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When Donald Trump criticised Australia's man in Washington, Kevin Rudd this week, it cast a spotlight on Australia's ambassadors across the world. This is what they do.

A small number of US Republican congressmen are holding up the passage of critical legislation required for the AUKUS deal…

Permits for the export of equipment increased last year despite kingdom’s involvement in Yemen war

Military contracts are being heavily skewed towards the US foreign military sales and foreign-owned defence companies, tender data reveals.

"There are too many gatekeepers and not enough locksmiths opening doors,” director of the Canberra Writers Festival Beejay Silcox tells arts editor HELEN MUSA.

Prigozhin was the most strident voice for those inside Russia criticising failures in the invasion and the strategies used by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and army chief Valery Gerasimov. Many soldiers do not know why they are fighting and dying in Ukraine and "Prigozhin came to speak for these men," researchers Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage wrote on the Foreign Affairs website, saying the remarkable episode highlighted the armys troubled state.

Kyrylo Budanov, head of intelligence at the Ukrainian defence ministry, has claimed the FSB internal security service has received orders to assassinate Prigozhin.

PARIS, July 7, 2023 (BSS/AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin emerged from last month's Wagner mutiny looking weakened, despite defusing

The weaknesses weighing on Putin after Wagner mutiny

When Yevgeny Prigozhin challenged his leader, he fractured Vladimir Putin's power. The Russian president is attempting to seal up that crack, but what is broken can rarely be whole again.