🇩🇪❗️ — Germany is planning to develop long-range combat drones for deep-strike missions, according to Handelsblatt.

➡️ Three industrial consortia are working on concepts: Airbus with Kratos, Rheinmetall with Anduril, and Helsing.

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🇰🇷 — South Korea has successfully deployed the first batch of its upgraded Cheongung-II air defense system, which can intercept both aircraft and ballistic targets.

➡️ The system, an enhancement of the earlier Cheongung-I, is expected to be fully operational by 2027.

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🇹🇭🤝🇰🇭 The contested border areas between Thailand and Cambodia are reported to be calm, with no fighting taking place, as of Tuesday.

➡️ This comes after repeated reports of ceasefire violations on Monday, just hours after it was announced by Malaysian PM Ibrahim.

➡️ UPDATE: New clashes reported as of 3:45 UTC.

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🇮🇶❌🇮🇶 — Iraqi Prime Minister al-Sudani told the Associated Press that during the 12-day Israel-Iran conflict, Iraqi security forces blocked 29 attempts by Iran-backed groups in Iraq to launch missiles and drones at Israel and U.S. bases.

➡️ He said the actions were taken to prevent giving Israel a pretext to target Iraq.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳🇸🇪 — U.S. and Chinese officials have begun a second day of talks in Stockholm aimed at extending their current 90-day tariff truce, which is set to expire in two weeks.

➡️ The agenda includes discussions on export controls, U.S. levies related to fentanyl trafficking, and China’s purchase of sanctioned oil from Russia and Iran.

➡️ U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who is leading the talks alongside Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, expressed optimism, stating that a tariff extension is “likely” and that trade relations with China are currently “in a very good place.”

➡️ The outcome could lay the groundwork for a possible meeting between President Trump and President Xi Jinping later this year in South Korea.

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🇬🇧🇫🇷🇵🇸 — Senior UK ministers, including Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, Health Secretary Wes Streeting, and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood, are urging Prime Minister Keir Starmer to support Palestinian statehood at the UN General Assembly in September, following France's lead, according to the Financial Times.

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🇫🇷🇵🇸 — France will carry out airdrops of aid to Gaza in the coming days, according to AFP.

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