Turkish lawmakers have approved legislation offering a conditional pardon for thousands of members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a major step towards ending decades of deadly violence.
United States President Donald Trump has briefly commented on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s outright rejection of the 15-point peace plan for Gaza drafted by the US-led Board of Peace.
A federal appeals court in the United States has permitted thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta, Google, TikTok, Snapchat and other social media companies for allegedly designing addictive products that harm children, rejecting the companies’ initial bids to stop litigation before trial.
Charles Darwin University has been rocked by scandal in recent months, including an accreditation bungle affecting hundreds of apprentices. (ABC News Dane Hirst)
Mark Tobin is a Senior Producer at 702 ABC Radio Sydney, working on the Mornings program. He was previously Chief of Staff for ABC News in Sydney and the ABC's state political reporter in NSW.
President Trump is currently experiencing a rare moment of his plans for the Mideast region being rejected on multiple fronts - even among allies, apparently. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over weekend rejected a US-backed 15-point peace plan for Gaza, which marks a rare and very glaring public break wit…
Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi, right, shakes hands with Yoshinobu Tsutsui, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, at a dinner at the end of last year. (Photo by Arisa Moriyama)
MANILA, Philippines — For transparency, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday conducted a media walkthrough of the data center for the 2026 Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Barmm) parliamentary elections.
In the Oval Office, Donald Trump has signed an executive order – that we flagged earlier – which would split up the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines.
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The US State Department said on Monday it has revoked more than 175,000 visas from foreign nationals under President Donald Trump's administration, as it continues a sweeping immigration crackdown that has stripped travel and immigration privileges from tens of thousands more people.
President Donald Trump insisted Monday that his relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "very good" despite the Israeli leader's rejection of a US-led Gaza plan.
US President Donald Trump's Gaza plan is still operative, and discussions with Israel are continuing, a "Board of Peace" official said on Monday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected an Israeli withdrawal until Hamas is "genuinely disarmed".
Russia‘s Supreme Court has barred the only officially registered party opposing Moscow’s war in Ukraine from running in next month’s parliamentary elections.
Leaking crude oil from a tanker grounded off a nature reserve in Oman has created a slick covering almost 400 square kilometres, a size six-and-a-half times the land area of Manhattan, the country's government said on Monday. The Caroline Bezengi is loaded with close to one million barrels of Russian oil bound for …
As corruption investigators put the finishing touches on a four-year probe codenamed Operation Rosny, one of their prime targets, Jeremy Greenwood, boarded a plane and dashed to the other side of the world.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
The Defense Department has renamed a military base in Charleston, S.C., for Senator Lindsey Graham, the Republican from South Carolina who died on July 11.
An American oil company backed by powerful associates of US President Donald Trump has shipped drilling equipment to Greenland without permission from the Danish territory’s government. Is Trump trying to annex Greenland one bite at a time?
An American oil company backed by powerful associates of US President Donald Trump has shipped drilling equipment to Greenland without permission from the Danish territory’s government. Is Trump trying to annex Greenland one bite at a time?
Likud announced on Monday that entrepreneur and businessman Oren Dobronsky, a co-founder of the tech company Hotbar who spent years working in Silicon Valley, would receive Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's first reserved slot on the party's Knesset list ahead of the elections.
Yabloko party leader Nikolai Rybakov stands after a hearing on a lawsuit to bar the party from the upcoming parliamentary elections, at the Russia’s Supreme Court, in Moscow, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
Francesca Hong, a chef and state lawmaker, is the front-runner in the race for the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin governor. If she wins the primary on Tuesday, Ms. Hong, a democratic socialist who has staked out a position to the left of her party, will have triumphed over several candidates considered more mod…
Russia’s Supreme Court on Monday canceled the registration of the liberal Yabloko party’s federal slate of candidates for next month’s State Duma elections.
Three days before Zambia’s presidential election, the campaign is entering its decisive phase. Incumbent President Hakainde Hichilema is defending his economic record against his main rival, Brian Mundubile, as the cost of living emerges as voters’ top concern.
US President Donald Trump knows he can neither sustain nor win a protracted war against Iran, political scientist and University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer has said.
US President Donald Trump knows he can neither sustain nor win a protracted war against Iran, political scientist and University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer has said.
Activist Einav Zangauker, the mother of former hostage Matan Zangauker, said on Monday that Democrats Party leader Yair Golan had promised her a spot near the top of the party’s Knesset slate but later backed out of the agreement.
Gold jumped roughly 7% last week, logging its best weekly gain since January, driven by a weaker U.S. dollar, falling Treasury yields, and an unexpected contraction in employment data that reduced fears of aggressive Federal Reserve rate hikes.