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Fri, 25 Nov 2022 19:10:08 +1100Gallery: The best photos from around the world
The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:24:52 +1100Ukraine doctors perform heart surgery on child in the dark
Doctors in Ukraine have performed heart surgery on a child in the dark, as blackouts hit a hospital in Kyiv.
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 17:21:14 +1100Ukrainians struggle without power in nine-month war’s first winter
Since early October, Russia has launched missiles roughly once a week in a bid to destroy the Ukrainian power grid. It has succeeded in causing major damage.
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 17:00:36 +1100Russian parliament names Australian-Russian freedom group as ‘undesirable’
The group has published a lengthy video questioning the activities of the Russian embassy in Australia, runs letter writing campaigns, and raised money for humanitarian needs for Ukraine.
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 16:36:27 +1100Xi’s China juggernaut runs into potholes on the road to prosperity
President Xi Jinping faces many challenges as he tries to steer his nation out of COVID-zero.
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 15:50:00 +1100The ghost of Chiang Kai-shek hovers over Taiwanese election
Is the attractive new-generation politician the true great-grandson of Taiwan’s revered first president or is he a Trojan horse doing Beijing’s bidding?
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 15:45:06 +1100Foggy future for Thai cannabis industry as legal threats emerge
Despite the marijuana bars, neon signs and tourism dollars, some people are pushing to see the drug criminalised again.
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 15:21:51 +1100French parliament seeks to enshrine abortion rights in constitution
France decriminalised abortion in 1975, two years after Roe v. Wade. With the landmark US law rolled back, French MPs are taking a stand.
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 13:42:33 +1100Putin’s chef sends ‘bloodied’ weapon in violin case to EU parliament
Sledgehammers have become an unofficial symbol of the Kremlin-linked Wagner mercenary group whose fighters use them to kill during overseas missions.
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 11:48:33 +1100Heart surgery performed with torches and headlamps in Ukraine
Ukrainian doctors have performed heart surgery using torches and headlamps after a Russian missile strike caused a blackout.
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 11:45:00 +1100The ‘surreal, bizarre’ act by Putin that even this Russian historian couldn’t have predicted
Simon Sebag Montefiore is the world’s go-to historian on Russia. His latest non-fiction book is his most ambitious yet, charting no less than the world’s history, ending with the war in Ukraine.
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 11:40:22 +1100More than two-thirds of Kyiv is still without power one day after Russian strikes
Kyiv has been battered by Russian air strikes leaving millions of people without power.
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 09:54:04 +1100Joe Biden calls Colorado Springs club owners, vows again to push for assault weapons ban
“The idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick, just sick,” Biden said earlier. “It has no social redeeming value, zero, none.”
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:33:44 +1100In major reversal, Elon Musk says Twitter will restore many banned accounts
The billionaire executive took the action in response to a poll he conducted on Twitter. Such online polls are anything but scientific and can easily be influenced by bots.
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:19:24 +1100COVID aid went to British barber accused of supporting Islamic State
Through a lawyer, Tarek Namouz said he mixed money he earned from the barber shop and the government’s assistance.
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 06:01:27 +1100To fight West’s ‘hybrid warfare’, Russia to ban ‘LGBT propaganda’
Lawmakers say they are defending traditional values of the “Russian world” against a liberal West they say is determined to destroy them.
Fri, 25 Nov 2022 05:32:55 +1100Using sniffer dogs, Indonesian rescuers focus on landslide as quake toll rises
Data from National Disaster Mitigation Agency showed that 100 of the 272 confirmed deaths from the earthquake on Java were children.
Thu, 24 Nov 2022 18:44:57 +1100British man could be first disabled astronaut
Paralympian John McFallcould could become the first disabled astronaut as he is among a small group chosen by the European Space Agency.
Thu, 24 Nov 2022 18:15:44 +1100Malaysian king names Anwar Ibrahim as prime minister, ending deadlock
The twice-jailed candidate has been waiting in the wings for years and will now get a chance to lead.
Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:25:02 +1100Violent protests at Chinese iPhone factory over COVID restrictions
Workers at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, Apple’s main iPhone-making plant, clashed with security personnel after almost a month under COVID restrictions.