Tracey Shelton

Ammar and his partner are ecstatic about the prospect of adopting their first child. The same-sex couple have just begun the adoption process in Melbourne, where 36-year-old Ammar works as a dentist. Back in Iraq, he hadn't even dared to dream about…

Reports that Kim Jong Un is en route to Russia have drawn attention to the traditional method of travel for North Korean leaders — luxury, armoured trains that have long been a part of the dynasty's lore. The trip is likely to include his second…

Tracey Shelton/Global Post The calm at a rebel outpost on Sunday in a violent sector of Aleppo ended suddenly as a tank blast ripped through the small group of fighters, killing three of them as a fourth emerged shaken but only lightly wounded.…

大学教师陈杨国生比大多数人都更清楚，历史是由胜利者书写的，至少是由当时的掌权者书写的。 但这句老话没有提到，胜利者不会永远是胜利者，有记载的历史不是恒定的，而是在不断变化的。 我们在学校学到的历史课——各国的历史课大相径庭——都会随着时间的推移而被修订、改写，而这些变化往往是由政治动机、社会运动和多元文化所驱动。 陈女士于1949年10月1日出生在江苏：这一天中华人民共和国宣告成立，而第二次世界大战刚刚结束没几年。 不出所料，她的学校教育充斥着…

Melbourne university teacher Guosheng Chen knows better than most that history is written by the victors, or at least by those in power at the time. But the old adage fails to mention that victors don't stay victors forever and recorded history is…

The war in Ukraine has shattered a nation, but the scars of conflict extend beyond human suffering to an often forgotten casualty: Ukraine's natural environment. While the conflict has reportedly killed more than 50,000 people and displaced millions,…

With the Ukrainian summer approaching fast, the clock is ticking on Kyiv's long-awaited "spring offensive" against Russian occupying forces. The Russians are prepared for it. Western governments have supplied much of the weapons and training Ukraine…

Across Türkiye and Syria, devastated families have been forced to bury their loved ones in mass graves, sometimes forgoing burial rites, as the death toll from two powerful earthquakes and hundreds of aftershocks continues to rise. With more than…

Rescuers have raced against time to pull survivors from the rubble before they succumbed to cold weather two days after an earthquake tore through southern Türkiye and war-ravaged northern Syria. Despite support arriving from across the world rescue…

Since Russia launched its "special military operation" into neighbouring Ukraine, media, political organisations and researchers in Ukrainian allied countries have accused Moscow of launching a propaganda blitzkrieg meant to justify the invasion.…

As news reports remind us on a daily basis, violence, and war are having a devastating effect on countries, communities, and individuals across the world. A new hour-long documentary Power on Patrol from the Women’s International League for Peace and…

US President Joe Biden says the US is certain the Syrian government is imprisoning American journalist Austin Tice, who went missing in the war-torn country a decade ago. "We know with certainty that he has been held by the Syrian regime," Mr Biden…

It's been 13 weeks since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. The United Nations reported that almost 4,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed in the war so far, but Kyiv believes the number of dead to be in the tens of thousands. Ukrainian…

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and several European countries have opened investigations into suspected war crimes being committed in Ukraine. Attacks on civilians and critical infrastructure, including the bombing of…

Russia has claimed its assault on Ukraine is aimed only at military targets, but bridges, schools and residential neighbourhoods have been hit since the invasion began on Thursday. Russia launched its invasion with massive air and missile strikes and…

The leaders of the United States and the United Kingdom have both accused Russia of staging "false flag" operations to discredit the Ukrainians and create a pretext for invading Ukraine. Ukrainian forces and pro-Moscow rebels clashed in the Donbas…

Ten years of conflict has taken a devastating toll on Syrian girls with child marriage, forced puberty, suicide and self harm on the rise, according to a new report. The report, titled In Harm's Way, found the crisis has profoundly changed the lives…

Twenty years of progress in Afghanistan may have been reversed in just weeks — at a speed that no-one could have imagined. As Taliban insurgents marched to Kabul last month, then-Afghan president Ashraf Ghani fled the country, leaving an opening for…

The last plane carrying US troops left Kabul airport just after midnight on Tuesday, marking the end of a two-decade military presence in Afghanistan. It also marked the end of a two-week evacuation frenzy as countries scrambled to get foreign…

In their first press conference since seizing power in Kabul, the Taliban last week reaffirmed their desire for diplomatic relations "with all countries of the world". "We want good relations, we want a good economy, we want good trading, we want…