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Airmen from the 22nd Air Refueling Wing Innovation Lab at McConnell Air Force Base invented a new remote start device for the KC-46A Pegasus called the Auxiliary Power Unit Start System this year.

In an era defined by rapid technology advancements and with a worldwide platform saturated with Great Power Competition, the Distributed Mission Operations Center on Kirtland Air Force Base, hosted its Virtual Flag: Coalition exercise, Oct. 21-Nov. 4.

The Council approved conclusions on the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) Strategic Review.

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On 19 November, the EU and North Macedonia signed a Security and Defence Partnership.

On 19 November 2024, Sweden's Minister for Defence Pål Jonson and Lithuania's Minister of Defence Laurynas Kačiūnas signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) on strengthened defence cooperation between Sweden and Lithuania.

On 19 November, Sweden's Minister for Defence Pål Jonson met with Lithuania's Minister of Defence Laurynas Kačiūnas. During the meeting, a Letter of Intent (LOI) on strengthened defence cooperation between Sweden and Lithuania was signed.

A batch of five Beechcraft T-6C Texan II - the first military aircraft provided by the U.S. to Vietnam - has arrived in Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City, witnesses told Radio Free Asia.

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As the Security Council meeting of 18 November concluded, regional delegations, condemning the horrific aggression being wrought upon the Palestinian people by Israel, along with that country's attacks against Lebanon, urged the 15‑nation organ to adopt a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza before famine consumes it and the dangerously escalating violence engulfs the entire Middle East. (For background, please see Press

espite more than 200 children killed in Lebanon in less than two months, a disconcerting pattern has emerged: their deaths are met with inertia from those able to stop this violence.

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating six senior Hamas officials, including the terrorist group's representatives abroad, a senior member of the Hamas military wing, the Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, as well as individuals involved in supporting the terrorist group's fundraising efforts and weapons smuggling into Gaza.

The de facto leader of Georgia's Moscow-backed breakaway Abkhazia region has signed his resignation amid ongoing protests by opposition supporters against a property deal with Russia.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres is alarmed by the escalating violence in Haiti, where armed gangs are reportedly gaining ground in the capital Port-au-Prince, his Spokesperson said on Tuesday.

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced that its humanitarian flights will resume on 20 November after regulatory issues were resolved following a short interruption. The WFP-run United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) provides vital passenger and light-cargo transport within Haiti for the entire humanitarian community including local and international NGOs and UN entities.

Cambodia's former foreign minister Prak Sokhonn will soon return to the role after the country's lawmakers vote on a cabinet reshuffle, the National Assembly said in a statement Tuesday.

Georgian anti-government protesters resumed their rallies at several points in Tbilisi in the evening on November 19 hours following a violent dispersal by security forces of a tent city they had set up in the Caucasus nation's capital.

A new wastewater directive could impose financial obligations of approximately €400 million on the Czech pharmaceutical sector, impacting essential medicines availability and hurting generics supply while failing to deal effectively with micropollutants.

A new data report shows a one-off 4.9% reduction in hospital spending on medicines in 2022 in the Netherlands. Good news for the health budget but bad news for patients denied timely access to new medicines.