The United States (US) military announced Tuesday a new test of a hypersonic missile, as Pentagon officials seek to match or get ahead of China's and Russia's advances in the cutting-edge strategic weapons technology.The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said it had recently completed a free flight test of an aircraft-launched hypersonic missile that maintained a speed of more than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound (at least 3,800 miles per hour, or 6,100 kilo

Australia opens its international borders to all vaccinated tourists today, nearly two years after the island nation first imposed some of the world's strictest COVID-19 travel restrictions."The wait is over," Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said during a press conference on Sunday ahead of the re-opening."Pack your bags," he told potential visitors, adding, "Don't forget to bring your money with you, because you'll find plenty of places to spe

Tens of thousands took to the streets in cities across Europe and Australia Saturday as anger mounted over fresh COVID restrictions imposed against a resurgent pandemic.And Dutch police faced a second night of rioting – this time in The Hague – after the previous night's violence in the port city of Rotterdam.Clashes erupted after a day of mainly peaceful protests elsewhere in the Netherlands, with rioters throwing stones and fireworks at police and setting fire to bicycles.

The top diplomat of the Philippines issued a statement published on the Department of Foreign Affairs’ website on 19 September, 2021 saying that “The Philippines welcomes Australia’s decision to establish an enhanced trilateral security partnership with the US primarily and the UK.

Just recently, Australia signed a new security pact with the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) called AUKUS and for the first time, the US will provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines.

President Joe Biden and the leaders of Australia, India and Japan promised Friday to work together for a stable, open and democratic Indo-Pacific in a veiled dig at China during their first in-person summit together.In Biden's latest effort to cement United States (US) leadership in the face of a rising China, the so-called Quad agreed to move ahead on a joint plan to provide COVID-19 vaccines around Asia, launched a new climate initiative and said the four nations would begin holding an

The basic text making the case for an international-relations rulebook was provided by the ancient Greek historian Thucydides in his account of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BCE.

France on Saturday accused Australia and the United States (US) of lying in a crisis over a security pact that saw Canberra scrap a contract to buy French submarines in favour of American vessels."There has been lying, duplicity, a major breach of trust and contempt," French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France 2 television.

Hundreds were arrested after violent clashes between anti-lockdown protesters and police in Australia's two largest cities Saturday as the country recorded its sharpest rise in daily COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began.Sydney's state of New South Wales (NSW) posted 825 infections – a record for the entire country – a day after authorities extended the city's lockdown until at least September to try to head off the Delta variant."No matter how hard we work, no matter if

From South Korea to Australia, authorities are struggling to contain the highly transmissible coronavirus strain that has caused a surge in UK, Europe and the United States (US). Countries throughout Asia Pacific – from South Korea to Australia – have been hit by a rise in coronavirus infections as the Delta variant threatens a new wave of the pandemic even in a region renowned for tackling the virus with a high degree of success.China reported 57 new coronavirus cases in the mainlan