Beijing has issued a call to avoid "hyping up the 'China threat' narrative" after Australia's landmark defence review called out the superpower's historic military buildup.
Australia faces the greatest strategic challenges since World War II, the prime minister says, as the government unveiled its response to the landmark defence review.
North Korea claimed to have tested a nuclear-capable underwater drone designed to generate a gigantic "radioactive tsunami" that would destroy naval strike groups and ports.
The state-run Korean Central News Agency on Sunday said a Hwasong-15 ICBM was fired on Saturday in a "surprise ICBM launching drill" under the written orders of leader Kim Jong-un.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his young daughter took centre stage at a huge military parade, fueling speculation that she is being primed as a future leader of the isolated country as her father showed off his latest, largest nuclear missiles.
The United States is finalising a massive package of military aid for Ukraine in its fight against Russia that US officials say is likely to total as much as US$2.6 billion ($3.7 billion).
The Russian President has dispatched one of his country's most modern warships armed with advanced hypersonic missiles on a long voyage through the Atlantic Ocean.
Ukrainian forces fired rockets at a facility in the eastern Donetsk region where Russian soldiers were stationed, killing 63 of them, Russia's defence ministry said overnight, in one of the deadliest attacks on the Kremlin's forces since the war began more than 10 months ago.
North Korea says it fired a test satellite in an important final-stage test for the development of its first spy satellite, a key military capability coveted by its leader Kim Jong Un along with other high-tech weapons systems.
Emergency crews pulled the body of a toddler from the rubble following a Russian missile strike, amid one of the biggest assaults on the capital, since the war began.
North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the waters off its east coast on Sunday, the latest in what has been a record year for test launches by the Kim Jong-un regime.
Russia warned on Thursday that if the US confirms reports that it plans to deliver sophisticated missiles to Ukraine, it would be "another provocative move" that could prompt a response from Moscow.
China has deployed new longer range ballistic missiles on its nuclear submarines, enabling it to strike the US mainland from much nearer its own shores.
Anthony Albanese is one of several global leaders to attend an emergency meeting to condemn North Korea following its latest long-range missile test on Friday.
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The North's announcement underscores leader Kim Jong Un's determination not to back down in the face of his rivals' push to expand their military exercises
South Korea has scrambled about 80 military aircraft, including advanced F-35 fighter jets, on Friday after tracking about 180 flights North Korean warplanes flying in North Korean territory.
Air raid sirens sounded on a South Korean island and residents evacuated to underground shelters after North Korea fired more than 20 missiles, at least one of them in its direction and landing near the rivals' tense sea border.