Australia has confirmed a $1.3 billion missile deal with the U.S., highlighting its defence priorities, while stopping short of committing to Washington’s 3.5% GDP spending target.
The missiles will equip Australia’s F/A-18 and F-35 jets, and a new army unit targeting aerial threats up to 500 km away. Despite this significant investment, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has resisted U.S. pressure to raise defence spending to 3.5% of GDP, sticking to a projected 2.3% by 2033.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong emphasized Australia’s 'capability approach' and noted the current boost as the country's largest peacetime military funding increase.
"I know there will be more capability required, I think we all understand that, and we will fund the capability Australia needs," she said.
A planned meeting between Albanese and President Donald Trump at the G7 was cancelled due to Trump’s early departure amid escalating Israel-Iran tensions, though a rescheduling is underway.
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Small Cirrus SR 20 crashed in Littleborough, Rochdale, after taking off from Birmingham Airport
President Donald Trump on Tuesday (February 3) said the U.S. is negotiating with Iran "right now," after Tehran demanded that planned talks be held in Oman not Türkiye, and that the scope be narrowed.
A second group of Palestinian medical evacuees arrived in Egypt from Gaza via the Rafah border crossing on Tuesday (February 3), the second day since the crossing reopened.
Heavy snow continued to batter northern and western Japan on Saturday (31 January) leaving cities buried under record levels of snowfall and prompting warnings from authorities. Aomori city in northern Japan recorded 167 centimetres of snow by Friday - the highest January total since 1945.
The United States accused Cuba of interfering with the work of its top diplomat in Havana on Sunday (1 February) after small groups of Cubans jeered at him during meetings with residents and church representatives.
Talks with the U.S. should be pursued to secure national interests as long as "threats and unreasonable expectations" are avoided, President Masoud Pezeshkian posted on X on Tuesday (3 February).
Early voting for Thailand’s parliamentary elections began on Sunday (1 February), with more than two million eligible voters casting ballots nationwide ahead of the 8 February general election, as authorities acknowledged errors and irregularities at some polling stations.
At least 12 people were killed and seven wounded after a Russian drone struck a bus carrying miners in Ukraine's southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, government officials said on Sunday (1 February).
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday and discussed the situation in Ukraine, including the overnight Russian attacks on the country, the UK government said.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday (3 February) signed a spending deal into law that ends a partial U.S. government shutdown and gives lawmakers time to negotiate potential limits on his immigration crackdown.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met on Tuesday (February 3) with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar one day after the U.S. and India signed a trade deal that slashes U.S. tariffs on Indian goods.
Small Cirrus SR 20 crashed in Littleborough, Rochdale, after taking off from Birmingham Airport
President Donald Trump on Tuesday (February 3) said the U.S. is negotiating with Iran "right now," after Tehran demanded that planned talks be held in Oman not Türkiye, and that the scope be narrowed.
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