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Spain Mourns First Female Defence Minister Carme Chacon
Spain is mourning Carme Chacón, the former defence minister who died on Sunday and was famously photographed in 2008...
Southern EU Leaders Say US Strike On Syria ‘understandable’
The leaders of southern EU nations said Monday that a US missile strike on a Syrian air base in retaliation for a...
UN Chief Pushes Change In Trump-Era Turmoil
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres marks his first 100 days in office on Monday, facing a long list of worsening...
‘IS’ Rocket Fired From Egypt Hits Israel, Crossing Shut
A rocket fired from Egypt's Sinai crashed into Israel on Monday, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist...
Sweden Holds Minute’s Silence For Victims
Sweden's prime minister has told the families of the victims of Friday's truck attack they are not alone, after the...
China’s Xi Praises Normalisation of Ties With Norway
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday praised the normalisation of relations with Norway, six years after a dispute...
Spain Mourns First Woman Defence Minister Carme Chacon
Spain is mourning Carme Chacón, the former defence minister who died on Sunday and was famously photographed in 2008...
Australia Wheat Board Chairman Punished Over Iraq ‘kickback’
The former chairman of an Australian wheat firm was fined Aus$50,000 (US$37,500) Monday and banned from managing a...
N.Zealand PM Queries Sonny Bill Logo Cover-Up
New Zealand's prime minister on Monday criticised All Blacks star Sonny Bill Williams' decision to block out a...
Satirist Beloved In Australia and New Zealand Dies
One of Australia's most renowned satirists, John Clarke, has died. The New Zealand-born comedian and writer was famous...
PM Trudeau In France
On Sunday, near Arras in Northern France, a WWI battle centenary commemoration looked for all the world like a...
Mali’s Defense Minister Named As New Prime Minister
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita replaced his prime minister late on Saturday, naming the defense minister to...
Netanyahu Says Israel Committed To Treating Syrian War Wounded
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel remained committed to treating war wounded from Syria and...
Refugees To Remain In PNG If No US Resettlement
Asylum-seekers sent by Australia to a Papua New Guinea camp will be resettled there if they are not offered a place in...
Bangladesh Islamists To Hang After President Rejects Pleas
A top Islamist extremist under sentence of death has lost his last hope of avoiding the gallows after Bangladesh's...
A Booze Ban Stresses Indian Business
When Shailja Singh headed to her favourite bar for a post-work beer this week she found it shut, victim of a Supreme...
‘Fake News’ Another Weapon In Orban’s Illiberal Hungary
Few outlets illustrate better the cosy relationship between Hungary's media and Prime Minister Viktor Orban than Origo,...
Royals To Commemorate Defining WW1 Battle
The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry are to join more than 25,000 people in northern France to mark the centenary of...
Five Dead In Jihadist Attack In Mali
A Tuareg-led group in Mali said five of its fighters were killed Saturday in an attack blamed on jihadists, a week...