As Australia grapples with an ongoing toilet paper crisis, fears are growing of a worst-case scenario: Our supermarkets completely run out of rolls. Given most of our toilet paper is made by reliable suppliers in South Australia, this outcome is very unlikely to happen. But as the coronavirus claims more lives around the world, people are desperate to make sure …

But the psychological impact of surviving the virus that has claimed the lives of those around him is taking a greater toll than the physical effects of the illness itself. The spread of COVID-19 has been rapid. At the time of writing, there were more than 113,000 cases of coronavirus worldwide — the vast majority concentrated in China’s Hubei province …

Syria’s permanent representative to the UN, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari said on Friday that Syria fights terrorism on its territories and will continue to confront the Turkish aggression, protect its citizens, defend its unity and adhere to its sovereignty and national independent decision. Al-Jaafari, speaking at a UN Security council emergency session on the situation in Idleb, called on the international …

Washington, SANA-US Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has affirmed that the Turkish regime headed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been supporting Daesh (ISIS) and al-Qaeda from behind the scenes for long years, and now it has been forced to show this role which it has played against the Syrian Government form years ago. In a video published on her …

The global outbreak alert for coronavirus has been raised to its highest level amid increasing fears of a pandemic and new cases confirmed in six countries. Mexico announced its first two cases of the deadly respiratory illness as coronavirus took hold in the highly populated Latin American region and officials confirmed a growing number of discharged patients testing positive again …

Refugees in Turkey are headed towards European frontiers after the borders had been thrown open, a response to the escalating war in Syria where 33 Turkish soldiers were killed by Russian-backed Syrian government troops. Moscow and Ankara traded blame over Thursday’s strike in northwest Syria, the deadliest attack on Turkish forces in nearly 30 years. The UN Security Council called an …

Motorists in NSW could face hefty fines if they’re caught by hidden cameras using mobile phones when driving from Sunday. A three-month grace period for mobile phone detection cameras was slated to end this weekend – with drivers set to lose five demerit points and a $344 fine, or a $457 fine if caught in a school zone. However, Transport for New …

Sometimes, things just keep coming back to haunt you. That’s particularly the case in politics when even the most innocent remark continues to be thrown back in a pollie’s face. As brutally honest as it was, former prime minister Paul Keating’s quip “the recession Australia had to have” is still bandied about almost three decades down the track. Then there …

Neo-Nazis are emerging as one of Australia’s most challenging security threats, according to the country’s top intelligence chief. ASIO director general Mike Burgess says “small cells” of right-wing extremists are regularly gathering to salute Nazi flags, inspect weapons and to disperse their “hateful ideology”. In a rare public address from inside ASIO’s heavily fortified Canberra headquarters, Mr Burgess said foreign …

A father who murdered his estranged wife and three young children breached a domestic violence order weeks before he committed quadruple murder-suicide. Rowan Baxter was due to face court again on April 8 after a magistrate ruled he was free to walk free in the community during his initial hearing for breaching the order on January 29. On Wednesday morning, Baxter …