World
Scott Morrison joins WeChat, Chinese social media, ahead of election
PM Scott Morrison has joined China's biggest social media platform, WeChat, in time for Lunar New Year - but perhaps more potently, the 2019 election campaign.
- by Kirsty Needham
Opinion & Perspectives
North America
'Quid pro quo': US, Russia to abandon nuclear arms treaty
Russia will only deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles if Washington does so, President Putin said.
- by Lesley Wroughton & Arshad Mohammed
Virginia governor admits he was in racist photo
Virginia's governor has acknowledged that he was photographed more than 30 years ago in a costume that was "clearly racist and offensive".
Europe
France may repatriate IS fighters in wake of US withdrawal from Syria
- by James McAuley and Michael Birnbaum
Exclusive
Assange Saga
Australian diplomats visit Assange, told of 'deteriorating health'
- by Nick Miller
Asia
Detained blogger Yang Hengjun sacks lawyers, China's police claim
China's secretive state security bureau has told the human rights lawyers hired by the family of detained blogger Yang Hengjun that the Australian has rejected their legal assistance.
- by Kirsty Needham
Sri Lanka seeks $1 billion loan from China amid debt woes
After criticising the previous government for indebting itself to China, Sri Lanka has now requested a $1 billion loan from China.
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Saudi Arabia
Dear Mariah Carey and other celebrities: Stop going to Saudi Arabia
Four months after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, the Saudi regime is trying its hardest to pretend nothing ever happened.
- by Karen Attiah
