Politics

Social media giant Meta has criticised the federal government's world-first social media ban as it releases data into how many accounts it wiped in one week.

Councils will be empowered to shut down unauthorised prayer halls hosting hate preachers under new measures introduced by the NSW Government. 

US President Donald Trump has urged Cuba to make a deal ‘before it is too late,’ just over a week after the US seizure of the authoritarian leader of Venezuela.

US President Donald Trump is scheduled to be briefed on options to respond to the ballooning protests in Iran, a senior US official familiar with the matter has confirmed.

The US President’s renewed push to claim Greenland has left Europe’s leaders alarmed and divided, as they scramble to defuse tensions and craft a diplomatic path forward.

The first critical minerals to be on offer for Australia’s key allies under its $1.2 billion strategic reserve have been revealed.

Phone video recorded by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent as he fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis has surfaced online, revealing new details about the hotly disputed incident.

Police officers armed with semiautomatic rifles will be deployed for the Australian Open in a move one senior political figure has branded a ‘sad sign of the times’.

The United States military said Saturday that it hit multiple Islamic State targets across Syria in another retaliatory strike in response to an attack that killed American service members.

Demonstrators in Minneapolis have turned out in huge numbers to protest the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good.

Bondi attack survivor Ahmed Al-Ahmed has suffered another health setback while in New York for medical treatment, after meeting Kevin Rudd and being honoured at a gala dinner.

Activists say the death toll in nationwide protests challenging Iran's government has reached at least 116 people.

Circumventing Australia’s much-vaunted social media ban for under 16’s is child’s play, according to the Opposition.

Donald Trump is an unashamedly polarising figure. Which is just how he likes it.

WATCH: The United States needs to ‍own Greenland to prevent Russia or China from occupying it in the future, US President Donald Trump says.