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Search for Malaysian Flight MH370 moves further south
The Baltics: what's wrong with being 'east' anyway?
Iraq crisis: John Kerry and military advisers heading for Baghdad live updates
Seven Ukrainian soldiers killed and 30 injured in fighting in the east
Jerusalem's urban beach sparks wave of ultra-Orthodox protests
ALP's 2013 election failure mainly down to 'internal disunity', review finds
Little Tony Blairs of Kosovo: the boys named after the 'great man' video
Killer of British honeymoon couple escapes from Antigua jail
Palestinian teenager killed in Israeli arrest raids in West Bank
Pregnant asylum seekers on Nauru transferred to Australia for abortions
Scott Morrison's cap on protection visas struck down by high court
Jean-Claude Juncker: what is the trouble with Britain's bogeyman?
Robb says Australia will not strike Tisa deal that would undermine banks
Australia houses 0.3% of the world's nearly 12m refugees
UK has only let in 24 Syrian refugees under relocation scheme for conflict victims
Global refugee figure passes 50m for first time since second world war
Santos and GDF Suez scrap plans to build gas plant off Darwin coast
Mathias Cormann presses on with Fofa reform despite unruly incoming Senate
Life in limbo: street art tells stories of refugees and asylum seekers
Artist Peter Drew and works he has placed around Adelaide in pictures
MH370: plane search to move south, Australia announces
Australian troops sent to Iraq to help secure embassy
Australian ministers given extra bodyguards after unpopular budget
Iraq: Australia will consider any request to provide military support
Woman pinned to bed by fallen gumtree in outer Melbourne

Search for Malaysian Flight MH370 moves further south

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:18 AM PDT

Investigators trying to solve the mystery of the jet's disappearance are moving to a zone 1,000 miles west of Perth Continue reading...

The Baltics: what's wrong with being 'east' anyway?

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:18 AM PDT

Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have expressed anger about being included in the Guardian's New East network, but why should we believe that west is best, asks Agata Pyzik?

Iraq crisis: John Kerry and military advisers heading for Baghdad live updates

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:16 AM PDT

Obama deploys 300 military advisers to help combat Isis
Kerry to push for a unity government in Iraq
Baghdad said to be out of danger

Seven Ukrainian soldiers killed and 30 injured in fighting in the east

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:15 AM PDT

Fighting between government forces and pro-Russian rebels continues after Poroshenko said he would soon call ceasefire Continue reading...

Jerusalem's urban beach sparks wave of ultra-Orthodox protests

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:57 AM PDT

Dispute over sand and sun umbrellas is the latest clash between ultra-Orthodox believers' and secular Jews' visions of the city Continue reading...

ALP's 2013 election failure mainly down to 'internal disunity', review finds

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:51 AM PDT

Wholesale staff changes, leadership struggle and communications breakdowns cited in campaign postmortem

Little Tony Blairs of Kosovo: the boys named after the 'great man' video

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:29 AM PDT

When Nato eventually intervened in 1999 to stop the ethnic cleansing by Serbian forces of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, the UK prime minister Tony Blair was hailed as a hero. As refugees returned to the province, several new parents of baby boys called their sons Tony Blair. Now, fifteen years on, the Guardian's Julian Borger returns to Kosovo to hear how their lives have turned out and their hopes for the future of a province still not fully recognised as an independent state Continue reading...

Killer of British honeymoon couple escapes from Antigua jail

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:54 AM PDT

Avie Howell was convicted of murdering newlywed couple Ben and Catherine Mullany on the Caribbean island in 2008 Continue reading...

Palestinian teenager killed in Israeli arrest raids in West Bank

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:32 AM PDT

Mohammed Dudin is second Palestinian killed as Israeli military pursues Islamist militants amid search for missing teenagers Continue reading...

Pregnant asylum seekers on Nauru transferred to Australia for abortions

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:21 AM PDT

Three women requested abortions due to harsh conditions in detention and the longevity of stay on the Pacific island

Scott Morrison's cap on protection visas struck down by high court

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:08 AM PDT

But there are concerns that the federal government may try to place another cap on asylum seekers who arrived by boat

Jean-Claude Juncker: what is the trouble with Britain's bogeyman?

Posted: 19 Jun 2014 11:00 PM PDT

Angela Merkel supports him to head the European commission, but David Cameron insists he is an intolerable federalist Continue reading...

Robb says Australia will not strike Tisa deal that would undermine banks

Posted: 19 Jun 2014 10:58 PM PDT

Trade minister was responding to apparent leak of financial services annex of proposed Trade in Services Agreement

Australia houses 0.3% of the world's nearly 12m refugees

Posted: 19 Jun 2014 10:35 PM PDT

But only the US takes more under the UN's program to resettle permanently people displaced by war and natural disasters

UK has only let in 24 Syrian refugees under relocation scheme for conflict victims

Posted: 19 Jun 2014 10:00 PM PDT

Britain urged to increase help through vulnerable persons scheme as countries struggle to cope with influx Continue reading...

Global refugee figure passes 50m for first time since second world war

Posted: 19 Jun 2014 10:00 PM PDT

UNHCR report says more than half of those displaced are children, with aid organisations reaching breaking point Continue reading...

Santos and GDF Suez scrap plans to build gas plant off Darwin coast

Posted: 19 Jun 2014 09:38 PM PDT

Companies said forecast returns from proposed Bonaparte project were too small compared with risk and capital involved

Mathias Cormann presses on with Fofa reform despite unruly incoming Senate

Posted: 19 Jun 2014 09:36 PM PDT

Changes to financial advice standards are opposed by consumer groups and may be ruled out by the new Senate

Life in limbo: street art tells stories of refugees and asylum seekers

Posted: 19 Jun 2014 09:29 PM PDT

Peter Drew uses his street art in Adelaide to show the courage and sacrifice of those who seek asylum in Australia

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Artist Peter Drew and works he has placed around Adelaide in pictures

Posted: 19 Jun 2014 09:21 PM PDT

Adelaide street artist Peter Drew uses 36 images to tell the stories of refugees and asylum seekers, both in detention and on bridging visas, and he puts them up on walls all over Adelaide. The images include work by refugees living in detention.