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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's center-left Labor Party is seeking a second term. His opponent, conservative opposition ...

An Illinois landlord who killed a 6-year-old Muslim boy and severely injured the boy's mother in a brutal hate-crime attack ...

Radio Free Asia is laying off about 90 percent of its staff. It says it can no longer pay people after its funding was cut ...

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