INTERNATIONAL: A senior Russian diplomat said on Monday 25th April that there was no point in having a ceasefire in Ukraine at this stage because Kyiv was likely to use it as an opportunity to try to…
INTERNATIONAL: Twitter is SET to agree a sale to Elon Musk for around $43 billion in cash, the price the chief executive of Tesla has called his "best and final" offer for the social media company, people…
INTERNATIONAL: Australians lined the streets of Capitals cities, this morning at the crack of dawn Monday 25th April, to watch thousands of past and present military personnel march in the annual Anzac…
INTERNATIONAL: Vehicles were left burnt out and fuel pooled on the ground in Nigeria's Imo state on Sunday (24 April) following an overnight explosion at an illegal oil refining depot.
INTERNATIONAL: Emmanuel Macron comfortably defeated far-right rival Marine Le Pen on Sunday 24th, heading off a political earthquake for Europe but acknowledging dissatisfaction with his first term and…
INTERNATIONAL: Former U.S. President Donald Trump said it was unacceptable that Russian President Vladimir Putin was using what Trump called the "N-word" – the word 'nuclear', so often.
INTERNATIONAL: A gunman opened fire on random victims from a sniper's nest in an apartment building near an elite prep school in the nation's capital on Friday (April 22), wounding four people, before…
INTERNATIONAL: - A U.S. judge on Friday ordered the detention of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, in Hernandez's first court appearance after being extradited to the United States on…
INTERNATIONAL: Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying a senior Revolutionary Guards commander in restive southeastern Iran early on Saturday, killing a bodyguard, Iranian state media reported.
INTERNATIONAL: Police issued a bulletin seeking a man they identified as a "person of interest" in a shooting that left four people wounded near an elite prep school in Washington, D.C., on Friday (April…
INTERNATIONAL: Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen spent the last day of her campaign on Friday (April 22) in northern France, where she enjoys widespread support among blue collar workers and farmers.
INTERNATIONAL: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Friday (April 22) signed a bill that strips Walt Disney of self-governing authority at its Orlando-area parks in retaliation for its opposition to a new…
INTERNATIONAL: Two adults were critically wounded and a child suffered a minor injury in a shooting on Friday (April 22) near a college preparatory school in Washington, D.C., and police swarmed the area…
INTERNATIONAL: Since Sudan's military staged a coup six months ago many former allies of toppled autocrat Omar al-Bashir have been allowed to rejoin the civil service while others have been freed from…
INTERNATIONAL: Ukrainian fighters were clinging to their last redoubt in Mariupol after Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed victory in the biggest battle of the war, declaring the port city "liberated"…
INTERNATIONAL: Experts have now started raising the possibility that Uganda might lose the Entebbe International Airport over foreign debts, as the media was suggesting the events reminiscent of when…
INTERNATIONAL: Rescue workers retrieved the bodies of Mariupol's dead on Thursday 21st April as Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the port city of Mariupol "liberated" after nearly two months…
INTERNATIONAL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has exchanged letters with South Korea's outgoing President Moon Jae-in and thanked Moon for his efforts to improve relations, state media KCNA reported…
INTERNATIONAL: U.S. State Department delegation met Palestinian leaders in Ramallah to try to ease tensions on Thursday 21st April.
INTERNATIONAL: Nicaragua's parliament, controlled by allies of President Daniel Ortega, on Wednesday (April 20) shut down 25 non-governmental organizations in a move slammed by the opposition as a further…
INTERNATIONAL: Russia said on Wednesday 20th April it had test-launched its Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, a new addition to its nuclear arsenal which President Vladimir Putin said would give…
INTERNATIONAL: A Ukrainian marine commander in the besieged city of Mariupol said his troops may be able to hold out for only a few hours longer as Ukraine tried to evacuate 6,000 women, children and…
INTERNATIONAL: A walkout by officials from the United States, Britain and Canada over Russia's participation in a meeting of finance officials from the world's 20 biggest economies did not derail the…
INTERNATIONAL: The Biden administration will no longer enforce a U.S. mask mandate on public transportation; after a federal judge in Florida on Monday ruled that the 14-month-old directive was unlawful,…
INTERNATIONAL: Israeli airstrikes hit camps used by Hamas and another Gaza faction on Tuesday (April 19), Palestinian sources said, hours after the Israeli military said it had shot down a rocket fired…
INTERNATIONAL: Then-President Donald Trump attempted a coup on Jan. 6, 2021, and that will be a centrepiece of committee hearings in Congress next month, said Democrat Jamie Raskin, a committee member…
INTERNATIONAL: Sri Lankan police fired live ammunition to scatter protesters on Tuesday 19th April, killing one person and injuring a dozen more, as the country sought rapid financial assistance from…
INTERNATIONAL: Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday 19th April the situation in Mariupol remains "as tough as possible", as Russia urged Ukrainians in the besieged port to lay down…
INTERNATIONAL: A South Carolina prisoner scheduled to be the first man executed in the state in more than a decade has decided to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair later this month,…
INTERNATIONAL: The Biden administration will no longer enforce a U.S. mask mandate on public transportation; after a federal judge in Florida ruled that the directive was unlawful, overturning a key White…
INTERNATIONAL: Australians commemorate Anzac Day on 25 April every year. This is the anniversary of Australian and New Zealand soldiers landing at Gallipoli during World War I.
INTERNATIONAL: Overseas voters can also apply for a postal vote in this election. Check your enrolment and apply for a postal vote here: aec.gov.au/overseas.
INTERNATIONAL: After withdrawing troops from near Kyiv and the north of Ukraine late last month, Russian forces have now started the battle of Donbas.
