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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says comments made by Indonesian President Joko Widodo before his visit to Australia didn't relate to joint patrols, but rather greater cooperation to ensure freedom of navigation.
Topics: foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, world-politics, territorial-disputes, bishop-julie, indonesia, australia
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Li Keqiang is pledging to make the country's smoggy skies "blue again" and "work faster" to address pollution caused by the burning of coal for heat and electricity.
Topics: air-pollution, world-politics, china
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House of Cards creator Beau Willimon calls for Twitter to shut down Donald Trump's account because it's a "threat" to national security. But can this actually be done?
Topics: donald-trump, government-and-politics, world-politics, social-media, internet-culture, information-and-communication, united-states
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| UpdatedNorth Korea fires four ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, South Korea's military says, in the latest instance of the nation ignoring UN sanctions.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, korea-republic-of, japan
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More than 40,000 people are now known to have fled the Iraqi city of Mosul in the past week, as US-backed forces launch a fresh push towards the Islamic State-held old city centre.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, iraq
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Turkey's state-run news agency says that rescue teams have found a Syrian pilot who ejected right just his jet crashed in Turkey near the Syrian border.
Topics: world-politics, turkey
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| UpdatedFBI director James Comey reportedly dismisses Donald Trump's unsubstantiated claims that his phone was tapped during last year's presidential campaign, as the White House calls for a formal congressional probe.
Topics: world-politics, donald-trump, us-elections, united-states
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Malaysia says its expulsion of North Korea's ambassador is a warning that Pyongyang cannot manipulate the investigation into the killing of the North Korean leader's half brother.
Topics: world-politics, foreign-affairs, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia
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| UpdatedHe's been in the headlines for meetings with Team Trump during last year's presidential campaign, but what do we actually know about him?
Topics: world-politics, foreign-affairs, donald-trump, united-states
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| UpdatedMalaysia expels the North Korean ambassador to the country, declaring him "persona non grata" after he said Malaysia's investigation into the murder of Kim Jong-nam could not be trusted.
Topics: world-politics, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of
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China's annual Parliament opens for 10 days to approve decisions made by the leadership and announce GDP growth rate figures.
Topics: economic-trends, world-politics, china, asia
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump accuses Barack Obama of "wire-tapping" his office phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 election campaign, without offering any evidence or explanation of what prompted the allegations.
Topics: world-politics, donald-trump, us-elections, united-states
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The White House says Vice-President Mike Pence "did everything to the letter of the law" after public records revealed he used a private email account to conduct public business as Indiana's governor.
Topics: donald-trump, law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, united-states
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Beverley O'Connor looks at whether Mike Pence's private email controversy compares to the scandal that engulfed Hillary Clinton.
Topics: information-and-communication, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedGraffiti artist Banksy's latest project and brand new guesthouse, The Walled Off Hotel, claims to have the "worst view in the world" — the barrier wall separating Israeli and Palestinian territories.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, world-politics, israel, palestinian-territory-occupied
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| UpdatedThe White House defends Vice-President Mike Pence after public records reveal he used a private email account during his time as Indiana's governor, saying he "did everything to the letter of the law".
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, hacking, computers-and-technology, united-states
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| UpdatedA North Korean man detained in Malaysia over the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader, claims he is the victim of a conspiracy by Malaysian authorities after being deported.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia
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Political analyst Thomas Frank joins The Link to discuss the Trump phenomenon and how something similar could be coming to Australia.
Topics: world-politics, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedEgypt's top appeals court issues a final ruling that effectively acquits former president Hosni Mubarak on charges of killing protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his nearly three-decade reign.
Topics: world-politics, egypt
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Ordinary Australians are shunning big political parties, who they feel don't understand them, and are looking to alternatives like Pauline Hanson. As US historian Thomas Frank says, we're starting to sound just like Americans did at the last presidential election.
Topics: community-and-society, pauline-hanson, donald-trump, world-politics, government-and-politics, religion-and-beliefs, tuggerah-2259
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| UpdatedUS Vice-President Mike Pence — who frequently criticised Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server — used an AOL account to conduct public business as governor of Indiana, his office confirms.
Topics: world-politics, hacking, united-states
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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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October will mark 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Australia and Russia, but relations have often been frosty.
Topics: world-politics, russian-federation, australia
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| UpdatedIt was all pomp, ceremony and snipers on rooftops in Washington, DC, this week as the US President gave his first speech to Congress in a kind of replacement State of the Union.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, donald-trump, united-states
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump has created a more volatile global security situation, which could spell trouble for Australia's energy supplies, experts say.
Topics: oil-and-gas, trade, defence-and-national-security, foreign-affairs, world-politics, government-and-politics, australia, united-states, china