An asylum-seeker swap deal with Malaysia is expected to be finalized in the coming weeks while Jakarta discarded a similar deal with Indonesia by the federal government.
After several months of calling for U.S. government action to sanction Venezuela's state run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) for doing business with Iran, Chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Connie Mack (FL-14) welcomed the State Department's decision to finally sanction Venezuela's state-owned oil corporation today by stating:
The Greens call to ban new coal mines is receiving much criticism, with the Institute of Public Affairs labeling this move ‘catastrophic’.
Tens of thousands of children are sexually abused each year in the United States, yet news coverage of the subject is out of sync with both the magnitude of the issue and the context in which it occurs. This finding comes from a study released this month from Berkeley Media Studies Group, a project of the Public Health Institute. The report, Case by Case: News coverage of child sexual abuse, examined national news stories on child sexual abuse published between 2007 and 2009. Fewer than one stor...
NASA is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated on March 22, 2010.
China's economic growth is seen hitting a lower target of 9.4 percent, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in its latest note to clients Tuesday as Premier Wen Jiabao's efforts to curb rising inflation will impact on domestic growth.
Although the NSW Government’s solar power decision today may anger many households, it will save more than 5000 jobs in this vital industry, according to the Clean Energy Council.
Despite the death of another Australian in Afghanistan war, Prime Minister Julia Gillard restated the country’s commitment to stay in the distance.
The legislation was once again asked by Opposition Leader Eric Ripper to guarantee that the major resource projects are being taken care of local companies.
West Australian Premier Colin Barnett gets even with Wayne Swan by announcing that the Gillard administration had previous knowledge over his plans to raise an extra $2 billion in last week's budget. This after the latter had attacked the former regarding his increases in minor royalty.
Bahrain has released 515 detainees since the State of National Safety was declared in March, according to Gulf Daily News. Bahrain also announced the daily curfew has also been lifted.
A support withdrawal from NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell is expected from the minor party MPS upon his proposal cut down solar panels incentive scheme that upsurged in cost from $355 million to $1.9 billion.
The much hyped and much ridiculed end-of-days prophesy ended in wild parties across the globe on Saturday leaving Radio entrepreneur Harold Camping and his followers humiliated.
Rising bills continue to plague consumers in New South Wales and Queensland as two government-owned electricity networks charge almost twice as much as privately owned operators in Victoria.
Leaders of China, Japan, and South Korea agreed on weekend to facilitate joint programs on renewable energy and energy conservation to avoid excessive dependence on nuclear energy even as they recognize nuclear power as a very important option for many countries.
NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell offers to implement the solar rebate cut starting from 50 or 55 cents and gradually falling in succeeding months to attain the proposed 20 cents reduction.
With Trevor Manuel arising as South’s candidate for the chief position at International Monetary Fund or IMF, Australia and South Africa demand for change in convention.
Taking the right precautions may be especially important this year. After a 2010 hurricane season that produced intense storm and hurricane activity but no direct hit on the U.S. coastline, forecasters at Weather Services International recently predicted two or three hurricanes could come ashore in 2011. Their forecast calls for 15 named storms, eight hurricanes and four intense hurricanes of category 3 or stronger this year.
If there is one thing certain about newly resigned IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s future, it is that he will not be poor the rest of his life.
The Environment Protection Agency or EPA has approved a new coal-fired power plant, which will use gas from brown coal and natural gas to produce electricity, in eastern Victoria.
Western Australia Premier Colin Barnett laughed at the caution posed by the federal government that it will lose funding for major projects after using its budget to lift royalty rates.
As the government plans to enforce a two-tier policy to stop boats carrying asylum-seekers, the opposition says asylum-seekers are now in a “twilight zone” on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, with a distant chance to resettle in Australia.
At least 35 construction workers have been killed and 20 others wounded when Taliban insurgents ambushed their convoy in eastern Afghanistan in the latest attack by the al-Qaeda-linked bandits.
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday said it has expelled Israeli's military attaché in Moscow on allegations the officer were spying and was gathering intelligence against Russia.
A team of visa specialists have launched the website, www.australianoworries.com, to assist young Americans navigate the Australian Work and Holiday Visa, introduced in only 2008.
Preventive capacity building and partnerships across all sectors against the threat of radiological and nuclear terrorism is the focus of the INTERPOL Global Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism Prevention Conference in Lyon this week.
President Obama's attempt today to link the stalled Palestinian-Israel negotiations to social and economic progress in the Arab world will unnecessarily increase tensions between Washington and Jerusalem, said JINSA Executive Director Tom Neumann. Furthermore, Neumann said, it is a distraction from continued work needed to strengthen the international isolation of Iran and to fight against radical Islamism, in which Israel is a vital partner.
Amidst mounting pressures, beleaguered International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Dominique Strauss-Khan resigned on Thursday but insists he was innocent of the sexual assault accusations hurled against him.
It's the end of the world according to Christian evangalist Harold Camping and his Family Radio group. So what better way to meet the end of days by partying 'till you drop. And organizers of Saturday's party mean it almost literally.
Cross benchers in the NSW upper house will block the O’Farrell government’s proposed retrospective legislation that would see existing feed in tariff contracts torn up for 120,000 customers.
