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Business, Published on 30/06/2025
» The unpredictable Israel-Iran conflict is intensifying the disorder overwhelming the Pheu Thai Party's coalition government.
Oped, Gareth Evans, Published on 19/06/2025
» The Aukus partnership, the 2021 deal whereby the United States and the United Kingdom agreed to provide Australia with at least eight nuclear-propelled submarines over the next three decades, has come under review by the US Defence Department.
Published on 16/01/2024
» A commodity-carrying ship was hit by a missile on Tuesday in the Red Sea, a fresh sign of intensifying attacks on merchant vessels in a waterway that key industry groups say remains too dangerous for navigation.
News, Published on 02/09/2023
» It seems increasingly likely that the Ukrainians won't be able to drive out the Russian invaders, and that the Russians won't succeed in swallowing any more of Ukraine either. What, aside from unimaginable human misery, comes next?
AFP, Published on 08/06/2023
» WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Rishi Sunak opened talks Thursday with US President Joe Biden at the White House to discuss the Ukraine war and NATO's future leadership -- as well as taking an opportunity to boost Britain's post-Brexit brand.
Oped, Published on 08/04/2023
» By building up the notion of the Indo-Pacific as a critical region, Shinzo Abe, the late Japanese prime minister, created a strategic framework that presaged the geopolitical and economic integration now taking place across Asia and parts of Africa. As South Asian and Middle Eastern countries merge into West Asia, a new continental order could reshape the global balance of power.
AFP, Published on 14/03/2023
» ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE - Australia will buy as many as five US nuclear-powered submarines and later build a new model with US and British technology under an ambitious plan to beef up Western muscle across the Asia-Pacific in the face of a rising China, a US official said Monday.
AFP, Published on 08/03/2023
» SYDNEY - The leaders of the United States, Britain and Australia will meet in the United States next week to discuss security and foreign policy, the British Prime Minister's office announced on Wednesday, ahead of an expected nuclear submarine deal aimed at countering China's growing assertiveness in the Pacific.
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/01/2023
» Alliances are as old as civilisation. Older, actually: almost every hunter-gatherer band that anthropologists have studied, from the New Guinea highlanders to the Yanomamo in the Amazon, made alliances with other groups to try to protect themselves.
AFP, Published on 22/11/2021
» SYDNEY: Australia formally embarked on Monday on a hotly-contested programme to equip its navy with nuclear-powered submarines in a new defence alliance with Britain and the United States.