Gaza death toll passes 20,000 as US says it will support watered-down aid resolution

Gaza death toll passes 20,000 as US says it will support watered-down aid resolution

A new report has revealed more than half a million people in Gaza - a quarter of the population - are staving,highlighting the current humanitarian crisis.

  • byNajib Jobain,Jack Jeffery andColleen Barry

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Macron denies tilt to the far-right despite divisive immigration bill

Macron denies tilt to the far-right despite divisive immigration bill

Compromise or slippery slope? The big immigration debate in Europe has reached France.

  • byMichel Rose andTassilo Hummel
Perth family’s story shows how childcare investment can save the NDIS
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Perth family’s story shows how childcare investment can save the NDIS

Stories like Alianna’s and Michele’s are the human reality that lies behind the newspaper headlines and pundits’ takes on how much we are paying for the NDIS.

  • byJay Weatherill
Sunak survives vote on bill to send migrants on one-way trip to Rwanda

Sunak survives vote on bill to send migrants on one-way trip to Rwanda

The result averts a defeat that would have left the British PM’s authority shredded and his government teetering.

  • byJill Lawless
Two boats with 400 Rohingya aboard adrift in the Andaman Sea:UN

Two boats with 400 Rohingya aboard adrift in the Andaman Sea:UN

The captain of one boat said he feared all on board would die if they did not receive help. The whereabouts of the other boat were unclear.

  • byGrant Peck
‘Respectful relationships’ program heads for WA schools

‘Respectful relationships’ program heads for WA schools

The distribution is informed by research begun in September after a spate of horrific domestic violence murders,including that of 32-year-old Georgia Lyall.

  • byHamish Hastie
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As a brutal winter approaches,Sajjad’s aunty has been forced back to the Taliban

As a brutal winter approaches,Sajjad’s aunty has been forced back to the Taliban

International headlines are focused on Gaza,but another humanitarian crisis looms with Pakistan’s threatened deportation of 1.7 million people to Afghanistan.

  • byMax Walden
‘It is time’:Summit agrees on global fund to compensate Africans for slavery

‘It is time’:Summit agrees on global fund to compensate Africans for slavery

Centuries after the end of the slave trade,people of African descent around the world continue “to be victims of systemic racial discrimination and racialised attacks”.

  • byFrancis Kokutse
If we’re willing to imprison outsiders for life,we must ask:Who are we?
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If we’re willing to imprison outsiders for life,we must ask:Who are we?

The release of 84 detainees has triggered a fierce debate. But as former POW and US Republican John McCain once said:“It’s not about who they are. It’s about who we are.”

  • byJulia Baird
Italy grants citizenship to baby in Britain to prevent weaning off life support

Italy grants citizenship to baby in Britain to prevent weaning off life support

The Italian government intervened after England’s High Court ruled last month it was in the critically ill baby’s “best interests” to be taken off life support.

  • byAlvise Armellini
Iranian girl dies following mysterious incident on Tehran Metro

Iranian girl dies following mysterious incident on Tehran Metro

The death of Armita Geravand,16,comes after spending weeks in a coma following an incident on a train when she was not wearing a headscarf.

  • byJon Gambrell