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Albanese said Australia has more guns now than 30 years ago, when the country’s deadliest-ever mass shooting took place.Australia will launch a national gun buyback scheme, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced, as the country continues to come to terms with the deadly attack on a Jewish holiday event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach that left 15 people dead.Albanese called the plan the country’s biggest gun buyback since 1996 – the year of Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in modern…

Canberra said the Taliban officials are guilty of oppressing women and girls, as well as ‘undermining good governance’.The Australian government has imposed financial sanctions and travel bans on four officials in Afghanistan’s Taliban government, citing the deteriorating human rights situation in the country, particularly for women and girls.Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in a statement on Saturday that Canberra had established a “world-first” autonomous sanctions framework for Afghanistan, which would allow it to “directly impose its own…

James decries Trump’s ‘weaponisation’ of the justice system after second failed attempt to federally prosecute her.Published On 5 Dec 20255 Dec 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareA federal grand jury has rejected prosecutors’ attempt to revive a criminal case against New York Attorney General Letitia James, after a judge previously threw out charges levelled against the prominent critic of United States President Donald Trump.The indictment on Thursday marks the Department of Justice’s second failed attempt to prosecute…

President Vladimir Putin has said he is ready to guarantee in writing that Russia will not attack another European nation, as he dismissed claims that Moscow intends to invade another country as a “lie” and “complete nonsense”.Speaking on Thursday in Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek – where he attended a summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), a Russia-led military alliance that includes some former Soviet republics – Putin branded claims Moscow is planning to attack Europe as “ridiculous”.Recommended…

Justice Department prosecutors accused Grammy-winning rapper Pras Michel of betraying his country for money.A United States district judge has sentenced Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, a member of 1990s hip-hop group the Fugees, to 14 years in prison for illegally funnelling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former US President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.Michel declined to address the court before Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced him on Thursday. The trial in Washington, DC, included testimony from former Attorney General…

The United States House of Representatives will hold a vote to force the full disclosure of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Speaker Mike Johnson has said.Johnson told reporters on Wednesday that the House would hold a vote next week to require the Department of Justice to release all documents related to the disgraced financier.Recommended Stories list of 2 itemsend of listJohnson added that he wanted to “remind everybody” that the GOP-led Oversight Committee had…

Here are the key events from day 1,353 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Published On 8 Nov 20258 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareHere is how things stand on Saturday, November 8:Fighting Ukraine’s top general Oleksandr Syrskii said Kyiv’s troops were stepping up assaults on Russian forces around the eastern Ukrainian town of Dobropillia to ease pressure on the embattled hub of Pokrovsk. Ukrainian forces carried out a long-range drone strike on a petrochemical plant in Russia’s…

The group said Russian attacks are inflicting ‘devastating social, environmental, and economic consequences’ on Ukraine.The energy ministers of the Group of Seven nations (G7) have issued a joint statement condemning Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s energy system, after authorities in Kyiv described Moscow’s most recent barrage as akin to “nuclear terrorism”.In a Friday statement, the G7 energy ministers – representing Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States – said Russia’s attacks “continue to inflict…