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1. President Trump: US is Preparing for Land Operations Against Narcotics Manufacturers in Venezuela.
2. US - Russian Talks in Moscow "Useful & Constructive" - But No Concrete Deal.
3. The Israel Ministry of Defense delivered the first operational Arrow 3 Air Defense System to Germany in a formal ceremony at a German Air Force base near Berlin, Israel’s Ministry of Defense said today.
4. The Red Cross transferred the body of a presumed hostage from Hamas to Israeli security forces in Gaza on Wednesday evening.
5. The family of Sudthisak Rinthalak, one of the two remaining hostages whose bodies are held in the Gaza Strip, spoke Wednesday about the long wait for the return of their son and brother.
Mr. Rinthalak came from the town of Ratnawee in northern Thailand.
6. Lebanese and Israeli civilian representatives held their first direct talks in decades Wednesday, part of a year-old ceasefire monitoring mechanism in the war with Hezbollah.
The meeting was held at the UN peacekeeping force’s headquarters in Naqoura in Lebanon, near the border with Israel.
7. Australia is launching a new independent acquisition system to better cope with increasingly complex weapons systems, one that will report directly to the defense minister and not pass through the secretary of the Defense Department.
“It is the biggest reform to the Defense Organization in 50 years,” Pat Conroy, Minister for the Defense Industry, told reporters on Monday,
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