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Australia mourns in candlelight for Beach shooting victims

SYDNEY: Australians fell silent and lit candles on a national day of mourning on Thursday for the 15 people killed by gunmen who opened fire on a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach.Millions observed a minute's silence...

Australia's national flag flutters at half mast at Bondi Beach during Australia's National Day of Mourning for the victims of the Bondi Beach mass shooting in Sydney. - Reuters

NZ borders open for travellers from visa-waiver nations

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Protesters rally as Australian PM tours flood disaster

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Australia orders 200,000 to flee floods, city of Sydney spared

Residents remove their belongings from their flooded home in western Sydney as the area faces its worst flooding after record rainfall caused its largest dam to overflow. -- AFP

Australian floods spread to Sydney

Flying instructor Peter Clement and his wife Kerrie stand in waist-high water as they examine their aircraft inside a hanger after a flood inundated Grafton Air Strip in Grafton. - AFP

Thousands evacuated from Australia floods

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Deadly rains, floods hit eastern Australia

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One dead, 10 feared missing in Australia floods

The overflowing Parramatta river at the ferry wharf in Sydney after heavy rain lashed eastern Australia, causing flash flooding and a string of emergency warnings up and down the Pacific coast. - AFP

Australia re-opens to tourists after Covid closure

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Australia' to welcome foreign tourists from Monday

The Sydney Opera House during a lockdown on July 22, 2021. (AnnaMaria Antoinette D'Addario/The New York Times)

Australia warns koalas 'endangered' as numbers plunge

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Blinken in Australia for Quad meet

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is greeted by Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade First Assistant Secretary Craig Chittick (L) after disembarking from his plane in Melbourne. - AFP

'Fortress Australia' reopens borders to tourists on Feb 21

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Australia to reopen borders to tourists on Feb 21

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New Zealand announces plans to fully reopen

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New Zealand imposes its toughest restrictions

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
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