Australian businesses are among the most likely to pay a ransom to retrieve or protect stolen information, with more than half admitting they have given money to online criminals.

Six months into Australia’s under-16 social media ban coming into effect, the online safety regulator says it’s still too early to call whether platforms are meeting their obligations.

Russia has handed Kazakhstan four Amur tigers, two of them cubs, to help the country restore ​its numbers of the animals, President Vladimir Putin ‌said in an article issued ahead of his visit to the Central Asian nation this week.

Australia’s energy minister has accused the coalition of being unpatriotic, as he defended taxpayer-funded travel and staffing costs for a major climate conference.

Military drones straying into the airspace of Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are stoking concerns that the war in Ukraine is spilling over into NATO’s northern borders with Russia.

Vietnam’s top leader To Lam will visit the Philippines next week, Manila said, as President Ferdinand ​Marcos Jr seeks to further strengthen his country’s ‌regional alliances and security partnerships.

As U.S. kamikaze drones guided by Elon Musk’s Starlink network began to make visible gains in the war against Iran, senior SpaceX officials reached a conclusion: The Pentagon should be paying more for access to their satellite Wi-Fi network.

Iran said the United States had violated a ceasefire ​by striking targets near the contested Strait of Hormuz, potentially complicating efforts to bring the war to a close.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree providing debt relief to new Ukraine war recruits and their families, ​the Kremlin said, adding to ‌support tools as Moscow seeks to boost its army in more than four-year-long war.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said negotiating a deal with Iran could “take a few days,” quashing hopes for an imminent end to the conflict ​a day after U.S. forces conducted what Washington called defensive strikes in southern Iran.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco ​Rubio said ‌that the Strait of Hormuz has ​to be open, “one ​way or the other”, ⁠when referring to ​U.S strikes on ​Iran on Monday.

Foreign ministers from Australia, India, Japan and the U.S. will meet in New Delhi ​in an effort to regain momentum in the Indo-Pacific-focused group known as the Quad that critics say has slowed under President ‌Donald Trump.