🇰🇷⚓ SOUTH KOREA – The Navy held a launching ceremony Wednesday for a new 2,800-ton frigate with improved anti-submarine capabilities.

The new warship Pohang is the sixth of the country's FFX Batch II frigates to replace the Navy's 1,500-ton frigates and 1,000-ton patrol combat corvettes, according to the military.

The ceremony was held at its manufacturer Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co.'s Okpo shipyard on the southern island of Geoje, with the attendance of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Won In-choul.

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🇯🇵⚓ JAPAN – On 29 Aug, DSPE JS “Yugiri” conducted a training with 🇩🇪⚓ German Navy ship “Bavarian” while other European countries such as France and the UK demonstrated their will and action of commitment to the Indo-Pacific.

The video shows the training as part of the multinational efforts for FOIP.

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🇯🇵⚡JAPAN – Yesterday, the JASDF Northern Air Defense Force’s fighters scrambled to cope with a suspected intrusion into Japan’s airspace over the Sea of Okhotsk.

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🇯🇵⚡ JAPAN – From Sep. 3 to 5, the JASDF’s fighters scrambled to cope with a suspected intrusion into Japan’s airspace over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea.

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Lads, just enjoy it..

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BREAKING – Kyrgyzstan: A big fire broke out in the market in the city of Kyzyl-Kiya

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🇾🇪⚡ YEMEN – Iran-backed Houthi militants (Ansar Allah) claims to have suffered several airstrikes from Saudi Arabia:

* Ma'rib
- 12 raids on Sirwah district
- 4 raids on the districts of Rahabah and Jabal Murad

* Al Jawf
- 1 raid on Al-Hazm district

* Sa'dah
- 1 raid on Kitaf Wa al Boqe'e

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⚠️ URGENT – 🇪🇪 Estonia: As early as next year, the Estonian Defense Forces are planning to enlist a record 8,300 reservists in military training, which will be the largest deployment since the country's independence.

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🇺🇦⚡ UKRAINE – Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at these moments are firing from mortars on Russian Separatist positions in Spartak and Opytnoye.

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🇪🇺 EU ambassadors extended SANCTIONS against Russia for "annexing Crimea and aggression in Ukraine's Donbas."

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🇪🇬 Egyptian gas transportation project to Lebanon

A conference of energy and fuel ministers from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan was held in Jordan today to propel the project the USA is pushing for - transporting Egyptian gas to Lebanon to held the power crisis.

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GUINEA – Coup leader Mamady Doumbouya met with Vadim RAZUMOVSKIY, Ambassador of the Russia in Guinea.

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Sudan’s foreign ministry has called on the Ethiopian ambassador after 29 bodies floated to the Sudanese side of the Setit River.

The bodies have been identified as members of the Tigray ethnic group.

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⚠️ URGENT – 🇾🇪⚡ Yemen: Clashes between the Yemeni National Army and Iran-backed Houthi militias in northwest of Taiz.

Apparently the Houthis are trying to attack the Yemeni National Army air defense camp.

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