SYDNEY - The brother of Australia Test cricketer Usman Khawaja was charged by police Tuesday with framing a love rival for a “hit list” that sparked a major counterterrorism investigation. Arsalan Khawaja, 39, was released on bail after appearing in a Sydney court on charges of forgery and ...

SYDNEY - Australia is considering moving its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Tuesday, following the lead of US President Donald Trump. Morrison called a press conference to say he was "open-minded" to proposals to formally recognise Jerusalem ...

SYDNEY - Scott Morrison was sworn in as Australia’s seventh prime minister in 11 years Friday after a stunning party revolt against Malcolm Turnbull, which the new leader admitted had left the government "bruised and battered". Former home affairs minister Peter Dutton, an ex-police officer ...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and all major political parties on Wednesday condemned a speech by a minor senator who used the term “final solution” in calling for a revival of a “White Australia” restrictive immigration policy. In one of the most divisive ...

JERUSALEM - Drumming up international support for his call to "fix" or "nix" the Iran nuclear deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reached out to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to update him on the recent developments and seek his support. A statement from Netanyahu's media ...

SEOUL: North Korea’s state news agency on Saturday called the inter-Korean summit a turning point for the Korean peninsula, while US President Donald Trump said he would maintain sanctions pressure on Pyongyang ahead of his own unprecedented meeting with Kim Jong Un. The North’s KCNA ...

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump has taken a big U turn and said the United States would only join the Trans Pacific Partnership, a multinational trade deal his administration walked away from last year, if it offered "substantially better" terms than those provided under ...

Australia’s prime minister said Southeast Asian leaders were using their meeting Sunday to discuss the “deadly threat” posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Australia is hosting a two-day summit in Sydney of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ...

HONG KONG: Countries in Europe and other parts of the world are reportedly offering resistance to China's One Belt One Road (OBOR) project. According to a chinascope.org report, countries like Germany and France see OBOR as an initiative that could result in a struggle between democracy ...

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump rolled out sanctions against North Korea-linked shipping assets Friday, hailing the package as the “heaviest sanctions ever” levied on the Pyongyang regime. Trump used a speech to conservatives just outside Washington to step up his campaign of ...