Pacific Islands

Seven dead after gunmen ambush public bus in Papua New Guinea

Residents of Papua New Guinea’s Porgera region say they’re fearful a “new brand of tribal warfare” has started after gunmen stormed a passenger bus, killing at least seven people.

October 23, 2024 2:47 pm
 

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Austrian president tasks centre-right, not far right

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen tasked Chancellor Karl Nehammer, leader of the conservative People’s Party, with forming a government over the objections of the far-right Freedom Party, which won last month’s general election.

October 23, 2024 2:05 pm
 

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Peru to monitor Venezuelan migrants' remittances amid crime fears

Peru’s government will monitor money transfers sent from Venezuelans living in Peru back home, President Dina Boluarte announced, saying the measure is a response to complaints of delinquency on the part of Venezuelan migrants.

October 23, 2024 1:41 pm
 

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In Havana's still dark corners, a protest erupts

Just three or four city blocks in all of Central Havana remained without electricity – an island of darkness in the Cuban capital’s sea of flashing lights, pounding reggaeton and jammed bars and cafes.

October 23, 2024 12:30 pm
 

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Germany identifies its first case of new mpox variant

Germany has detected its first case of the new mpox variant, the Robert Koch Institute for public health said, adding that it viewed the risk to the wider population as low.

October 23, 2024 11:29 am
 

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Brazil's Lula stable after head injury

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva underwent new medical exams, which showed his condition is stable in comparison to previous assessments following a weekend head injury, his doctors said.

October 23, 2024 10:08 am
 

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Blinken urges Israel to capitalise on Hamas leader's killing

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to capitalise on the killing of Hamas’ leader by securing the release of the Oct. 7 attack hostages and ending the war in Gaza.

October 23, 2024 9:20 am
 

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Blinken urges Israel to end war

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in talks on Tuesday to capitalise on the killing of Hamas’ leader by securing the release of the Oct. 7 attack hostages and ending the war in Gaza.

October 23, 2024 7:30 am
 

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US campaigns eye overseas voters

Bob Vallier, a Paris resident who has mostly lived outside the United States for the past 30 years, has already voted in his home state of Michigan for the Nov. 5 election.

October 23, 2024 6:26 am
 

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Indian doctors call off protest hunger strike over medic's murder

Junior doctors in India’s eastern city of Kolkata called off on Monday a 17-day-old hunger strike launched in protest against the rape and murder of a colleague, they said, in response to an appeal by the victim’s parents.

October 22, 2024 4:47 pm
 

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Indigenous Australian embraces King Charles at civil rights birthplace

Britain’s King Charles was embraced by an Indigenous elder after a welcome smoking ceremony on Tuesday in the birthplace of Australia’s urban Aboriginal civil rights movement in Sydney, a day after being heckled by an Indigenous senator in Canberra.

October 22, 2024 3:00 pm
 

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Peru ex-president jailed 20 years in corruption scandal

Peru’s former president Alejandro Toledo has been sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.

October 22, 2024 2:34 pm

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