Australian PM vows hate speech crackdown after Bondi Beach attack
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promised a sweeping crackdown on hate, division and radicalisation on Thursday after a mass shooting killed 15 people at a Jewish festival on Bondi Beach.
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Turkmenistan's battle against desert sand
Residents in the remote Turkmen village of Bokurdak have long depended on the Karakum Desert for their livelihoods, cultivating every square metre they can in a constant battle with nature.
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Ukraine's Zelensky in Poland for first meeting with nationalist president
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky heads to Warsaw on Friday for a first face-to-face meeting with his Polish counterpart Karol Nawrocki, with tensions likely after his previous criticism of Kyiv.
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England in disarray at 59-3 in crunch Test as Lyon, Cummins pounce
Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon struck damaging blows to leave England reeling at 59-3 at lunch on day two of the crunch third Ashes Test after they dismissed Australia for 371.
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Japan faces lawsuit over 'unconstitutional' climate inaction
Hundreds of people across Japan will sue the central government Thursday to seek damages for its "unconstitutional" inaction on climate change, the country's first such litigation.
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Migrants forced to leave Canada after policy change feel 'betrayed'
After accepting a job near Montreal, Mansef Aloui packed up his life in Tunisia, hopeful his children would thrive in Canada -- but his pathway to settle in the country has been shut down.
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What's next for Venezuela under the US oil blockade?
A US blockade of Venezuelan oil shipments could slash production and halve exports of the country's most valuable commodity, tipping its economy even deeper into crisis, experts say.
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Salvadorans freed with conditional sentence for Bukele protest
A Salvadoran court on Wednesday sentenced an environmental lawyer and a community leader to three years in prison for protesting near President Nayib Bukele's home, but granted them a conditional release.
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Brazil Congress passes bill to cut Bolsonaro prison term
Brazil's Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to slash the prison term of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, who was convicted of plotting a coup after losing reelection to left-winger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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Cricket Australia boss slams technology 'howler' in Ashes Test
Cricket Australia boss Todd Greenberg on Thursday called an error in the Snicko technology being used during the Ashes "not good enough" as England had a review reinstated over the row.
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