Putin: Russia suspends INF nuclear deal with U.S.
President Vladimir Putin announced on Saturday that Russia has suspended the Cold War-era Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty after a similar move by the United States. [...]
International News
Germany: Man drives through crowd in deliberate attack on foreigners
Western German: A 50-year-old man has ploughed his car into a crowd of people, injuring at least four. Authorities say it was an intentional attack on foreigners. Those [...]
Hidden women of history: Lydia Chukovskaya, editor, writer, heroic friend
Judith Armstrong, University of Melbourne The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova is too tragic and striking a figure ever to be forgotten. A famous portrait depicts her in a [...]
Former US President Bush Snr dies
He was the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Prior to assuming the presidency, Bush served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to [...]
FactCheck: have the Trump tax cuts led to lower unemployment and higher wages? No it hasn’t
Fabrizio Carmignani, Griffith University The evidence on the ground is very clear. The Trump tax cuts have led to stronger investment, stronger growth, lower unemployment [...]
New Zealand: Slow rollout of PrEP could risk more HIV infections
New Zealand became one of the first countries in the world to publicly fund PrEP (a daily pre-exposure pill that prevents HIV) in February 2018. Researchers say PrEP can help [...]
Guns do kill people – around 200,000 each year
Around the world there were an estimated 195,000 to 276,000 firearm deaths in 2016, the majority of them homicides, but firearm deaths in Australia have dropped since 1990, [...]
USA: Just how educated are Americans?
Dora Mekouar For the first time ever, 90 percent of Americans over the age of 25 have finished high school, and more than one-third of Americans over the age of 25 has a [...]
Friend of Australia Senator John McCain has died 81
John McCain has died of brain cancer at 81 a day after halting treatment. He was Once a prisoner of war, he made two bids for president and was a towering presence in the [...]
USA: Trump Cuts More Than $200 Million in Aid to Palestinians
The Trump administration has cut more than $200 million in economic aid to the Palestinians. Administration officials said Friday the decision was made after a review of the [...]
