Graham Fletcher said Australia had “no confidence in the validity of a process which is conducted in secret”.

The agreement paves the way for China to take its first major stake in security in the Pacific and tests Australia’s century-long influence over the region.

Three of Australia’s most senior judges will remain on Hong Kong’s top court after Britain pulled out its judges in response to Beijing’s national security laws.

El Shafee Elsheikh is accused of a playing a leadership role in an IS cell known for decapitations and torture. The cell included “Jihadi John” now dead.

The proposed project involving a member of the Quad alliance would undermine the sanctions imposed against Vladimir Putin over his February invasion of neighbour Ukraine.

Kyiv residents are hopeful that a Russian statement of withdrawal is actually true.

Eleven people died in three attacks in a week, prompting Naftali Bennett to say the country was “currently experiencing a wave of murderous terrorism”.

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Russia’s ambassador to Jakarta said Morrison’s push to boycott Putin’s appearance at the G20 summit was “driven by illogical hatred”.

To help end the emergency, WHO called on countries to continue or increase virus surveillance capabilities to allow for early warning signs of significant changes in the virus.

Russian forces bombarded key cities despite promising to scale down operations in what the West dismissed as a ploy to regroup by invaders suffering heavy losses.

The campaign included placing op-eds in newspapers and promoting dubious stories about alleged TikTok trends that actually originated on Facebook.

South Korea’s military said North Korea’s largest missile test yet used an older, smaller intercontinental ballistic missile.

India’s government is considering a Russian plan to trade roubles for rupees in a system that would bypass global banking sanctions.

California’s governor has blocked parole for 72-year-old Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, ruling she still had “gaps in insight” about her crimes.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his people only believed in concrete results.

A Russian rocket hit the regional administration building in the southern Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv, killing at least seven people and wounding 22.

Australia can help curb the influence of China in the Pacific by calling out the corrupt political elite in the Solomon Islands.

“You have to forgive those leaders who jumped to a fossil fuel solution” after Russia invaded Ukraine, Forrest said, “but in the end they have empowered Putin”.

The fallout from Prince Andrew’s appearance arm-in-arm with the Queen at Prince Philip’s memorial service is very real.

In the last two weeks, Hillsong has lost nine of its 16 American church franchises. A swift decline for one of the world’s most influential evangelical churches.

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the extra shot as an option but stopped short of urging that those eligible rush out and get it right away.

Sydney-born lawyer Daniel Adler decided on the spur of the moment to wheel his bike in front of the semi-trailers driving the US capital crazy.

Senator Cory Booker said that the legitimacy of the Supreme Court was at stake and that “clearly” the justice should have recused himself from decisions related to the election.

The superyacht was seized under the UK government’s Russian sanctions - the first time the regulations have been used to detain a ship.

British police have issued 20 fines over illegal parties held by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his staff during coronavirus lockdowns.

Russia’s military said it would “fundamentally” cut back operations near Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and a northern city.

The service of thanksgiving at London’s Westminster Abbey was a much bigger event after COVID-19 restricted mourners to just 30 at the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral in April.

Solomon Islands’ defiant Prime Minister sent Scott Morrison a text and letter before telling his parliament Australia’s concerns were “nonsense”.

Nagaenthran Dharmalingam thinks he’s going home to his family. But he could be hanged within days in Singapore.

Ukrainian strategic thinking has so far outmanoeuvred Putin’s war machine. With massive amounts of military, diplomatic, economic, and humanitarian aid, Ukraine could even win this war.

Was the oligarch poisoned while trying to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia? If so, it would only be the latest twist in Abramovich’s bizarre history.

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, in Liverpool, now asks “all patients under the age of 60, regardless of how you may identify your gender”.

Ukraine forces re-take the town of Trostsyanets in Eastern Kyiv.

Several of the Arab participants also publicly pressed Israel on the need to create a sovereign Palestinian state, signalling that while they had normalised ties with Israel, they had not abandoned the Palestinian cause. 

Asked if his comments would anger Putin, Biden said: “I don’t care what he thinks. ... He’s going to do what he’s going to do.”

Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has drawn scrutiny for her text messages to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in which she repeatedly pressed Meadows to work aggressively to overturn Joe Biden’s lawful election...

Abramovich, sanctioned by Britain and the EU this month, was said to have shown symptoms including peeling skin on his face and hands, and red teary eyes.

Anti-feminists have called women “kimchi girls” – slang that suggests their boyfriends pay for them. Older women have been labelled “mum-roaches”.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants PNG and Fiji to help convince the Solomon Islands to abandon its Beijing security deal - but PNG is also forging closer links.

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The Ukrainian President lashed out at the West’s “ping-pong about who and how should hand over jets” and other weapons while Russian missile attacks kill and trap civilians.

Will the Summit for Democracy address how borders have been rendered porous by technology, normalising the harassment of regime critics living in free societies?

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As cases soar in the financial hub of 25 million people, authorities announced a four-day snap lockdown east of the Huangpu River - and then another in the west.

The former gymnast turned politician is widely believed to be the girlfriend, or possibly the wife, of Vladimir Putin. She is even rumoured to have given birth to four children.

The homicides appeared linked to the country’s notorious street gangs, who effectively control many neighbourhoods in El Salvador’s capital.

Mandela, the anti-apartheid activist who emerged from 27 years in prison to become South Africa’s first black president, was arrested in 1962 for conspiring to overthrow the white-minority government. 

Chinese authorities officially confirmed on Saturday that there were no survivors in the crash of a China Eastern 737-800 earlier this week with 132 people on board.