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NATIONAL SECURITY

Nationwide FBI raids target alleged ‘cult' near five Army posts. The FBI joined with local law enforcement agencies last week to raid at least five churches near Army installations associated with an alleged cult that critics say preys on service members and veterans.

Four former Navy officers convicted in ‘Fat Leonard' bribery trial. The jury deadlocked and reached no verdict on charges against a fifth defendant, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.

CHINA THREAT

Companies in China are aiding Russia's military, US alleges. The United States has placed five companies in China on the entity list over their aid to Russia's military.

Learn Ukraine lessons and apply them to Taiwan, says UK foreign minister. The West must learn from its mistakes in failing to deter Russia's invasion of Ukraine and apply those lessons to Taiwan to “protect peace and stability in the Taiwan strait”, British foreign minister Liz Truss said on Thursday.

RUSSIA THREAT

US to boost military presence in Europe for Russia threat. President Joe Biden said Wednesday that the U.S. will significantly increase its military presence in Europe for the long haul, including by establishing its first permanent presence in Poland, to bolster regional security after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Those 300,000 high-readiness NATO troops? ‘Concept,' not reality. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's announcement this week caught the top defense officials of many NATO members off guard, leading them to question which of their forces, if any, were being included.

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 127. Russia is stepping up its attacks across Ukraine with several regions beyond the Donbas targeted on Wednesday, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Ten missiles hit a residential area of the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv, killing at least five people with rescue efforts continuing. Rescuers are attempting to evacuate residents from the front-line eastern city of Lysychansk, with about 15,000 people remaining in the city, Ukrainian authorities said.

Near Kherson, Ukrainians regain territory in major counteroffensive. With Russian forces focused mainly in the east, Ukraine is retaking occupied towns in the south.

Ukraine wins release of 144 soldiers in biggest prisoner swap of war. Ukraine on Wednesday carried out its biggest exchange of prisoners of war since Russia invaded.

Russia publishes Pentagon coordinates, says Western satellites ‘work for our enemy'. Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, told the Russian RIA Novosti news agency: “The entire conglomerate of private and state orbital groupings is now working exclusively for our enemy.”

IRAN THREAT

US, Iran indirect nuclear talks conclude without progress. Iran had “raised issues wholly unrelated to the JCPOA [the 2015 nuclear deal] and apparently is not ready to make a fundamental decision on whether it wants to revive the deal or bury it”, the US State Department said on Wednesday evening, after two days of European Union-mediated discussion in the Qatari capital Doha.

NORTH KOREA THREAT

Leaders of US, South Korea and Japan agree closer cooperation over North Korea threat. U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol met on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Madrid and agreed that the progress of North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes posed serious threats to not only the Korean peninsula but also East Asia and the world.

No longer ‘Groundhog Day' in North Korea. Like the classic movie “Groundhog Day,” North Korea's seemingly endless ballistic missile tests occur, a mostly inured world condemns then moves on. Passive acceptance. Rinse. Repeat. No more. With 33 missile tests already this year, preparations for a seventh nuclear test (North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un seems to love U.S. holidays, so maybe July 4) and an unusual three-day military meeting last week, Kim is opening a dangerous new chapter of the “problem from hell” story.

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Gulf states willing to host Israeli sensors for air-defense network: Sources. When Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz announced on June 20 the existence of a new regional joint air defense network, known as the Middle East Air Defense Alliance (MEAD), few details were available, including which countries would take part and the depth of the agreement.

UN envoy warns Congo's M23 rebels are acting like an army. The U.N. special envoy for Congo warned Wednesday that the M23 rebel group has increasingly acted as a conventional army during escalating military action in the country's volatile east and could threaten the U.N. peacekeeping force charged with protecting civilians. 

US MILITARY AND SPACE

Air Force leaders discourage use of gender specific pronouns in award citations. The Air Force leaders guidance said to use ‘they' instead of ‘he/she his/hers' for awards.

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