Australia's leader has called Elon Musk an "arrogant billionaire" in an escalating feud over X's reluctance to remove footage of a church stabbing.
On Monday, an Australian court ordered Musk's social media firm — formerly called Twitter — to hide (...)
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu's party has won a landslide victory in a parliamentary election, cementing his grip on power.
Provisional results show the People's National Congress (PNC) won 66 seats in the 93-member house.
Analysts view the (...)
The day after the stabbing attack on a bishop, a forensics expert was sweeping a fingerprint brush over a nativity scene by the entrance of the Sydney church.
A small car parked outside Christ The Good Shepherd Church had its window screen smashed (...)
Ren Wenbing is reluctant to leave the hollowed-out brick shell which was once a thriving factory in China's manufacturing hub of Dongguan.
"All the workers feel astonished," says the 54-year-old as he points out where he once assembled furniture and (...)
In the Solomon Islands, the night before an election is known as Devil's Night.
Political candidates offer bribes — handing out everything from cash to sacks of rice and Chinese-made solar panels to secure votes last minute.
Vote-buying has been a (...)
US space agency NASA confirmed that an object that crashed into a home in Florida earlier this month was part of the International Space Station (ISS).
The metal object was jettisoned from the orbiting outpost in March 2021, NASA said on Monday (...)
Australian police have declared Monday's stabbing at a Sydney church a religiously motivated "terrorist act".
A 16-year-old boy was arrested after a bishop, a priest and churchgoers were attacked during mass at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd (...)
A Frenchman who tried to stop a deadly stabbing rampage at a Sydney mall has been promised an Australian visa.
Damien Guerot was labeled a hero after footage of him confronting knifeman Joel Cauchi with a bollard during Saturday's attack went (...)
Coral around the world is turning white and even dying as recent record ocean heat takes a devastating toll.
It has triggered the fourth global mass coral bleaching event, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (...)
The man who went on a stabbing rampage in a Sydney shopping center appears to have targeted women, police say.
Joel Cauchi, 40, sent the crowded Westfield Bondi Junction complex into panic on Saturday when he began stabbing people with a long (...)
A knife-wielding man who killed six people in a Sydney shopping center before being shot dead has been identified by Australian police.
Joel Cauchi, 40, sent the crowded Westfield Bondi Junction complex into panic on Saturday when he began stabbing (...)
An Australian police officer has been hailed as a hero by the country's prime minister, after she confronted and shot dead a man who fatally stabbed six people at a Sydney shopping center.
"There is no doubt that she saved lives," PM Anthony (...)
SYDENY — Westfield Bondi Junction looked exactly like it usually does on a Saturday afternoon.
Hundreds of people crammed into the center -- packs of teenagers, parents with grumbling kids, and weary customers sneaking a caffeine hit between (...)
President Joe Biden has vowed that the US will defend the Philippines from any attack in the South China Sea, calling its support for Manila "ironclad".
Biden's comments come amid regular skirmishes and rising tensions between Chinese and Philippine (...)
Israel's prime minister is to meet top officials to prepare for a possible attack by Iran, local media say.
Tensions are high over the possibility that Tehran will retaliate for an air strike that killed senior Iranian commanders nearly two weeks (...)
A busload full of Chinese high school students coerced into voting for a Liberal candidate. An opaque cash injection of thousands of dollars from China. A proxy agent of India's government providing illegal financial support to pro-India (...)
US President Joe Biden has said that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
The country's parliament recently passed a measure — backed by PM Anthony Albanese — calling for the return (...)
Five Australian women who were strip-searched and invasively examined at Doha airport have failed in their bid to sue Qatar Airways.
They and other women were ordered off a flight and checked for whether they had given birth after a baby was found (...)
US President Joe Biden and Japan's prime minister have vowed to strengthen defense cooperation in the face of a potential threat from China.
The plans announced by Biden and Fumio Kishida during his Washington visit include an expanded air defense (...)
Ukraine's parliament passed a law on Thursday that will govern how the country recruits new conscripts, following months of delay and after thousands of amendments were submitted to water down the initial draft.
Lawmakers dragged their feet for (...)
Australia's foreign minister has suggested the country could recognize Palestinian statehood, to increase momentum toward peace.
However Hamas could have no role in its governance, Penny Wong said.
Both Australia's opposition and the Zionist (...)
Colonization, bloodshed, war crimes, occupation, controversial military bases. These are all issues intertwined in the collective history of the United States, Japan and the Philippines.
But when the leaders of the three countries sit down at the (...)
NEW YORK — Saudi Arabia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Abdulaziz Al-Wasil, said on Friday that the Arab Group is calling for a resolution under Chapter VII to ensure Israel complies with a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
In (...)
World Central Kitchen (WCK) founder José Andrés has accused Israeli forces in Gaza of targeting his aid workers "systematically, car by car".
Monday's strike which killed seven members of his staff was not a mistake, he said, repeating that Israeli (...)
The humanitarian group, International Rescue Committee (IRC), says the killing of international charity workers this week by an Israeli air strike highlights that Gaza is the "most lethal place in the world to be an aid worker."
Israeli airstrikes (...)