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Strategic Analysis Australia Chief Executive Michael Shoebridge says the US and South Korea are Australia’s “two arsenals of democracy”, and neither country can produce enough to “sustain a limited conflict”.“Accelerating not just our ability to produce things like ammunition but the US’s as well and Japan, that’s essential given what we’ve seen in Ukraine,” Mr Shoebridge told Sky News Australia.“It turns out the US and South Korea are our two arsenals of democracy, and neither of them can produce enough to even sustain a limited conflict.” Source: Sky News

SAN DIEGO — Jameson Taillon was nearing a deal to join the Cubs on a multi-year contract Tuesday night, sources told The Post. The right-hander is coming off two solid seasons with the Yankees after battling injuries — including Tommy John surgery — for much of his time with the Pirates. Despite getting two good years out of Taillon after acquiring him from the Pirates before the 2021 season, the Yankees decided not to bring back Taillon, unwilling to enter the market for the 31-year-old. The Mets had been interested in him — even after signing Justin Verlander to a…

CNN  —  Former President Donald Trump’s bad week is bad news for his comeback. His family business was convicted Tuesday of criminal tax fraud. On the same day, his hand-picked candidate lost a winnable Senate race in a red state. The House January 6 committee has decided to make criminal referrals to the Justice Department – possibly of him or his close associates. And his call to terminate the Constitution has once again backed Republicans into a corner. So many premature political obituaries have been written for Trump that it would be foolish to write him off as he embarks…

CNN  —  Sen. Raphael Warnock remains undefeated. After being pushed to another runoff in November, the Democrat asked voters in Georgia to put him over the top “one more time” in December – and, once again, they delivered. Since November 2020, Warnock has been the leading vote-getter in four consecutive Georgia Senate elections. But because of state law requiring statewide candidates to get a majority to win a general election, Warnock had to double the feat in both his 2020 special election and his 2022 bid for a full six-year term. His victory in this head-to-head contest with Republican nominee…

Rishi Sunak is under pressure from Tory MPs to accelerate new strike-busting legislation, as Britain faces the biggest wave of industrial action since the tail-end of Margaret Thatcher’s government.More than 1mn days will be lost to strike action in December — the worst disruption in any month since July 1989 — based on unions’ current plans for action by postal and rail workers, NHS staff and civil servants.Ministers yesterday accused the RMT rail union of “holding the country to ransom” by scheduling walkouts over Christmas, after it rejected a 9 per cent two-year offer from Network Rail. The union has…

More than $400bn in market value has been wiped from European tech companies since the peak of the 2021 boom, as venture capital dealmaking hit a wall at the end of the summer. The continent’s start-ups were beneficiaries of a funding frenzy in 2021, leading to the creation of more than 100 “unicorns” — tech start-ups valued at more than $1bn.That figure has fallen to 31 so far this year, according to a report by London-based venture capital firm Atomico, the lowest level since 2017, excluding the coronavirus pandemic year of 2020. More than 14,000 European tech workers have been…

Arctic air will send temperatures plummeting below freezing across the United Kingdom this morning, with the Met Office now warning people to wrap up warm as more cold weather is expectedVideo LoadingVideo UnavailableThe video will auto-play soon8CancelPlay now Brits have been warned to dig out their winter gloves and hats today as a new period of freezing cold weather hits. Subzero temperatures have been recorded in towns and cities across the UK overnight, with icy conditions expected to combine with snow in some areas on Wednesday as Arctic air continues to move in. The Met Office has issued a yellow…

A Florida man was arrested after he had sex with a dog in front of families, wrecked a nativity scene at a nearby church and attempted to steal a vehicle.Chad Mason, 36, was arrested Sunday on several charges, including sexual activity with an animal, exposing sexual organs and criminal mischief to a place of worship.Mason knew the owner of the Goldendoodle dog and was taking it out for a walk in an apartment complex in the 2600 block of McMullen Booth Road at around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Clearwater Police said. He then began having sex with the dog in…

Dramatic footage obtained by The Post shows police aiming their guns at double murder suspect Sundance Oliver as he walks into a Brooklyn police station to surrender Tuesday. The 28-year-old gang member was yanked to the floor and surrounded by over a dozen cops after he sauntered into the 77th precinct with his hood on and hands up hours after the department launched a manhunt to find him, the footage shows. Three cops were seen drawing their guns at the site of the alleged killer in their doorway before he turns to face the wall, likely at the request of…

Imperial Japan launched a devastating Sunday morning surprise attack on the U.S. Navy and other military assets at Pearl Harbor, rousing a “sleeping giant” and thrusting an enraged America into World War II, on this day in history, Dec. 7, 1941.”For nearly two hours, Japanese firepower rained down upon American ships and servicemen,” reports the National World War II Museum. The savage raid by aircraft carrier-borne warplanes sunk or damaged 21 U.S. warships — including the USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma — destroyed or damaged 347 aircraft, and killed 2,403 Americans. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, DEC. 6, 1884, WASHINGTON MONUMENT COMPLETED…