Vice President Pence in Kalispell, Mont., on Nov. 5. (Justin Franz/Flathead Beacon/AP) More than a dozen Pacific nations will convene in the capital of Papua New Guinea next week, where Vice President Pence will lay out the next phase of the Trump administration’s ever evolving Asia strategy. His task is to convince the countries of…
The superbug Staphylcocus epidermidis on an agar plate in Melbourne on September 4, 2018. © William WEST / AFP Doctors are warning of a potentially fatal and “formidable” pathogen which has spread to hospitals across the globe and is resistant to all known antibiotics. A team of researchers from the University of Melbourne in Australia discovered three…
A “TICKING time bomb” on Australia’s doorstep is counting down to war — and an expert says the world is blind to it. A MAJOR new war is looming — and this one sits worryingly close to home. Asia is at risk of descending into a region-wide crisis with global implications, a leading expert in…
Drought is turning many areas of the globe into arid wastelands. Excessive heat has cost lives, ruined crops and created water shortages. The effects are being felt from South America to the Arctic Circle. Australia: ‘Land of drought’ Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, addressing the drought in the state of New South Wales, which produces…
Australia announced on Monday that it was ending direct aid to the West Bank based Palestinian Authority (PA) over concerns that the funds were used to pay Palestinians convicted of politically motivated violence. “Today, I announce that the Australian Government has discontinued funding to the World Bank’s Multi-Donor Trust Fund for the Palestinian Recovery and…
The historic summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is back on. “We’ll be meeting on June 12 in Singapore,” the president confirmed to reporters after hosting an hour-long meeting with a top North Korean official in the Oval Office. Following the announcement, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders announced on Twitter on June 5…
Wine exports set to flow, but iron ore and pork sectors wary of rising tensions. A woman browses for wine in China’s Jiangsu Province. Australian wine producers look to increase exports to China after Beijing raised tariffs on U.S. vintages. © AP SYDNEY — Amid deepening confusion over U.S.-China trade relations, Australia finds itself…
AN EARTHQUAKE has rattled Australia, waking residents of Darwin hundreds of miles from the epicentre in the Banda Sea of Indonesia. USGS / Bureau of Meteorology Australia was rattled by a 6.6 magnitude earthquake which hit the Banda Sea in Indonesia. Residents in Darwin, hundreds of miles from the epicentre, reported shaking strong enough to wake…
The U.S. may be in for a bad flu season, if Australia is anything to go by. Experts usually look to the southern hemisphere’s influenza season to predict what might start happening here in the fall, and what they are seeing doesn’t look good. Australia is suffering through one of its worst flu seasons in…
Pyongyang’s official news agency says Malcolm Turnbull ‘invites disaster’ by pledging to support the US in any conflict with Kim Jong-un’s regime. North Korea has warned Australia it has committed a “suicidal act” by committing its troops to help the US in any conflict over Pyongyang’s nuclear program and by joining military exercises with US…