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Petroleum Minister discusses development of Iqat gold mine to place it on global map
Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Karim Badawi held talks with Sherine Helmy, CEO of Wealth and Resources Mining Company— the contractor operating the Iqat gold mine in Egypt’s Eastern Desert — along with senior company officials. The...

Is Trump KILLING The QUAD? How New American Policies Could Derail US-India-Japan-Australia Pact? OPED
By treating India now more or less as an enemy with his daily statements and the highest tariff of 50 percent (the only country after Brazil), has President Donald Trump initiated the demise of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad), the...

‘Large shark’ kills local man off beach in Australia
A “large shark” yesterday mauled a surfer to death at a popular Sydney beach, Australian police and rescuers said, in a rare fatal attack that led to a string of beach closures. The 57-year-old local man had gone surfing with five or six friends...
Australia boosts support for Solomon Islands climate action network
BY MORRIS NAFU The Australian Government, through the Australian High Commission (AHC) to the Solomon Islands reaffirms its support for the Solomon Islands Climate Action Network (SICAN). In a statement released on Friday, September 5, 2024, the...

Australia: Surfer Killed In Shark Attack At Sydney's Long Reef Beach
Australia: Surfer Killed In Shark Attack At Sydney's Long Reef Beach | Freepik (Representative Image) Sydney: A surfer has died after being attacked by a shark at a beach in northern Sydney on Saturday morning. A police statement said that...

Australia’s Comprehensive SBD 100 million support for 2025 Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting
Australia has provided a comprehensive package of support worth over SBD 100 million to the Solomon Islands Government for the 54th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Meeting in Solomon Islands. This includes the provision of 61 security vehicles,...

Australian neo-Nazi attack on sacred Indigenous site a worrying trend
Melbourne, Australia – A far-right “anti-immigration” march escalated into a violent attack on a sacred Indigenous site in Melbourne last weekend, raising serious questions about police conduct and institutional responses to neo-Nazi groups in...

Australia snatch dramatic victory at death in Rugby Championship thriller
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Australia offers historic reward for arrest of gunman after police killings
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) pays his respects as the coffin of police officer Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart leaves the Victoria Police Academy chapel. (Photo by William West / AFP) Sydney: Australian police offered...

Political issues keep spilling into drinks market
Opinion Canada’s fraught relations with the United States, and the impact of tariffs rolled out in March, continue to shake up the alcohol industry on both sides of the border. At a news conference on Sept. 2, Ontario Premier Doug Ford made a...
Australia offers $1m reward for information on gunman who allegedly killed two police officers
AUSTRALIAN POLICE HAVE offered Aus$1 million for information on a gunman who allegedly killed two police officers, as a vast manhunt entered its 12th day without any sightings. Police in the eastern state of Victoria said they were putting up the...

China slates sailing of Canada, Australia warships in Taiwan Strait
China's military on Saturday said its forces had followed and warned a Canadian and an Australian warship, which were sailing through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, in a move it condemned as a "provocation". The People's Liberation Army's Eastern...

Cabinet reshuffle live: Starmer overhauls Home Office and ousts Rachel Reeves’s sister
Rebecca Whittaker6 September 2025 17:55 Anna Turley new chair of Labour Party replacing Rachel Reeves’s sister MP for Redcar Anna Turley, who has been a government whip since the last election, is now the new Labour Party chair. She has replaced...

Australian Health Partnerships To Supercharge Research
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade From cutting-edge vaccine technology to life-saving antivenoms, the Albanese Government is backing Australian-led research to transform health outcomes across our nation and our region. Through the National...

Australian Privacy Law Reform Tranche 2: The Time for Conversation is Over
Tranche 2 of the Australian Privacy Act reforms is expected soon (perhaps imminently), following comments from the new attorney general in the media that suggested the time for conversation and for lobbying is over. The attorney general noted in...
Australia posts $840k reward for arrest of gunman after police killings
Sydney – Australia posted a A$1 million (S$840,000) reward on Sept 6 for the arrest of a gunman who allegedly killing two police officers, as a vast manhunt entered its 12th day without any sightings. Police in the eastern state of Victoria said...

A broad, united anti-racist response to the ‘March for Australia’ is needed to defeat the far right
Solidarity Melbourne Branch Committee statement The thousands who marched as part of the anti-migrant “Nationwide March for Australia” alongside open Nazis shows the danger if anti-migrant racism goes unchallenged. The Nazis were emboldened by the...

Nigel Farage confirms full plan to stop migrant crisis in just two weeks with 'Australia-style' Channel crackdown
Nigel Farage has confirmed Reform UK has a two-week plan to end the Channel crossing crisis. In a sit-down interview with GB News's Political Correspondent Katherine Forster, the Reform UK leader clarified that the two-week plan would not come...

Australia posts $1 mil reward for arrest of gunman wanted for police killings
Australian authorities offered a A$1 million ($650,000) reward on Saturday for information leading to the capture of a gunman on the run for 11 days after allegedly killing two police officers. More than 450 police have been searching the...

‘Large shark’ kills surfer off Australia beach
Surfers exit the water after authorities closed Long Reef Beach in Sydney following a shark attack on September 6, 2025. A suspected "large shark" mauled a surfer to death in a rare fatal attack off a Sydney beach on September 6, Australian police...