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About 1,000 people, many waving Palestinian flags, gather at Sydney's Town Hall saying they are embarrassed by the warm reception given to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Down Under.
Topics: protestant, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, world-politics, government-and-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedMexico reacts with anger to a Trump administration plan to deport non-Mexican illegal immigrants over their border if they entered the US from the southern neighbouring nation.
Topics: world-politics, community-and-society, immigration, united-states, mexico
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| UpdatedNorth Korea blames Malaysia for the death of a "DPRK citizen", and accuses it of having an "unfriendly attitude" in the Kim Jong-nam murder investigation.
Topics: world-politics, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, malaysia
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A class action against the Australian Government alleging Indonesian boys jailed for people smuggling were held in adult prisons will be heard in a Jakarta District Court today.
Topics: immigration, world-politics, courts-and-trials, indonesia, australia
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to the South China Morning Post's Chris Lau about the sentencing of former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang to 20 months in jail.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, world-politics, corruption, hong-kong, asia, china
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to the Lowy Institute's Sam Roggeveen about US President Donald Trump's ongoing unpredictability.
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, united-states, australia
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Former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang is sentenced to 20 months in prison for misconduct after failing to disclose plans to rent a luxury apartment for his retirement from a businessman applying for a broadcasting licence.
Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, hong-kong, pacific, asia, china
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaking at a lunch he was hosting for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Sydney's Convention Centre during the leader's Australian visit.
Topics: world-politics, australia
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Malcolm Turnbull discuss a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, religion-and-beliefs, israel, australia
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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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| UpdatedIsraeli Prime Miniser Benjamin Netanyahu has touched down in Sydney, becoming his country's first serving leader to visit Australia. He spoke to media at the airport.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, sydney-2000, australia, israel
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Former prime minister Kevin Rudd is calling for the Federal Opposition to make the formal recognition of Palestinian statehood official policy before the next election.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, world-politics, alp, rudd-kevin, australia
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| UpdatedA heavy security presence greets Benjamin Netanyahu at Sydney Airport for his four-day visit to Australia — the first visit to the country by a serving Israeli Prime Minister.
Topics: world-politics, sydney-2000, israel
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US President Donald Trump has delivered his first public condemnation of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States after a new spate of bomb threats to Jewish community centres around the country and massive vandalism in a Jewish cemetery.
Topics: world-politics, donald-trump, government-and-politics, judaism, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, united-states
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump delivers his first public condemnation of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States after a new spate of bomb threats to Jewish community centres around the country and massive vandalism in a Jewish cemetery.
Topics: donald-trump, government-and-politics, world-politics, judaism, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, united-states
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to author Nicole Hemmer about Donald Trump's appointment of Lieutenant General Herbert Raymond McMaster as his new national security adviser.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, government-and-politics, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedAhead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's historic visit to Australia, West Bank residents label settlements as either the reclamation of historically Jewish land or the main impediment to peace and security.
Topics: world-politics, community-and-society, palestinian-territory-occupied, israel
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The Palestinian territories' top envoy to Australia urges Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten to press Benjamin Netanyahu on West Bank settlements when they meet the Israeli Prime Minister this week.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, world-politics, australia, israel, palestinian-territory-occupied
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| UpdatedWalking 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 says.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, world-politics, security-intelligence, defence-and-national-security, australia, united-states, china
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Renewed protests against US President Donald Trump flared on the Presidents Day holiday, with grassroots activists vowing to take to the streets in cities including New York, Chicago and Washington DC, February 21, 2017.
Topics: donald-trump, community-and-society, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedRenewed protests against US President Donald Trump flare on the Presidents Day holiday, with grassroots activists vowing to take to the streets in dozens of cities in "Not My President's Day" rallies.
Topics: world-politics, community-and-society, united-states
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| UpdatedA book by alt-right leader Milo Yiannopoulos is cancelled after a video resurfaces which shows him speaking positively about sexual relationships between boys and men.
Topics: world-politics, media, journalism, united-states
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| UpdatedDonald J Trump has taken to his month-old presidency with the same brand of brashness, bluster, haste and "gut" instinct that propelled him towards his $US4-5 billion net worth and through the rigours of his against-all-odds victory last November, writes Greg Jennett in Washington DC.
Topics: world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedCatholic and worker solidarity used to help Australians wrestle more with their vote than they seem to do now.
Topics: world-politics, political-parties, government-and-politics, catholic, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, unions, australia, united-states, united-kingdom
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United States President Donald Trump has appointed Lieutenant General Herbert Raymond McMaster as his new national security adviser.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, us-elections, defence-and-national-security, united-states