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Donald Trump is bypassing mainstream media outlets, which he calls "fake news", and giving favour to conservative news organisations. So how should the media respond?
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, media, united-states
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| UpdatedRefugees on Manus Island and Nauru have not yet been through vetting processes to determine whether they can resettle in the US, the Immigration Department tells a Senate committee.
Topics: refugees, immigration, world-politics, government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedActivists call for the Syrian Government to engage in serious talks on political transition and for the United Nations to strengthen the fragile ceasefire as violence continues to engulf the country.
Topics: world-politics, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedThe dose of nerve agent given to North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un's exiled half brother was so high that it killed him within 20 minutes and caused "very serious paralysis", Malaysia's Health Minister says.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, world-politics, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia
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| UpdatedAs thousands march in Moscow to remember assassinated opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, the criminalisation of street protests and action against the President's political opponents show speaking out against the Kremlin is even harder than ever.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, russian-federation
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| UpdatedYemen is now classified as the world's worst humanitarian disaster and described by the UN as being "on the brink of famine" but Australia has committed no funding to help save lives there.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, famine, international-aid-and-trade, world-politics, foreign-affairs, federal-government, yemen, south-sudan, nigeria, somalia, australia
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| UpdatedIt took four months and 300 emails to get two ABC correspondents permission to enter Russia to cover international affairs in Moscow.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, journalism, information-and-communication, russian-federation
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| UpdatedMalcolm Turnbull and Joko Widodo hold formal talks in Sydney, reviving cooperation halted after the discovery of "insulting" posters at a Perth military training base, and reaching deals on trade and a new Australian consulate in east Java.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, foreign-affairs, international-aid-and-trade, world-politics, government-and-politics, australia, indonesia
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| UpdatedDonald Trump won't attend the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, an annual event in which he was roasted by Barack Obama in his last appearance as president.
Topics: donald-trump, us-elections, world-politics, united-states
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Maria Zakharova sits down with the ABC's Lisa Millar to discuss global politics and Russia's relationship with the United States.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, russian-federation, united-states
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| UpdatedRussians celebrated at the thought of a White House that did not involve Democrat Hillary Clinton, but in the month following Donald Trump's inauguration it is clear that they're no longer "jumping down the aisles".
Topics: world-politics, donald-trump, russian-federation, united-states
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| UpdatedAn Indonesian woman detained in Malaysia in connection with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam says she was paid about $120 to take part in what she thought was a prank television show.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, world-politics, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of
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US President Donald Trump has again implied that countries in Europe are not safe to visit. Speaking at the annual conservative CPAC convention, Mr Trump doubled down on his past comments about rising crime in Sweden, Germany and Paris.
Topics: world-politics, terrorism, immigration, united-states
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Donald Trump used his first presidential appearance before the nation's largest gathering of conservative activists on Friday to sharply escalate his criticisms of the media and take direct aim at the use of anonymous sources, saying reporters "shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody's name."
Topics: world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump tells a conservative conference he will make a massive budget request for one of the "greatest military build-ups in American history".
Topics: world-politics, donald-trump, us-elections, united-states
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| UpdatedIndonesian President Joko Widodo makes his first bilateral visit to Australia this weekend — a sign a military spat early this year has been resolved and relations between the two nations are stable.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, terrorism, world-politics, australia, indonesia
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| UpdatedGerman officials criticise the Russian military's plan to build a replica of Berlin's Parliament as a target for teenagers to attack, at a recently built patriotic theme park near Moscow.
Topics: foreign-affairs, world-politics, russian-federation, germany
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| UpdatedDonald Trump's chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports the US President's campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official says.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, defence-and-national-security, world-politics, donald-trump, us-elections, united-states, russian-federation
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| UpdatedBeverley O'Connor speaks to North Korea expert and Australian National University researcher Dr Leonid Petrov about the killing of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea's leader.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, malaysia
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| UpdatedBeverley O'Connor speaks to international political scientist Maryse Helbert from the University of Melbourne about allegations French far-right leader Marine Le Pen made illegal payments to her staff.
Topics: world-politics, france, european-union
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| UpdatedStan Grant asks two lawyers — one Palestinian and one Israeli — for an answer to one simple question: why is a resolution so hard? But their answers take him back to a hot and turbulent day in the Gaza Strip.
Topics: world-politics, territorial-disputes, israel, palestinian-territory-occupied
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Israel now joins countries such as Cuba, Egypt, Syria, Sudan and Venezuela that have blocked access for Human Rights Watch staff members.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, rights, human, charities-and-community-organisations, world-politics, israel, palestinian-territory-occupied
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| UpdatedThe ABC’s US bureau chief has recapped the week that was as President Trump marks his second month in the job.
Topics: world-politics, foreign-affairs, donald-trump, us-elections, united-states
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| UpdatedA preliminary report shows the murder of Kim Jong-nam was carried out with a highly toxic chemical known as VX nerve agent, Malaysian police say.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, world-politics, crime, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of
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| UpdatedThe UN World Food Program says more than 20 million people in Yemen, north Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan are at risk of dying from starvation within six months.
Topics: famine, disasters-and-accidents, unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, yemen