Tag: Australia in world news

A 17-year-old Australian appears in latest Islamic State video, threatening to behead western leaders and fly ‘black flag’ over Washington, London and Canberra.

Where is best to live, work, be seen and find a date? Australia is doing pretty well in all departments.

Sue Ellen Kovack says Australian health workers should travel to Africa to aid in the battle against the Ebola virus outbreak, while the government says it's too dangerous.

A two-year partnership between the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association and Gay and Lesbian Tourism Australia will see Australia benefiting from the lucrative gay and lesbian travel market.

On paying for the war against Islamic State in Iraq, Australia's prime minister says, “We think we can afford it.”

Australia and its regions dominate OECD wellbeing living rankings, with Canberra rated the world's best city.

RAAF planes will commence support operations over Iraq on Wednesday in the fight against Islamic State, with a final decision to join strike operations immanent.

Australia's prime minister delivers bellicose speech to United Nations Security Council as the country prepares to join military action against Islamic State militants in Iraq.

Like the experimental frog in hot water, Australia seems to keep sitting still while the water is literally warming up. While 125 world leaders are meeting in New York to engage in the climate change debate, Australia's leader will be absent.

Prime minister says fighting for Islamic State (ISIS) is “against God” and joining them “may well become much more dangerous because of the presence of Australian forces.”

600 Australian personnel to join US military action against Islamic State in Iraq but PM insists it’s not like 2003.

The Australian government says its defence forces are ready to act against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria if requested by the US but that conditions must be met.

More than four thousand Iraqi and Syrian refugees from war torn Iraq and Syria will be offered refugee status in Australia, confirms immigration minister Scott Morrison.

Responding to the humanitarian crisis in Iraq, Australia is opening its immigration gates to persecuted Iraqi nationals fearing for their lives.

Australian air force joins international mission to deliver food and water to people fleeing Islamic State militants in Iraq. “We in Australia try to do what we can to help,” PM tells service personnel.

Google trends show us who are interested in Australia and what makes them most curious about the land Down Under.

Boy with severed head image appears on Twitter account of Khaled Sharrouf, with the caption “That’s my boy!”

Australian Immigration and Border Protection offered a group of 157 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers a lifeboat to India.

Investigators trying to retrieve evidence from the MH17 crash site have been forced to stop work as fighting intensifies in eastern Ukraine.

Australian choreographer Wade Robson has detailed the sex acts he says Michael Jackson committed on him in court papers filed in Los Angeles.

There are reports that the supposed father of baby Gammy has a previous conviction and served time in jail.

Australian airline Qantas will not follow suite and change their flight path to avoid Iraq as Emmirates have done.

With the AIDS 2014 conference taking place in Melbourne, Australia this week we look at some of the shocking truths about HIV and some glimmers of hope.

Australia is pushing for full international access to the rebel-controlled MH17 crash site in Ukraine while sending in specialists for the investigation.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says the bodies of the MH17 victims, including those from Australia, will be transferred to the Netherlands as soon as possible.

As questions are asked about why shot down flight MH17 was allowed to fly over Ukraine's war torn region, Qantas says they altered their flight paths over the area months ago.

Scientific community reels at reports that HIV researchers and activists headed for AIDS conference in Australia were on Malaysia Airlines flight shot-down over Ukraine.

Australian prime minister says perpetrators of MH17 disaster in Ukraine must be brought to justice and orders flags to be flown at half-mast.

Authorities confirm Australians on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 downed over Ukraine.

As Nauru confirms that Angelina Jolie, actress and UN delegate, has received an invitation to visit asylum seekers on the island, Australia's immigration minister Scott Morrison denies concerns over her proposed trip.

Islamic militant who allegedly employed Facebook to recruit support for Syrian and Iraqi conflict has been taken in to custody in the Philippines and will be deported to Australia.

The father of a 3-year-old Sri Lankan girl has begged with immigration control’s Scott Morrison for information about the 'missing' boat of asylum seekers on which his daughter is believed to be.

A group of asylum seekers being held on an Australian vessel at sea will not be returned to their native Sri Lanka without 72 hours' notice.

A boat carrying 41 asylum seekers was escorted back to Sri Lanka after it was intercepted by Australian border control, infuriating human rights activists who fear for the refugees’ safety in their home country.

New confidence for jihad as another Australian joins their ranks and their new “caliphate” prompts two notorious Australian Jihadist to issue threats to Australian troops via Twitter.

The federal government will spend $300 million so Australian warships are better protected against the threat of anti-ship missiles.

Fraudsters stole the identity of Australia’s military head to scam unsuspecting women out of money through cyber romances.

Amnesty International says Australian man Pham Trung Dung, who has been sentenced to death in Vietnam, may be given an unknown cocktail of drugs.

An asylum-seeker detained at the Manus Island refugee camp is suing the Australian government and its outsourced security company after a riot in February left the man with severe head trauma.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison continues to refuse to reveal if an asylum seeker boat, or two, have been intercepted off Christmas Island

Damion Baston has been portrayed in a US court as a violent pimp who turned beautiful Australian and New Zealand women into prostitutes.

Two prominent journalists representing media and human rights bodies have delivered a plea to the Egyptian consulate requesting Peter Greste be set free.

A representative of Aboriginal delegates expressed their delight in having the remains of an ancestor returned to Australia from Chicago's Field Museum in Chicago.

SPECIAL REPORT | Rupert Murdoch’s ‘The Australian’ has been accused of conspiring with Big Tobacco to dissuade the UK and Ireland from introducing plain packaging legislation, with an apparently ‘misleading’ report claiming Australia’s landmark laws are failing.

PM Tony Abbott says the government will talk "calmly, patiently and reasonably" with the Egyptian government about the conviction of Peter Greste.

Tony Abbott warns that nobody should underestimate the threat posed by terrorists bearing down on the Iraqi capital as it is revealed that a small contingent of Australian troops have already been sent to 'bolster security' at the embassy there.

Leonardo DiCaprio has spoken of the devastation he's witnessed on the Great Barrier Reef, as the World Heritage Committee meets to consider its status.

Julie Bishop will meet Islamic ambassadors in an attempt to calm tensions over Canberra's decision to change its terminology on East Jerusalem.

As militants rampage through Iraq, the Muslim community in Australia waits, wanting to help and confused about what is happening in their homeland.

After serving in Timor Leste as part of the country’s UN mission, three Australian soldiers decided to take on a scourge that targets some of the planet’s most vulnerable citizens.