Hundreds of Australians have left Lebanon on the latest round of evacuation flights, as the deputy prime minister says Israel’s military response in the region will be closely watched.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will return to the rural Pennsylvania site where he was nearly assassinated for a rally in the critical battleground state exactly one month before the November 5 election.

U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast ports were reopened on Friday after dockworkers and port operators reached a wage deal to settle the industry’s biggest work stoppage in nearly half a century, but clearing the cargo backlog will take time.

Vice President Kamala Harris met with Arab American and Muslim leaders in Flint, Michigan, on Friday, as her presidential campaign seeks to win back voters angry at U.S. support for Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon.

Aid for Gaza cannot stop just because a new frontline has opened in Lebanon, and one of Australia’s mining magnates is urging business, philanthropy and political leaders to do more to help save lives.

The weary and worn residents of Julianne Johnson’s neighborhood in Asheville, North Carolina, have been getting by without electricity since Hurricane Helene tore through the Southeast last week and upended their lives.

At least 18 people have died in flooding and landslides in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a police spokesman in Mostar says according to the Bosnian portal klix.ba.

The prime minister has rejected calls to expel Iran’s ambassador over comments praising the slain leader of Hezbollah, saying it’s in the national interest to maintain a diplomatic relationship with the Middle Eastern country.

The Australia share market has been sinking following an offhand comment by US President Joe Biden and ahead of another set of US jobs figures that may reset expectations on interest rate cuts.

A jury has been dismissed after being unable to decide whether allegations a father sexually touched his own daughter were true.

X Corp must comply with an Australian safety notice about child sexual abuse issued to Twitter, a court has ruled.

More than two months’ worth of rain in one day has brought flooding and a state of emergency to the New Zealand city of Dunedin.