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A modelling scout who recruited women for the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead at his home in Paris.

China said on Thursday it tracked and drove away two Philippine vessels it ​accused of having "intruded into" waters near the disputed ‌Scarborough Shoal despite warnings

After Australia, New Zealand has signed a defence cooperation agreement with Papua New Guinea. This is the latest agreement that countries in the region have signed to integrate themselves closer on security and defence as Chinas has sought to increase its footprint in the Indo-Pacific and the United States, the traditional guarantor of security, has abandoned the theatre.

A deepening military-terror nexus is reportedly emerging in Pakistan in a bid to neutralise the JUI-F chief, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, after he openly criticised Pakistan's Army Chief Asim Munir.