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A social media ban for children younger than 16 is introduced in Australia’s Parliament 2024-11-21
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s communications minister introduced a world-first law into Parliament on Thursday that would ban children younger than 16 from social media, saying online safety was one of parents’ toughest challenges. Michelle Rowland said TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit,...

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Australia’s plan to ban children from social media proves popular and problematic 2024-11-15
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — How do you remove children from the harms of social media? Politically the answer appears simple in Australia, but practically the solution could be far more difficult. The Australian government’s plan to ban children from social media platforms including X, TikTok,...

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Chinese and Philippine forces again avoid a clash in a fiercely disputed shoal under a ... 2024-11-15
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine navy transported food and other supplies to a territorial ship outpost in a shoal in the South China Sea without any confrontation with Chinese forces guarding the disputed area, officials said Friday. The Philippine delivery of supplies and military...

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‘Only in Australia’: Couple comes home to find koala in bed 2024-11-14
CNN

Koalas are normally found in eucalyptus trees, but one couple came home in Australia on Wednesday and were shocked to find one in their bedroom. “I was scared, happy and excited at the same time,” Fran Dias Rufino told CNN from Adelaide in South Australia. Rufino, who moved to Australia from Brazil,...

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Stock market today: Asian shares mostly decline, shrugging off Wall Street’s overnight rally 2024-11-12
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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mostly lower Tuesday, despite a rally on Wall Street in stocks seen as benefiting the most from Donald Trump’s reelection as president. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 0.6% in morning trading to 39,774.43. But the rest of the regional markets...

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Australia’s climate has warmed by an average of 1.51 degrees Celsius 2024-10-31
Famagusta Gazette

Australia’s climate has warmed by an average of 1.51 degrees Celsius (C) since records began in 1910, a landmark report has found. National science agency the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) on Thursday published the latest...

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King Charles III ends first Australian visit by a reigning British monarch in 13 years 2024-10-22
New York Post

King Charles III ends the first visit to Australia by a reigning British monarch in 13 years Tuesday with anti-monarchists hoping his journey is a step toward an Australian citizen becoming head of state. Controversy interrupted the visit on Monday when Indigenous independent senator Lidia Thorpe...

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The sign that King Charles’ power in the royal family is slowly slipping 2024-10-15
New York Post

Originally Published by: Every week for most of this year, a car, often the State Bentley, has borne King Charles out the gates of Clarence House to do something that no British monarch has ever done before – be treated for cancer with the full knowledge of the public. Only now, after eight months...

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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Says He Pleaded ‘Guilty to Journalism’ in Order to Be Freed 2024-10-01
Time

NICE, France — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday that he was freed after years of incarceration because he "pled guilty to journalism.” Assange gave evidence of the impact of his detention and conviction to the legal affairs and human rights committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the...

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Resurgent Quad puts China on a new defensive edge 2024-09-25
Asiatimes

MANILA – This week, US President Joe Biden hosted for the last time his counterparts from Japan, Australia and India for the fourth Quad Leaders’ Summit. Flanked by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio of Japan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India in...

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