Australia news live: PM to recommend defence department boss as next US ambassador; says Trump’s Afghanistan comments ‘completely unacceptable’ | Australia news

Australia news live: PM to recommend defence department boss as next US ambassador; says Trump’s Afghanistan comments ‘completely unacceptable’ | Australia news

PM nominates Greg Moriarty to be next US ambassador The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has revealed that veteran public servant and former chief of staff to Malcolm Turnbull, Greg Moriarty, will be recommended to the governor general to be Australia’s ambassador to the US, replacing the outgoing ambassador, Kevin Rudd. Albanese told ABC’s Insiders: He […]

Top Armed Services Dem says Sept. 2 strike video would show Republicans’ description ‘completely false’

Top Armed Services Dem says Sept. 2 strike video would show Republicans’ description ‘completely false’

The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee said Sunday that surveillance video of U.S. military strikes targeting an alleged drug trafficking vessel in the Caribbean Sea on Sept. 2 would contradict how Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other Republicans have described it.  “When they [the survivors] were finally taken out, they weren’t […]