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"Australian audiences loved not only his natural charm but also his intellectual curiosity for the world around him," the boss of the ABC says. Photo: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Veteran journalist and broadcaster George Negus has died at the age of 82 following a battle with Alzheimer's disease, his family said in a statement Negus will be remembered as the founding host of Foreign Correspondent and a mainstay on 60 Minutes, Dateline and other watershed Australian news programmes He is survived by his wife Kirsty Cockburn, their sons Ned and Serge and grandchildren Veteran journalist and broadcaster George Negus has died at the age of 82 following a battle with Alzheimer's disease, his family said in a statement. The statement said Negus "passed away peacefully su...

By Stephen Collinson, CNN Photo: AFP / SAUL LOEB Analysis - Donald Trump is invoking a vision of an extreme new White House term that would transform America and rock the world. And Vice President Kamala Harris has only three weeks to avert it, as she struggles to restore momentum in a neck-and-neck race to Election Day. The Republican nominee is escalating the most toxic anti-immigrant rhetoric in modern US history, warning outsiders with "bad genes" have "invaded" the country after falsely claiming that Haitian migrants here legally were eating pets in Ohio. At a rally in Arizona on Sunday, Trump baselessly suggested that if Harris were elected, "the entire country will be turned into a migrant camp". In Colorado two days earlier, he again vowed to "begin the largest deportation o...

Chris Penk: "the only 'clause' that you'll have to deal with for a while is Santa!" Photo: VNP / Phil Smith Acting Defence Minister Chris Penk has made a statement in Parliament about the HMNZS Manawanui's sinking, and answered questions from other politicians - but rejected some as being "premature". He has rejected suggestions Defence Minister Judith Collins' response had been "dismissive" or that relations with Samoa had been damaged, committed to making the court of inquiry process public "to the greatest extent possible", and shut down questions about the overall cost. Penk stood to make the statement on Tuesday, the first sitting day in Parliament since the ship listed on Saturday 5 October and went beneath the waves the following day, opening the matter for questions and statemen...

By Harry Pearl and Harlyne Joku, BenarNews Local villagers hold a placard as they participate in a gathering near the Porgera Gold Mine in Enga province, Papua New Guinea on 23 September 2024, almost one week after police reinforcements were rushed to the area in a bid to quell tribal violence that shuttered the key gold mine Photo: AFP Papua New Guinea security personnel shot six people - one fatally - and arrested dozens of illegal miners in an operation to crackdown on lawlessness in the country's volatile highlands region, police said. Authorities deployed additional officers and authorised the use of lethal force last month to quell fighting between illegal miners and landowners in the area surrounding the Porgera gold mine in Enga province. Chairman of the Porgera Landowners As...