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John Fitzgerald, Richard McGregor and Linda Jakobson join Geraldine Doogue to discuss tensions in the relationship between Australia and China.

A global Malaria Congress will be held in Melbourne next month, amid concern that progress in battling this life-threatening disease has stalled. Plus, why are Icelanders so passionate about football?

Japan and South Korea are reassessing their positions after the Singapore agreement, a tragic story about a small group of Belgian villagers prepared to take huge risks.

Protests in Jordan and reform in Saudi Arabia. Plus, a bi-partisan visit to the north Pacific highlights Australia's interest in the security and prosperity of the region.

A populist coalition government has been sworn into power in Italy on Friday, ending months of political uncertainty. And Charlotte Bingham talks to Geraldine Doogue about her comic memoir, MI5 and Me.

With dark memories of earlier economic collapse, Argentines have taken to the streets in protest at President Mauricio Macri's appeal to the IMF for $US30 billion to help with its latest financial crisis.

Modi's recent state electoral success and other developments in India

Fifty years after student riots and striking workers almost toppled the government, France is still divided over the myth and the legacy of May '68. Now, President Macron is facing his own spring of discontent