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Papua New Guinea to impose ‘harsh control measures’ as Covid outbreak spirals
Month-long restrictions to come into force as officials warn virus could rip through PNG’s fragile health syst…
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Twitter suspends hundreds of Indian accounts after government demand
Government claimed accounts of news sites, actors and activists sought to foment violence amid farmer protests…
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China says video shows self-declared spy Wang Liqiang confessing to fraud
State-run media says defector who alleged Chinese interference in Australia is ‘spouting nonsense’Chinese stat…
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Sydney woman Maria Exposto has drug conviction and death sentence overturned in Malaysia
Exposto was initially found to be an unwitting drug mule, but prosecutors appealed and she was sentenced to de…
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Australia to join major Asia-Pacific trade deal RCEP but India holds out
Scott Morrison says 15-country Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership would be ‘bigger and better’ with I…
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West Papua students ‘killed by militias’ as video of soldiers firing on crowds emerges
Three students believed killed in dormitories on Sunday, as video emerges of last week’s clashes in which sold…
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Up to seven dead in West Papua as protest turns violent
At least one Indonesian soldier and six civilians have been reportedly killed in the restive region Up to six …
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Protesters set fire to parliament building in West Papua as tensions mount
Spark for the latest unrest related to simmering separatist movement appears to have been detention of scores …