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The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday that it had thwarted a large-scale terrorist attack planned by Kiev, involving the bombing of the Rostov-Tsentralny military air base.

Volodymyr Zelensky tried to blackmail NATO countries with the prospect of Ukraine having nuclear weapons in order to boost support for Kiev, but his approach was ignored, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

A bipartisan group of US senators said they had reached an agreement with the Trump administration to advance long-delayed legislation aimed at imposing tougher economic penalties on Russia and countries that continue to support Moscow's war economy.

In May, 41 OSCE participating States, including Finland, invoked the Moscow Mechanism in cooperation with Ukraine to investigate militarization and indoctrination of Ukrainian children by the Russian Federation.

Today, 10 July 2026, Chargés d'Affaires ad interim of the Embassies of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania in Moscow made a joint demarche at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, strongly rejecting blatantly false public statements from 4 July 2026 by the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, Mikhail Galuzin.

RFE/RL has identified a Russian prison doctor whom dozens of Ukrainian former captives have accused of subjecting inmates to frequent physical and psychological abuse, sexual humiliation, and deprivation of medical care.

A resolution passed earlier this week by the European Parliament (EP) calling for closer cooperation with partners in East Asia mentioned Taiwan 44 times and pledged to reject "any coercive unilateral change of the status quo" in the Taiwan Strait, a Taiwanese diplomat said Friday.

The U.S. State Department on Thursday dismissed China's criticism of American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Director Raymond Greene as "baseless," saying he "fully represents the U.S. government's position."

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In the latest milestone of the ongoing Department of War-driven Acquisition Transformation, the Space Force has designated its third tranche of mission areas that will be assigned Portfolio Acquisition Executives including: Advanced Capabilities, Electromagnetic Warfare and Cyber, and Space Combat Power.

China successfully launched the Changzheng-10B (Long March-10B) carrier rocket from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on Hainan Island on Friday, marking the first controlled recovery of a rocket booster on a marine platform, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) has said.

A complaint was unsealed today charging Abdul Zahir Qadeer, also known as "Haji Abdul Zahir," a former general in Afghanistan's Border Force and First Deputy Speaker of Afghanistan's National Assembly's House of the People, with conspiring to import heroin and methamphetamine and related firearms offenses.

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) enabling a Biometric Data Sharing Partnership (BDSP) with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS).

On July 10, 2026, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS) signed a Biometrics Data Sharing Partnership (BDSP) Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) at the Embassy of Saint Kitts and Nevis in Washington, D.C.

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Any aggression directed against Russia will be met with a decisive response using all available forces and means—and the consequences for the initiators will be devastating, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday.

Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) released the following statement:

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Myanmar's military-backed government removed or destroyed at least 15 statues of Gen. Aung San, who led the country to independence from British rule and was the father of jailed former State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, residents tell Radio Free Asia.

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