Long-Range Deterrence: Australia Takes Delivery of First HIMARS Missiles
Australia’s army has received its first delivery of a “game changer” mobile long-range US rocket system, the government said Monday.

Australia’s army has received its first delivery of a “game changer” mobile long-range US rocket system, the government said Monday.
At least seven people were killed after Russia launched a barrage of drones across Ukraine overnight on Sunday, according to local Ukrainian officials and emergency services.
French President Emmanuel Macron condemned Sunday the “poison of antisemitism” following a shocking attack on the chief rabbi of the central city of Orleans
Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican from the hospital on Sunday after surviving a five-week, life-threatening bout of pneumonia.
Pope Francis will be released from the hospital on Sunday, after 38 days battling a life-threatening case of pneumonia in both lungs, his doctors said.
One year since the Moscow concert hall attack killed 145 people, Russian officials asserted Saturday that it was planned and organized by “the special services of an unfriendly state.”
London Heathrow Airport said it was “fully operational” on Saturday after a closure over an electrical substation fire.
Russia launched a drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three people and wounded 12, Ukrainian officials said Saturday, despite agreeing to a limited ceasefire.
Polish prosecutors filed charges against a former defense minister after he declassified parts of a plan for if Russia invaded the country.
Russia and Ukraine said Wednesday they had each swapped 175 prisoners in one of the largest exchanges since the Russian invasion.
Two migrants have died in attempts to cross the treacherous waters of the English Channel from France to Britain over the past two days.
The Italian Coast Guard recovered six bodies and was searching for up to 40 migrants missing after a rubber dinghy that departed from Tunisia sank in the central Mediterranean, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday called for “pragmatism” to prevent an EU-US dispute over tariffs from escalating into a full-scale trade war, and expressed support for U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Death severs last living link to young men who fought Germany to a standstill amid fears Britain might capitulate during early months of WW2.
UK energy minister Ed Miliband met officials in Beijing on Monday after vowing to press them on China’s emissions.
Andrii Hnatov appointed as the new chief of the general staff as the country looks to restructure and strengthen its military.
US President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to speak this week, officials said on Sunday, as Washington and Kyiv’s European allies press Moscow to accept a ceasefire in the three-year war.
A fire tore through a nightclub in North Macedonia’s eastern town of Kocani, killing 59 people and injuring more than 100, authorities said.
The top U.S. and Russian diplomats discussed Saturday the “next steps” to end the war in Ukraine, hours after Kyiv’s allies agreed to exert pressure on Moscow.
Tens of thousands descended on Belgrade on Saturday as part of a mass rally against Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
Renault is testing a new driverless bus in Barcelona this week. The autonomous vehicle runs on a 1.3-mile circular route in the Spanish city.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is convening a second meeting of global leaders Saturday to discuss the developments regarding the war in Ukraine, following another frantic week of diplomacy aimed at getting Russia to back a 30-day ceasefire.
Russia and Ukraine traded heavy aerial blows overnight Saturday, with both sides reporting more than 100 enemy drones over their respective territories.
Finland announced a new arms package for Ukraine amounting to around 200 million euros ($217 million) and pledged more defense cooperation.
Israeli PM Netanyahu will visit Hungary in the coming weeks despite an international arrest warrant over the war in the Gaza Strip.
Bosnian prosecutors on Wednesday ordered the detention of three top Bosnian Serb officials over a series of separatist actions.
Ukraine has questions it wants answered as army chiefs from over 30 countries arrive in Paris for talks on creating an international force.
Several hundred student protesters have blocked Serbia’s public television station building in Belgrade as tensions are soaring.
Russia said on Monday it was expelling two British diplomats based at the embassy in Moscow over spying allegations.
Flight cancellations at Hamburg Airport after a surprise strike by workers affected more than 40,000 passengers on Sunday, a day before a planned wider protest across Germany amid new contract negotiations.
Pope Francis continued his recovery from double pneumonia Sunday after doctors reported some positive news: After more than three weeks in the hospital, the 88-year-old pope is responding well to treatment and has shown a “gradual, slight improvement” in recent days.
Canada’s Liberal Party looked set Sunday to choose a former central banker and political novice as its next leader, replacing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as it confronts threats from US President Donald Trump.
Russia on Saturday said its troops had retaken three villages seized by Ukraine in its Kursk border region in a fresh setback for Kyiv as the prospect of peace talks draws closer.
Polish abortion rights activists opened a centre across from the parliament building in Warsaw on Saturday where women can go to have abortions with pills, either alone or with other women.
Discovery of unexploded bomb halted services and caused cascading disruptions to scores of other trains.
New Zealand´s most senior envoy to the United Kingdom has lost his job over remarks he made about U.S. President Donald Trump.
South Korea and Poland have been strategic partners since 2013, with South Korea in recent years becoming a major supplier of weapons.
Parties agree to loosen constitutional restrictions on borrowing, enabling 1 trillion euros or more on defense and infrastructure.
Oil deliveries to the Czech Republic from Russia have been halted, the state company operating the pipeline network said Tuesday.
At least three lawmakers were injured on Tuesday after chaos erupted in Serbia´s parliament, where smoke bombs and flares were thrown.