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Kangaroos coach Mal Meninga rings the changes, naming four debutants in a 19-man squad for Tests against New Zealand and Tonga, with Greg Inglis installed as captain.
Topics: sport, rugby-league, nrl, australia, new-zealand, tonga
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Typhoon Trami, the 24th of the season, shut down critical transport infrastructure and caused widespread damage across the country.
Topics: storm-disaster, storm-event, cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, japan, asia
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| UpdatedThe earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Indonesian city of Palu hit the villages of Donggala harder. Andi Rainaldi lost seven members of his family, including his son.
Topics: tidal-wave, disasters-and-accidents, earthquake, indonesia, sulawesi, asia
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Bernard Tomic downs world number 13 Fabio Fognini to take the Chengdu Open and put a year of drama — including allegations of tanking and an ill-advised reality tv appearance — behind him.
Topics: tennis, sport, other-sports, china
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| UpdatedThe toll from an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia soars, as rescuers grapple to get aid to outlying communities cut off from communications and help.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, floods, indonesia
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| UpdatedNorth Korea's Foreign Minister tells the United Nations there is no way the country would give up its nuclear weapons unilaterally while sanctions remain in place, while Donald Trump tells his supporters he "fell in love" with Kim Jong-un during their meeting.
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, korea-democratic-peoples-republic-of, asia, united-states
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| UpdatedChina's huge fishing fleet is forced to go deeper into the ocean to meet the country's growing hunger for seafood, which accounts for a third of world consumption.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, industry, environmentally-sustainable-business, china
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| UpdatedTears fill Dwi Haris's eyes as he recalls the moment a violent earthquake shook the hotel room he shared with his family — somehow, he was spared, but he has no idea what has become of his wife or daughter.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, earthquake, tidal-wave, indonesia
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| UpdatedThe dying art of traditional foundry work continues in a small business in central Victoria, even though there are no apprenticeship courses for moulders or pattern makers.
Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, education, people, youth, work, access-to-education, computers-and-technology, manufacturing, castlemaine-3450, daylesford-3460, vic, melbourne-3000, china
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A Swedish comedy skit advising Chinese tourists not to "poop outside" or eat dogs attracts the ire of Chinese authorities, who say it is a "vicious attack" on China.
Topics: world-politics, race-relations, television-broadcasting, television, comedy-humour, discrimination, sweden, china, asia
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| UpdatedThe airline operating a flight that crashed into a Pacific lagoon in Micronesia says one man is missing, after earlier saying all 47 passengers and crew had safely evacuated the sinking plane.
Topics: air-and-space, disasters-and-accidents, missing-person, micronesia-federated-states-of, asia, pacific
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| UpdatedIndonesia's geophysics agency is criticised for lifting a tsunami warning 34 minutes after it was first issued, following a major earthquake that sent huge waves crashing into the north-eastern coast of Sulawesi island.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, tidal-wave, indonesia, asia, pacific
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| UpdatedSix survivors are rescued from Palu's collapsed Roa-Roa Hotel, but Indonesians are warned the death toll — already at 420 — from the earthquake and tsunami that hit the island of Sulawesi could yet rise into the thousands.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, tidal-wave, indonesia, asia
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| UpdatedAn Indonesian air traffic controller stays behind after an earthquake while his colleagues flee to ensure a flight takes off safely, but the decision costs him his life.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, indonesia
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| UpdatedThe number of people killed by the earthquake and tsunami which hit the island of Sulawesi has reached 384, authorities say, while more than 500 are injured and many remain missing.
Topics: earthquake, indonesia, asia
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Two men in Sydney are facing charges after police seized 500 kilograms of cocaine on a yacht in the Solomon Islands.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, wahroonga-2076, nsw, solomon-islands
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On the surface, the island nation of Palau is a peaceful tropical paradise. But claims have emerged an Indian man transformed into a radical militant while living there.
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| UpdatedChina's wealthy citizens have been splashing out on real estate and luxury cars. Now they are turning to contemporary Western art to show off their cultural sophistication.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, visual-art, china, asia, australia
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Content moderation is a mostly secretive and hidden industry, with work often outsourced to developing countries. Here, workers are routinely exposed to horrific content, offered little psychological support and forced to keep quiet — but a new documentary exposes it.
Topics: science-and-technology, social-media, information-and-communication, internet-culture, computers-and-technology, internet-technology, philippines
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As reports of the forced detention and brainwashing of up to one million ethnic Uighurs continue to emerge from China's Xinjiang autonomous region, a witness who has been inside a "training" camp speaks out.
Topics: government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, race-relations, discrimination, china
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| UpdatedA tsunami hits a small city on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, collapsing buildings and washing a vessel onto land, following a magnitude-7.5 earthquake that struck offshore.
Topics: earthquake, indonesia, asia
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| UpdatedA NSW man who killed his alleged paedophile cellmate in 2011 has been given more jail time for another violent inmate attack.
Topics: crime, prisons-and-punishment, police, courts-and-trials, lithgow-2790, thailand, cessnock-2325
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| UpdatedThe top US diplomat in Australia publicly confirms the two countries are working to stop Chinese telco Huawei from building a domestic internet cable network in Papua New Guinea.
Topics: treaties-and-alliances, trade, world-politics, foreign-affairs, foreign-aid, security-intelligence, china, papua-new-guinea, pacific, asia
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| UpdatedPapua New Guinea authorities say there were no casualties after a Air Niugini plane landed short in the water by the Micronesia airport, and first responders have praised the bystanders who rushed to help.
Topics: air-and-space, micronesia-federated-states-of, papua-new-guinea, pacific
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The fight over the trademarking of the Fijian word "bula" by a Florida businessman is escalating, with Fiji's Government announcing it will be officially contesting the trademark.
Topics: copyright, fiji, pacific, united-states