Oceania
New Zealand Watchdog Rejects Media Merger
A merger of New Zealand's two largest media companies was rejected Wednesday as the country's competition watchdog...
US, Mexico, Canada In Joint Bid For 2026 World Cup
The United States, Mexico and Canada announced a joint bid to stage the 2026 World Cup on Monday, aiming to become the...
India Take 2-0 Lead Against Uzbekistan In Davis Cup
India took a 2-0 lead against Uzbekistan on the opening day of the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group I tie on Friday....
New Zealand Floods Force Evacuations After Tropical Storm Debbie
The entire town of Edgecumbe on New Zealand's North Island has been evacuated, after severe flooding. About 600 homes...
UN Blasts ‘disturbing’ Racism Against Aborigines In Australia
Racism against Aborigines in Australia is widespread and "deeply disturbing", a United Nations envoy said Monday,...
Ghana To Make Easy World Cup Qualification
Ghana's hopes of qualifying for the World Cup will be easier from 2026 after FIFA allocated nine slots to Africa for...
Fifa Propose Nine African World Cup Spots
An African nation has never lifted the World Cup trophy in its 87 year history Fifa is proposing that Africa gets nine...
Amnesty Slams ‘outrageous’ Fiji Newspaper Sedition Case
Sedition charges brought against executives at Fiji's oldest newspaper are "absolutely outrageous", Amnesty...
Israel Defence Exports Surge To $6.5 Bln
Israeli military exports surged last year to $6.5 billion, a rise of 14 percent buoyed by increased defence budgets,...
Brazil First Team To Qualify For World Cup Finals
Brazil have become the first side to seal their place at the World Cup finals in Russia next year. Their 3-0 win over...
Brazil Becomes First Country To Qualify For World Cup
The Selecao reached Russia 2018 with four games to spare after a 13-match unbeaten run Brazil became the first country...
Argentina Lose 2-0 To Bolivia Hours After Lionel Messi Is Banned
Bolivia have won just three of their 14 World Cup qualifiers Argentina lost 2-0 to Bolivia in World Cup qualifying,...
Full Speech of Issa Hayatou At the 39th Ordinary General Assembly of CAF
Your Excellency, the President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Your Excellency the President of the...
Africa Wants Ten Slots For 2026 World Cup
Africa will be looking to double the number of places it has at an expanded World Cup from 2026. The continent’s...
African Nations Want 10 Places At Expanded Competition
Africa will be looking to double the number of places it has at an expanded World Cup from 2026. The continent’s...
Global Arms Trade Highest Since Cold War
Worldwide arms trade has risen to its highest level since the Cold War in the last five years, driven by a demand from...
Japan’s Kirin Selling Brazilian Unit To Heineken
Japanese brewer Kirin said Monday it would sell its Brazilian unit to Dutch beer giant Heineken for $706 million,...
US-Australia Refugee Deal: Trump In ‘worst Call’ With Turnbull
A phone call between US President Donald Trump and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull has called into question a refugee...
Donald, Uncle Sam and the Rest of Us
Eventually seventy years old Donald John Trump is undoubtedly the President of the United States of America. No calls...