The government of El Salvador said it thwarted an attempt by fifty high school students to form a criminal gang. "They have managed to capture 46 individuals, including 14 minors, who were organizing to create a criminal structure that threatened to disrupt the peace and security that they have worked so hard to consolidate in country," said Rodolfo Delgado, El Salvador's attorney general, at a press conference.

The gang operated in three public schools and aimed to fill the "criminal power vacuum" left by gangs cornered by Bukele’s security campaign, according to the attorney general.

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The Paraguayan government unveiled four of the six Super Tucano aircraft they purchased to fight criminal groups and drug trafficking. Paraguayan President Santiago Pena attended an inauguration ceremony where the new aircraft were presented to authorities and armed forces.  During the event Pena said that "Today, they face different dangers: organized crime, drug trafficking, and transnational crimes know no borders or nationalities,”

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THE military-political situation in the world is deteriorating, the potential for conflict is growing dangerously, Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov said on Thursday.
“The current military-political situation in the world remains complex and tends to deteriorate. Geopolitical contradictions have intensified. The fundamental foundations of strategic stability are being destroyed. The potential for conflict has increased threateningly. Against this background, the role of international institutions designed to ensure global stability has fallen to an unacceptable level,” Belousov said, addressing the a meeting of heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member countries’ defence ministries.
Numerous hotbeds of instability are being created in the world, including in the SCO and along its perimeter, the minister added.
Prolonging military operations by supplying Kyiv with Western weapons threatens to destabilize the situation in Europe, Andrei Belousov said. — SPUTNIK

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India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approved the joint command system upgrade on Tuesday.

The first such Joint Order, titled ‘Approval, Promulgation and Numbering of Joint Instructions and Joint Orders’, was issued and it focuses on streamlining procedures and eliminating redundancies across the three Services. Singh has authorized the Chief of Defence Staff and the Secretary, Department of Military Affairs to issue Joint Orders for the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

The new approach replaced the earlier system where individual Services issued their own orders for matters involving more than one forces, often leading to duplication and inefficiencies.

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The 16th meeting of the 'India-Nepal Bilateral Consultative Group on Security Issues' was held in Pune on June 23 and 24. Led by Additional Secretary Munu Mahawar from India and Joint Secretary Gahendra Rajbhandari from Nepal, the talks saw participation from defense and Foreign Ministry officials, along with representatives from both armies.

The two sides held wide-ranging discussions on defense and security cooperation including training, joint exercises, equipment supplies, and disaster relief. They also visited key defense manufacturing facilities to explore avenues for collaboration. Established in 2003, the INBCGSI remains the primary institutional mechanism steering India-Nepal defense ties.

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The UN nuclear watchdog chief called for diplomacy and a return to negotiations over Iran's nuclear ambitions. "Otherwise, violence and destruction could reach unimaginable levels, and the global non-proliferation regime that has underpinned international security for more than half a century could crumble and fall," said Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He also called for a cessation of hostilities.

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China announced on Tuesday that it will stage a major military parade in September to mark 80 years since the end of World War II. President Xi Jinping will preside over the event at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on September 3, a senior military official said at a news conference.

"The Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Central Military Commission have decided to hold a grand military parade at Tiananmen in the capital on September 3 this year," Wu Zeke from China's military commission announced.

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced a deal with NATO exempting it from the alliance's five-percent of GDP target for defence spending as demanded by US President Donald Trump.

Multiple diplomats at NATO said the agreement had gone through with the approval of all 32 nations and that there was no exemption for Madrid. Spain has been one of the lowest-spending NATO countries on defence in relative terms. The country is only set to hit the alliance's current target of two percent this year after a 10-billion-euro injection.

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday warned of "a rat hole of retaliation" in the wake of U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.

The U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities marks a perilous turn in a region that is already reeling, Guterres told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.

To avoid further escalation, diplomacy must prevail, civilians must be protected, and safe maritime navigation must be guaranteed, Guterres said. Guterres called for a credible, comprehensive and verifiable solution to restore trust, including inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog.

He stressed that the Non-Proliferation Treaty is a cornerstone of international peace and security, adding that Iran must fully respect it. He also urged the Security Council and all UN member states to act with reason, restraint and urgency for peace.

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The US defense chief said Sunday that strikes ordered by President Donald Trump overnight had "devastated" Iran's nuclear program and urged Iranian leaders to seek peace to avoid further attacks, adding that the operation did not target Iranian troops or the Iranian people.

The president authorized a precision operation to neutralize the threats to national interests posed by the Iranian nuclear program and the collective self-defense of troops and ally Israel, he added.

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