Australia

(Reuters) - New Zealand on Thursday said it will ban young people from buying cigarettes for life, one of the...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - COVID-19 infections have been spreading in pubs and clubs in Australia's biggest city, including three new cases...

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - One of the most prolific Russian-speaking ransomware gangs has claimed credit for a...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has tested positive for COVID-19 in Washington, DC while on an...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's defence forces warned on Wednesday of the security threat from an increasingly powerful China as...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian government officials will not attend the Winter Olympics to be held in Beijing next year, Prime Minister...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - China's Uyghur Muslim ethnic group, which has a wide presence in Turkey, welcomed a U.S. boycott of...

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare on Monday survived a no-confidence motion in parliament after...

By Colin Packham CANBERRA (Reuters) - A chaotic parliament session has left Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison seeking a reset...

By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The Omicron coronavirus variant spread in Australia on Saturday, testing plans to reopen the...

By Colin Packham CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's prime minister, Scott Morrison, said on Thursday he had asked the country's minister...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's tally of people with the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 edged higher on Thursday, prompting state...

By Promit Mukherjee and Trevor Hunnicutt JOHANNESBURG/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Heavily mutated Omicron is rapidly becoming the dominant variant of the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and the European Union are expected to issue a "robust" joint statement from a...

(Reuters) - Air travellers to the United States will face tougher COVID-19 testing rules to try to slow the spread...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Leaders from Pacific islands threatened by rising sea levels said they were disappointed with the Glasgow climate...

(Reuters) - The civil unrest suffered by the Solomon Islands in the past week raised alarm among leaders of other...

(Corrects typographical error in second paragraph) By Colin Packham CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison will on Wednesday...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities on Wednesday flagged another probable case of the Omicron variant in Sydney as they braced...

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - China is conducting "dramatic economic warfare" against Australia and has tried to "break" the...