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Sydney Covid restrictions widen amid Northern Beaches outbreak

Authorities in New South Wales will limit gatherings in homes and entertainment venues from Sunday after 28 (of 30) new Covid cases registered were linked to the Northern Beaches area.

China’s latest tariffs on Australian winemakers might cost them their biggest customer

Last year, China spent A$1.2 billion ($904 million) on imports, about 40% of Australia’s total shipments, according to Wine Australia.

Australia scraps Covid vaccine trials after participants show false positives for HIV

The vaccine was one of four candidates that Australia had committed to buy and agreements were made to secure 51 million doses of the vaccine.

Bye-bye Bali, hello Bondi. Grounded Australians holiday at home

With the international border closed, people who head overseas are being forced to vacation at home. It has increased domestic consumption, helping lift Australia out of recession.

Australia excluded from global climate change summit as policies lag

Australia's PM Scott Morrison wasn’t invited to speak at the United Nations Climate Action Summit because he hadn’t come up with an ambitious enough pledge.

Prisoners on priority vaccine list in Australia, blow to Hong Kong firms & other Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

Australia passes law that can scrap China’s Belt & Road accords, further worsen ties

The new law gives the foreign minister power to block or curtail new and previously signed agreements between overseas governments and Australia’s eight states and territories.

Australia, Japan plan to bury Asia’s carbon emissions under the ocean floor

Perth-based Transborders Energy Pty is working on proposals to ship emissions from heavy industry, and use a floating hub to inject material under the seabed.

SBI’s foreign shareholders question its proposed loan to Adani’s Australian coal mine

BlackRock & Norway’s Storebrand have raised concerns about SBI's proposed Rs 5,000 cr-loan to Adani Enterprises for its Carmichael coal mine in Australia.

China’s soft power is failing in Australia, despite opening Confucius institutes all over

China finds that its trustworthiness among ordinary Aussies has plummeted from 52 per cent to just 23 per cent in two years.

On Camera

Trump has called Delhi a big abuser of tariffs. India-US economic ties are about to change

How Trump responds to the growing Russia-China alliance and their anti-American diatribes will require some strategising among the Indian foreign policy and national security mandarins.

How Adani halving power supply to Bangladesh could land the country in ‘dire straits’

Bangladesh is already reeling from low coal-fired power production & inability to import enough coal, gas. Now, Adani has cut supplies over unpaid dues. However, this could hurt Adani too.

India, Bangladesh Army chiefs discuss issues of ‘mutual interest’

Video call between two Army heads is their first interaction after political upheaval in Bangladesh forced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India in August.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.