Victorians will not have a legal right to work from home until at least July next year, after Labor delayed its plan to introduce the controversial law following an eleventh-hour plea from business groups.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) will intensify its security measures at the areas of concern flagged by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the Sept. 14 Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) parliamentary elections.
U.S. President Donald Trump made sweeping new demands on Iran after Tehran reiterated requests for reparations as part of talks to wind down the conflict, dimming hopes of a quick deal that would reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz as oil prices surged once again.
Property prices could slump by almost 15 per cent over this year and next, economists with the ANZ bank have warned, citing interest rates, low levels of affordability and the federal government’s property tax changes.
Republican officials in western North Carolina on Monday selected a candidate to replace Representative Chuck Edwards on the November ballot. Mr. Edwards dropped out of the race last week after the House Ethics Committee documented his troubling conduct toward two young female aides.
Annabel Crabb is an ABC writer and presenter who has covered Australian politics for nearly 30 years as a news reporter and columnist. Creator and host of the long-running political interview series Kitchen Cabinet, Annabel also wrote and presented the ABC's political documentary trilogy The House, Ms Represented an…
A Channel 12 News poll published Monday evening showed a shift at the top of Israel’s political landscape, with Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party moving into first place with 24 Knesset seats, one up from a previous poll. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party fell to 22 seats, placing it second.
MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang has implemented a work-from-home (WFH) setup in government offices and alternative learning delivery modes in public and private schools at all levels in three provinces on Tuesday, amid persistent heavy rainfall brought by the Southwest Monsoon, or locally known as ‘Habagat’.
New vape shops will require planning permission and councils will get more powers to stop betting shops, under government plans aimed at improving high streets.
Over the past decade in the US, since Donald Trump first ascended to the White House in 2017, less than four percent of US government grant funding to keep religious institutions safe has gone to Muslim nonprofits, a new report by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has found.
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 …