Oceania

A member of the public has his picture taken after receiving a Pfizer jab at a Covid mass vaccination clinic in Midland, an eastern suburb of Perth, Australia Western Australia,…

A surfer carries his board into the water next to a sign declaring a shark sighting on Sydney’s Manly Beach A shark killed a swimmer off a Sydney beach on…

Healthcare workers wait for the next vehicle at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing clinic as the Omicron coronavirus variant continues to spread in Sydney Australia suffered its deadliest day of…

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Crisis Response Team Liaison Officer, Timothy Church, checks the pallets of humanitarian aid supplies embarked onboard HMAS Adelaide as the ship sails to support…

A satellite image shows the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano before its main eruption Telephone links between Tonga and the wider world began to be reconnected on Wednesday, though restoring full…

Satellite images capture the moment the giant underwater volcano erupts An underwater volcano off Tonga erupted on Saturday, triggering a tsunami warning for several South Pacific island nations, with footage…

People queue at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing clinic as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to spread in Sydney, Australia, December 30, 2021. REUTERS/Nikki Short NO RESALES. NO…

FILE PHOTO: French President Emmanuel Macron, wearing a protective face mask, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, December 10, 2021. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File Photo The French territory of New Caledonia…

New Zealand plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world’s toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry, arguing that other efforts to…

The new Omicron coronavirus variant kept spreading around the world on Sunday, with two cases detected in Australia, even as more countries tried to seal themselves off by imposing travel…