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Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:39:20 +1000Australian Bushmasters in Ukraine
Australian Bushmasters proving their worth in Ukraine.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:33:42 +1000Gallery: The best photos from around the world
The best photos from the international wire services as chosen by our picture editors.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:57:48 +1000The Jumbo Floating Restaurant’s demise is a reflection of Hong Kong’s
COVID turned the Jumbo into a floating duck, but its fortunes, along with the replica Tai Pan in Sydney Harbour, were sealed before that.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:53:46 +1000Israel heads to polls for fifth time in three years
The previous four elections, focused on Netanyahu’s fitness to rule while on trial for corruption charges, ended in deadlock.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:09:06 +1000Tehran preparing enrichment escalation, says nuclear watchdog
Deep inside a mountain, Iran is using a “cascade set-up” that will make it easier to climb up its uranium enrichment levels,the IAEA report shows.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:29:58 +1000Before chickens were tasty, they were sacred pets
At European Iron Age sites, the researchers found adult chickens buried alone with no signs of butchery, one even with a healed leg fracture
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:09:23 +1000Unite to resist China or ‘get bullied one by one’: last HK governor
Chris Patten mocked China’s plans to teach students that Hong Kong was never a British colony: “I’m delighted to be able to demonstrate... that I do actually exist”.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 11:41:36 +1000Antarctic researchers mark solstice with icy dip
Researchers at Casey Research Station in Antarctica have marked the winter solstice by taking an icy dip.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 11:37:17 +1000Hong Kong’s iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant capsizes at sea
The Jumbo Floating Restaurant, a landmark in Hong Kong for over four decades, served over 3 million guests including the Queen and Tom Cruise.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 11:01:59 +1000Six hospitalised after NYC taxi jumps curb
A taxi cab jumped the curb and struck several people in central Manhattan, including three with life-threatening injuries
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:05:26 +1000Hong Kong’s iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant capsizes at sea
The Jumbo Floating Restaurant, a landmark in Hong Kong for over four decades, served over 3 million guests including the Queen and Tom Cruise.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 08:11:27 +1000US Senate candidate's campaign ad pulled from Facebook
Facebook on Monday removed a campaign video by Republican Missouri US Senate candidate Eric Greitens that shows him brandishing a shotgun and declaring that he's hunting RINOS, or Republicans In Name Only.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 08:02:06 +1000Taliban frees ex-BBC cameraman, four others, after ‘long ordeal’
The UK released a statement apologising on behalf of the five Britons “for any breach of Afghan culture, customs or laws”.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 05:01:49 +1000We can’t catch them all: Sri Lankan navy on boats to Australia
As Australia announced $50 million in urgent aid to the crisis-hit nation, Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil flew to Colombo for talks on people smuggling.
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 05:00:00 +1000I was blacklisted by Putin, but I’m no Russophobe
The Kremlin has sanctioned me and hundreds of others for highlighting Putin’s atrocities.
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:00:00 +1000Disappearances ‘show Rwanda unfit to host Commonwealth summit’
Human rights advocates say Rwanda’s human rights record has worsened since it joined the Commonwealth and that it does not deserve to host this week’s Heads of Government meeting.
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 18:10:55 +1000Rapidly spreading bird flu infects foxes and other wild mammals
Something was wrong with the foxes. Fox kits, or young foxes, were behaving in strange ways: shaking, seizing or struggling to stand.
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:20:47 +1000Macron hunts for way to salvage a ruling majority after support surges for far-left, far-right
With no coalitions near an outright majority, the French president will have a hard time passing legislation, putting much of his second-term agenda at risk.
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:10:59 +1000Gallery: The best photos from around the world
The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:12:03 +1000Saudi seizes rainbow items in homosexuality crackdown
Saudi officials say they are seizing rainbow coloured items because
they "promote homosexuality."