Australia poised to sign Phillipine defence deal | Morning News Bulletin 15 November 2026

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In this bulletin, Australia prepares to sign a new defence pact with the Philippines, a technical issue behind the largest grounding of US flights since September 11 attacks in 2001. And in Rugby League, Australia and New Zealand set to face off in both the men's and women's world cup finals.

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Today, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will witness the signing of new major defence pact between Australia and the Philippines.

Mr Albanese has arrived in the Filipino capital, Manila, ahead of the Australia-ASEAN summit, to be held on Tuesday, and a Quad leaders’ summit, to be held the next day.

The new defence pact will make for enhanced maritime awareness, information sharing, strategic dialogue, planning, training, interoperability, and defence infrastructure development.

Mr Albanese will visit Australian Defence Force personnel aboard the Navy ship HMAS Stalwart, which is docked in Manila.

US Transport authorities say a nationwide ground stop that halted thousands of flights was caused by an issue after a copper wire upgrade.

Major airlines cancelled more than 4,000 US flights and delayed 3,000 more on Saturday, as the US sought to recover from the longest nationwide shutdown of flights since the September 11, 2001, attacks.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says it's still unclear whether the problem was caused by "incompetence" on the part of the company doing the upgrades, or faulty equipment.

He says there is nothing to suggest the issue was caused by a nefarious actor and would not threaten ongoing safety.

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