News · World News · Asia-Pacific
Australia must recruit hundreds more to crew Aukus submarines, retired admiral warns
As USS Colorado showcases the program in Perth, Peter Briggs says personnel is just one of the ‘huge issues’ it faces Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia faces an uphill battle to recruit and train enough naval personnel to serve on submarines planned for the future fleet of nuclear-powered vessels under the controversial $368bn Aukus deal , a retired admiral has warned. As the…
This is a short summary of a report by a third-party publisher. Newsline Press did not produce the original reporting.
Read the full story at The GuardianOriginal publisher: The Guardian
Spotted an error? Request a correction · Corrections Policy
Related stories
Boxer Serrano to hang up gloves in Puerto Rico farewell on January 9
Amanda Serrano will defend her unified WBO and WBA featherweight world boxing titles against Australia's Skye Falzon.
Al Jazeera ·
Spain: Dozens killed after one high-speed train slams into another
Spain suffered its second deadly high-speed train accident this year when one train on Wednesday, October 28, slammed into another that had stopped on the tracks, with the impact shredding cars and killing at least 64 people. The accident comes with memories still fresh of another crash between high-speed trains in southern Spain in January. France 24's correspondent in Madrid Sarah Morris gives us the latest.
France 24 ·
Second fatal train collision this year casts doubt over Spain’s high-speed rail network
Questions were raised before Toledo crash over rail safety in a country where train travel has surged by 40% Deadly Spanish rail collision – latest updates Spain’s high-speed rail network, the most extensive in Europe and the second largest in the world after China, has long ranked as a point of pride in the country. But Wednesday’s deadly crash – the second in nine months – has recast the spotlight on questions…
The Guardian ·
Is Iran headed to war or peace after Mecca alliance meeting?
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey have taken their latest peace push directly to Tehran. Officially, it was to avert a new military escalation, but their diplomatic outreach can also be seen as a warning to Iran.
Deutsche Welle ·
Egypt fines prominent editor Lina Attalah and shuts independent news outlet Mada Masr
Warnings of escalating clampdown on press freedom come after Cairo court convicts Attalah of managing an unlicensed website Lina Attalah, a prominent Egyptian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada Masr, has been released from detention by Egypt’s authorities and had her website ordered to be shut down by a court amid an intensifying crackdown on independent media in the country. Attalah was…
The Guardian ·
Espionage threats blur lines between security and dissent in Iran
Iran is using the threat of spy networks to detain and execute political opponents, analysts say.
Al Jazeera ·