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Australia suffers deadliest day of pandemic amid rise in Omicron cases
Jan 18, 2022 15:23Australia has recorded its highest number of fatalities from COVID-19 amid the rise in cases of the Omicron variant across the country.
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Biden must halt the assault on free press and drop the prosecution of Julian Assange
Jan 10, 2022 07:11Wikileaks exposed U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, torture at Guantanamo and other abuses of power, releasing thousands of secret U.S. government and military documents that major news organizations worldwide, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Guardian then used as the basis for award-winning reporting.
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World’s top 2021 climate disasters cost nearly $200 billion: Study
Dec 30, 2021 11:14A new report shows that 2021 continued the trend of annual climate devastation worldwide that is costing the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars as planet-heating emissions unleash exactly the kind of damage scientists have warned about for decades.
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Fire breaks out at Australia’s former parliament building during protest
Dec 30, 2021 06:07Australia’s former parliament building caught fire during an Aboriginal rights protest, causing limited damage, officials say.
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Australian government stares down calls to press UK and US for Julian Assange’s release
Dec 13, 2021 12:16Australia says it is ‘not a party’ to case and will ‘respect the UK legal process’ after court clears way for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange’s extradition to US.
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The new variant is worrying – but it doesn’t change how we tackle COVID
Dec 02, 2021 06:37The only way to stop B.1.1.529 and other coronavirus mutations is through testing, masks, and getting vaccines to everyone in the world
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Nasrallah says Australia’s blacklisting of Hezbollah will not affect group’s resolve to resist
Nov 27, 2021 00:17The secretary-general of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah says Australia’s decision to label Hezbollah as a “terrorist organization” does not affect the group’s resolve to resist Israeli threats.
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Hezbollah slams Australia blacklisting of Lebanese group
Nov 26, 2021 03:04Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah denounced Australia's decision to list the whole group as a "terrorist organization," saying it was "a humiliating submission to American and Zionist dictates. In a statement, Hezbollah stressed that such a move will not affect its determination to support any anti-Israeli movement.
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'Covering up Israeli terrorism': Hamas blasts Australia's blacklisting of Hezbollah
Nov 25, 2021 13:58Palestine’s resistance movement Hamas has condemned Australia’s decision to label Hezbollah as a “terrorist organization”, saying the move is a blatant bias in favor of the Israeli colonial occupation.
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China: AUKUS security pact threatens global security
Nov 24, 2021 14:03China says the Australia-UK-US security deal known as AUKUS, which helps Australia get its first nuclear-powered submarine, poses a threat to the regional peace and global security.