Tag: Sydney
Climate change, overfishing taking toll on world’s fish supply, warn Australian researchers
Ocean warming and common practices by the world's fishing industries are likely to have a disastrous impact on the world's stock of wild...
Australian man hospitalized with blood clots after Pfizer jab
A policeman was reportedly being treated for blood clots on Wednesday in the Australian state of Queensland after receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine...
Australia ditches vaccine roll-out targets
(dpa) - Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison has scrapped the country's coronavirus vaccine roll-out targets, days after medical experts changed their advice on using...
Myanmar general says state of emergency could be extended
(dpa) - The Myanmar military's spokesman Zaw Min Tun said the one-year state of emergency imposed by the junta during its February coup could...
Ex-Australian PM mistaken as Uber driver gives lift to tipsy diners
(dpa) - Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd briefly stepped into a new role as an Uber driver in Queensland on Tuesday, giving a...
Australia still waiting for 3 million AstraZeneca doses from overseas
(dpa) - Australia is still waiting for more than 3 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that should have already arrived under its contracts,...
UN rights investigator Agnes Callamard new head of Amnesty
dpa/GNA - United Nations rights investigator Agnes Callamard has been appointed the new chief of Amnesty International.
Callamard will be secretary general of the...
Australian premier reshuffles cabinet after series of scandals
dpa/GNA - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a cabinet reshuffle on Monday after a series of scandals that have dented his approval...
Australian floods: 20,000 still evacuated in New South Wales
dpa/GNA - Some 20,000 people in Australia's New South Wales were still unable to return to their homes on Thursday after being evacuated...
Thousands more Australians on high alert as more flooding expected
dpa/GNA - Thousands more residents on Australia's eastern coast have been told to be ready to leave their homes Tuesday as flooding continues...
Areas west of Sydney evacuated as wild weather continues in New South Wales
dpa/GNA - Residents flood-hit areas west of Sydney were ordered to evacuate on Saturday night as wild weather continued to hammer New South...
Facebook and News Corp reach media deal in Australia
dpa/GNA - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp said it has reached a three-year deal with Facebook in Australia which will see the social media...
Facebook strikes landmark deals with Australian media companies
Social media giant Facebook has struck deals with Australia's two largest media companies, News Corp and Nine Entertainment Co. to pay for their news,...
Thousands protest gender discrimination and violence across Australia
dpa/GNA - Thousands of women and allies took to the streets across Australia on Sunday and Monday to protest gender discrimination and violence
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The...
Innate immunity protects children from severe COVID-19 symptoms
A new study has found children tend to develop mild COVID-19 symptoms because their innate immune system is quick to attack the virus.
In...
Calls for Myanmar military to respect vote and release Suu Kyi
dpa - Myanmar's military seized power on Monday and detained government officials including de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi just hours before...
Google threatens to pull search engine from Australia over news code
dpa/GNA - Google threatened to pull its search engine from Australia on Friday over a proposed media code that would require the tech...
Five charged in Australia over theft of millions worth of salmon
dpa/GNA - Two women and three men have been charged with stealing some 250 tonnes of salmon, worth over 4 million Australian dollars...
US, Britain, Canada and Australia condemn Hong Kong activist arrests
dpa/GNA - Britain, Canada, Australia and the United States condemned the mass arrests of activists in Hong Kong under a controversial national security...
New Zealand inmates surrender after six-day prison standoff
dpa/GNA - Sixteen inmates who had been locked in a stand-off with authorities and camped on the roof of a New Zealand prison...
Two women die in canyoning incident in Australia
dpa/GNA - Two women died after being swept in a whirlpool while canyoning in the Blue Mountains region west of Sydney, New South...
Masks mandatory in Sydney amid growing coronavirus cases
dpa/GNA - Australia's most populous city, Sydney, has made face masks mandatory in some indoor settings, amid a growing number of coronavirus cases,...
Australia changes one word in national anthem in ‘spirit of unity’
dpa/GNA - A single word has been changed in the Australia's national anthem to make the song more inclusive and reflect the 60,000-year...
2020 ends with muted celebrations, as world hopes for a better 2021
dpa/GNA,The world is waving goodbye and good riddance to 2020, as most countries are still gripped by the pandemic and governments cancelled fireworks and...
Australia’s spike in deadly shark attacks – ‘freaky’ 2020 bad luck?
Despite having some of the world's most shark-infested waters, for the past several decades the chance of getting killed by a shark in Australia...
New Covid-19 restrictions in Australia as outbreak hits Sydney
After Australians had largely been able to travel freely within the country, a coronavirus outbreak in one part of Sydney has brought back some...
Fijian leader says ‘pray for Fiji’ as category 5 cyclone strikes
Fiji declared a national emergency Thursday as Cyclone Yasa struck the islands with expected winds up to 260 kilometres per hour and waves up...
Fiji braces for category-5 Cyclone Yasa
Fiji on Wednesday was warned to prepare for category-5 tropical Cyclone Yasa, which is expected to directly hit the Pacific Island state in the...
Australia welcomes Israel extradition approval of sex abuse suspect
Australia's attorney general on Wednesday welcomed the news that alleged child sex abuser Malka Leifer lost an appeal in Israel's Supreme Court to block...
Australia to refer China to the WTO over barley trade tariffs
Australia will take China to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to challenge tariffs placed on the country's barley exports earlier this year, trade minister...