Australia accuses foreign government of cyber attack on lawmakers

By Reuters,

A cyber attack on Australian lawmakers that breached the networks of major political parties was probably carried out by a foreign government, Prime M...

Australia , Cyber attack , Prime Minister Scott Morrison

Australian arrested for tampering with CCTV cameras in Nairobi: DCI

By Allan Irungu,

An Australian has been arrested for allegedly covering and switching off CCTV cameras at an apartment in Nairobi. According to the Directorate of C...

Benjamin Gsull , CCTV Cameras. , DCI

Australia set for 300 medical transfers after new refugee law

By Reuters,

As many as 300 asylum seekers held in Pacific detention centers may be eligible to apply for medical transfers to Australia after hardline immigration...

australia refugees , Prime Minister Scott Morrison

Refugee Bahraini footballer leaves Thai jail after extradition bid dropped

By Reuters,

A Bahraini footballer with refugee status in Australia, Hakeem Al Araibi, left a Thai jail on Monday after authorities dropped a controversial extradi...

Bangkok airport , extradition , Hakeem Al Araibi , Thailand

Changes coming for US lawmakers who call Capitol home

By VOA,

The U.S. Capitol is the most recognizable workplace in the country, and for an estimated 80 to 100 lawmakers, it’s also the place they literally cal...

US Lawmakers

From Kibera slums to sevens, Kenya rugby Lionesses defy odds

By CNN,

Kibera slum in Nairobi seems an unlikely place to find an international athlete, but for Kenya rugby sevens star Diana Awino it's the place she calls ...

Kenya Rugby Sevens , Kibera slums

Cannabis craze weeds out junior mining field

By Reuters,

A boom in cannabis investment is siphoning capital away from mining and hitting junior miners hardest, forcing them to up their game and potentially i...

cannabis , cape town , Zimbabwe

Kenya’s ambulance ‘Uber’ at heart of siege rescue

By Reuters,

Just minutes after militants attacked a luxury hotel complex in Nairobi last month, the first ambulances roared up to collect wounded survivors. Sp...

Al Shabaab , Flare , riverside attack , terrorism , Westgate terror attack.

Wife of jailed Bahraini footballer begs Thai PM for his release

By Reuters,

The wife of jailed Bahraini footballer Hakeem Al Araibi pleaded with Thailand’s prime minister on Wednesday to ensure he is not extradited to his na...

Bahraini , Footballer

Vale says it will sacrifice output for dam safety in Brazil

By Olivia Gatwiri,

Vale SA, the world’s largest iron ore miner, vowed to sacrifice production for safety to avoid another instance of the tailings dam failures that ha...

U.S. charges China’s Huawei over alleged Iran sanctions violations

By Reuters,

The United States on Monday announced criminal charges against China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, escalating a fight with the world’s biggest tel...

china , Huawei

Angola to hold first diamond auction

By Reuters,

Angola is planning to hold its first diamond auction this week, inviting around 35 companies to bid for seven stones as the world’s fifth largest pr...

Angola , auction , Diamantino Azevedo , Diamonds

Australia joins growing support for Venezuela’s Guaido

By Reuters,

Australia on Monday joined other Western nations in backing Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s interim president until fre...

Australia , Juan Guaido , President Nicolas Maduro , Venezuela

Wamalwa family property tussle deepens

By Sam Ogina,

The property tussle over former Vice President Micheal Kijana Wamalwa's assets continues to deepen. A second group of siblings has merged, dismissi...

Eugene Wamalwa , Inheritance , Kijana Wamalwa

Chinese movie star pleads not guilty to sexual assault in Australia

By Reuters,

Chinese movie actor Gao Yunxiang and a producer pleaded not guilty in an Australian court on Friday to charges of sexual assault, setting the course f...

chinese , Gao Yunxiang

Melbourne, Australia, set to roast on hottest day in decade

By VOA,

(VOA) Tens of thousands of Melbourne homes and businesses lost power Friday as air-conditioners taxed the power supply on what was forecast to be the ...

Australia , Hottest day in decade , Melbourne

After 200 years, remains of explorer Matthew Flinders found

By CNN,

The remains of Matthew Flinders, the British explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate Australia, have been found under a London train s...

Matthew Flinders

Indonesia to release suspected Bali bomb mastermind Bashir from prison

By Reuters,

Abu Bakar Bashir, the radical Muslim cleric and alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings, will be granted early release from jail on humanitarian ...

Aiia Maarsarwe: Arrest made in connection with killing of Israeli student in Melbourne

By CNN,

Police have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with the killing of Israeli exchange student Aiia Maasarwe in Melbourne, Australia, authorities s...

Aiia Maarsarwe , Israeli student

Israeli student killed in ‘horrendous attack’ in Australia: police

By Reuters,

An Israeli woman  was killed in the Australian city of Melbourne. She had been on the telephone talking to her sister when she was followed from publ...

Australia , israeli , killed , Melbourne , woman