投稿者: Ben Doherty
With the Taliban now in control, large numbers of people have massed at Hamid Karzai airport as foreign embassies evacuateTaliban spokesman claims ‘war is over’ – latest updatesThousands of Afghans and foreign nationals have surged on to the tarmac at …
A group of 40 graduates of Australian universities, who consider Australia ‘their second home’, fear being murdered by a rampant Taliban for their connection to a liberal democracyA group of 40 Australian-educated Afghan nationals has written to Austra…
Exclusive: Hazara man faces potential deportation after home affairs told him a document it asked him to obtain for his citizenship application could not be verifiedA permanent resident of Australia – an Afghan refugee who has lived in Brisbane for a d…
Man being held in Melbourne hotel fears for his wife and four children as Taliban advance Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe Australian home affairs minister has been ordered into mediation with an Afghan refugee who assisted coal…
Even by the standards of this extraordinary cases, this was a remarkable weekAfter two full days giving evidence Mohammed Hanifa Fatih was formally excused.But he wasn’t yet finished. Continue reading…
Gifted as a cub by a Maharajah to a young British boy, Singh lived at a house in Surrey before outgrowing his home and being driven in a black cab to the zoo. Now his story has been made into a book“He was,” London Zoo said, “one of the zoo’s politest …
As coalition troops prepare to withdraw from Afghanistan after 20 years, former soldiers, key officers and the public are asking what went wrong with some special forces “Whatever we do … ,” one Australian special forces soldier said of his service in …
Australian writer says he fears hidden cameras captured forced confessions during interrogationsYang Hengjun, the Australian writer facing espionage charges in China, told his secret trial in Beijing he is “100% innocent” but he has said he was torture…
Guards say their work for Australia has made them and their families targets for retributionThe Taliban have publicly threatened Afghan security guards who have worked for the soon-to-be-shut Australian embassy, circulating pictures of them online and …
Experts’ group calls for ‘three cuts’ strategy against junta over deadly crackdowns as Canberra accused of dragging feetThe Myanmar military is a “terrorist group” that should be brought before the international criminal court, and funds flowing to it …
Yang Hengjun: Australian writer held in China for almost two years officially charged with espionage
Move paves way for Yang, who was arrested in January 2019, to face trial in ChinaAn Australian writer who has been detained by Beijing for more than 20 months has been charged with espionage by Chinese authorities.Sources with knowledge of the case tol…
The writer and democracy activist has denied Chinese reports he confessed to espionageAn Australian writer who has been detained by Chinese authorities for more than 19 months has revealed he’s been interrogated more than 300 times and taken to meeting…
Exclusive: Journalist who became the voice of the victims of Australia’s punitive detention system granted a visa after seven-year ordeal Behrouz Boochani, the Kurdish Iranian exile and journalist who became the voice of those incarcerated on Manus Isl…
Exclusive: International Federation of Journalists finds tours, control of infrastructure and provision of pro-China content part of escalating campaignChina is attempting to use journalists from non-English speaking countries to promote its policies b…
Locals say the Sepik river region must be protected from ‘exploitation and destruction from outsiders’Chiefs from 28 haus tambarans – “spirit houses” – representing 78,000 people along Papua New Guinea’s remote Sepik river have formally declared they w…