US military to build war-ready stockpile in Australia: docs
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Australia
WHO unveils $518m plan to fight Ebola
7 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Africa & rest of the world
WHO unveils $518m plan to fight Ebola
6 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Africa & rest of the world
Suspected Ebola cases top 900 in DR Congo: WHO chief
25 May 2026, 08:06 AM
Africa & rest of the world
Close shave: laser hair removal device sparks Australia airport evacuation
21 May 2026, 09:28 AM
Australia
Australian inquiry opens public hearings into Bondi Beach shooting
4 May 2026, 08:06 AM
Australia
Australian soldier charged with war crimes in Afghanistan
8 April 2026, 00:21 AM
Australia
China blasts ‘colonial’ Australia, New Zealand over rights concerns
19 March 2026, 01:36 AM
Australia
MSF says 26 staff missing from South Sudan violence
3 March 2026, 01:25 AM
Africa & rest of the world
At least 38 killed in armed attack in north-west Nigeria
21 February 2026, 19:36 PM
Africa & rest of the world
Castro and end of apartheid
Southern African leaders paid glowing tributes to the late revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, but if one country will forever be heavily indebted to his leadership of Cuba, it is Angola.
27 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Fidel Castro A life in six snapshots
No one could have predicted his place in history when he launched his revolutionary career with a botched attack on
27 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Clashes kill 55 in Uganda; king held
Ugandan police stormed the palace of a tribal king and arrested him yesterday after fierce clashes between security
27 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Zika no longer a world health emergency
The World Health Organization on Friday announced that the Zika virus outbreak no longer poses a world public health
19 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Probe launched after 56 killed
Authorities in Mozambique were yesterday investigating whether locals were taking petrol from a tanker that
18 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Gunman kills 9 football fans in South Sudan
At least nine people are killed and 11 wounded in South Sudan's capital, Juba, when an unidentified gunman open fire on people watching a football match on television at the weekend.
7 November 2016, 06:37 AM
Zuma faces pressure to resign
South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday faced increasing calls to resign after a damaging probe unearthed further evidence
3 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Report finds 'criminal activity'
South Africa's anti-corruption watchdog Wednesday called for prosecutors to investigate alleged criminal activity as it released
2 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Clashes kill 25 in Central Africa: UN
Twenty-five people were killed, six of them gendarmes, in two days of violence around the town of Bambari in the troubled Central
29 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Gambia joins African queue to leave ICC
The Gambia has become the latest African nation to announce its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court,
26 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Islamist attacks kills dozens in Kenya
A bomb blast at a guesthouse in northeast Kenya killed at least 12 people yesterday, in an attack claimed by Shabaab militants
25 October 2016, 18:00 PM
South Africa quits ICC
South Africa announced Friday that it would withdraw from the International Criminal Court, dealing a major blow to a troubled
22 October 2016, 18:21 PM
Cameroon rail accident kills dozens
At least 60 were killed when a packed passenger train derailed between Cameroon's two main cities, a hospital source in the
22 October 2016, 18:18 PM
South Africa to exit war crimes court
South Africa yesterday announced that it would withdraw from the International Criminal Court, dealing a major blow to a
21 October 2016, 18:36 PM
25 feared dead in raid on migrant boat
Up to 25 people were missing, feared drowned, yesterday after men on a Libyan coastguard speedboat attacked a packed
21 October 2016, 18:23 PM
Eight dead in second Brazil prison riot
Eight inmates were killed and burned yesterday in a fresh prison riot in Brazil, police said, a day after clashes between
17 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Boko Haram frees 21 Chibok girls
Jihadist group Boko Haram has released 21 of the more than 200 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls held since April
13 October 2016, 18:00 PM
World wildlife talks on trade ends
A global conference on wildlife trade wrapped up on Tuesday after adopting a slew of decisions to curb rampant
5 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Brazil votes in local polls
Brazilians furious at recession and corruption are expected to punish the long dominant Workers' Party in municipal
2 October 2016, 18:00 PM
ICC hands 9-yr jail term to Mali jihadist
War crimes judges yesterday sentenced a Malian jihadist to nine years in jail for destroying the fabled shrines of Timbuktu, in a
27 September 2016, 18:10 PM