Russia “started” the conflict in Ukraine and can end it “straight away”, Sir Keir Starmer has said after Vladimir Putin suggested Moscow would regard Western missiles being fired into Russia as a serious escalation of the war.

Some older Australians will now have to pay more for aged care, but the government says it will be worth it.

A joint development deal with Germany will unlock $660 million of shared investment in Australian hydrogen projects, providing some certainty after setbacks.

Controversial billionaire Elon Musk has called the Australian government “fascists” over its attempts to tackle deliberate lies spread on social media.

The death toll in Vietnam from typhoon Yagi and the landslides and flash floods it triggered rose to 226 on Thursday, the government’s disaster agency said, as flood pressure eased in the capital Hanoi.

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday declined to interfere with a lower court decision to keep Donald Trump’s already-decided criminal case over hush money paid to a porn star in state court, dealing another blow to the former U.S. president’s bid to move the case to federal court.

New York’s top court on Thursday upheld a judge’s gag order on Donald Trump in the case in which the former U.S. president was convicted on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star.

Republican nominee Donald Trump said on Thursday he would not participate in another presidential debate against Kamala Harris ahead of the Nov. 5 election, after several polls showed his Democratic rival won their debate earlier this week.

Russian shelling on Thursday killed three Ukrainians working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and wounded two others in a village in the frontline Donetsk region, Ukrainian officials said.

Australia will give Vietnam $3 million for humanitarian relief after a deadly typhoon killed more than 150 people.

A group of about three dozen US state and local election officials have raised serious concerns about the Postal Service’s ability to deliver millions of ballots for the 2024 presidential election.

Russian forces have begun a significant counter-offensive against Ukrainian troops who smashed their way into western Russia last month, and have taken some territory back, pro-Russianwar bloggers and a senior Russian commander say.