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Foreign Minister Penny Wong ordered the Israeli ambassador, Hillel Newman, to be called into the department over a video ...

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Rich countries have been burning through oil stockpiles and seeking other suppliers to avoid the global energy crunch. But ...

Targeted killings can disrupt an adversary, but they rarely lead to collapse — especially when the target is a nation-state ...

Key features of the famous monument defend it from earthquakes – but we can’t know if that’s what the builders had in mind.

The job of leading the country has undoubtedly grown more challenging in the past quarter century. But much of that has been ...