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An international student kicked and beat his housemate’s cat to within an inch of its life after discovering it had pooed in his laundry and garage, a court has been told.

University of Adelaide student Tianxiao Zhao pleaded guilty to ill treat animal to cause death or serious harm following a savage attack on a four-year-old moggy called Ozai.

The brutal incident on March 30 left the cat with a perforated lung, a fractured jaw and spitting up blood.

And Adelaide Magistrates Court was told that the defenceless animal’s injuries were so severe that it had to be humanely euthanised at a nearby vet.

The incident happened at Zhao’s home in Adelaide that he shared with a housemate and the cat.

China has expanded its nuclear warhead stockpile following the expiration of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), according to a new report. As New START — which capped the nuclear forces of Russia and the United States, holders of 90% of the world's nuclear weapons — expired in February without a successor agreement, an arms race among major powers is now gaining momentum.

According to the annual report released Tuesday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a Swedish think tank, China increased its nuclear warhead stockpile over the past year. The report raised the possibility that the number of warheads deployed to operational forces has also risen. It warned that major powers are "backing away" from disarmament commitments.

As of January, China added 20 nuclear warheads to bring its stockpile to 620, up from 600 a year earlier. SIPRI projected that China is extensively modernizing and expanding its nuclear weapons, and that "the stockpile will continue to grow over the next decade."