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Great Barrier Reef faces collapse as El Niño intensifies

QUEENSLAND: Marine scientists have warned that Australia's Great Barrier Reef is facing a severe and widespread bleaching event that could escalate into an "ecosystem collapse," driven by the effects of this...

The Great Barrier Reef, which stretches along the Queensland coast, is the world's largest coral reef system.

Most locked-down city Melbourne reopens

A barber gives a haircut as other customers wait outside in a queue that began as early as 4:30am in Melbourne, Australia, on Friday. - AFP

Melbourne to ease world's longest lockdowns

People walk past a floral tribute to a popular delicatessen owner who died from Covid-19 in Melbourne during a lockdown against Covid-19 coronavirus as Sydney ended a 106-day lockdown.

Durian fruit sparks 'gas leak' emergency

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Sydney reopens as Australia looks to live with Covid-19

People carrying shopping bags walk past a retail store in Sydney as the city ended their lockdown against the coronavirus after 106 days. - AFP

Sydney readies for 'freedom day' after virus lockdown

A health worker speaks with a person inside a vehicle at the Bondi Beach drive-through coronavirus disease testing centre in Sydney. -- Reuters

Melbourne cases hit record despite lockdown

Police patrol in Melbourne as the city grapples with a surge in Covid-19 infections recording 1,438 cases. -- AFP

Sydney gets 'blueprint for freedom' as virus cases fall

A police officer wearing a protective face mask patrol in the city centre during a lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19 outbreak in Sydney. - Reutesrs,

Rare Australia earthquake triggers panic in Melbourne

People gather near a damaged building in the popular shopping Chapel Street in Melbourne after a 5.8-magnitude earthquake. - AFP

Australia to get nuclear subs in new US, British partnership

Australia has scrapped a $66 billion contract it had with France to build submarines, replacing it with nuclear-powered subs using US and British technology. -- AFP

Vaccinated Sydney residents picnic as lockdown rules relaxed

Policer offers patrol on their service horses in front of the Sydney Opera House amid Covid-19 pandemic. - AFP

New Zealand unable to keep supermarket attacker locked up

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Attacker shot dead after NZ supermarket knife rampage

A police officer walking with a gun outside a shopping mall following a knife attack in Auckland. -- Reuters

Australia logs record Covid cases, driven by New South Wales

Residents exercising along the Sydney Harbour during the lockdown. -- AFP

Austria's Strache guilty of bribery, given suspended prison term

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Lockdown until majority vaccinated: Australia PM

People walking along the quiet George Street in Sydney as the city extended its two-month-old lockdown and introduced a partial curfew to contain a fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak. -- AFP
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