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| UpdatedFive Iraqi children and two women are receiving treatment for exposure to chemical agents, the International Committee of the Red Cross says, in the first report of chemical weapons used in the battle for Mosul.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, terrorism, iraq
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The director-general of ASIO warns that as IS fighters return home to South-East Asia, the threat of attacks in that region increases.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, travel-and-tourism, tourism, asia
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Australia and Russia have been in a state of frozen disagreement for the past three years, reaching a new low with the downing of MH17. But Russia's ambassador to Australia says slowly but surely, things are looking better.
Topics: foreign-affairs, world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, federal-government, bishop-julie, australia, russian-federation
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is using blunt language to describe the fight against the Islamic State group, declaring Australia is "destroying Daesh" in the Middle East "whether they have a bomb in their hand or are in the back office planning an attack".
Topics: federal-government, terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, defence-forces, turnbull-malcolm, australia
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| UpdatedSyrian regime forces claim to have recaptured Palmyra from the Islamic State according to reports from the Ministry of Defence and Syria's state-run media.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedThe Syrian army says it has recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra from Islamic State militants for the second time in a year, with help from allied forces and Russian warplanes.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, history, terrorism, syrian-arab-republic
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The death of around 100 people during the Japanese air raid on Broome is still impacting families of victims and survivors 75 years later.
Topics: world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, community-and-society, history, family-and-children, broome-6725, japan
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Colombia's leftist FARC rebels begin the process of surrendering their weapons under a landmark peace deal with the Government to put in end to Latin America's longest-running conflict.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, government-and-politics, colombia
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Assad Government forces were behind a "deliberate" air strike on a humanitarian convoy that killed 14 aid workers and halted relief operations in Aleppo, a new UN report finds.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, syrian-arab-republic, russian-federation
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US-backed Iraqi army units take control of the last major road out of western Mosul that had been in Islamic State's hands, trapping the militants in a shrinking area within the city, a general and residents say.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, terrorism, iraq
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Myanmar's military uses a rare news conference to defend its crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority as a lawful counterinsurgency operation, claiming villagers does not know about any human rights abuses.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, unrest-conflict-and-war, burma, asia
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US President Donald Trump, in his first address to Congress, paid tribute to Ryan Owens, the Navy Seal who died "battling against terrorism and securing our nation".
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Russia blocks a bid by Western powers to impose sanctions on Syria over the use of chemical weapons, marking one of the first confrontations between Moscow and Washington at the United Nations since Donald Trump took office.
Topics: world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, donald-trump, syrian-arab-republic, united-states, russian-federation
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| UpdatedAbu Sayyaf extremists in the Philippines release a video showing the beheading of German hostage Jurgen Gustav Kantner, in the first sign the brutal Filipino militants carried out a threat to kill him after a ransom deadline lapsed over the weekend.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, philippines, germany, asia
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Paul Haenle, the director of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Centre for Global Policy and a former China director on the US National Security Council, about the importance of Washington's relationship with allies like Australia.
Topics: foreign-affairs, unrest-conflict-and-war, defence-and-national-security, world-politics, united-states, australia, asia
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A suspected terrorist who allegedly allegedly detonated a homemade bomb near a school in Bandung, the capital of West Java, was shot by police after fleeing to nearby government office.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, java
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| UpdatedThousands of civilians flee western Mosul as government forces continue to push Islamic State militants back in their last key stronghold in Iraq.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, terrorism, iraq
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The Taliban in Afghanistan uses a rare public statement in the name of its leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, to call on Afghans to plant more trees for worldly and other-worldly good.
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| UpdatedCambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal drops its case against a suspect accused of killing thousands of people at torture centres and slave labour camps during the country's tragic agrarian revolution, in which an estimated 2 million people were killed.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, unrest-conflict-and-war, cambodia, asia
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| UpdatedUS-backed Iraqi forces push deeper into western Mosul, advancing in several populated southern districts after punching through the defences of Islamic State's last major urban stronghold in Iraq.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, iraq
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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.
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Iraqi forces backed by the US-led international coalition on Thursday fought their way into a sprawling military base outside Mosul and onto the grounds of the city's airport, taking control of the runway amid fierce exchanges of fire with Islamic State group militants.
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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