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Australia today said it will impose its own sanctions against Iran to persuade and pressurise it to reverse its nuclear programme, on the heels of fresh penalties imposed by the UN Security Council. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Australia will impose sanctions on a bank, a shipping line, and...

US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have mourned the death of Grand Imam Mohamed Sayyid Tantawi, the head of al-Azhar University in Cairo. “As the grand sheikh of Al-Azhar University, he was a voice for faith and tolerance who was widely respected in Muslim communities...

Gates noted that he had a public exchange of barbs with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this week over which country is doing harm in Afghanistan. He had accused Tehran of undermining US and NATO efforts by helping the Taliban. “I have talked about Iran playing a double game in...

Two Australian teenagers have been arrested on charges of brutally assaulting a wheelchair- bound Canadian tourist with a metal bar in Sydney, an attack reminiscent of the spate of incidents against Indians here. The 35-year-old man, whose identity was not released, was punched, stomped and beaten up at Mount...