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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 …

Police officers in protective face masks patrol a public transit station in the city centre during lockdown Australia’s largest city of Sydney will further ease social distancing curbs on Monday, …

A member of the public receives a Pfizer vaccine New Zealand’s 206 new daily community infections on Saturday carried it past the double-hundred mark for the first time during the …

Cleo Smith and her mother Ellie Smith leave a house where the girl spent her first night after being rescued in Carnarvon, Australia, November 4, 2021. AAP/Richard Wainwright via REUTERS …

Bodycam footage shows a man speaking to 4-year-old Cleo Smith, who went missing from an Australian outback campsite more than two weeks ago and was found in a locked house …

File photo: President Emmanuel Macron inspects French nuclear submarine ‘Suffren’ EPA-EFE/LUDOVIC MARIN French President Emmanuel Macron said Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison lied to him over the cancellation of a …

Diners eat outside St Kilda’s Rococo restaurant in Melbourne Melbourne, Australia’s second-biggest city, began its first weekend out of the world’s longest string of Covid-19 lockdowns with spontaneous street parties, …

Britain and New Zealand have reached agreement in principle on a free trade deal designed to reduce tariffs, improve services trade, and take London one step closer to membership in …

File photo: People wait in line at U.K. citizens arrivals at Heathrow Airport in London2021. REUTERS/Guy Faulconbridge/File Photo Fully vaccinated passengers arriving in England from low-risk countries from Oct. 24 …