BILOELA, Australia — Malcolm Turnbull has flipped his position on releasing a family of Tamil asylum-seekers being detained on Christmas Island. Turnbull was prime minister of Australia when Priya, Nades,…
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MELBOURNE, Australia — A Melbourne couple accused of holding a woman as a slave for eight years has been convicted. A jury found the couple guilty on…
HOBART, Australia — After a bumper week of trans-Tasman travel, Air New Zealand chief executive Greg Foran is hopeful flights over the ditch can help restore the national carrier after its…
SYDNEY — A team of asteroid-hunting scientists has reconstructed a massive space rock’s 22-million-year journey through the solar system before it slammed into the Earth. The discovery of…
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia Post‘s entire board is set to be grilled over Liberal Party links at a Senate inquiry into former boss Christine Holgate’s controversial departure.…
MELBOURNE, Australia — The government of southeast Australian state Victoria has established a new fund to cover funeral expenses for members of the stolen generations. Aboriginal Affairs Minister Gabrielle Williams,…
MELBOURNE, Australia — New rules will come into effect in southeast Australian state Victoria next week, requiring motorists to give cyclists a wide birth when passing them…
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — There is a new Christ statue in Brazil, and it is bigger than the one in Rio de Janeiro. In southern Brazil, the…
KOLKATA, India — Amid reports of daily Covid-19 cases crossing 300,000 and vaccines going out of supply in India, hundreds of vaccines were stolen from a hospital…
CHENNAI, India — In Facebook’s largest market, India, the national cybersecurity agency has asked users to change profile settings to ‘private’ from ‘public’ and limit the kind…