The premier of the Australian state of Victoria announced Saturday plans to enshrine working from home in law, saying it should be “a right, not a request”.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order increasing tariffs on Canadian goods to 35% from 25% on all products not covered by the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, the White House said.

An academic in Australia who was among 19 people that Hong Kong issued bounties for has criticised the “ridiculous” arrest warrants and warned that the region was trying to exert its power beyond its borders.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday convicted a former top Central African Republic football official and a militiaman nicknamed Rambo for multiple war crimes committed during the country’s civil war in 2013 and 2014.

Humans beat generative AI models made by Google and OpenAI at a top international mathematics competition, despite the programmes reaching gold-level scores for the first time.

An armed gang killed at least 40 members of village self-defence groups in a weekend ambush and related attack in Nigeria’s central Plateau state, the Red Cross and residents told AFP yesterday.

Trump's threat on Sunday night came as the US government prepared to finalize dozens of trade deals with a range of countries before his July 9 deadline for the imposition of significant "retaliatory tariffs."

A suicide attack in Nigeria’s Borno state by a woman allegedly acting for Boko Haram insurgents has killed at least 20 anti-jihadist fighters, militia members told AFP on Saturday.

An Australian man was shot dead and another one was wounded in a shooting at their villa on the popular Indonesian resort island of Bali early Saturday, according to police who were hunting for two suspects.

Australia said yesterday it is “very confident” in the future of a US agreement to equip its navy with a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, after the Trump administration put the pact under review.

A gunman killed at least nine people at a secondary school in the southern Austrian city of Graz yesterday, in the worst school shooting in the country’s modern history.

A South African court yesterday opened an inquest into the murders 40 years ago of four anti-apartheid activists by a police hit squad in one of the most notorious atrocities of the apartheid era.

Record floods cut a destructive path through eastern Australia on Friday, caking houses in silt, washing out roads and separating 50,000 people from help.

A polio outbreak has been declared in Papua New Guinea, sparking concern about the disease’s spread in a country with low vaccination rates, health officials said.

A drone strike targeted Sudan's biggest naval base yesterday, an army source told AFP, marking the fourth straight day the seat of the army-backed government has come under attack.

Australia's left-leaning Prime Minister Anthony Albanese basked Sunday in his landslide election win, promising a "disciplined, orderly" government to confront cost-of-living pain and tariff turmoil

Australia’s Anthony Albanese claimed a historic second term as prime minister yesterday in a dramatic comeback against once-resurgent conservatives that was powered by voters’ concerns about the influence of US President Donald Trump.

Millions of Australians voted Saturday in a bitterly contested general election, following a campaign shaped by living costs, climate anxiety and US President Donald Trump's tariffs

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he has a “mountain to climb” in elections today, despite leading the opinion polls, in a contest swayed by living costs and Trump tariffs.

An Australian boatbuilder launched what it described as the world’s largest electric-powered ship yesterday, a 130-metre (426-feet) behemoth capable of carrying 2,100 passengers.