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Extradition bill gone, HK remains uneasy

HONG Kong's leader has withdrawn the extradition bill but some say it's too little too late, with signs the island hasn't...

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05th Sept. 2019 7:09 AM

A Hong Kong police officer takes aim at a protester. Picture: Supplied

US removing Turkey from F-35 program

THE US is removing Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet program after Ankara began accepting delivery of an advanced Russian...

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18th July 2019 10:07 AM

An F-35 undergoes transonic testing, producing shockwaves. The Pentagon stopped delivery of new aircraft last year when it found corrosion at the point where carbon fibre panels joined the aluminium airframe. Picture: US DoD

Violence erupts: China ‘sinks’ boat

CHINA has dramatically escalated tensions in one of the most hotly disputed places on the planet, reportedly sinking a...

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08th March 2019 1:03 PM

A 2015 aerial photo showing land reclamation works in the South China Sea. Picture: AFP/Ritchie B. Tongo

37-year mystery to be reopened

THE case of a toddler who vanished from a supermarket on her second birthday at the height of the Cold War will be reopened...

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02nd May 2018 4:05 PM

Katrice Lee vanished on her second birthday in Germany. Now the case will be reopened.

Russia calls it: It’s Cold War II

RUSSIA has announced the second Cold War via Twitter, but how will it differ from the deadly cloak-and-dagger world of the...

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16th March 2018 4:03 AM

A man untangles a flag at London’s Russian Embassy after Britain announced it will expel 23 diplomats over the attack on a former spy. Picture: Alastair Grant

Russia unleashes secret fighter

SU-57 is the next generation combat jet.

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27th Feb. 2018 11:02 AM

Russia unleashes secret fighter

VLADIMIR Putin has sent his most secret stealth fighter to square-off against the best the United States has to...

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27th Feb. 2018 11:02 AM

Russia's T-50 PAK-FA prototype stealth fighter, now known as the Su-57

Russian hybrid warfare 'bigger threat than terror'

From assassinations and cyber attacks to fake news and corruption - the head of the British Army warns they pose a greater...

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23rd Jan. 2018 6:01 PM

The head of the British Army, General Sir Nick Carter, delivers a speech in London warning the country's ability to respond to Russian threats will erode if the UK does not keep up with its enemies.

Nuke 'risk worst since Cold War'

Plummeting US-Russia relations, threats from terrorists and rogue states and the behaviour of US President Donald Trump are...

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10th Oct. 2017 5:10 PM

Speakers at the 10th anniversary conference of the Luxembourg Forum have expressed grave worry over Donald Trump's avowed aim of scrapping the landmark nuclear deal with Iran and his repeated public threats to annihilate North Korea.

Nuclear attack: 'A third of the world would die'

Simultaneous detonation of a hundred nuclear devices would be bad for you even if you were on the other side of the...

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17th May 2017 6:05 AM

A nuclear winter would kill millions worldwide. You really don’t want that bomb to go off.