CANBERRA, Australia — More disadvantaged parts of Australia, including Covid-hit southwest Sydney, have some of the country’s lowest vaccination rates. Just 14.6 percent of people aged 15…
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SYDNEY — Police will patrol Sydney supermarkets to ensure laws on QR codes and face masks are being obeyed. The “compliance crackdown” will also focus on large…
HOBART, Australia — The island state of Tasmania shut its border with southeast Queensland on July 31 and has told some 11,000 recent arrivals to stay home.…
CANBERRA, Australia — A woman from the Australian state of Victoria was jailed for murdering her ex-partner by stealing his ute and running him down did not…
LONDON — A United Kingdom court declared fugitive Indian businessman Vijay Mallya as bankrupt on July 26 and allowed Indian banks to pursue his assets worldwide.…
WASHINGTON — Hollywood actor Timothy Hutton will not face Canadian justice for an alleged sexual assault after prosecutors in Canada decided to close the decades-old case on the Oscar…
ADELAIDE, Australia — South Australian officials are finalizing plans to bring the state out of its week-long Covid-19 lockdown amid growing confidence a cluster of virus cases has been…
SYDNEY — Local government elections in New South Wales will again be delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There are 128 local government councils in the southeastern…
SYDNEY — A former University of Technology Sydney dean of science has been found guilty of sending fake threatening letters to herself including one which read “chop…
DARWIN, Australia — Woolworths has locked up aerosol deodorant products in one of its Northern Territory stores in a bid to help reduce theft and inhalant abuse. Woolworths…