PM Albanese hails 'vote for Australian values' after landslide election win
Summary
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has won re-election, with his Labor party securing a majority
Peter Dutton, leader of the Liberal-National Coalition, has conceded defeat after also losing his own seat of Dickson
Key issues in the campaign included the cost of living, struggling public healthcare, unaffordable housing, and concerns about an unpredictable Trump presidency
World may be ‘post-herd immunity’ to measles, top US scientist says
Sat 3 May 2025 12.00 BST
A leading immunologist warned of a “post-herd-immunity world”, as measles outbreaks affect communities with low vaccination rates in the American south-west, Mexico and Canada.
The US is enduring the largest measles outbreak in a quarter-century. Centered in west Texas, the measles outbreak has killed two unvaccinated children and one adult and spread to neighboring states including New Mexico and Oklahoma.
“We’re living in a post-herd-immunity world. I think the measles outbreak proves that,” said Dr Paul Offit, an expert on infectious disease and immunology and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Keeping Russian control of Crimea? Crimean Tatars respond
"We know all too well what Russia is like. It is a successor to the Soviet Union, which once deported my mother and grandmother," says a woman who now lives in Crimea and wishes to remain anonymous. "It took us half a century to return to our homeland and we will not leave again. We will wait here for the return of the Ukrainian state."
"Our people have fought for the right to live on their own land. That's why this fight will go on, regardless of the political situation," says another resident of the peninsula, who also wishes to remain anonymous. She points out that the oppression of the indigenous population began with the conquest of Crimea by Tsarist Russia.
India blocks Pakistani celebrities on social media
India blames Pakistan of backing the deadliest attack in years on civilians in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22, in which 26 men were killed.
Islamabad has rejected the charge, and both countries have since exchanged gunfire across their contested de facto border in Kashmir.
Pakistan's military said it carried out a "training launch" of a surface-to-surface missile weapons system on Saturday, further heightening tensions.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
By Gabriele Ninivaggi
staff writerAn evolving geopolitical landscape pushing Japan into untested waters, a prime minister who has long championed constitutional revision, and pro-revision opposition parties having a direct impact on policies.
As Japan celebrates 78 years since the enactment of its Constitution on Saturday, it would appear, at least at first glance, as though all of the pieces needed for a rethink of the top law are falling into place.
However, a weak political leadership group — coupled with the traditional sensitivity around the issue and the emergence of new policy priorities — have forestalled a larger debate over the Constitution, both inside and outside parliament.
The Ethiopian bookbinder connecting a city’s people with its forgotten past
For three decades, Abdallah Ali Sherif has been on a mission to explore Harar’s once-repressed cultural identity.
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When Abdallah Ali Sherif was growing up in eastern Ethiopia, his parents never spoke about the history of his city.
“When I asked my parents about our history, they told me we didn’t have one,” the kind-faced 75-year-old recalls as he reclines on a thin mattress on the floor of his home in Harar’s old walled city. Shelves of dusty cassettes line the walls and old newspapers lie scattered about the floor.
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