Australia

In the Australian state of Victoria, a suspected locally acquired infection with the coronavirus was diagnosed for the first time in more than two months on Tuesday. It concerns a man in his thirties. He had recently returned from…

Australia will allow its citizens to return from India from next week. The decision was made after criticisms of the suspension of travel traffic with India, which has left Australians and people with Australian residence permits trapped…

Australia will ask the European Union to release more than 3 million doses of corona vaccine from pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for export. The EU denied on Tuesday that it is actively blocking the export of the vaccines ordered by…

Inhabitants of the Australian state of New South Wales, in addition to flooding, will also face a "plague" of deadly spiders soon, warns the Australian Reptile Park. The spiders, of which the most poisonous in the world live in…

Within a few days, Facebook will make it possible for Australian users to share the news with their contacts via Facebook and Instagram. The American social media company had previously limited this option in response to a bill…

A special prosecutor is set to investigate alleged war crimes committed by Australian elite forces in Afghanistan in Australia. Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who spoke of allegations of "serious and possible criminal misconduct,"…

The wildfires in Australia early this year have killed or fled at least 3 billion animals. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reports this based on a study led by the University of Sydney. In January, when wildfires raged in much of New…

Melbourne goes into lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The new restrictions in Australia's second city will remain in force for six weeks, Victoria's Prime Minister Daniel Andrews announced. Residents will only be…

Australia is expected to have primarily eradicated the coronavirus in July. So said Bill Rawlinson, a governmental virologist working in the most populous state in the country, New South Wales. There are hardly any new cases in the…

An estimated 30 percent of the koalas living in the Australian state of New South Wales were killed in the devastating fires that have been raging for weeks. That is what the Australian Environment Minister, Sussan Ley, said in an…