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Visitors look at the Chinese military's KJ-500 airborne early warning and control aircraft during 13th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Airshow China 2021, in Zhuhai in southern China's Guangdong province

Why China’s air force is provoking Taiwan

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China’s military flies a record 149 flights over international airspace, prompting Taiwanese defense forces to scramble in response. Also, Australia announces it will stop sending asylum-seekers for processing to Papua New Guinea by the end of the year. And, Germany agrees to extend compensation to thousands of Holocaust survivors.

In this photo provided by US Navy, the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Illinois (SSN 786) returns home to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam from a deployment in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility

Aukus security pact sparks Chinese and French ire

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stand together at the Capitol

US and Afghan presidents to meet in Washington amid troop withdrawal

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A man victoriously holds up a piece of paper and smiles as other people around him also smile

Climate activists get more strategic with their use of the courts

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Stranded Australian citizens arrive to catch a bus to take a rescue flight from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 1, 2020. Stranded tourists from Australia and New Zealand boarded a chartered flight out of Nepal Wednesday. The Nep

Australians stranded amid the pandemic take their case to the UN

Special Guest: Baz Luhrmann

Arts, Culture & Media

Special Guest: Baz Luhrmann

Design for the Real World: Jay Harman

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When designer Jay Harman comes home from a sailing expedition, he’s got a head full of inventions which he spins into new products — beautiful, efficient designs that mimic nature. He grew up in Australia and spent hours in the ocean watching the way fish move. He envied that ease and decided to copy those […]

360 Staff Pick: Byrne Country

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Composer Andrew Byrne spends most of his time in the U.S., but White Bone Country is about the ferocious, almost abstract deserts of his native Australia. The instrumentation of piano and percussion sounds austere, but — played by crack musicians Stephen Gosling and David Shively — the result is a delirious swoon: somehow lush and […]

Will the Real Ben Frost Please Stand Up?

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There are a lot of people in the world with the same name. I’ve heard that “Mohammed” is the most common first name worldwide, and that the most common surname is “Li” (though I’ve never heard of a Mohammed Li…yet). I’m not sure where “Ben Frost” ranks, but I’m amused by this nomenclature coincidence: Ben […]

A pink sign reading "SOS EVACUATE MANUS" is held up by a protester.

They lived in limbo in Australian offshore camps for years. Now they call the US home.

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The United States and Australia struck a deal back in 2016. The US agreed to accept about 1,200 refugees from Australia’s offshore detention centers. In return, Australia would resettle refugees from Central America.