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China's ambassador warns Australia on buyback of key port
AFP, Published on 29/01/2026
» SYDNEY - China will act to defend its companies' interests if Australia forcibly buys back control of the strategic northern port of Darwin, Beijing's ambassador has warned.
‘Our children are next’: Kenyans in fear as drought wipes out livestock
AFP, Published on 27/01/2026
» MANDERA, Kenya - In drought-hit northeastern Kenya, villagers have been forced to drag their dead livestock to distant fields for burning to keep the stench of death and scavenging hyenas away from their homes.
Brazil, Mexico seek to defuse US-Venezuela crisis
AFP, Published on 19/12/2025
» BRASíLIA - The leaders of Brazil and Mexico on Thursday offered to step in to try and avert the risk of war between the United States and Venezuela.
Four killed in US strike on ‘narco-trafficking’ vessel
AFP, Published on 18/12/2025
» WASHINGTON - US forces on Wednesday carried out a strike on a vessel it said was engaged in drug trafficking in the Pacific Ocean, killing four “narco-terrorists,” the US Southern Command announced.
Russia loses legal bid to build embassy next to Australian parliament
AFP, Published on 12/11/2025
» SYDNEY — Russia's government lost on Wednesday a legal bid at Australia's High Court to build a new embassy less than a kilometre from the country's parliament.
Trump inks US deals on trade, critical minerals with Southeast Asian partners
Reuters, Published on 26/10/2025
» KUALA LUMPUR: US President Donald Trump signed a flurry of deals on trade and critical minerals with three Southeast Asian partners on Sunday, as Washington looked to address trade imbalances and diversify supply chains amid tighter export curbs on rare earths by China.
Major quake strikes off southern Philippines
AFP, Published on 10/10/2025
» DAVAO (PHILIPPINES) - A powerful magnitude-7.4 earthquake struck off the southern Philippines on Friday, triggering tsunami warnings in the Asian nation as well as neighbouring Indonesia and Palau.
Three dead, 38 trapped in Indonesia school collapse
Reuters, Published on 30/09/2025
» SIDOARJO, Indonesia - Indonesian rescuers were racing on Tuesday to find 38 people feared trapped beneath the rubble of an Islamic boarding school that collapsed in East Java during afternoon prayers, killing three, according to disaster officials.
Conservationists call for more data to help protect pangolins
AFP, Published on 28/08/2025
» GENEVA — All eight known pangolin species remain at high risk of extinction due to over-exploitation and loss of habitat, conservationists warned Wednesday, warning knowledge gaps were hampering protection efforts.
South Korea to ban mobile phones in classrooms
Reuters, Published on 27/08/2025
» SEOUL - South Korea passed a bill on Wednesday to ban the use of mobile phones and other digital devices in school classrooms nationwide, as concern grows about the impact of heavy social media use among the young.