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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop meets with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to discuss global security and how the two nations will prepare for foreign fighters attempting to return if Mosul is successfully liberated.
Topics: foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, united-states, australia, iraq
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| UpdatedIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praises his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull for calling out the "hypocrisy" of the United Nations.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, foreign-affairs, australia, israel
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| UpdatedThe United States are not calling on Australia to increase its military presence in Iraq and Syria, Julie Bishop says after meeting with Vice-President Mike Pence.
Topics: foreign-affairs, donald-trump, government-and-politics, world-politics, united-states
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Walking away from the United States alliance could force Australia to ramp up defence spending by tens of billions of dollars, Australia's former defence chief Sir Angus Houston says, February 21, 2017.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, donald-trump, foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedAfter decades of persecution, Copts hoped the Arab Spring might signal a turnaround in their fortunes. For many, though, life remains precarious, and there are calls for Australia to accept and help them.
Topics: christianity, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, discrimination, refugees, immigration, unrest-conflict-and-war, australia, egypt
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| UpdatedUS Vice President Mike Pence assures the European Union that the Trump administration will develop their cooperation in trade and security and backs the EU as a partner in its own right.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, world-politics, government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, donald-trump, belgium, united-states
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| UpdatedRussia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, has died suddenly at work in New York, the Russian Foreign Ministry says.
Topics: foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, world-politics, united-states, russian-federation
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Nick Dearden from Global Justice Now about growing calls for the British Government to rescind its invitation to Donald Trump for an official state visit.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, united-kingdom, united-states
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A United States aircraft carrier strike group begins patrols in the South China Sea amid growing tension with Beijing over control of the disputed waterway.
Topics: territorial-disputes, defence-and-national-security, world-politics, foreign-affairs, united-states, china, asia, pacific
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Former prime minister Kevin Rudd calls for a major shift in foreign policy, arguing that Australia should "draw a line in the sand" and formally recognise a Palestinian state.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, foreign-affairs, world-politics, rudd-kevin, israel, palestinian-territory-occupied
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull suggests US President Donald Trump is wasting his time hitting out at media coverage, citing Winston Churchill's remark that "politicians complaining about the newspapers is like a sailor complaining about the sea".
Topics: donald-trump, turnbull-malcolm, print-media, world-politics, foreign-affairs, australia, united-states
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A hastily-made press conference, some big love-ins and a round of golf made for another big week in the White House, ABC Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel writes.
Topics: foreign-affairs, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedMilitary collaborations between the US and Russia are off the table, Defence Secretary James Mattis says, an apparent blow to Donald Trump's suggestions the two nations could fight together against Islamic State.
Topics: foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, world-politics, defence-and-national-security, us-elections, treaties-and-alliances, united-states, russian-federation
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Dr Leonid Petrov from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific says it's not immediately clear who was behind the death of Kim Jong-un's half-brother Kim Jong-nam in a Malaysian airport.
Topics: foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, death, korea-republic-of, australia
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With the Chinese Government lending the PNG Government hundreds of millions of dollars for major infrastructure projects, Australia's defence and diplomatic community express unease about China's growing influence on the country.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, papua-new-guinea, china, australia
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump sends Chinese President Xi Jinping a letter saying he looks forward to working with him, although they have not spoken directly since Mr Trump took office.
Topics: foreign-affairs, world-politics, united-states, china
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An Iranian refugee who fled Australia's offshore detention regime in Papua New Guinea is being treated in hospital while he awaits court.
Topics: refugees, law-crime-and-justice, international-law, foreign-affairs, papua-new-guinea, australia
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Two Taiwanese men plead guilty to helping run a criminal syndicate using dozens of foreign nationals in Brisbane slave houses as part of a scam targeting China.
Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, foreign-affairs, courts-and-trials, immigration, brisbane-4000
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There "cannot be conflict" between China and the US over the South China Sea, China's Foreign Minister warns during a press conference with his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop.
Topics: foreign-affairs, territorial-disputes, world-politics, government-and-politics, defence-and-national-security, bishop-julie, australia, china, united-states, asia
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| UpdatedLieutenant General Angus Campbell took part in a hasty diplomatic mission to Washington to convince the new Trump administration to honour the refugee resettlement deal struck with President Obama, the ABC confirms.
Topics: government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, army, refugees, donald-trump, australia, united-states
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Is Trump's tech company backlash really a big deal?
Topics: government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, world-politics, computers-and-technology, business-economics-and-finance, united-states
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump takes to Twitter again to slam the federal judge who blocked a travel ban on citizens of seven mainly Muslim nations, as the first major legal battle of the Trump administration intensifies.
Topics: donald-trump, immigration, refugees, government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, united-states
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says Australia is not "indebted" to Donald Trump for agreeing to maintain a refugee resettlement deal, and his "frank and forthright" conversation with the US President made for "a very good week for Australia".
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, donald-trump, turnbull-malcolm, foreign-affairs
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| UpdatedA US appeals court rejects the Trump administration's request to immediately reinstate its travel ban barring citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries and temporarily banning refugees.
Topics: donald-trump, foreign-affairs, immigration, government-and-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedA former Manus Island refugee who had intended to seek asylum in Fiji is charged with falsifying passport documents after being deported and returned to Papua New Guinea, police say.
Topics: world-politics, foreign-affairs, refugees, international-law, papua-new-guinea, fiji, australia, pacific