Concerned with the possibility that the Chinese government could swipe American intellectual property through its dealings with Google and use it to advanced its military, US Joint Chiefs Chairman General Joseph Dunford said Thursday that he will be addressing the matter at a meeting with executives from the tech company next week. Speaking at an Atlantic Council event in Washington, DC, Dunford …

The Russian presidency said that US President Donald Trump’s statements on the occupied Syrian Golan may destabilize situation in the Middle East. Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Piskov said in a press statement quoted by Tass  on Friday “Such calls may considerably destabilize the already strained situation in the Middle East,” he said. “In any case the idea as such by no …

Syria has stressed that the US administration does not have any right or mandate to decide the fate of the occupied Syrian Golan, and that any recognition by it or any action involving aggression against Syria’s right to regain it to its sovereignty is illegal act and has no effect. That came in the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry’s two letters …

The grace and poise of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has comforted us all. Her courage and composure have captured world attention. Apparently, one male commentator quipped that we should be thanking her speech writer. But her eloquence, let alone her compassion, are not at someone’s artful direction. What we have seen is instinctive grief and empathy for her people. How …

Australia is urgently reviewing travel advice for Turkey weeks before Anzac Day celebrations after President Tayyip Erdogan warned Australians can expect to come home “in caskets” if there is a repeat of the Christchurch massacre. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday he had demanded Turkey remove false claims about Australia and the New Zealand terrorist attacks from its state-sponsored television …

An Australian is among those who have been arrested after 49 people were killed and dozens more injured in terrorist shooting attacks at two Christchurch mosques. At least one gunman with a semi-automatic weapon massacred worshippers gathered for Friday prayers in two locations: a mosque at Deans Avenue in central Christchurch and another mosque in the nearby suburb of Linwood. …

The Ethiopian crash on Sunday killed 157 people, and was the second disaster involving the Boeing 737 MAX 8 in less than five months. In October, the unexplained crash of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 in Indonesia killed 189 people. The world’s biggest plane maker is facing its most serious crisis in years, as the decades-old 737 series, a plane …

Domestic violence prevention programs will get a $328 million funding boost from the federal government as part of an ongoing national strategy to curb violence toward women. The package includes $82 million for frontline services, $68 million for prevention strategies and $78 million for safe places for family violence victims. “This is about changing attitudes to violence, and helping those …

In the end, he was just an elderly, grey-faced man in the dock. Not a prince of the church, not a cardinal, but a man convicted of and sentenced for terrible crimes against children. A man who once flew first class will celebrate his 78th birthday in prison, and at the very least, his 79th, 80th and 81st. A large …

Malcolm Turnbull has slammed Tony Abbott’s suggestion that Australia should reinvest in coal power, labelling the idea “ideology and innumerate idiocy”. Mr Turnbull’s blunt intervention adds fuel to the heated debate on energy policy between the former prime ministers, which reignited on Friday when Mr Abbott said he had reversed his recent view that Australia should withdraw from the Paris …