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Australia and the Philippines have signed a major defence cooperation agreement on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Manila. 

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he'll use a meeting with his Vietnamese counterpart at ASEAN to raise the case of an Australian pro-democracy activist currently imprisoned in his country. 

There's been a significant breakthrough in space technology... a SpaceX rocket has managed to return to its launch pad in Texas in a world first. 

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