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Australian tourists are stranded in Vanuatu after the country's national airline cancelled international flights for four days, while the Vanuatu government considers putting it into voluntary administration.

Another high-profile immigration decision and a rocky relationship with China are likely the last things the prime minister wants to be talking about ahead of the Federal Budget release next week.

Australia and Tuvalu declare there are only a "narrow set of circumstances" where the federal government might trigger a contentious part of the Falepili Union which allows Canberra to veto security arrangements struck by the Pacific Island nation.

It comes after Bainimarama's conviction over his role in influencing a police investigation into funding of the region's biggest university.

Across Ukraine, women are doing the dangerous work of reporting on the war from the front line and keeping newsrooms going.

An Australian man has been arrested and charged with alleged drug offences in Bali, local authorities have confirmed.

Tens of thousands of young people in China reportedly see their working holiday visa applications expire as the Australian government quietly suspends issuing the visa for Chinese nationals.

Legend has it a jealous husband used a wave curse to sink Teonimenu into the ocean forever. Scientists have worked out what really happened.

Beijing shifts its story on the latest confrontation between Chinese and Australian forces, claiming that one of its fighter jets intercepted an Australian helicopter because it was trying to spy on naval exercises in the Yellow Sea.

Aid agencies warn of a humanitarian catastrophe as Israeli forces seize the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza and close the flow of aid through the checkpoint.