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Russia is planning to exploit trade tensions between Australia and China to move large quantities of its low-quality coal into the Chinese market and the rest of Asia. Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with industry executives and government officials to discuss plans for drastically increasing coal export to Asia by up to 30 […]

Anzac day will see a return of the veterans marching through the streets of Sydney, with the New South Wales government and NSW Police reaching an agreement with the Returned Soldiers League (RSL) to allow the parade. The annual event, which celebrates Australia’s former and serving defence forces, was cancelled last year due to restrictions

NEW YORK—Buzzfeed announced Tuesday that it has laid off 45 reporters, editors and producers from the newly acquired HuffPost. HuffPost Executive Editor Hillary Frey, the website’s executive editor, and Executive Editor Louise Roug also resigned over the layoffs, Buzzfeed said. The dismissals come just three weeks after Buzzfeed acquired HuffPost, the media outlet founded in

In late 2019, Dennis Gillan gave a TEDx talk about the loneliness epidemic, and right before February 2020, it was published online. “It was so bizarre,” said Gillan, a public speaker, suicide prevention advocate, and executive director of the Half A Sorrow Foundation, as in the Swedish proverb he likes to share: “A shared joy is

Do you wonder where you spent your hours at the end of each day? Do you wish you focused more on your priorities or had just a bit more fun? You can—by designing the day you want to have tomorrow. I’m not suggesting you kid yourself into believing you’re in complete control of what may

Michael Hingson has been blind his entire life but is a prime example of someone who isn’t defined or hindered by his inability to see. His confidence and the lessons he learned from his first guide dog would help him excel professionally—and even survive a terrorist attack on 9/11. Hingson, 70, who lives in Victorville,

Melbourne, Australia—Australian scientists are working on a new treatment that could potentially restore hearing for the millions of Australians who lose it within their lifetime. Although one in six Australians experience hearing loss, there is no drug treatment currently available. This figure will is predicted to rise to one in four by 2050, with the

KAMPALA, Uganda—Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine is calling for peaceful protests in the aftermath of presidential elections, charging that electoral authorities are “grappling with forged results” that showed a victory for President Yoweri Museveni. Wine, a singer and lawmaker whose real name is Kyagulanyi Sentamu, spoke on Tuesday, the day after police warned in a

Disputing claims by the Biden administration about the situation at the southern border, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday that the situation has developed into a crisis. “There is a crisis on the Texas border right now, with the overwhelming number of people who are coming across the border,” Abbott, a Republican, told reporters in

A 90-year-old in China has been detained by police. She’s been fighting for her rights for more than a decade after her home was torn down by authorities. Some of China’s richest are now behind bars. They were recruited by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and got a little too involved in its internal power