Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been quick to downplay speculation the government could be in striking distance of a third budget surplus. Catch up on how the day unfolded across our blog.

This means they need to clear roster space from their 40-man and are "shopping some of their surplus" in the trade market, per USA Today. Among that surplus could be reliever Ryan Brasier.

And having military troops directly intervene in border enforcement could also clash with entrenched rules and practices, they said. Jerry Robinette, former head of the San Antonio office of ...

While India has not yet been singled out, New Delhi is closely watching US policy announcements. Trump has frequently criticised India's trade surplus with the US, referring to it as a “tariff king”.

Judea and Samaria are terms Israel uses for the occupied West Bank. The move into Jenin, where the Israeli army has carried out multiple raids and large-scale incursions over recent years ...

The U.S. military must produce a plan to “seal the borders” under an executive order signed Monday by the new president. But experts suggest that the order may set up a legal challenge that ...

In the first hours of his second term, President Donald Trump vowed to send U.S. troops to the southern border; promised to reinstate service members who were separated for refusing to get ...

Ding highlights multilateralism and warns against protectionism China's economy faces challenges from possible US tariff hikes Says China is willing to welcome and help foreign companies DAVOS ...

President-elect Donald Trump says that future financial assistance to Afghanistan will be contingent upon the return of U.S. military equipment by the Taliban leaders currently in power.

A group of soldiers forces a rope into a man’s mouth, then throws him off a bridge and shoots at him in the water. Dozens of young men, all dead, lay shoeless in jumbled piles. A soldier leans ...