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From Argentina to Australia to South Africa, record heat and raging wildfires are rampaging through the Southern Hemisphere at the start of 2026, with scientists predicting that even more extreme temperatures could lie...

Police have charged a 31-year-old man with terrorism over the alleged attempted bombing of an Invasion Day protest in Perth, accusing the man of accessing “pro-white” material online and claiming the actions were motivat...

The Palestine Action Group plans to march against the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog’s, visit to Sydney next week, despite the New South Wales police commissioner extending a restriction on protests.

Firefighters in the Australian state of Victoria are battling at least six major fires as a record-breaking heatwave hits the country's south-east.

Shooting comes on a National Day of Mourning as Australia remembers 15 people shot dead in Sydney at a Hanukkah celebration on December 14

Dozens of beaches along Australia's east coast, including in Sydney, closed on Tuesday after four shark attacks in two days, as heavy rains left waters murky and more likely to attract the animals.

A severe storm in Australia’s Victoria state triggered flash flooding on Thursday, forcing the country’s famed Great Ocean Road to close, sweeping cars out to sea and cutting power to thousands.

One person has died and 300 properties have been destroyed in bushfires that have torn across south-east Australia.

Australians in Victoria have been warned they should prepare for "property loss or worse" as much of the country faces extreme heatwave conditions. Temperatures on Friday and Saturday are forecast to hit record highs fo...

Australia’s south sweltered through a brutal heatwave on Wednesday that delivered temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in some cities, triggering health warnings, straining power grids and causi...

A 24-year-old man will face court on Tuesday after he was charged with allegedly plotting a public place shooting in Sydney’s south-west, two days after heavily armed tactical police stormed the Fairfield West home where...

A man who allegedly opened fire on a Jewish Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach was charged with 59 offences, including murder and terrorism, police said on Wednesday.

The two suspects in the killing of 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach spent nearly a month in a budget hotel in the southern Philippines, a security official and a hotel staff member said, as inv...

Leading Jewish groups in the United States are urging all Jewish organizations to ratchet up security measures at public events — including restrictions on access — following the deadly mass shooting that targeted a Hanu...

Two gunmen opened fire during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi beach, killing 15 people, including a child, officials said Monday, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitic terrorism th...

Australia's spy chief says hackers linked to the Chinese government and military are targeting the country's critical infrastructure, warning the country was increasingly at risk of "high-impact sabotage".

The warning for a bushfire in northern New South Wales has been downgraded after it threatened to reach Emergency Warning level amid deteriorating weather conditions on Monday afternoon.

Two police officers were killed and another seriously wounded in a shooting Tuesday at a property in a rural part of Australia. The gunman remained at large as police scoured a vast remote area.

Israel’s foreign minister said on Monday he had revoked the visas of Australian diplomats to the Palestinian Authority, following a decision by Canberra to recognize a Palestinian state and cancel an Israeli lawmaker’s v...

A suspected arsonist accused of destroying a Melbourne synagogue appeared in court seven months after the crime shocked the nation and triggered a large-scale investigation.