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Australia to deploy surveillance aircraft and missiles to Gulf amid Iran tensions
CANBERRA (Realist English). Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Tuesday that Australia will deploy a long-range surveillance aircraft and supply...
Australia passes anti-hate and gun laws after deadly Sydney attack
CANBERRA (Realist English). Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday welcomed Parliament’s approval of new anti-hate speech and gun control...
Bystander disarms gunman during Bondi Beach attack, is hailed as hero
SYDNEY (Realist English). An Australian bystander who tackled and disarmed one of the attackers during a deadly shooting at Sydney’s...
Australia to provide households three hours of free solar power daily from 2026
SYDNEY (Realist English). Australia will offer at least three hours of free solar power each day to households — including...
Australia launches largest defence overhaul since World War II
SYDNEY (Realist English). Australia has embarked on its biggest military modernization drive since the Second World War, committing more than...
Australia to ban stalking and ‘nudify’ apps under new online safety reforms
CANBERRA (Realist English). Australia will prohibit applications that enable stalking and the creation of non-consensual deepfake nudes, the government announced...
Australians stage mass pro-Palestinian rallies as ties with Israel deteriorate
SYDNEY (Realist English). Thousands of Australians joined nationwide pro-Palestinian demonstrations on Sunday, organizers said, amid worsening relations between Israel and...
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy wins $6.5bn Australian frigate deal in landmark naval export
TOKYO (Realist English). Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has been named Australia’s preferred bidder to build up to 11 general-purpose frigates,...
Albanese re-elected, holds warm call with Trump amid tariff tensions
CANBERRA (Realist English). Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had a “warm and positive” conversation with U.S. President Donald...
Sheaito Moussallam: Iran is the main obstacle to Greater Israel
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Middle East today is an echo of exploding bombs, diplomatic dead ends, and dozens of contradictory interpretations...
‘Capitalism is facing a crisis of legitimacy’: Larry Fink on inequality, AI and the evolution of markets
NEW YORK (Realist English). Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with $14 trillion in assets...
Maria Nikiforova: Young people of the liberated territories are waiting for peace and justice
MOSCOW (Realist English). Maria Nikiforova, an expert on youth policy at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian...
155 billionaires vs. 150 million people: Zyuganov on the social catastrophe in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov presented the pre-election program "Victory...
UAE boosts production bypassing OPEC, but oil prices rise
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov has analysed for Realist English the possible consequences of...
Kurdish Genocide: From the Ottoman Empire to Erdoğan — a Chronicle of a Century of Terror
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Crimes against the Kurdish people have not been isolated episodes but have been carried out by successive Turkish...
Will Trump and Xi Agree on a New World Order?
BEIJING (Realist English). Relations between the United States and China in May 2026 can best be described as an “armed...
Pentagon withdraws troops from Germany: minus 5,000 soldiers in Europe and cancellation of a missile battalion
BERLIN (Realist English). On 2 May, the Pentagon officially announced the withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from Germany over the next...
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