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Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles and Defense Personnel Minister Matt Keogh announced the initiative in Canberra on Tuesday, saying it will help develop the Australian Defense Force (ADF), Xinhua news agency reported.Under the expanded eligibility criteria, New...

Singapore, Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles described the actions by Chinese vessels in the West Philippine Sea as a "serious escalation of tensions" and stressed that the move was a joint effort. is inconsistent with the Nation Convention. The Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the...

Singapore, Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has said Australia is expanding its defense ties with India, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam and other partners in Southeast Asia.Speaking at Building Cooperative Security in Asia-Pacific: Plenary Session 3 at the IISS...

The total affected population, including those requiring potential evacuation, is estimated at 7,849, about 42 percent of whom are under the age of 16, the UN office in Papua New Guinea said in a statement."The number of bodies is expected to rise as recovery efforts continue amid challenges...

Several villages in Enga province were affected after part of a mountain collapsed early Friday in the remote central highlands of Papua New Guinea.Papua New Guinea's disaster agency has said more than 2,000 people may be buried under the debris.New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister Winston...

Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said government officials have been in contact with their Papua New Guinea counterparts since the landslide occurred on Friday."Our two countries are very close to each other and in moments of natural disaster, they have been very quick to...

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Australian and Japanese counterparts, Richard Marles and Minoru Kihara, met on Thursday, discussing North Korea, Russia's war in Ukraine, the South China Sea and a number of regional and global issues. Taiwan Strait, Yonhap news agency reported.The...

Defense Minister Shin Won-sik met Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles during his visit to Australia for "two-plus-two talks between the countries' foreign and defense ministers" to be held on Wednesday, Yonhap news agency reported. met up with.The Defense...

Marles said the spending package includes an additional $5.7 billion over the next four years and an immediate investment of more than $1 billion to accelerate the development of long-range missiles and targeting systems, as well as fuel flexibility and robotic and autonomous systems.The...