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China has obtained the big screen software used by Nato and the United States for war room mapping, putting its forces on an equal organisational footing with some of the West's elite military operations. Luciad, a defence contractor based in Leuven, Belgium, is selling the Chinese government high

A court filing from months ago hinted at the possibility that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged by federal prosecutors, and authorities do not...

Vice President Mike Pence challenged China on Friday by saying the South China Sea doesn't belong to anyone and that the U.S. will sail and fly wherever international law permits.

The German Chancellor put forward the idea in a speech to the European Parliament, echoing the words of Emmanuel Macron who called for the creation of a European army just days earlier.

Police say a man who fatally stabbed another and injured two in central Melbourne had also planned to set off an explosion

France will 'experiment' with monitoring taxpayers' social media accounts to prevent fraud

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on U.S.-China talks involving top diplomats and defense chiefs (all times local): 1:50 p.m. China is telling the U.S. to stop sending American ships and military aircraft close to islands that Beijing claims in the South

French security agents have arrested six people on preliminary terrorism charges for allegedly plotting to attack French President Emmanuel Macron, according to a French judicial official.

On Monday, in his usual no-nonsense way, National Security Advisor John Bolton left no doubt about how tough the Trump Administration will continued to be vis- -vis Iran, the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism.

The tiny Pacific territory of New Caledonia has voted to remain part of France in a long-awaited independence referendum which saw a much closer final result than expected.

A shark has attacked a man near an island harbor on Australia's Great Barrier reef where two tourists were mauled on consecutive says in September

BANGKOK (AP) — A United Nations report says some 486 million people are malnourished in Asia and the Pacific and progress in alleviating hunger is stalling.

The Associated Press found nearly 4,900 people whose families say they simply disappeared without a trace in Europe or en route, including more than 2,700 children whose families reported them missing to the Red Cross.

Salvadoran President Salvador Sanchez Ceren is due to meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, just months after the small Central American nation broke its diplomatic ties with Taiwan

The number of British residents applying for Irish passports has almost doubled since the Brexit referendum, new figures show.

Human remains found at a property owned by the Vatican in Rome have raised hope that a 35-year-old mystery involving a teenage girl's disappearance could be nearing a resolution.

Tens of thousands of Syrians stranded in a desert camp near the Jordanian border are at risk of starvation as supplies dwindle and winter approaches, while regional powers trade blame over who is responsible for this latest humanitarian catastrophe in Syr

A judge rejects WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's request to loosen new living requirements, including paying for his internet and cleaning up after his cat, that he says are meant to push him into leaving the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

Investment bank Morgan Stanley rates Australia as having the riskiest levels of household debt in the world and winding it back could result in a $700 billion hit to the nation's wealth.

Hobart has long been seen as Australia's sleepy southern city, but lately it's been experiencing growing pains. Curious Hobart investigates whether the population is on track to hit 300,000 within a decade.