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Australian official lifts lid on cyberwarfare

By TREVOR MARSHALLSEA - Associated Press

Australia, Holland, Russia start talks over downed MH17

By TREVOR MARSHALLSEA - Associated Press

In this Feb. 13, 2019, file photo Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison addresses media at Parliament House in Canberra. Morrison, on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, accused an influential minor political party of trying to &quot;sell Australia's gun laws to the highest bidders&quot; by asking the U.S. gun lobby for donations. (AP Photos/Rod McGuirk, File)

Australian party accused of asking NRA gun lobby for money

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

In this image made off video, a car drives through flooded road in Port Hedland, Western Australia, Monday, March 25, 2019. Slow-moving Cyclone Veronica that lashed northwest Australia was weakening on Monday. (The Australian Broadcasting Corp via AP)

Cyclone lashing northwest Australia weakens

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

In this image made from video, a teenager breaks an egg on the head of Senator Fraser Anning while he holds a press conference, Saturday, March 16, 2019, in Melbourne, New Zealand. Following the mass shootings on Friday, Anning came under sharp criticism over tweets including one that said: “Does anyone still dispute the link between Muslim immigration and violence?” (AP Photo)

‘Egg Boy’ teen defends egging anti-Muslim Australian senator

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Another cyclone bears down on northwest Australian coast

By TREVOR MARSHALLSEA - Associated Press

In a satellite image acquired from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Cyclone Trevor moves over the Northern Territory captured at 0810am AEDT, Tuesday, 19 March 2019. Australia is evacuating about 2,000 people from parts of northern Australia ahead of the cyclone with winds gusting up to 160 miles an hour (260 kph) expected to hit on Saturday. (Bureau of Meteorology/AAP Image via AP)

Australia moving 2,000 people from powerful cyclone’s path

By TREVOR MARSHALLSEA - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the supporters of his ruling Justice and Development Party, AKP, at a rally in Istanbul, late Tuesday, March 19, 2019, ahead of local elections scheduled for March 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkey’s Erdogan sparks spat with Australia, New Zealand

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 25, 2017 file photo, a man walks among the crosses at the field of remembrance following the ANZAC Day dawn service in Christchurch, New Zealand. ANZAC Day is held annually commemorating the April 25, 1915, landings in Gallipoli, the first major military action fought by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during World War I. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Gallipoli pain resurfaces after Erdogan’s incendiary remarks

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Fifty pairs of white shoes line up as a memorial to the victims of Friday March 15 mass mosque shootings in front of a church in Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, March 19, 2019. Four days after Friday's attack, New Zealand's deadliest shooting in modern history, relatives were anxiously waiting for word on when they can bury their loved ones. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

The Latest: Police say mosque gunman planned another attack

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New Zealand citizens open to gun reform after massacre

By STEPHEN WRIGHT and KRISTEN GELINEAU - Associated Press

In this photo released by New Zealand Prime Minister's Office, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to representatives of the Muslim community, Saturday, March 16, 2019 at the Canterbury Refugee Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, a day after the mass shootings at two mosques in the city. (New Zealand Prime Minister Office via AP)

New Zealand welcomes Jacinda Ardern gun control after Christchurch mosque massacre

By Stephen Wright and Kristen Gelineau - Associated Press

Religious representatives perform a special blessing ceremony on the site of Friday's shooting outside the Linwood mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, Monday, March 18, 2019. Three days after Friday's attack, New Zealand's deadliest shooting in modern history, relatives were anxiously waiting for word on when they can bury their loved ones. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

The Latest: Spy agency says no threats ahead of massacre

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In this image made from video, a teenager breaks an egg on the head of Senator Fraser Anning while he holds a press conference, Saturday, March 16, 2019, in Melbourne, New Zealand. Following the mass shootings on Friday, Anning came under sharp criticism over tweets including one that said: “Does anyone still dispute the link between Muslim immigration and violence?” (AP Photo)

Teen eggs Australian senator who blames Muslims for attack

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australia won’t risk lives returning IS refugees from Syria

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

A man reacts as he speaks on a mobile phone outside a mosque in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, March 15, 2019. A witness says many people have been killed in a mass shooting at a mosque in the New Zealand city of Christchurch.(AP Photo/Mark Baker)

New Zealand mosque shooter broadcast slaughter on Facebook

By NICK PERRY and MARK BAKER - Associated Press

In this Feb. 27, 2019, file photo, Cardinal George Pell arrives at the County Court in Melbourne, Australia. Pell, the most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse, will be sentenced to prison Wednesday in an Australia landmark case that has polarized observers. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File)

Cardinal Pell gets 6 years imprisonment for sexual assault

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Ground crew chat near a Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane operated by Shanghai Airlines parked on tarmac at Hongqiao airport in Shanghai, China, Tuesday, March 12, 2019. U.S. aviation experts on Tuesday joined the investigation into the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner that killed 157 people, as a growing number of airlines grounded the new Boeing plane involved in the crash. (AP Photo)

Criticism of FAA mounts as other nations ground Boeing jets

By RICHARD LARDNER and TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to Australia, Arthur Culvahouse Jr. speaks to the media during his first press conference outside his residence at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. The new U.S. ambassador to Australia says he’s concerned about the way China lends money to developing Pacific nations in what he describes as “payday loan diplomacy.” Culvahouse Jr. told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday, that it was up to U.S. allies and Western liberal democracies to educate people about the dangers of such loans. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

New US ambassador warns of China’s ‘payday loan diplomacy’

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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2019, file photo, Cardinal George Pell leaves the County Court in Melbourne, Australia. An Australian judge sentenced Wednesday, March 13, the most senior Catholic, Pell, to be convicted of child sex abuse to 6 years in prison for molesting two choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral more than 20 years ago. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File)

Timeline of Cardinal George Pell’s career and accusations

By The Associated Press - Associated Press