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  1. China says Scarborough Shoal situation 'has not changed'

    Beijing says the situation at the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea "has not changed and will not change", after the Philippines said Chinese vessels that blocked the area for four years had stopped harassing its fishermen.

  2. Turkey sacks 10,000 more civil servants; closes media outlets

    Turkey dismisses a further 10,000 civil servants and closes 15 more media outlets over suspected links with terrorist organisations and Fethullah Gulen, the man Ankara says orchestrated July's failed coup.

  3. Clinton vows not to be 'knocked off course' in final week of election campaign

    Hillary Clinton vows she will not be "knocked off course" in the election's final days, as she seeks to push past a new FBI email inquiry that has delivered a late jolt to her race against Donald Trump.

  4. George Town's world heritage status under threat: Penang activists

    Conservation activists in Malaysia's historical city of George Town say rapid development is threatening its world heritage listing.

  5. Almost one in seven children suffer due to high air pollution: UNICEF

    Almost one in seven children worldwide live with high levels of outdoor air pollution damaging to their growing bodies, the UN children's agency UNICEF says.

  6. Thousands call for South Korean President Park Geun-hye to resign

    More than 10,000 people fill the streets of central Seoul to protest against President Park Geun-hye, her administration and a build-up of corruption scandals that have deepened public distrust in Government.

  7. Aleppo fighting spreads amid claims of gas attack

    Syrian rebels open a new front in Aleppo as fighting spreads on the third day of a major insurgent counter-attack to break the Government's siege of the opposition-held part of the city, with each side accusing the other using poison gas.

  8. Shiite militia join fight to encircle Mosul

    Iraq's state-sanctioned Shiite militias say that some 5,000 fighters have joined their push to encircle the country's second largest city of Mosul and cut off Islamic State fighters.

  9. Saudi-led raid kills 60 at Yemen security site

    Arab coalition warplanes bomb a security complex near the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, killing 60 people, a regional official and medical sources say.

  10. 'It's as if the whole city fell down': Earthquake hits medieval Italian town

    A magnitude-6.6 earthquake causes the collapse of historic buildings and churches in central Italy, but no lives appear to have been lost, the Prime Minister says.

Features

  1. American voter ideology

    What happens when Republicans and Democrats share a meal together? Zoe Daniel visits a family in Ohio to find out how Americans are voting this election.

  2. Europe divided by walls

    As asylum seekers leave the burned-out Calais "Jungle", they face a Europe divided in an eerily familiar manner.

  3. Clinton's scandal explained

    Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former US congressman, has emerged as an unexpected figure in Hillary Clinton email inquiry.

  4. Meet Syria's White Helmets

    Before the war they were teachers, shoe makers, and engineers. Now they are often the first on the scene after an air strike in war-torn Syria.

  5. The story of two Americas

    Imagine you once had a good job, perhaps in a steel plant, and then the economy tanked. The slogan Make America Great Again would resonate.

  6. Calais: Law of the 'Jungle'

    The final moments before 8,000 desperate asylum seekers set off from Calais into yet more uncertainty in France.

  7. Cyanide coffee: What now?

    Australian permanent resident Jessica Wongso has been found guilty of murdering her friend with "cyanide coffee" at a Jakarta cafe.

  8. Iraqi family returns home

    Homesick but happy, an Iraqi family makes the difficult and dangerous journey home to the village they fled a year earlier.

  9. Trump's 'economic disasters'

    If Donald Trump does get elected there may be severe economic and financial consequences, Saule Eslake writes.

  10. Importance of Pacific aid

    Minister Concetta Fierravanti-Wells discusses why it is critical that Australians understand the strategic importance of Pacific foreign aid.

  11. Wildlife populations plunge

    Worldwide animal populations have plunged by almost 60 per cent since 1970 as humans overwhelm the environment.

  12. Indonesia domestic violence

    In Indonesia, one Australian takes it on herself to begin counting the number of women violently killed across the archipelago each year.

  13. Farmers for Trump in Ohio

    Trump's promise to wind back globalisation resonates particularly strongly in north-eastern Ohio, where many blame free trade deals for sending jobs offshore.

  14. NATO seeks Russia backing

    NATO is to seek financial and political backing for its biggest military build-up on Russia's border since the Cold War.

  15. Opinion: Clinton election

    Donald Trump has distracted us from scrutinising Hillary Clinton's global policies if she becomes president, and the signs are not good, Joseph Camilleri writes.

Asia Pacific

  1. Zika: Vietnam reports first microcephaly case

    Vietnamese authorities report a microcephaly case that it says is likely to be the country's first linked to the Zika virus.

    Vietnam so far has reported a total of nine cases of Zika infection, with more cases expected to be confirmed in the next few days.

    If the microcephaly case is confirmed to be linked to Zika, Vietnam would become the second South-East Asian country after Thailand to report such a case.

  1. Protests in South Korea

    Thousands of South Koreans are calling for President Park Geun-hye to step down.

  2. Manus Island, Nauru ban

    The Government will move to ban refugees on Manus Island and Nauru from coming to Australia.

  3. Scarborough Shoal retreat

    Chinese ships are no longer at the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, officials say.

  4. Asylum seekers 'broken'

    Asylum seekers in PNG say they are devastated by the dismissal of a court application for compensation.

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Posted April 08, 2013 12:22:49 | Updated January 15, 2016 16:06:02

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