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Ukraine's north-eastern city of Kharkiv has been targeted in missile strikes that injured at least six people early on Christmas Day, the city's mayor said. Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said it appeared Russian forces were launching missiles at energy infrastructure in Kharkiv. Further south, one person was killed and 17 others injured in separate strikes launched in the Dnipro region, according to local authorities.

Josh Smith of the Australian Naturist Federation believes younger people aren't getting into the nude scene, apart from those large events, because they have busier lives or fear being judged.

Retired priest Guy Norman Hartcher was arrested in Pendle Hill and charged with child sex offences on Monday. Police allege the 77-year-old tried to meet with a teenage boy after sharing "sexually explicit photographs" and child abuse material.

A volcano erupted in the central Philippines on Monday, sending a huge ash column high into the sky as the government ordered the evacuation of surrounding villages.

Liliana Goodson travelled to Australia in 2023 to attend clown school with the gold-plated pistol, worth about $3,000, in her luggage

Pride in Protest has consistently campaigned for the exclusion of NSW Police from the parade citing a culture of homophobia within the force and an adversarial attitude towards unsolved gay hate deaths.

Australia has voted in favour of a UN resolution demanding Israel rapidly end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories. The vote represents a shift in a longstanding position. Australia abstained on similar resolutions at previous meetings of the General Assembly.

Prosecutors in Japan are calling for an Australian grandmother accused of importing 2 kilograms of methamphetamine to be jailed for 10 years.

Donna Nelson was found with the drugs hidden under a false bottom of her travel case, after landing at Tokyo's Narita Airport in January last year.

She has told the court she picked up the bag in Laos for her online romantic partner, who needed it as a sample for his sprawling fashion business.

Millions of red crabs are emerging from their burrows and the forests of Christmas Island in what is expected to be one largest migrations in recent years.

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Australia will increase its missile defence capability after China’s test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in the South Pacific raised “significant concerns” and as the Asia Pacific region enters a “missile age”.

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Australia has previously said it would spend 74 billion Australian dollars ($49bn) on missile acquisition and missile defence over the next decade, including 21 billion Australian dollars ($13.7bn) to fund the Australian Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Enterprise, a new domestic manufacturing capability.

“We must show potential adversaries that hostile acts against Australia would not succeed and could not be sustained if conflict were protracted,” Conroy said in the speech.