Secretary of War Hegseth Speech to Defense Industry Leaders + US to Establish Presence at Airbase in Syria + B-52 Warplanes Fly Along Venezuelan Coast + More
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1. Secretary of War Hegseth Speech to Defense Industry Leaders.
2. Ukrainian forces continue to stubbornly defend the pocket around Pokrovsk despite relentless Russian assaults, leading to an ever-increasing threat of encirclement.
3. US to Establish Presence at Airbase in Syria.
4. The US has added the entire text of US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for ending the Gaza war to the UN Security Council Resolution.
5. US President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the Central Asian, Muslim-majority country of Kazakhstan will be the first country to join the Abraham Accords in his second term.
6. Senate Republicans blocked a war powers resolution on Thursday aimed at preventing President Trump from conducting strikes against Venezuela.
The vote to advance the resolution failed with 49 supporting it and 51 senators opposing.
7. A pair of US B-52 bombers flew over the Caribbean Sea along the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, in the fourth such show of force by American military aircraft in recent weeks.
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