The Royal Navy’s first contribution to Submarine Rotational Force-West (SRF-W) is on its way to the southern hemisphere. HMS Anson will join SRF-W at HMAS Stirling in Western Australia, marking an ...

When Australia bid to host the 2026 annual global climate change negotiations COP31, it envisioned a Pacific partnership that would centre climate dialogue around the concerns of vulnerable island ...

On the island of Kioa in Fiji, the community’s diesel generator provides light and enough power to charge laptops, phones and headtorches for six hours each evening. But its limits are felt most ...

The protests that shook Iran in late December and January were met with unusually harsh repression by the Islamic Republic, resulting in more than ten thousand deaths and mass arrests. This wave of ...

The latest version of the US National Defence Strategy (NDS), released on 23 January, offers China a deal for a “stable peace.” The Chinese government, however, is not likely to respond the way the ...

Myanmar has yet to attract serious attention from President Trump. The silence might seem surprising, as issues that have been the ostensible motivation behind Trump’s foreign policy adventurism ...

A new analysis shows that just 32 fossil fuel companies were responsible for half of global carbon dioxide emissions in 2024. A relatively small group of producers continues to extract and sell the ...

In his oft-cited address at this year’s Davos confab, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned of nothing less than “a rupture in the world order”, where even the “pleasant fiction” of a rules-based ...