Foreign Affairs

Indonesia says it's prepared to transfer home five Australians serving life sentences over a 2005 plot to import drugs from Bali.

The federal government's decision to back a United Nations resolution urging Israel's withdrawal from Gaza was an attempt to win back votes going to the Greens, the opposition leader claims.

An Australian beef exporter caught up in a trade war with China says the company has learned not to become overly reliant on a single market.

Australia changes its position to support a UN resolution demanding "Israel bring to an end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible".

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, but then rescinded it, after criticising the opposition as "anti-state forces" threatening the country's democracy.

Australia's home affairs minister and Indonesia's top law minister say there is a lot of goodwill to seal an unprecedented prisoner transfer for the five remaining members of the Bali Nine drug smuggling group — despite a lack of laws to facilitate it.

The head of federal parliament's intelligence committee has suggested Australia is bolstering its military capabilities in part to deter China from invading Taiwan.

When Donald Trump re-enters the White House on January 20, he will find that Kim Jong Un, the man he so enjoyed meeting, has built for himself a new international status – and is now a major ally of Vladimir Putin. 

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says he rejected Israeli right-wing politician Ayelet Shaked's application to come to Australia over concerns she would threaten social cohesion. 

A landmark case that began in a Pacific classroom and could change the course of future climate talks is about to be heard in the International Court of Justice.

Decorated former NATO military commander Petr Pavel says democratic nations need to cooperate more in the face of threats to Taiwan, Ukraine, and global free trade.

A senior Indonesian minister says Jakarta could respect any Australian decision about what happens to Bali Nine members who return home in a proposed prisoner transfer deal.

The PwC report found a "material uncertainty" about Landbridge's "ability to continue as a going concern" at the port.

At least six people killed in two days of protests staged by Imran Khan protesters on the outskirts of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.

Sweeping new powers to deport non-citizens are set to pass the parliament after Coalition members of a Senate committee voiced their support.

China's ambassador to Australia has declared there's "no reason" that Donald Trump's return to the White House should damage the relationship between Canberra and Beijing.

Anthony Albanese says Australian diplomatic staff are working hard to return the bodies of two 19-year-old women who died from methanol poisoning in Laos.

The prison doctor at Kerobokan jail, who spoke with prisoners Matthew Norman and Si Yi Chen on Saturday, says they are "hopeful but anxious" following a deal between Jakarta and Canberra to allow the remaining so-called Bali Nine prisoners to finish their jail terms in Australia.

With Joe Biden about to step off the world stage, the jockeying for position has begun, with China's Xi Jinping taking an early lead.

The news comes a day after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.