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[Link] Israel says Putin apologised for foreign minister's Hitler remarks
Read: 6/5/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, said on Thursday that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, had apologised for his foreign minister’s claims that Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins.
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[Link] How Russia Used the War in Ukraine to ‘Occupy’ Another Neighbouring Country
Read: 16/3/2022 www.vice.com
The Belarusian dictator’s complicity in letting his country be used by Russia to attack Ukraine has effectively turned Belarus into a Russian client state and amounts to an occupation, the country’s opposition says.
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[Link] Ukraine declares state of emergency as fears of Russian invasion grow
Read: 23/2/2022 www.abc.net.au
Ukraine has introduced a nationwide state of emergency in which special restrictions will apply in order to keep the country calm and protect its economy amid fears of a Russian invasion, a senior Ukrainian security official says.
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[Link] Sweden returns to cold war tactics to battle fake news
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
A top official from Sweden’s new “psychological defence” agency said the country had decided to bring back the cold war-era government body amid fears over Russian aggression against Ukraine.
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[Link] Australia urged to spend more on Covax program amid criticisms of ‘vaccine diplomacy’
Read: 30/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Australia has distributed 18m doses of Covid-19 vaccine to neighbouring countries but is being urged to dedicate money and resources to Covax – the global vaccination mechanism – so that the world’s least-inoculated countries can access vaccines.
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[Link] Alleged mini meth lab and firearms discovered in PNG hotel, but Australian manager won't face drug charges
Read: 25/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Papua New Guinea police say outdated drug laws have left them unable to lay drug charges against the Australian manager of a Port Moresby hotel where an alleged clandestine meth lab and illegal firearms were discovered.
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[Link] Ex-Nato head says Putin wanted to join alliance early on in his rule
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Vladimir Putin wanted Russia to join Nato but did not want his country to have to go through the usual application process and stand in line “with a lot of countries that don’t matter”, according to a former secretary general of the transatlantic alliance.
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[Link] Afghanistan’s neighbours gather in Tehran to discuss its future
Read: 4/11/2021 www.aljazeera.com
Iran says the main goal of the event is to emphasise the call for the formation of an ‘inclusive’ government in Afghanistan.
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[Link] French officials vent fury over Australian leak of Macron text message
Read: 2/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Elysée officials have expressed fury at the Australian prime minister Scott Morrison’s decision to leak a private text message from the French president, Emmanuel Macron, as the diplomatic rift between the two countries deepened.
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[Link] Closer ties with Indonesia army the focus of joint military training in Top End
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Battling heatwave conditions and pandemic precautions, about 300 Australian and Indonesian soldiers are conducting their largest ever annual joint combat training across defence bases in the Top End.
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[Link] British defence chief reveals new AUKUS security pact could expand to include other allies
Read: 22/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The UK's departing Chief of the Defence Staff has signalled the new trilateral AUKUS security pact with the United States and Australia could be expanded to include other allies such as Japan.
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[Link] Climate change is a national security issue, but not in the way Scott Morrison imagines
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Scott Morrison describes climate change as a national security issue. He’s right – but not in the way he imagines. If global heating exacerbates conflict, conflict also exacerbates heating, in a dialectic that fundamentally links decarbonisation to the struggle for peace.
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[Link] The Taliban says US will provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan
Read: 11/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The US has agreed to provide humanitarian aid but refused to give political recognition to Afghanistan's new rulers, the Taliban says. The statement came at the end of the first direct talks between the former foes since the chaotic withdrawal of Coalition troops at the end of August.
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