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The prime minister has rejected calls for more help for firefighters as the New South Wales bushfire crisis is expected to worsen. There were 85 fires burning across NSW on Tuesday, and 42 were uncontrolled. With predictions of…

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Iran’s supreme leader called Wednesday for those detained in recent gasoline price protests to be treated with “Islamic mercy” even after authorities acknowledged government forces shot and killed…

WATFORD, ENGLAND – President Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed the significance of repeated contacts between his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and phone numbers linked to the White House and its budget office — contacts that…

US President Trump has labelled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “two-faced” and ditched London’s NATO summit early after Mr Trudeau was caught apparently gossiping about him on camera at Buckingham Palace. Speaking ahead of…

WATFORD, ENGLAND – NATO leaders professed unity on Wednesday at a summit near London — but a spat over off-the-cuff chit chat at a royal reception rattled their show of solidarity.U.S. President Donald Trump branded the leader of…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called Wednesday for South Korea to make joint efforts to play a "constructive" role for regional peace and stability, casting the two countries as "close neighbors, friends and partners."  Wang…

Opposition parties Wednesday ramped up calls for extending the current Diet session, saying the government lied about the existence of backup data for a guest list for a contentious cherry blossom viewing party this year.The recent…

The Senate has passed a motion calling on the government to recognise the increased risk it has placed on two gay Saudi journalists by keeping them in detention after they claimed asylum last month. Guardian Australia can reveal that…

South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo called Wednesday for maintaining a staunch defense posture, his office said, as North Korea and the United States traded thinly veiled threats against each other amid stalled nuclear…

news, latest-news, THERE might have been more than 140 fires burning across the state late on Tuesday, but firefighters are urging people to only call triple-0 if they see an unattended fire. Triple-0 operators have been inundated by…

Taipei, Dec. 2 (CNA) A former defense minister of Taiwan on Monday called on lawmakers to swiftly pass an anti-infiltration law to prevent Chinese interference in the nation's politics.Michael Tsai (蔡明憲), who served as defense chief…

Hong Kong police have reinstated an officer who drove his motorcycle into a crowd of masked protesters last month, according to the police chief. Commissioner of Police Chris Tang on Sunday confirmed that the officer had resumed active…

WASHINGTON -- The United States calls on North Korea to avoid provocations and return to negotiations on dismantling its nuclear weapons program, the State Department said Friday.The comment comes after North Korea fired two…

North Korea fired verbal shots at Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday for mistaking Pyongyang's recent test-fire of its super-large multiple launch rocket system for a ballistic missile launch.In a statement released…

About 100 people have gathered outside the British consulate in Admiralty to call on the London government to do more to help a consular employee who claimed he was tortured while detain on the mainland, as well as British citizens…

NEW YORK – President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, called the president this week to reassure him that he had been joking when he told media outlets he had “insurance” if Trump turned on him in the Ukraine…

BENI, CONGO – More than a dozen people are dead in the latest rebel attack near the city of Beni, where outraged residents this week stormed a United Nations base to demand protection, a local official said Wednesday.The attack in…

ISTANBUL – Prosecutors called Wednesday for Amnesty International’s Turkey chair to be convicted of membership in a terror group, meaning up to 15 years in prison, in a trial labelled “absurd” by the rights group.Taner Kilic spent…

PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA – An Australian woman escaped the death penalty and was released Tuesday after Malaysia’s top court acquitted her of drug trafficking, a rare ruling that could bolster calls for an end to capital punishment in…

We start the sixth last sitting day talking about all the things we have been talking about all week - Westpac and Angus Taylor. Amongst a leadership purge announced by the bank yesterday, Labor is now calling for the bank’s executives…