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Villagers search through a landslide in Pogera village, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Updated
Tragedy

Australia to send aid to PNG after up to 2000 people buried alive in landslide

The death toll in Papua New Guinea is expected to rise following a catastrophic landslide that destroyed a village in remote Enga province.

Opinion & Perspectives

Amid the ugly Middle East debate, we’ve lost sight of the obvious

One wonders how many of those making the Israel-Hamas equivalence point, including quite a few in the press, had taken 10 minutes to read the ICC prosecutor’s statement.

Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly

Columnist

Let’s be clear, Peter Dutton: prosecuting Netanyahu is not antisemitism

This is not about moral equivalence, but seeking arrest warrants for Hamas and Israeli leaders is an attempt to impose equal justice.

Geoffrey Robertson
Geoffrey Robertson

Human rights barrister and author

Sinking Sunak steers Tories towards iceberg as MPs jump overboard

Nearly 80 Conservative MPs will not seek re-election on July 4, that’s nearly a quarter of all Tories serving under the British prime minister now.

Rob Harris
Rob Harris

Europe correspondent

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North America

Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks at the Libertarian National Convention at the Washington Hilton in Washington.

Donald Trump booed loudly at libertarian convention

The raucous event for the former president marked a sharp departure from the typical celebratory atmosphere at such Trump campaign gatherings.

  • by Meryl Kornfield
Josh Jones plays the marimba at Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago.

A rising black musician lost his elite orchestra job. He won’t go quietly

Josh Jones wasn’t expecting to lose his dream job. He has shared the performance reviews and messages that shed light on a typically confidential process.

  • by Geoff Edgers

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Asia

People take pictures with an abandoned American M18 army tank sitting in the sand at Ou Cuo Beach in Kinmen.

Taiwan’s Kinmen islands are a stone’s throw from China. Its inhabitants are torn

If China were to attack Taiwan, this string of islands is at the front line. Kinmen is less than 10 kilometres from the Chinese mainland and remnants of past battles are everywhere.

  • by Lisa Visentin and Daniel Ceng
Firefighters douse a fire that broke out in a fun park, in Rajkot in the Indian state of Gujarat on Saturday.

Several children killed after Indian amusement park inferno, police say

A major fire broke out on Saturday at an amusement park in Gujarat state in western India, killing at least 27 people, police and media reports said.

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Villagers search through a landslide in Pogera village, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Updated
Tragedy

Australia to send aid to PNG after up to 2000 people buried alive in landslide

The death toll in Papua New Guinea is expected to rise following a catastrophic landslide that destroyed a village in remote Enga province.

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