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The agreement brings Australian-designed over-the-horizon radar technology to Canada, marking Australia's largest defence export deal as both Five Eyes partners deepen co-operation.
Beijing has announced new restrictions on exports to American defence-linked firms in retaliation for expanded US sanctions on Chinese technology companies, escalating the two powers' security dispute.
Europe's most ambitious defence programme, the sixth-generation Future Combat Air System, has been abandoned for its core jet after Airbus and Dassault failed to agree on who would lead the work.
President Lee Jae-myung has ruled out a rapid expansion of military cooperation with Tokyo, insisting historical grievances be addressed first, even as North Korea, China and Russia draw closer together.
John Healey accused the Prime Minister and Treasury of failing to fund the armed forces adequately, in a resignation that deepened Labour's crisis.
The former Parachute Regiment officer takes over a department engulfed in a funding row as the Prime Minister moves to steady his government.
The chancellor unveiled her first multi-year settlement, boosting health, defence and nuclear power, but warned that some departments would lose out.
The UK has unveiled a new system to track satellites, debris and potentially hostile objects in orbit, alongside the first images from a powerful military telescope, as ministers warn space is becoming a contested frontier.
John Healey resigned as Defence Secretary on 11 June, warning that the government's spending plan would leave Britain less safe, with armed forces minister Al Carns walking out hours later.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu used special constitutional powers to adopt a delayed budget that lifts military spending sharply, while suspending the contested rise in the retirement age.