Foreign Affairs

Israel intensified its bombardment of Rafah in Gaza's south as the ruined Palestinian enclave's health ministry announced 29,313 deaths in the war so far.

The United States says the United Nation's top court should not order the unconditional withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestinian territories as it considers a request for its opinion on the legality of the occupation.

Lyudmila Navalnaya has been trying to retrieve her son's body since Saturday, following his death in a penal colony in Russia's far north a day earlier.

Kim Jong Un "liked the car, and so the decision was made" to present him with the high-end Aurus Senat for his personal use.

Washington has rejected the latest United Nations Security Council draft resolution on the conflict, blocking a demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.

The family of imprisoned Australian Yang Hengjun reveal he will not appeal his suspended death sentence in China, saying the writer has no faith in the Chinese court system, and that his ill health makes it impossible for him to continue his legal fight. 

The United States has proposed an alternative draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war and opposing a major Israeli ground offensive in Rafah in southern Gaza.

Yulia Navalnaya has accused the Russian president of killing her husband in a video she uploaded to social media.

The military seized power from the government during a coup in 2021 and is struggling to maintain power as it fights off offensives throughout the country.

Mr Navalny's spokeswoman says one of his lawyers was "literally pushed out" of the morgue in Salekhard, as his wife Julia Navalnaya is set to meet European foreign ministers in Brussels to discuss his unexplained death.

ANU Professor and defence expert Hugh White says the AUKUS deal is not something Australia needs, nor is it likely to be successful.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an Arctic penal colony is an "appalling atrocity" and Vladimir Putin is to blame.

The federal government and opposition trade barbs as a group of nearly 40 foreign nationals who arrived by boat to a remote part of WA on Friday is transferred to an offshore detention centre in Nauru.

Experts warn the presumptive new president's personality and questionable past could cause some headaches for Canberra.

The criminal trial against Trump is set to go ahead in March after a judge rejected the former president's bid to have hush-money allegations thrown out. 

Growing doubts about whether President Biden is simply too old to see out a second term are fuelling commentary about whether the first lady could persuade her husband to stand aside.

Indonesians in Australia who voted in this week's presidential elections have expressed scepticism about the provisional results and concerns about the future should the provisional winner, Prabowo Subianto, be officially confirmed as the country's next president.

Protesting Indian farmers clash with police for a second consecutive day as tens of thousands march towards the capital to demand guaranteed prices for their produce.

Opposition politicians in the Solomon Islands are vowing to make public or even scrap a deeply contentious security pact with China if they manage to oust Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in elections this April.

Lawyers for the former president are pushing for the lead prosecutor in the Georgia election interference case to be disqualified amid revelations of a secret affair with a fellow prosecutor.

Ukraine's GUR military intelligence agency published grainy footage on Telegram purporting to show several naval drones approaching a large vessel at night and at least one large explosion.

The 52-year-old WikiLeaks founder is wanted in the US for espionage, and faces 18 charges related to the publication of a range of highly classified information relating to the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Myanmar junta's decision to begin enforcing a conscription law first enacted 14 years ago is an attack on the country's young people, a "pronouncement of psychotic resolve" and likely to have unintended consequences, analysts say.

Australia's Defence Force told the United States two years ago it was unable to help establish a new military task force in the Red Sea region because resources were needed at home and in the Indo-Pacific.

Scott Morrison reveals the covert diplomatic manoeuvres behind the biggest deal of his prime ministership and how he kept it a secret from the man who could torpedo it.