Cricket Australia on Thursday said it would cancel a historic maiden Test match against Afghanistan unless the Taliban backtracks on a reported ban on women playing sport. The governing body said the…
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Sydney reported a record number of new Covid-19 cases and five virus deaths Thursday, as authorities expanded the lockdown in Australia’s largest city to neighboring regions. Six weeks after Sydney’s five million…
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Sydney(AFP): Australia reported another spike in new coronavirus cases Monday, as a lockdown in the country’s largest city Sydney failed to halt a rapidly growing cluster of cases. Health authorities reported 112…
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Sydney’s two-week lockdown has been extended for another week due to the vulnerability of an Australian population largely unvaccinated against COVID-19, officials said on Wednesday. “The situation we’re…
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WTO(AFP): Australia is lodging a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization over China’s imposition of anti-dumping duties on Australian wine exports, the government announced Saturday. The decision “to defend Australia’s winemakers”…
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Five million weary Melbourne residents returned to lockdown Friday, straining local resolve and testing Australia’s “zero-Covid” strategy of smothering outbreaks however small. As authorities said the cluster of positive cases had grown…
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Australian politicians will no longer be exempt from rules against sexual harassment at work, the conservative government announced Thursday as it tries to quell public anger over parliamentary sex abuse scandals. Prime…
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BRUSSELS (AP) — A shipment of more than a quarter-million AstraZeneca vaccines destined for Australia has been blocked from leaving the European Union, in the first use of an export control system…
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Canberra(AFP): Facebook said Tuesday it will lift a contentious ban on Australian news and pay local media companies for content, after a last-gasp deal on pending landmark legislation. Australia’s Treasurer Josh Frydenberg…
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TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese capsule carrying the first samples of asteroid subsurface shot across the night atmosphere early Sunday before successfully landing in the remote Australian Outback, completing a mission to…
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