INTERNATIONAL: Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo and his partner Georgina Rodriguez, who announced in October last year they were expecting twins, said on Monday 18th April one of the two babies has…
INTERNATIONAL: Iran's armed forces will target Israel's heart if it makes "the slightest move" against the Islamic Republic; President Ebrahim Raisi told a military parade on Monday 18th April, amid stalled…
INTERNATIONAL: Ukraine has completed a questionnaire which will form a starting point for the European Union to decide on membership for Kyiv, Ihor Zhovkva, and deputy head of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's…
INTERNATIONAL: Two British fighters captured in Ukraine by Russian forces appeared on Russian state TV on Monday 18th April and asked to be exchanged for an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who…
INTERNATIONAL: Authorities in South Carolina are investigating a shooting at a nightclub early Sunday that wounded at least nine people. It was the second mass shooting in the state and the third in the…
INTERNATIONAL: Russia said on Monday it had hit hundreds of military targets in Ukraine overnight, destroying command posts with air-launched missiles, while authorities in the western city of Lviv, which…
INTERNATIONAL: Three people in the Swedish city of Norrkoping needed medical attention after being hit by police bullets during clashes between police and protesters following Quran burnings that caused…
INTERNATIONAL: Thousands of people gathered in Tokyo on Saturday to protest against Japan's nuclear policy, including its plans to release treated water from the crippled nuclear power plant into the…
INTERNATIONAL: French security forces briefly fired tear gas in Paris as opponents of the far-right marched in the capital on Saturday 16th April. Then the demonstrators resumed their protests minutes…
INTERNATIONAL: Residents of Mariupol walked past the bodies of civilians as they evacuated their destroyed homes on Sunday 17th April, as Moscow said its forces had almost completely seized the port town.
INTERNATIONAL: Rescuers searched for dozens of people still missing in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province on Sunday 17th April after floods and mudslides killed 443 people.
INTERNATIONAL: The current economic measures imposed on Russia remind experts of Iran's confrontation with the West.
INTERNATIONAL: Police mounted an intense manhunt on Tuesday (April 12) for a gunman who set off two smoke bombs and opened fire in a New York subway car, injuring at least 20 people in a morning rush-hour…
INTERNATIONAL: John Lee, Hong Kong's outgoing deputy leader, filed his candidacy for the May leadership election on Wednesday (April 13).
INTERNATIONAL: Four orphans from the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr celebrated their bar mitzvah - a Jewish coming-of-age ceremony, usually held at the age of 13 - at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Monday…
INTERNATIONAL: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday (April 12) that he accepted a fine by police for breaking lockdown rules in 2020 and he understood public anger over the issue, adding…
INTERNATIONAL: Colombia's national police on Monday (April 11) rescued over 1,000 ocelots, snakes, birds, and other animals valued at more than $1 million on the black market.
INTERNATIONAL: U.S. President Joe Biden said for the first time on Tuesday that Russia's invasion of Ukraine amounts to genocide, a significant escalation of the president’s rhetoric.
WASHINGTON: A press statement from U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has been released for the occasion of the 2022 Khmer New Year.
INTERNATIONAL Ukraine's security services on Tuesday 12th April said they had arrested pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, who is President Vladimir Putin's closest and most influential ally in…
INTERNATIONAL: Dozens of supporters celebrated with fireworks, dancing and sweets as Shehbaz Sharif was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan on Monday 11th April, taking over from ousted premier…
INTERNATIONAL: The United Nations is increasingly hearing accounts of rape and sexual violence in Ukraine, a senior U.N. official told the Security Council on Monday (April 11), as a Ukrainian human rights…
INTERNATIONAL: Video-sharing app TikTok's advertisement revenue is likely to triple in 2022 to more than $11 billion, exceeding the combined sales of its rivals Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) and Snap Inc (SNAP.N),…
INTERNATIONAL: The US and UK said they are working urgently to confirm unverified reports that Russia used chemical weapons in the southern city of Mariupol.
INTERNATIONAL: A video posted on social media, has re-surfaced and verified geolocated to an area west of Kyiv appears to show Ukrainian forces shooting and killing a captured and badly wounded Russian…
INTERNATIONAL: Russia will not stop its military operation in Ukraine for subsequent rounds of peace talks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday 11th April.
INTERNATIONAL: Buenos Aires Police arrested more than 250 soccer fans outside River Plate's Monumental stadium on Sunday 10th April.
INTERNATIONAL: Faced with a run-off between incumbent Emmanuel Macron and challenger Marine Le Pen for the French presidency, left-wing newspaper "Liberation" struck a sombre mood with its front page…
INTERNATIONAL: Russia on Saturday warned the U.S. of direct military confrontation should the U.S.-led Western states continue pumping Ukraine with weapons and ammunition.
INTERNATIONAL: Pakistan's lower house of parliament on Sunday 9TH April voted in favour of removing Prime Minister Imran Khan from office, following a nearly 14-hour standoff between the opposition and…
INTERNATIONAL: Residents fled from cities in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Sunday 10 April after Russian rocket attacks on a train station in Kramatorsk killed over 50 people.
ASEAN: The ASEAN Foreign Ministers have released a statement on the reported killing of civilians in Ukraine, following Russia’s withdrawal from the city of Bucha and the emergence of video and photo…
INTERNATIONAL: On Thursday 7 April, the US confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to serve on the country’s highest court. This milestone is a victory for President Joe Biden whose campaign…
INTERNATIONAL: In Bukavu, the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the thousands of plastic bottles thrown into the Rusizi river routinely clog the hydropower station's turbines, shutting it down for…
