Hillary Clinton links Saudi Arabia to terrorism and the world suddenly changes

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Hillary Clinton has grasped what has long been the prickliest nettle in US diplomacy and directly linked Saudi Arabia to the funding of terrorism.

PNG student protesters cover faces in mud to mourn shootings

Students in Papua New Guinea marched to their university in the capital Port Moresby covered in mud as a sign of mourning after police last week shot at protesters.

Calls for Australia to help investigate PNG shooting

The former attorney-general of Papua New Guinea has called for Australian help to investigate the police shooting at student protesters that left as many as a dozen wounded.

Student protests in the noisy neighbour

The students gathered in a place they called Forum Square, a covered atrium at the university in Port Moresby. Bright young minds crowded onto the floor in their hundreds, others dangling their legs from the rafters above, refusing to attend class.

Explainer: the student uprising on Australia's doorstep

Papua New Guinea is getting hotter, a rising temperature of the political kind and nothing to do with climate change.

China on south Pacific blitz for support over artificial islands

China has launched a major charm offensive across the south Pacific to win diplomatic backing for its construction of artificial islands.

Seven deadly sins: Asia's trade in endangered animals

It's the dark side of China's stunning rise as a world economic powerhouse – a binge trade in rare and endangered animals for bogus traditional medicine and flashy displays of wealth.

Push for nuclear ban leaves "weasel" countries offside

Australia is a key part of a group of "weasel" countries opposed to banning the bomb.

White House 'gagged' US navy chief over China criticism

China's construction of a "great wall of sand" with artificial islands in the South China Sea has sparked a stoush in Washington, with claims the White House has gagged US navy commanders criticising Beijing.

UN insider defeated by 'maddeningly complex' bureaucracy

Tony Banbury was a champion of disasters, leading the United Nations to tackle the Ebola virus, provide emergency relief after the earthquake in Haiti and the tsunami that swept from the Indian ocean.