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Thousands without heat, water after tornadoes kill dozens

UN: World could hit 1.5-degree warming threshold by 2024

8:39 pm July 9, 2020

Geneva: The world could see annual global temperatures pass a key threshold for the first time in the coming five years, the U.N. weather agency said Thursday. The World Meteorological Organization said forecasts suggest there’s a 20% chance that global temperatures will be 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) higher than the pre-industrial average in at […]

Australia will respond 'very seriously' to war crime allegations: PM Morrison

Australia suspends extradition treaty with Hong Kong; offers safe haven visas to students, skilled workers

3:03 pm July 9, 2020

Melbourne: Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday announced the suspension of Australia’s extradition treaty with Hong Kong over the controversial Chinese national security law imposed there and offered visas to 10,000 students and temporary skilled workers from the former British territory to start a new life in this country. The move came after Chinese President Xi Jinping last month signed a controversial legislation to impose a national […]

Saliva test used to test for virus in Australia

2:22 pm June 29, 2020

Melbourne: Health authorities are using what they describe as a world-first saliva test for coronavirus in Australia’s second-largest city where the disease is spreading at an alarming rate. Officials say 49 people tested positive to COVID-19 in Melbourne on Sunday and only four cases were detected elsewhere in Australia. Australian Deputy Chief Medical Officer Nick […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Australia ‘disheartened’ by a death sentence in China

7:44 am June 14, 2020

Sydney: Australia on Sunday described as “deeply disheartening” a death sentence China imposed on an Australian man accused of drug smuggling, and the trade minister said it shouldn’t be linked to ongoing friction over trade and the pandemic. Cam Gillespie was arrested in 2013 at Baiyun Airport in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on […]

4 injured when ambulance crashes into Oklahoma toll booth

12:49 am June 13, 2020

Newcastle: Four people were injured, at least three critically, when an ambulance crashed into a toll booth on an Oklahoma turnpike early Friday, Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokesperson Sarah Stewart said. The Jackson County Emergency Medical Services ambulance traveling from the Altus area to Oklahoma City with its lights and siren activated crashed into the toll […]