Kenya calls for ivory sales ban as it prepares to burn tusks
Traditional Maasai tribesmen pose for a photograph near elephant tusks, part of an estimated 105 tonnes of confiscated ivory to be set ablaze, stacked onto a pyre at Nairobi National…
Norway helicopter crash: 11 killed, 2 missing
Rescuers work at a site where a helicopter has crashed, west of the Norwegian city of Bergen April 29, 2016. (Photo: Reuters) OSLO – Rescuers in Norway say 11…
New Zealand provides humanitarian aid for Vietnamese province
A woman in Ba Tri District, Ben Tre Province receives clean water under a New Zealand government-funded program. (Photo courtesy of Oxfam) The New Zealand Embassy in Vietnam has…
Vietnam tells Taiwan firm to dig up waste pipe amid “huge” coastal disaster
Vietnam’s National Resources and Environment Minister Tran Hong Ha (C) leaves a meeting on the recent situation of fish kill in Vietnam’s central province, at the ministry’s headquarters in Hanoi,…
Grant Hackett says drink not drugs behind mile high meltdown
Grant Hackett of Australia gestures after setting an Olympic record and winning his men’s 1500m freestyle swimming heat at the National Aquatics Centre during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, August 15,…
Hỏi và giải đáp 169: Nhìn lại quãng đường đã qua
(Thư em X/…) Quý vị và các bạn thân mến, TL trả lời vắn tắt hai lá thư, trước hết là thư của em X, một cô gái sắp…
Nauru refugee who set himself on fire dies in Brisbane hospital
A screenshot from a video of the incident obtained by Fairfax Media. An Iranian man who set himself on fire in protest at conditions of asylum-seekers in the Pacific…
Australia and PNG at loggerheads over fate of asylum seekers
Protesters react as they hold placards and listen to speakers during a rally in support of refugees in central Sydney, October 19, 2015. (Photo: Reuters) SYDNEY – Lawyers for…
Australian foreign aid worker ‘kidnapped’ in Afghanistan
Afghan border police on patrol in Jalalabad. (Photo: Parwiz/ Reuters) Australian officials are trying to confirm reports an Australian female humanitarian worker has been abducted in Afghanistan. According to…
Former Lib senator’s SA property first pick for nation’s nuclear dump
Barndioota property has been pinpointed for a proposed nuclear waste dump. (Photo: Reuters/Christian Charisius) A remote South Australian cattle station part owned by former Liberal senator Grant Chapman has been…
