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By Gram Slattery, Reuters Donald Trump. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP The head of the Secret Service told Donald Trump in a private meeting that significant new security arrangements will be needed if he wants to keep playing golf, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. Trump asked Ronald Rowe, the Secret Service's acting director, in a meeting on Monday whether it was safe for him to continue playing, the newspaper said. Rowe said the Secret Service views the golf course at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland as easier to secure because it is a military course. That meeting occurred a day after the Secret Service thwarted a second apparent assassination attempt on Trump in less than two months. On Sunday, Secret Service agents fired on Ryan Wesley Routh, the apparent would-be assas...

The police and military in Papua New Guinea are struggling to cope with chronic tribal "revenge killings" among "local terrorists" with high powered weapons in Enga Province. Photo: Supplied In 2022, Papua New Guinea's Parliament unanimously voted to change the country's gun laws making it possible for the courts to impose life sentences on people found to be in possession of illegal firearms. The amendments to the Firearms Act were tabled by Prime Minister James Marape and it came just three years after a previous set of changes. Parliament's decision reflected widespread public sentiments after the brutal mass murder of 16 women and children in James Marape's Hela Province and in the Pogera District of the Enga Province in 2019. Since then, Papua New Guinea, has joined the club of cou...

US President Joe Biden (C), British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (R) and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (L) hold a press conference during the AUKUS summit on March 13, 2023, at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego California. Photo: AFP / JIM WATSON AUKUS partners Australia, Britain and the United States said on Wednesday they are in discussions with Canada, Japan and New Zealand about potential collaboration on defence technology projects. The AUKUS defence technology partnership will deliver nuclear-powered submarines to Australia next decade, and is collaborating on other advanced weapons development they say will boost deterrence in the Indo-Pacific, amid concern over China's naval build-up. The Australian, British and US leaders said that new partners could contribute to t...

By Mark Rigby and Danielle Mahe, ABC News Security officers seized bullets, shells and firearm parts at the Gold Coast Airport. Photo: Australian Border Force / supplied A 62-year-old man will face court after allegedly trying to export hundreds of bullets, shotgun shells and bullet casings, as well as firearm parts, on a flight from the Gold Coast to New Zealand. The New Zealand national was allegedly carrying some items on his body and had others in his luggage when he was stopped by Australian Border Force officers. The man is expected to appear in Southport Magistrates Court today and could face a maximum penalty of $782,500 and 10 years' imprisonment. A New Zealand man allegedly caught trying to leave Australia with hundreds of bullets, shotgun shells, and firearm parts has fa...

By Laila Bassam and Maya Gebeily for Reuters Lebanese army soldier gestures to an ambulance rushing wounded people to a hospital in Beirut on 17 September 2024, after explosions hit. Photo: AFP / Anwar Amro Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters. The details shed light on an unprecedented Hezbollah security breach that saw thousands of pagers detonate across Lebanon, killing nine people and wounding nearly 3000 others, including the group's fighters and Iran's envoy to Beirut. Iran-backed Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel, whose military declined to comment on the blasts. The pl...