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Sep 30, 2026 - World

This blog is now closedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWho is potential Greens deputy leader candidate Steph Hodgins-May?So who is the first-term senator expected to announce a leadership ticket tilt with David Shoebridge?Get your dirty hands off our kids, that is our message to the fossil fuel industry, who have no place in early-learning centres, in schools, or in our cultural institutions in this country.Children should go to school to get evidence-based education, not to be brainwashed by fossil fuel corporations seeking to build social licence. Continue reading...

Sep 30, 2026 - World

Burundi says it will accept migrants deported from the United States, but only those who are not facing criminal charges and have no links to terrorism

Sep 30, 2026 - World

Kuala Lumpur plans to send a total of 5,000 Myanmar nationals back to the war-torn country despite persecution concerns Malaysia began sending back about 1,500 Myanmar nationals on Tuesday, the government confirmed, as it launched a scheme that rights groups say may endanger migrants and asylum seekers by returning them to the war-torn country.The group is the first of 5,000 Myanmar citizens that Kuala Lumpur says agreed to “voluntary” repatriation from detention centres amid a huge uptick in anti-migrant sentiment in Malaysia. Continue reading...

Sep 30, 2026 - World

A huge gray shark named Bukangi has become an honorary mascot in South Korea’s biggest port city

Sep 30, 2026 - World

The head of the company that operates the Eiffel Tower is to step down at the end of the year following a decision to exclude female staff during a visit by a Hindu religious group