Japan: Concerns over China prompt Japan to train US and Australian forces

Japan’s troops will participate in joint training with United States Marines and Australian forces in northern Australia next year, the defence ministers from the three countries have said, as they…

Tanzania: Four-storey building collapses killing 13, dozens still missing

Rescue teams in Tanzania say they have managed to establish contact with people who are still trapped a day after a four-storey building collapsed in the biggest city, Dar es…

Russia: Fury over Biden permitting Ukraine to strike deep in Russia with US supplied long-range missiles

President Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to strike inside Russia with long-range missiles supplied by the US has sparked a furious response in Russia. “Departing US president Joe Biden… has taken one…

Bangladesh: Interim leader pledges electoral and constitutional reforms before elections

Bangladesh‘s interim leader Muhammad Yunus has appealed for the nation’s “patience”, pledging that general elections would be held after electoral and institutional reforms were completed in a televised address marking…

Australia: Foreign students and universities concerned about visa cap

Education is Australia’s fourth biggest export, trailing only mining products. Foreign students, who pay nearly twice as much as Australian students on average, prop up some institutions, subsidising research, scholarships,…

Palestine: Pope Francis urges inquiry into Gaza genocide allegations

Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, tackling the issue for the first time in excerpts from an upcoming book. “According…

USA: Two Democratic senators call for probe into Musk’s alleged contact with Russia

Two top Senate Democrats have called for an investigation into Elon Musk’s reported contacts with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top aides. The lawmakers have urged the Pentagon and…

India: Twenty-three arrested after violence erupted in northeast state of Manipur

Police in the northeast Indian state of Manipur have arrested 23 people for ransacking and setting fires to the homes of lawmakers and ministers in the capital Imphal as protests…

South Africa: Miners holed up in abandoned shaft ‘starving’

 Miners at an abandoned South African mining shaft are starving due to police limiting supplies to force out the hundreds of people believed to be stuck underground, according to a…

Italy: President Sergio Mattarella tells Elon Musk not to interfere in Italian affairs

It didn’t take long for Elon Musk to be accused of meddling in Italy’s domestic affairs. The tech billionaire’s declaration that “these judges need to go,” splashed across all of…