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China standoff a priority for Australia at first Quad leaders meeting
China criticises ‘selective multilateralism’ as US, Australia, India and Japan discuss climate, the pandemic, …
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Drinks giant Kirin urged to cut ties with Myanmar joint venture linked to military
Japanese beer company effectively ‘empowers’ junta through its joint ventures, rights group saysMyanmar coup: …
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Japan dismisses ‘categorically untrue’ stories that Tokyo Olympics are doomed
Sources at IOC adamant Games will go ahead in JulyCountry has surge in Covid cases centred on capitalThe Japan…
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Hayabusa2 capsule fireball streaks across the sky on re-entry – video
A capsule released by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft containing pristine asteroid fragments briefly turned into …
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Japan’s Hayabusa2 capsule carrying asteroid samples recovered in South Australian outback
Released capsule entered atmosphere at 5.30pm GMT on Saturday before landing safelyA capsule containing pristi…
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Hayabusa2 comes home: remarkable space probe could open another window into how life originated
The six-year round trip to an asteroid named Ryugu will end in the red sands of Woomera, AustraliaThe Japanese…
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After six years and 6bn km, Japan’s Hayabusa2 prepares to bring home cargo of asteroid dust
Japanese craft collected dust from the asteroid Ryugu that scientists hope could shed light on the origins of …
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Australia spends $500,000 to strengthen tech ties with Quad allies amid China tension
Regional democracies including US, Japan and India step up cooperation on cybersecurityAustralia will spend $5…
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What’s Australia’s end game with China? – Australian politics live podcast
With China’s increasingly authoritarian assertiveness clashing against Australia’s agenda, Katharine Murphy si…
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China warns Australia and Japan over ‘confrontational’ new defence pact
Australian ministers urge dialogue to resolve dispute as Beijing says countries may pay ‘corresponding price’A…
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Australia and Japan agree in principle to defence pact that will increase military ties
Japan has previously signed only one such deal with key ally the United States in 1960Australia and Japan say …
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China and 14 Asia-Pacific countries agree historic free trade deal
Signing of RCEP unites nations totalling 2.2 billion people and covers 28% of global tradeThe leaders of China…
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Australian PM says net zero climate target not brought up in first call with Joe Biden
Scott Morrison says the US president-elect expressed he was looking forward to ‘working closely’ with Australi…
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Joe Biden’s move to net zero emissions will leave Australia in the (coal) dust | Bill Hare
Australia will be increasingly isolated as the US joins the club of countries, including China, with ambitious…
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Marise Payne declines to welcome adoption of net zero emissions target by Japan and South Korea
Australia’s foreign minister says ‘it’s a matter for those countries’ after being questioned on the matter fiv…
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Australia to discuss critical supply chains with Japan, India and US as China relationship frays
Beijing is worried about what the so-called Quad could become and has previously labelled the group ‘an anti-C…
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Coronavirus live news: concern over case clusters at French schools and universities; Melbourne lifts curfew
Le Monde reports 32% of outbreaks in France found in schools or universities; Victoria ends curfewRegular ‘cir…
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Family of missing Australian on capsized cattle ship pleads with government to continue search
Father of Lukas Orda says family was shocked to hear active search for his son had been called off by Japan’s …
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Search for crew of sunken cargo ship suspended as second typhoon nears Japan
Forty crew members are still missing but rescue efforts are being hampered by approach of Typhoon HaishenAutho…
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Australia has never been good at acknowledging its troops have been guilty of acts of inhumanity | Paul Daley
Australia’s telling of the Pacific war story is correctly replete with Japanese atrocities. But crimes against…