Australia will hold a Royal Commission inquiry into the Bondi Beach mass shooting in which 15 were killed, the country's most powerful public inquiry, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday.
New Zealand’s parliament will introduce a bill to restrict social media use for children under 16, aiming to protect youth from online harm, officials said on Thursday.
Firefighters in Cyprus were battling on Wednesday to contain a huge wildfire forcing the evacuation of at least four villages on the first day of a heatwave which sent temperatures soaring.
Water levels at Lebanon’s largest reservoir on the Litani River have hit historic lows amid the country's worst recorded drought, threatening agriculture, power generation, and domestic water supply.
When 13-year-old Jasmine Elkin tested Australia's potential age-check software to ban children and teenagers from social media, she was surprised by its accuracy but still doubts it will work.
New Zealand's parliament agreed to lengthy suspensions for three Indigenous lawmakers who last year performed a haka, a traditional Maori dance, disrupting the reading of a controversial bill.
