ticking towards famine and the people of Gaza are dying.
• Risk of famine, illness, death for Gaza children growing each day: UNICEF Press TV 18 May 2025 -- UNICEF, originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, has issued a new warning about conditions of Palestinian children in Gaza, amid the ongoing Israeli blockade of the territory.
• Iran urges end to Israeli impunity, halt to ethnic cleansing in Gaza IRNA 18 May 2025 -- Iran has strongly condemned Israel's recent attacks on the Gaza Strip and called for an end to the "ethnic cleansing" and the impunity of the Israeli regime's rulers.
• Arab leaders demand ceasefire in Gaza, reject displacement of Palestinians Global Times 18 May 2025 -- Arab leaders on Saturday called for an immediate halt to the war in Gaza and voiced their rejection of forced displacement of Palestinians.
• Yemen's missile triggers sirens in occupied Palestine IRNA 18 May 2025 -- Palestinian news agencies reported on Sunday that after a missile strike from Yemen, sirens were activated in cities and towns throughout central areas of the Israeli-occupied Palestine, including Tel Aviv.
• Yemen's Ansarullah warns of attacks on Israeli airports over Gaza assault Press TV 18 May 2025 -- A senior official with Yemen's Ansarullah movement has warned that Yemeni Armed Forces will carry out military strikes targeting the Ben Gurion Airport and other airports across the Israeli-occupied territories in the coming hours.
• Yemen warns Israeli airports 'unsafe' as two hypersonic missiles target Ben Gurion Press TV 18 May 2025 -- Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement has declared all airports across the Israeli-occupied territories unsafe zones, escalating their retaliatory missile and drone strikes on the Ben Gurion Airport in solidarity with Palestinians enduring a genocidal war in Gaza.
• As Yemeni missile hits occupied territories, Ansarullah says Israel 'only understands this language' Press TV 18 May 2025 -- A missile launched from Yemen has set off sirens across multiple areas throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, including major cities, besides triggering several explosions.
• Houthis Claim New Attack on Ben Gurion Airport in Israel Using Ballistic Missiles Sputnik 18 May 2025 -- Yemen's Ansar Allah movement, also known as the Houthis, said on Sunday that it had attacked Israel's Ben Gurion Airport using two ballistic missiles.

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• Operation SINDOOR: Forging One Force India PIB 18 May 2025

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• Pezeshkian: Iran wiiling to cooperate with Afghanistan to resolve existing issues IRNA 18 May 2025 -- President Masoud Pezeshkian has told Afghanistan's acting foreign minister that Iran is ready to expand cooperation with its neighboring country in an "environment of understanding" in order for the existing issues between the two countries to be resolved.
• 30th Anniversary of the Panchen Lama's Disappearance US Dept. of State 18 May 2025

