TOKYO, 06 APRIL 2026 (THE ASAHI SHIMBUN) — In light of China’s expanding military activities, Japan has created an organisation to strengthen defense on the country’s Pacific flank, an area considered a low priority and more vulnerable to incursions. Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi emphasised the significance of the 10-member Pacific defense initiative office, which was […]
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How US forces pulled off daring rescue of stranded airman shot down in Iran
Rudi Maxwell with wires https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-06/how-us-forces-rescued-stranded-airman-in-iran-explainer/106533914 (ABC-Australia) The US military has pulled off a daring rescue of two aviators whose fighter jet was shot down by Iran. American forces plucked the pilot from behind enemy lines before a complicated extraction of the second airman, who hid in a mountain crevice as Tehran called for Iranians to […]
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Donald Trump says he is considering pulling US out of ‘paper tiger’ NATO alliance
In short: (ABC-Australia) Donald Trump has scaled up threats to pull the United States out of NATO if European states do not help reopen the Strait of Hormuz. In an interview with the UK’s The Daily Telegraph, Mr Trump called the defence alliance a “paper tiger” and said removing the US from the alliance was […]
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Powerful magnitude-7.4 earthquake strikes Indonesia, tsunami warning issued
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-02/indonesia-molucca-sea-earthquake-tsunami-warning/106525262?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web (ABC-Australia) A powerful magnitude-7.4 earthquake has struck in the Molucca Sea region north-east of Indonesia, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The USGS reported aftershocks as high as magnitude 5, and Indonesia’s meteorology agency reported tsunami waves in West Halmahera at 0.3m high and Bitung at 0.2m high. The quake, which hit early […]
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Anthony Albanese calls for ‘more certainty’ on US objectives in Iran war
By acting defence and national security correspondent Tom Lowrey and Paul Johnson In short: (ABC-Australia) The prime minister has said he wants a clear outline from the US as to what it wants to achieve in Iran. Anthony Albanese warned that if the US wants to see regime change in Iran, it would be difficult […]
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Global trading system hit by ‘worst disruptions in the past 80 years’: WTO chief
YOUNDE, 27 MARCH 2026 (AFP)—-The global trading system is experiencing the “worst disruptions in the past 80 years”, World Trade Organisation (WTO) chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala warned as the WTO ministerial conference opened Thursday. “The world order and the multilateral system we use to know has irrevocably changed,” she said, adding: “We cannot deny the scale […]