The Australian share market ended the week slightly better than expected after a stormy end on Thursday. The benchmark ASX200 gained 60.1 points, or 0.76 per cent, to end at 7921.3 at Friday's close. Karoon Energy Ltd and Liontown Resources Ltd were the best performers on Friday, up 5.75 percent and 5.46 percent respectively. The … Read more
A controversial uranium mine site will be incorporated into Kakadu National Park after its owners failed to renew their mining lease.
ASEAN diplomats meet China as friction mounts over Beijing's vast maritime claims VIENTIANE, Laos: Top Southeast Asian diplomats met China's foreign minister in Laos on Friday for talks that come as friction escalates over Beijing's growing push to assert its vast maritime claims in the South China Sea.Several members of the Association of Southeast Asian … Read more
Two Queensland construction companies have collapsed owing $4.5 million, the latest in a devastating series of construction companies to be placed into liquidation.
LONDON: The new UK government must drop the country's legal challenge to the International Criminal Court's request for an arrest warrant against Israeli leaders, Human Rights Watch said. Rishi Sunak, a former British prime minister, challenged the court's arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant earlier this year. Karim … Read more
A young Australian woman has taken to social media to share an “unexpected” tax bill that has left her in disbelief.
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's first presidential election since an unprecedented economic crisis sparked widespread unrest will be held in September, the electoral commission said on Friday. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who has led efforts to repair the island nation's battered finances, will face at least two rivals who are campaigning against austerity measures imposed as part of … Read more
HOUSTON, Texas: Vice President Kamala Harris launched her presidential campaign before the largest US teachers union on Thursday, vowing to “fight for the future” as new polls showed her narrowing the gap with Republican rival Donald Trump. Harris's rapid emergence as the successor to President Joe Biden, 81, as the Democratic presidential nominee in the … Read more
ABUJA: President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Nigeria's armed forces on Thursday warned of Kenya-style violence in protests planned for next week over the soaring cost of living, with the military saying it would avert “anarchy”. Deadly protests have rocked Kenya, forcing the government to cancel new taxes. Nigeria's economic reforms saw a 40 percent increase … Read more
The leaders of the three major countries have called on Israel to reach a ceasefire, saying the situation in Gaza is “catastrophic”.
