Defence`s Feeds

The USS Canberra littoral combat ship was officially commissioned in Australia on Saturday, becoming the first US vessel in the country's fleet, the Australian Defense Ministry said.

The UK military and their counterparts from the United States, France, Belgium and Georgia are training Ukrainian troops in Scotland on finding and neutralizing bombs, booby traps and mines in, on and around the water, the Royal Navy said in a statement.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that his country would monitor Sweden's counterterrorism steps before ratifying its NATO bid at the parliament.

At least 16 civilians have been killed by rocket fire in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region, a local lawyers' union reported.

A car packed with explosives has been detonated near the Naranjitos military base in Colombia's Arauca Department, having killed at least two people inside the vehicle and injured four soldiers, Arauca Governor Willington Rodriguez Benavides said Friday.

Eighteen political parties will compete in Cambodia's parliamentary election on July 23 - the country's seventh national vote since the United Nations organized and ran the 1993 election two years after the Paris Peace Agreements.

Radio Free Asia spoke with former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans on Wednesday, ahead of Sunday's parliamentary election in Cambodia.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a large audience in central Romania on July 22 that the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest has given him a list of sensitive topics he should avoid in his public addresses at an annual event held by leaders of Romania's Hungarian minority in Transylvania.

Guatemala's Special Prosecutor's Office against Impunity (FECI) and police are searching the headquarters of the Semilla Movement party and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) as a part of the probe into the party's alleged forging of signatures during registration and illegally financing the process, FECI said Friday.

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Taiwan's Vice President William Lai, a front-runner in the island's planned January presidential elections, announced this week that he plans to make transit stops in the U.S. next month on his way to Paraguay, sparking swift protest from China. Beijing objects to any action that could raise Taiwan's international profile and has pledged to keep the transit stops from happening.

A U.N. expert is condemning the mass detention of tens of thousands of women and children in northeast Syria as a violation of international law and calling on governments to repatriate their nationals who she says live under cruel and inhumane conditions.

Galactic Energy, a private carrier rocket developer, launched its sixth Ceres 1 rocket on Saturday, sending two satellites successfully into orbit. The launch, kicking off the firm's high-density delivery and launch cycle in the second half of the year, marked the latest efforts by Chinese private enterprises to ramp up their capabilities in rockets R&D and launches, expert said.

Tens of thousands of Israelis have headed toward the occupied city of al-Quds to voice their opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's extremist policies, amid months-long anti-regime protests.

Thousands of people approached Jerusalem on Saturday as part of a protest march against the controversial judicial reform, disrupting traffic on the highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanani has reacted to the EU's new sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran under the pretext drone sales to Russia.

Judges in Iran have diagnosed three prominent actresses sentenced for not wearing the hijab as mentally ill, anti-family, and antisocial, prompting top psychologists in the country to condemn the "abuse of psychiatry and psychology in the judiciary."

"Today's handing-over ceremony symbolises the deep-rooted friendship and strategic partnership between India and Vietnam

The United States' global standing is declining and the country is heading for a clash with China, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday, adding that "the million dollar question" is whether this clash can be avoided.

In an Australian-military first, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) has conducted a live fire demonstration of a Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile (SSM) off the Australian east coast.