Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the new alliance with the US and UK “aggravates the arms race and hurts the international non-proliferation efforts”.

The landmark citizen lawsuit against Joko Widodo and other government leaders sought a court order for more to be done to curb air pollution in Jakarta.

The judges also included in the scope of the ‘war on drugs’ probe killings carried out in Davao, President Rodrigo Duterte’s home town.

New Zealand was a member of the ANZUS treaty alliance with the US until the 1980s when Wellington declined to accept US nuclear-powered vessels in its waters.

It is the first time in 60 years of human spaceflight that no professional astronaut is aboard an orbit-bound rocket.

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Overnight, Paris has gone from viewing Australia as a friend and ally to a nation which can’t be trusted.

Mohamed Noor was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a dual US-Australian citizen.

A country that takes inordinate pride in “punching above its weight” on the global stage is doing so again. That comes with risks as well as rewards.

The missiles flew 800 km (497 miles) before striking a target in the sea off North Korea’s east coast, KCNA said. 

In an essay written for their cover story, celebrity chef Jose Andres says “they don’t just opine. They run towards the struggle”.

The wrangling has taken place behind the scenes including claims that the leader of the pragmatic faction, Abdul Ghani Baradar, was killed.

Australia, US and Britain have announced a far-reaching defence pact to counter China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific, hailed as the most significant in decades.

The Olympic gold medallist and three other US gymnasts spoke in stark emotional terms about the lasting toll Larry Nassar’s crimes had taken on their lives.

Dominic Raab, who remained on holiday in the Greek islands as the Taliban swept into Kabul, will be replaced by Liz Truss.

ASX-listed Myanmar Metals is under fire over the proposed sale of its stake in an historic mine to an outfit with alleged links to the military in the troubled nation.

The Democrat Governor says his state defeated the divisive politics of Donald Trump, but the country still has to reckon with Trumpism.

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President Jovenel Moïse’s death has provoked a three-way battle that appears to be ongoing as various factions of society work to take or to hold onto power.

“Xi apparently intimated that the tone and atmosphere of the relationship needed to be improved first,” the source said.

Canada’s snap federal election could offer important clues for Australian politicians about how voters respond to a ramped-up COVID-19 vaccination rollout.

The US is calling for the donation and delivery of one billion test kits by 2022 and an acceleration of a previously announced pledge of 2 billion doses.

Ocasio-Cortez cited a spike in Google searches for “tax the rich” as evidence her outfit had encouraged people to research America’s “f-cked up tax code”.

Israeli police said they had received a complaint that a minor had been kidnapped and flown to Israel, and had questioned a 58-year-old man.

Outsourcing outrage and enforcement, the law is a licence for vigilantes and trolls to harass women second-hand through the courts.

The judge tasked with uncovering who’s to blame for the disaster is operating with one hand tied behind his back.

Despite Paul Keating’s assertions about provoking China, Canberra is looking after Australia’s interests, not Washington’s, when it stands its ground against Beijing.

General Mark A Milley called his Chinese counterpart before the 2020 election and after the January 6 siege in a bid to avert armed conflict, according to a new book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.

Zheng Zeguang has been blocked from attending a reception at Westminster in an escalation of tensions between London and Beijing.

With no idea when caps on arrivals will be lifted, Singapore Airlines has been forced to cancel at least one flight a day into Australia over the next three months.

A bastion of conservatism even by the standards of the Vatican, the Swiss Guard has been a celebrated institution ever since its foundation in 1506.

The UN humanitarian chief says the donations show solidarity but warned “Afghanistan faces a long and hard road ahead”.

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Radical step required after environmental impact of cattle farming shown to go far beyond mere flatulence.

“He shouldn’t be lecturing us about anything,” the former president said of his fellow ex-president. “The World Trade Centre came down during his watch.”

KrioRus, founded in 2006, says it holds the remains of 30 human patients and 20 animals that have been cryo-preserved.

The Queen’s second son is being sued by Virginia Giuffre, an alleged victim of the late billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

This is the first time since 2019 that the malicious code used in a Pegasus hack has been discovered by researchers.

Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said that vaccinating minors aged 12 to 15 would help reduce the disruption to their education.

China’s fierce crackdown on its gay citizens is a sign of a bigger agenda: control. The President is also determined to redistribute wealth - and that campaign is shattering the nation’s private capital.

Additional COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are not needed for the general population, leading scientists said in an article published in the Lancet medical journal.

A start-up that makes cultured mozzarella and ricotta cheeses without cows is looking to tap the growing market for environmentally friendly dairy alternatives.

Now the family of Ray DeMonia is urging those who remain unvaccinated to get immunised to help hospitals that have been pushed to their limits.

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The latest test demonstrates serious capability for the country that is in an arms race with its southern neighbour.

Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson recently launched themselves into zero gravity on suborbital trips lasting less than an hour.

the fury over Biden’s mandates shows how a once-extreme stance has moved to the centre of the Republican Party.

The Duke of York has appointed a US-based lawyer but it is understood that no one from his legal team will participate in a court-ordered telephone conference.

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China declared the coronavirus under control in early 2020 but has suffered outbreaks of the more contagious Delta variant.