The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) faces toughest test yet. Five years after commissioning, CVN 78 is undergoing a month of punishing exercises and certifications to be ready for its first worldwide deployment.

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🇸🇦🇮🇷 Iran and Saudi Arabia are re-establishing diplomatic ties after closing each other's embassies in 2016. China's mediation has proved decisive. It is no small setback for Israel at a time when the Abraham accords are trying to take shape to see that Riyadh rekindle relations with the existential threat from Iran. Also noteworthy is the role of Beijing which is trying to carve out a space for itself as a protagonist in the Middle East, taking advantage of the partial disengagement of the United States from the region. Do not forget, however, that Tehran remains a Shia country and Saudi Arabia a Sunni nation. Eternal idiosyncrasies that cannot be overlooked.

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🇮🇷🇧🇾 Meeting between the President of Belarus Lukashenko and the President of Iran Raisi. Iran wants to appear as a non-isolated nation and is developing new bilateral ties with several countries: China, Russia, and the recent Saudi Arabia.

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🇪🇺 EU will give first evaluation of Ukraine's EU accession progress in May.

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🇺🇳🌽 According to Russian diplomatic mission in Geneva, negotiation began between U.N. and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin on a possible extension to a deal allowing the safe export of grain from Ukraine's Black Sea ports

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🇺🇸 The US Navy's fleet readiness is low, a Navy commander argues at Defense One. Making operations with an amphibious group more difficult in the event of a crisis. In February 2022, the Marines delayed their response to the invasion of Ukraine, and last month they had difficulties deploying vessels needed to send Marines to earthquake zones in Syria and Turkey. "We must have an inventory of no less than 31 without dismantling the amphibious groups without having replacements in hand," added the commander.

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US Navy program over the next 5 years

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🇺🇦 FLASH NEWS: In Melitopol, a car was blown up in the market area on Kirov Street.

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Russian fighter jet struck a USAF MQ-9 reaper drone over the Black Sea — U.S. European Command

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