Politics

Concerns new west Melbourne housing too close to pokies

Concerns new west Melbourne housing too close to pokies

Deer Park residents are worried a plan to build 500 homes on the doorstep of pubs with high poker machine gambling losses will be a "potential social housing disaster".

Carr: FCC ‘looking at a lot of actions’ after Trump urged ‘punishment’ for NBC’s Welker

The Hill

Carr: FCC ‘looking at a lot of actions’ after Trump urged ‘punishment’ for NBC’s Welker

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr on Sunday said he is “looking at a lot of actions” to carry out after President Trump urged that the agency punish NBC News’s Kristen Welker. Carr appeared on Fox News’s “The…

The Hill

RNZ

Coalition returned to government in new poll, as Opportunity loses kingmaker spot

The coalition government would be returned to power based on the results of a new poll, with Opportunity unable to breach the threshold.

RNZ

War is likely to drag on into winter according to Zelenskyy following talks with US envoys

Euronews

War is likely to drag on into winter according to Zelenskyy following talks with US envoys

Following talks in Kyiv with US envoys, Zelenskyy said, "We very much hope that we will be able to reach agreements with our American partners, and we are counting on the support of our European partners if the war continues in winter…

Euronews

Jonathan bids farewell to ex-Sierra Leone President after 2 years in Nigeria

Daily Trust

Jonathan bids farewell to ex-Sierra Leone President after 2 years in Nigeria

Former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Sunday, saw off ex-Sierra Leone President, Ernest Bai Koroma, who returned to his country after spending more than two years in Nigeria. Koroma fled his country for Nigeria in January 2024 after being…

Daily Trust

Zelensky warns war likely to continue into winter after US talks

Straits Times

Zelensky warns war likely to continue into winter after US talks

US envoy Steve Witkoff and Zelensky both gave upbeat assessments of the talks, but neither announced any breakthroughs.

Straits Times

Far-right party wins a German state election for the first time since WWII

Far-right party wins a German state election for the first time since WWII

Germany's far-right party AfD becomes the largest party in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the first far-right win in Germany since World War II.

Deutsche Welle

Germany set to feel the impact of Saxony-Anhalt's AfD win

The state election could have major consequences for Germany's government. Pollsters cite dissatisfaction with Merz as one reason for the CDU's poor showing.

Deutsche Welle

TASS

Kushner describers meeting with Putin as ‘constructive and substantive’

The American leader's son-in-law noted that "many ideas" were discussed with the Russian president

TASS

Trump weighs declaring protracted war over, but Iran has other plans

Trump weighs declaring protracted war over, but Iran has other plans

The Iran war is showing signs it could drag on into next year as Iran seemingly looks to prolong Donald Trump's political pain for as long as possible.

Why is Argentina reviving the Falklands dispute?

Al Jazeera

Why is Argentina reviving the Falklands dispute?

More than 44 years after Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falkland Islands, Argentina is reasserting its claim

Al Jazeera

IDF conducts snap drill testing readiness for ‘sudden, complex, multifront’ scenario

Times of Israel