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Thousands of Australian protesters rally against vaccine mandates
Nov 13, 2021 11:17Several thousand people rallied in Melbourne against new vaccination mandates on Saturday, November 13, with a few comparing the state government to Nazis and calling for violence against politicians, local media said.
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France-Australia row deepens as Macron's text leaked to Australian media
Nov 03, 2021 05:21France has denounced Australia's "very inelegant" move to leak a private text message from President Emmanuel Macron to the Australian premier about a submarine deal that Canberra later unilaterally dropped, deeply dismaying Paris and sparking a diplomatic row.
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'I Don't Think. I Know': Macron accuses Australia PM of lying over submarine deal
Nov 01, 2021 05:08French President Emmanuel Macron has accused the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison of out-rightly lying to him over a cancelled $90bn submarine deal, marking fresh escalation of tensions between the two countries.
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‘Think twice’ about AUKUS, China’s foreign minister tells UK
Oct 24, 2021 04:08China’s foreign minister has urged Britain to “think twice” about its trilateral military pact with the United States and Australia, which will allow Canberra to acquire nuclear-powered submarines.
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AUKUS could trigger race for nuclear submarines, IAEA warns
Oct 20, 2021 05:46The United Nations' nuclear organization has sounded the alarm over Australia's plan to obtain nuclear-powered submarines.
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MEP questions US nuclear double standard over deal on submarines fueled with weapon grade uranium
Oct 14, 2021 02:55An independent Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has hit out at US nuclear double standards, arguing the US does not want Iran to enrich uranium beyond the 3.67 percent purity but it helps Australia get submarines fueled with weapon-grade uranium.
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China urges Australia to drop ‘Cold War mentality’ after ex-PM Abbott visited Taipei, pledged support
Oct 12, 2021 04:59China has called on Australia to abandon its “Cold War mentality” and re-evaluate its relationship with Beijing, following former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s visit to Chinese Taipei, during which he pledged that Canberra would support the self-ruled island against Beijing.
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US approves sale of 12 attack helicopters to Australia amid AUKUS row
Oct 10, 2021 05:45The United States has approved the sale of a dozen attack helicopters and an electronic warfare plane to Australia, as part of a deal worth around $1.3 billion.
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What AUKUS means for the world?
Oct 06, 2021 14:36At the center of AUKUS are technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), quantum and cyber. The US, the UK and Australia want to use these technologies to build a new kind of footprint in the Indo-Pacific.
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Russia warns US-led AUKUS, Quad 'detrimental' to Indo-Pacific cooperation
Oct 03, 2021 05:10Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has denounced recently formed US-led Indo-Pacific alliances — AUKUS and Quad — describing them as “detrimental” to the existing system of cooperation in the region.