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COVID-19 origins: Australian scientist dismisses Western media reports on Wuhan Lab
Jun 29, 2021 09:45Australian virologist Danielle Anderson, a foreign scientist who worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China ahead of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, has dismissed Western media reports about the facility being the source of the outbreak.
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Participation of Iranians in presidential election in different countries
Jun 18, 2021 14:10Iranians residing in Australia, France, the Netherlands and Ivory Coast went to the polls on June 18 to cast their votes in the 13th presidential election.
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Australia further restricts AstraZeneca vaccine over clotting concerns
Jun 17, 2021 07:35Australia recommended that AstraZeneca's COVID-19 jab should not be given to people under 60 on Thursday, a fresh blow to the country's glacial vaccine rollout.
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Australia detects ‘highly transmissible’ COVID variant in Melbourne
Jun 04, 2021 09:38Australian authorities in the southeastern state of Victoria have detected a “highly transmissible” variant of the deadly coronavirus, stoking concerns of a major spike in cases.
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China suspends economic dialogue with Australia as relations curdle
May 06, 2021 04:53China's government has announced it is "indefinitely" suspending all activities under a China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue.
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Iran’s top negotiator meets Austria’s FM to discuss next steps to restore nuclear deal
Apr 30, 2021 02:27Iran’s chief negotiator Abbas Araqchi has met with Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg in Vienna to discuss the next steps regarding the ongoing efforts to resuscitate the landmark Iran nuclear agreement, which was abandoned by the US in 2018 despite global objections.
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Australia to launch inquiry into rising military suicides
Apr 19, 2021 09:39Australia will establish a Royal Commission to study the rising number of suicides in the nation’s armed forces, Prime Minister Scott Morrison declared, bending to public pressure for preventative measures.
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Anniversary highlights Aboriginal deaths in Australian custody crisis
Apr 15, 2021 03:39Thirty years after sweeping reforms were recommended to end the injustice of Indigenous deaths in Australian custody, a spate of recent fatalities and soaring rates of Aboriginal incarceration have highlighted failures to act.
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Iran, Austria confer on JCPOA Joint Commission meeting
Apr 08, 2021 01:04Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and Foreign Minister of Austria Alexander Schallenberg discussed issues surrounding the latest meeting of the Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) held in Vienna.
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Australia floods claim first fatality, more evacuations as clean-up begins
Mar 24, 2021 06:00A man’s body was found in a car trapped by floodwaters on Wednesday, the first death linked to wild weather across Australia in recent days that has submerged houses, swept away cars and livestock and cut off entire towns.