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India and Japan held their 8th Defence Policy Dialogue in Tokyo, Japan on 13 July 2026. The Indian delegation was led by Defence Secretary Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh and the Japanese delegation was led by Vice Minister of Defence for International Affairs Mr. Kano Koji. Both sides reviewed the significant progress made in bilateral defence cooperation since the previous Defence Policy Dialogue and reaffirmed their commitment to further strengthening the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership.

Foreign Minister Wadephul is travelling to Brussels today for the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC). The discussions held by the EU Foreign Ministers will focus on further support for Ukraine, security in the Black Sea and the situation in the Middle East.

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China's Foreign Ministry on Sunday issued a statement in response to certain countries' playing up of the "South China Sea Arbitration Award" 10 years after its issuance. Chinese Foreign Ministry reiterated that China does not accept or recognize the "award," and China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea shall not be affected by the "award" under any circumstances.

MOD has awarded £3.16 million to three companies to counter drone threats, becoming the first European partner to act under a joint defence programme.

Renewed strikes and counterstrikes between Iran and the United States in the Gulf region have raised fears of a return to all‑out war, with Washington denying Tehran's claim that it had closed the crucial Strait of Hormuz on Sunday.

A statement by the E3 (UK, France & Germany) on Iranian attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and countries in the region.

The US launched a new wave of strikes against Iran early on July 13, following up their air assaults the previous day on areas near the strategically important Strait of Hormuz that it said were in response to Tehran's attacks on shipping in the waterway.

A new UNICEF report released today highlights that child food and nutrition insecurity is one of the primary drivers putting 3.7 million children under the age of five in Afghanistan at increased risk of undernutrition, underscoring the urgent need to protect children's diets and act earlier to prevent life-threatening wasting.

A coalition of 14 countries marked the 10th anniversary of the landmark arbitral ruling on the South China Sea (SCS) on Sunday, reaffirming that the decision remains legally binding and rejecting China's sweeping maritime claims based on so-called "historic rights."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on July 12 that he intends to replace Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko as part of a broader government reshuffle, saying the changes are needed to implement an updated political strategy.

US Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the Republican Party's most influential voices on foreign policy and among Ukraine's strongest supporters in Washington, died on July 11 after what his office described as a "brief and sudden illness." He was 71.

An Iranian strike targeted a US vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, with American attacks along Iran's southern coast reported shortly after.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz until US intervention in the region ends.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said on Sunday that future arrangements for managing shipping through the Strait of Hormuz should be determined through consultations between Iran and Oman.

Iran will review requests for vessel transit through the Strait of Hormuz once the situation in the region stabilizes, the Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) said on Sunday.

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The General Secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation expresses its strong condemnation and denunciation of the Iranian attacks against the Kingdom of Bahrain, the State of Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, the State of Qatar, the Sultanate of Oman and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which constitute a flagrant and ongoing violation of the sovereignty of these states and a breach of the principles of good-neighbourliness based on mutual respect.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) completed a new wave of offensive strikes against Iran, July 12, hitting dozens of targets at multiple locations with precision munitions to degrade Iran's ability to continue attacking international shipping flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.