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• PM Office-Mossad: 60 Years after his Execution: Approximately 2,500 Documents, Photographs and Personal Items of Mossad Agent Eli Cohen are brought to Israel in a Covert Mossad Operation Israel - Prime Minister 18 May 2025 -- In a covert and complex Mossad operation, in cooperation with an allied foreign intelligence service, the official Syrian archive on Eli Cohen (https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/eli-cohen) - with thousands of findings that were held for decades by the Syrian security forces in a highly compartmentalized manner - have been brought to Israel.
• FBI says deadly Palm Springs fertility clinic explosion 'act of terrorism' Press TV 18 May 2025 -- After an explosion that shook a California fertility clinic on Saturday killing one person, the Federal Bureau of Investigation officials (FBI) classified the incident a deliberate act of terror.
• Countries set to adopt 'vital' pandemic preparedness accord UN News 18 May 2025 -- Could the world be better prepared for the next pandemic? As nations continue to deal with COVID-19's lasting effects, that question is at the heart of an international agreement set to be negotiated in Geneva.
• Russia detained the oil tanker Green Admire as it was departing from the Estonian Port of Sillamäe Estonia MFA 18 May 2025 -- Today, May 18th, the Russian Federation detained the oil tanker Green Admire, sailing under the Liberian flag and owned by a Greek company, as it was departing from the Estonian Port of Sillamäe and following a previously agreed route through Russian territorial waters.
• China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System rakes in 570 billion yuan in services value in 2024, leading the world Global Times 18 May 2025 -- In 2024, the output value of services provided by China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System reached 575.8 billion yuan ($79.86 billion), making a 7.39-percent year-on-year increase, according to the 2025 white paper released Sunday by the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Location Based Services (LBS) Association of China.
• FM's HK office expresses firm opposition against US' proposed bill of sanctions on judicial personnel Global Times 18 May 2025 -- In response to certain US senators proposing a bill that seeks to include judges and prosecutors from Hong Kong's Department of Justice on a sanctions list, threatening to sanction officials of the Chinese central government and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, the spokesperson of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong expressed strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition, calling it a blatant act of coercion and bullying.
• Taiwan enters 'nuclear-free homeland' era CNA 18 May 2025 -- Taiwan's last operational nuclear reactor was shut down Saturday as its 40-year operating license expired, turning Taiwan into the "nuclear-free homeland" that anti-nuclear campaigners had long hoped for.
• Ministry of National Defense Statement on the PLA's Joint Combat Readiness Patrol ROC MND 18 May 2025
• PLA activities in the waters and airspace around Taiwan ROC MND 18 May 2025
• Three sentenced to death over Shahcheragh terrorist attacks Press TV 18 May 2025 -- An Iranian Islamic Revolution Court in Shiraz has sentenced 3 of the 7 remaining perpetrators convicted of terrorism charges related to the Shahcheragh attacks to death.
• Extra-regional think tanks not allowed to decide West Asia's fate: Araghchi Press TV 18 May 2025 -- Iran's foreign minister has decried the international silence on Israel's genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza , saying the ongoing crisis in the besieged territory proves that the fate of the region should not be tied to the decisions made at the think tanks of extra-regional powers.
• Araghchi warns US of unrealistic demands, says Iran will continue enrichment Press TV 18 May 2025 -- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warns the United States against making "unrealistic demands" in talks, saying Tehran will continue its enrichment program with or without a deal with Washington.
• Araqchi: Iran seeking a stronger role for Europe in negotiations IRNA 18 May 2025 -- On the sidelines of the Tehran Dialogue Forum, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in response to a question by an IRNA correspondent about Iran's Friday meeting with the European Troika in Istanbul said, "We continue our talks with Europe and we think the more understanding there is of the situation between us and Europe, the better, and we demand that Europe play its role, even though they themselves have downplayed their role."
• Pezeshkian: We will never abandon our peaceful nuclear program under any pressure Press TV 18 May 2025 -- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says Tehran will never retreat from its peaceful nuclear program, no matter the pressure or threats it faces, dismissing US President Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric.
• Iran to inject over $10bn of oil revenues to its sovereign fund: Report Press TV 18 May 2025 -- The Iranian government will inject more than $10 billion worth of its oil and gas export revenues into the country's sovereign wealth fund in the calendar year to late March, according to a report citing budget figures.
• Iran removes parts of subsidies given to diesel fuel consumers Press TV 18 May 2025 -- The Iranian government has decided to remove a major part of the subsidies allocated to diesel fuel amid efforts to control rampant fuel smuggling that has affected the domestic supply.
• Caspian drilling heralds a transformation in Iran's energy landscape Press TV 18 May 2025 -- Earlier this month, Iran started drilling for oil in the Caspian Sea after a halt of such activities for nearly three decades due to technical, financial, and logistical challenges.
• Iraqi Kurdistan will not become 'source of threat' to Iran: Barzani Press TV 18 May 2025 -- President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Nechirvan Barzani says his territory will not become a "source of threat" to neighboring Iran, stressing that great steps have been taken to secure the common borders.
• Prime Minister Carney meets with Vice President of the United States JD Vance Prime Minister of Canada 18 May 2025
• Prime Minister Carney meets with leaders on the margins of the inaugural Mass of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV Prime Minister of Canada 18 May 2025
• Prime Minister Carney meets with Executive Director of the World Food Programme Cindy H. McCain Prime Minister of Canada 18 May 2025
• Prime Minister Carney meets with Chancellor of Germany Friedrich Merz Prime Minister of Canada 18 May 2025
• Bilateral opening remarks - Rome Prime Minister of Australia 18 May 2025
• Statement by President von der Leyen at the start of her trilateral meeting with Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy and J.D. Vance, Vice-President of the United States European Commission 18 May 2025
• Statement by President von der Leyen at the start of her meeting with Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia European Commission 18 May 2025
• Warsaw Mayor Holds Slim Lead In Polish Presidential Vote, But June 1 Runoff Likely RFE/RL 18 May 2025 -- The contest for the Polish presidency is headed for a June 1 runoff, according to exit polls on May 18, with preliminary forecasts showing Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski - backed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk's centrist Civic Coalition - with a narrow lead.