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US military forces have boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday, marking a major escalation in the Trump administration’s campaign to enforce an oil quaran…
Fathers of Bianca Jones and Holly Morton-Bowles, both 19, who died after a night out at the Nana backpackers hostel in 2024, say court decision is ‘absolute injustice’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, fr…
Former nanny Scarlett Pavlovich filed suit in three US states alleging author assaulted her in New Zealand in 2022Federal judges have dismissed three lawsuits accusing the bestselling fantasy author Neil Gaiman of sexually assaulting his children’s nan…
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s passion for heavy metal earned her the moniker “Iron Maiden”. She’s also called the “Iron Lady”, and is perceived as a China hawk. With her party’s thumping victory in Sunday’s snap election, Takaichi has the p…
The media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong for national security offences. His family has described the sentence as ‘heartbreakingly cruel’, given the 78-year-old’s declining hea…
US Vice President JD Vance on Monday arrived in Armenia ahead of a planned visit to Azerbaijan as Washington seeks to consolidate the peace agreement it brokered between the two countries and advance a transit corridor project.
Iran would be willing to “dilute” its 60 percent-enriched uranium if the US lifts “all sanctions”, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization said Monday, without specifying whether this meant all sanctions against his country or only those im…
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Monday her party’s thumping election win showed that the public recognises the urgent need for major policy reforms as she prepares to push sweeping conservative legislation that will shift Japanese secur…
Hong Kong’s most prominent China critic, media tycoon Jimmy Lai, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in jail under the city’s controversial national security law, in what rights groups condemned as “effectively a death sentence” and a symbol of the ci…
Exclusive: Home Office ruling means thousands more Hongkongers will be eligible to come to the UK over next five yearsMinisters have opened up visas to thousands more people from Hong Kong in the wake of the 20-year prison sentence handed down to the p…