Sweden also has official minority languages such as Finnish and Sámi, which are prominent in certain geographic areas. These ...

The Taliban has long held international energy ambitions. Plans to build a $10 billion gas pipeline connecting Turkmenistan, ...

Dmitri Alperovitch is the author of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century. In this Lowy Institute Conversation, he talks with Sam Roggeveen about China’s ...

India’s second Arihant-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), INS Arighaat, was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 29 August. The new submarine brings India one step closer to a nuclear ...

Beijing is determined to win the world over to its one-China principle, which holds that Taiwan is an “inalienable part” of ...

A new United Nations climate instrument to support the most vulnerable countries will make its mark if it follows six key ...

In the past 24 hours, nearly 3000 pagers carried by members of the terrorist group Hezbollah exploded across Lebanon. This audacious and imaginative attack on Hezbollah killed at least nine people and ...

The AUKUS Electronic Warfare Innovation Challenge, started in March 2024, is another example of publicly avowed Pillar II ...

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At a press conference in Tonga last week, Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Pat Conroy, was quick to defend the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme when a ...

Australia and Indonesia signed a defence agreement last month, declared by both sides to be a significant upgrade to their military relationship. The question, however, centres on what is really ...