One of Turkey’s most prominent politicians, Selahattin Demirtas, has been in jail for almost three years [Kemal Aslan/Reuters]
A Turkish court has blocked the release of the imprisoned former leader of a pro-Kurdish party after prosecutors requested his arrest once again over a fresh investigation on “terrorism” charges, according to state
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Dozens of people have protested in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, to call for President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to step down.
The short-lived, rare protest began on Friday night near Tahir Square, the epicentre of the 2011 uprising that toppled long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
Protesters shout slogans during a rare anti-government protest in
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Some of Bulgaria’s most senior politicians have blasted the surprise decision by the country’s highest court to grant parole to Australian man Jock Palfreeman.
The 32-year old spent 11 years of a 20-year sentence behind bars for fatally stabbing a Bulgarian student Andrei Monov in 2007, during a fight in
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Mohamed Ali who said he worked with the army for 15 years, has accused the Egyptian president of corruption [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]
Thousands of Egyptians rallied in cities across Egypt on Friday calling for the resignation of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
The rare display of public dissent came after
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Under fire from animal-rights activists, megastar Taylor Swift has bailed on her slated Melbourne Cup show – although she’s blaming “scheduling issues” rather than the barrage of criticism.
Swift had been set to perform two hits from her latest album, Lover, at the November 5 race but promoters say changes
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When asked by reporters whether he discussed the Bidens with Zelensky, Trump said: ‘It doesn’t matter what I discuss’ [Reuters]
United States President Donald Trump has denied a whistle-blower’s claim of wrongdoing in a call with a foreign leader, amid reports he pressured Ukraine‘s president to investigate the
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The deputy leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party said on Saturday that his stance on Brexit, where he backs a second referendum before a parliamentary election, unlike leader Jeremy Corbyn, is behind efforts by some in the party to remove him.
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Megastar Taylor Swift has bailed on her slated Melbourne Cup show, citing scheduling issues.
Swift had been set to perform two hits from her latest album Lover at the November 5 race but changes to her promo schedule in Asia have made that impossible, promoters say.
It comes after fierce
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Tensions in the Middle East have escalated following drone attacks on two major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia.
The pre-dawn attacks on Saturday knocked out more than half of crude output from the world’s top exporter – five percent of the global oil supply – and cut output by 5.7 million barrels per
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A US-China trade deal appeared elusive after Chinese officials unexpectedly cancelled a visit to farms in Montana and Nebraska amid two days of ongoing talks in Washington.
Chinese officials were expected to visit US farmers next week as a goodwill gesture, but cancelled to return to China sooner than originally
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Caruana Galizia published accusations of corruption, money laundering and influence peddling by people at the highest levels of Maltese society [File: Mathew Mirabelli/AFP]
Malta has ordered an independent inquiry into the killing of prominent investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, days before the expiry of a deadline by Europe’s main human rights
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UFO enthusiasts drawn by alien-themed festivities poured into rural Nevada on Friday near the Area 51 U.S. military base, but fears of a mass raid on the remote site or a public safety crisis proved unfounded, with only five people arrested.
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Youngsters and adults alike chanted slogans and waved placards in demonstrations that started in Asia and the Pacific, spread across Africa, Europe and Latin America, before culminating in the United States where Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg rallied.
Australia
Some of the first rallies were held in Sydney and Canberra.
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Mohamed Ali who said he worked with the army for 15 years, has accused the Egyptian president of corruption [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]
An Egyptian businessman and actor who had posted a series of videos this month accusing President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of corruption has called on people to take
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The United States will send military support to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates following last week’s attack on oil facilities, days after President Donald Trump said his country was “locked and loaded” to respond.
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A call to “storm” the secretive US military base in the Nevada desert known as Area 51 attracts a few dozen revellers to its heavily guarded entrance early Friday, but most did not attempt to enter the site, long rumoured to house secrets about extraterrestrial life.
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The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards will be held in Los Angeles at 10:00am AEST on Monday. Here’s everyone that’s up for an award.
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The Rugby World Cup begins with a lavish opening ceremony in Tokyo, as the host nation delights its fans with a 30-10 victory over Russia to get proceedings underway on the field.
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The showdown between Washington and Tehran is upending the lives of Iranians, as families struggle to make ends meet against the fallout from unprecedented US sanctions.
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While Chinese society has changed immensely over the past century, some younger Chinese are donning Imperial-era garments to reconnected with the country’s long history — a move now supported by Beijing.
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CHILDREN in Australia and the Pacific Islands kicked off a millions-strong global climate strike Friday — heeding the rallying cry of teen activist Greta Thunberg and demanding adults take action to stave off environmental disaster.
From Sydney to Seoul to Sao Paolo, children will shut their textbooks for what is
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ACCORDING to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook update of July 2019, India was the fastest-growing major economy in 2017 and 2018 and is estimated to remain so in 2019 and 2020. The headline macroeconomic fundamentals appear benign. The general government fiscal deficit, inflation and current account deficit are within the
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A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted three former power company executives of professional negligence in the only criminal prosecution stemming from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown.
The three men were senior officials at the TEPCO firm operating the Fukushima Daiichi plant and faced up to five years in prison if
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Taylor Swift will not be performing at the race that stops the nation after changes to the US singer’s tour have made it “logistically impossible” for her to be there.
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Follow all the live scores, stats and commentary in our live AFL finals ScoreCentre.
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The number of birds in the United States and Canada has fallen by 29 per cent since 1970, scientists reported on Thursday. There are 2.9 billion fewer birds taking wing now than there were 50 years ago.
The analysis, published in the journal<em> Science</em>, is the most exhaustive and ambitious
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Dining under the stars in the gardens of the White House in the company of billionaires and media barons – and a President of the United States – is something Scott Morrison is unlikely to forget.
As the dinner concluded and the 175 high profile dignitaries left the White House on Friday
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South Australia’s recent “old mate” tourism campaign may have ended in tears — both literally and figuratively — but Tasmania is hoping to cash in on that controversy by releasing its own rival ad.
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The Wallabies are struggling against Fiji in their opening Rugby World Cup match, trailing 21-15 early in the second half under the dome in Sapporo. Follow all the action in our live blog.
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There’s a new ethics and standards regulator for financial planners, but will it force them to finally abandon all conflicted payments and genuinely act only in the interests of their clients, once and for all?
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An Australian man freed from a Lebanese prison after two years in custody over a terror plot says his first priority is convincing his own teenage daughters in Sydney that he is innocent.
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NSW police and emergency services are attempting to reach the wreckage of a small plane after an aerial search located it in steep and heavily wooded forest.
The condition of the two people on board remains unclear as of Saturday at 12pm.
The plane, a Mooney M-20, went missing almost
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Under the stars on a warm Washington night, Donald Trump and Scott Morrison will be softly serenaded by a string ensemble as they sit down to a lavish feast.
The venue for the state dinner, the White House Rose Garden, is smaller than you might imagine.
It’s an intimate setting
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Whatever Richmond and Geelong fans were saying about Tom Lynch after his monster AFL preliminary final, no-one was calling him a liability.
Four months after commentator Matthew Lloyd caused a stir with that criticism of Richmond’s star recruit, Lynch was best afield on Friday night at the MCG.
His 10
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