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A Ballarat-based mining company has been granted a licence to see if any gold is left around Daylesford, leaving residents worried about long-term impacts.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will study whether to toughen regulation of large livestock farms that pollute waterways

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian did not rule out his country’s regime retaliating against Europe if it decides to blacklist Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization.

Nine people were killed in a mass shooting late Saturday in a city east of Los Angeles following a Lunar New Year celebration that attracted thousands, police said. Sgt. Bob Boese of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said the shooting occurred at a business on Garvey Ave. in Monterey…

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps on Saturday warned the European Union against making a “mistake” by listing it as a terror group, after the bloc’s parliament called for the measure. “If the Europeans make a mistake, they must accept the consequences,” IRGC chief Major General Hossein Salami said, according to the…

Police in Lima use teargas on demonstrators, with authorities claiming massive fire at historic building was ‘duly planned’

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