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Japan Keeps Nuclear Submarine Option on Table as Security Debate Deepens

Allied encouragement plus new funding for submarine-launched hypersonics raise practical questions Tokyo must resolve

U.S. Says It Will Expand Anti‑Drug Campaign to Ground Operations as Colombia Joins Joint Missions

Three Opposition Leaders Set End‑of‑August Deadline for Merger Decision

Hanson Circulates Bill to Bar IS-Linked Australians as Government Warns of Certain High Court Defeat

Green MP Janosch Dahmen Rescinds Conscientious Objection and Joins Bundeswehr Reserves

Pacific Leaders Consider Solomon Islands’ Push for a Region‑Wide Security Pact

South Korea Urges U.S., China and Inter‑Korean Talks to Build a Formal Peace Regime

North Korea Moves to Equip Navy With Nuclear Weapons and Build Larger Warships

Lowy Says China’s Capacity To Strike Australia Is Real And Growing

Berlin Senate Formalizes Rules for Bundeswehr Youth Officers in Schools

Germany Proposes €10 Billion Reset of Civil Protection as Old Bunkers Remain Unusable

Japan Enacts Law to Centralize Intelligence Under Prime Minister

LDP-Led Supermajority Tightens Hold on Diet as Centrist Opposition Stumbles

Takaichi Renews Push To Revise Japan’s Constitution as Poll Backs SDF Recognition

Federal Data Show Broad Bundeswehr Presence in Schools, With High Activity in Saxony

Japan Authorizes Lethal Arms Exports to Vetted Partners

Seoul and Washington Move to Defuse Rift Over Minister’s Kusong Disclosure

AfD Defense Spokesman Rüdiger Lucassen Resigns Before No-Confidence Vote

Japan Weighs Long-Range Attack Drones to Expand Counterstrike Reach

EU Unveils Drone Security Plan to Tighten Registration, Map No‑Fly Zones and Boost Detection