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A worker stands besides a road sign in Melbourne on July 21, 2020. (AFP)World
New restrictions coming for Australia-'s Victoria state

Face masks will become compulsory from Thursday for residents in lockdown regions when they leave their homes

21 July 2020 12:28 PM IST

People wearing face masks cross the normally busy Burke Street Mall in Melbourne on July 20, 2020. (AFP)World
Australia warns coronavirus outbreak will take weeks to tame

Australia has recorded about 11,800 coronavirus cases with a death toll of 123, a fraction of what has been seen in...

20 July 2020 1:12 PM IST

The quake struck about 12.50pm local time at a depth of 85 km (52 miles), according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and struck offshore 18 kms (11 miles) east-southeast of Wau.(Representational Image: AFP)World
Quake of magnitude 7 hits Papua New Guinea

A warning for “hazardous tsunami waves” was issued briefly for coastal regions but later it was announced that the...

17 July 2020 1:53 PM IST

Earlier this year New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern accused Australia of sending back people who were not \genuine Kiwis\. (Representational Image: AP)World
Australia deports New Zealanders despite virus travel ban

Since 2014 nearly 3,000 New Zealanders in Australia have had their visas cancelled ‘on character grounds’

16 July 2020 4:09 PM IST

File image made from video, Brenton Harrison Tarrant appears in a screen via video link in Christchurch, New Zealand. (via AP)World
New Zealand mosque gunman to represent himself at sentencing

The Christchurch mosque shootings were a shock to the world, which prompted immediate action for stricter gun laws in...

13 July 2020 8:52 AM IST

Police stand outside public housing towers that are a hotspot for COVID-19 in Melbourne Friday, July 10. (AP)World
Australia cuts citizen returns as virus surge worsens

Some five million residents of greater Melbourne were ordered into a six-week lockdown this week in an effort to curb a...

10 July 2020 10:55 AM IST

Workers take off a curtain after attend an opening ceremony for Chinas new Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong. (AP)World
Australia extends visas for Hong Kongers in response to China’s...

Countries like Canada and Britain too looking at options to accommodate Hong Kong residents fleeing the country

9 July 2020 12:05 PM IST

A police officer directs traffic at a roadblock in suburban Melbourne, Australia. (AP)World
Australia closes state border for first time in 100 years

Victoria, Australia-'s most populous state, will be closed off from the rest of the country, and its 6.6 million...

6 July 2020 9:39 AM IST

People maintain physical distances as thousands gather at a rally supporting the Black Lives Matter and Black Deaths in Custody movements in Sydney. (AP)World
Weekend-long protests in Australia to support Black Lives Matter...

An ancient Aboriginal smoking ceremony took place as families of those who have lost relatives while in police custody...

5 July 2020 2:51 PM IST

A member of the Australian Defence Force carries a batch of swab samples taken from members of the public at a drive-through COVID-19 coronavirus testing station in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner on July 2, 2020. (AFP)World
Thanks to conspiracy theories, Australians are refusing to test for...

Health officials in southern state of Victoria pled with the public to get themselves tested and to ignore...

3 July 2020 12:38 PM IST

Protesters chant slogans and gesture during a rally against a new national security law in Hong Kong on July 1, 2020, on the 23rd anniversary of the citys handover from Britain to China. (AFP)World
Australia considering to provide -'safe haven-' for Hong Kongers

China’s parliament passed the controversial national security law for Hong Kong on Tuesday against disapproval from...

2 July 2020 10:39 AM IST

New Zealand Health Minister David Clark, center, flanked by Cabinet colleagues Grant Robertson, left, and Kris Faafoi arrives at a press conference where he announced his resignationat parliament in Wellington, New Zealand Thursday, July 2, 2020. (AP)World
New Zealand-'s health minister resigns over virus blunders

-'It is essential our health leadership has the confidence of the New Zealand public,-' PM Jacinda Ardern said in a...

2 July 2020 8:50 AM IST

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