Hundreds of millions of dollars in tax refunds could be paid to British and other holiday makers who have worked in Australia since the beginning of 2017 after a controversial backpacker tax was struck down in court. The tax on working […]
Norway said it has discovered 10 submarines of the Russian northern fleet heading toward the Atlantic Ocean in the biggest such operation since the Cold War. The deployment began just before Russia’s foreign minister and the commander of the northern […]
Chile’s president Sebastian Pinera has cancelled the APEC trade summit and pulled out of hosting a major environment conference as his embattled government struggles to handle more than a week of volatile unrest. Mr Pinera made the announcement on Wednesday […]
Elon Musk will go on trial in December for defamation after calling a British caver who rescued a group of trapped Thai children “a pedo guy”. Vernon Unsworth, a British expat living in Thailand, masterminded the rescue of 12 members […]
Hundreds of koalas are feared to have burned to death in an out-of-control bushfire on Australia’s east coast, wildlife authorities said Wednesday. A bushfire believed to have been sparked by a lightning strike on Saturday some 248 miles north of Sydney […]
The head of a Chinese language and cultural institute at a Brussels university has been banned from Belgium after security services accused him of being a spy. Xinning Song, 65, was also barred from the EU’s passport-free Schengen zone for […]
The Thai royal palace has been struck by another wave of intrigue after King Maha Vajiralongkorn fired four more officials, including two bedroom guards for “extremely evil conduct” and “adultery.” The sacking of the aides, along with two further palace […]
Brazil’s far-Right president Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday furiously denied any link to the assassination of a left-wing politician last year in an emotional live broadcast on Facebook. Click Here: France Football Shop “They’re trying to link me [to the execution], it’s […]
Lebanon’s prime minister resigned on Tuesday following nearly a fortnight of unprecedented protests against a ruling elite demonstrators say has dragged the country to economic collapse. Saad Hariri admitted yesterday that he had run out of options and was stepping […]
Australia’s Uluru closed to climbers on Friday after a decades-long battle by the Indigenous owners of the sacred site. Thousands of people swarmed to Uluru this year before an official ban kicked in. Anyone now caught climbing Uluru will be […]