world

The European Union will ask the United States to establish a “steel union” of higher tariffs and tighter import restrictions — which could have knock-on effects in Australia’s steel sector — at crucial talks in Brussels on Monday. Source link

The 18-carat gold Jules Jurgensen pocket watch belonged to Isidor Straus, the co-founder of the Macy’s department store. Source link

However, more than 250 students and 12 staff members are still being held, in what is one of the worst mass kidnappings ever recorded in the country.  Source link

Women are twice as likely to suffer domestic violence in Papua New Guinea compared with the rest of the world, a new report finds. Here’s what the country is doing to fix it. Source link

As Iran suffers through a drought and the president warns the capital could be evacuated, millions are worried about what the future will hold.  Source link

Ukraine and its European allies are scrambling to come up with counter-proposals after US President Donald Trump gave Kyiv a tight deadline to approve a deal to end the war that accepts some of Russia’s hardline demands. Source link

With a ceasefire in effect in Gaza, a restoration team is painstakingly retrieving historical manuscripts, rare volumes, and archival documents from beneath the rubble of a destroyed mosque. Source link

The change has surprised staff and contradicts the US Health Department’s long-held scientific consensus that vaccines don’t cause autism. Source link

A team of specialised doctors from Sydney has flown to Papua New Guinea to determine whether a rare set of conjoined twins can be surgically separated. Source link

The powerful chair of a United States congressional committee who called in the head of Australia’s internet regulator to testify before US Congress says he does not think foreign governments should be telling America about its “First Amendment liberties”. Source link