Listen to podcast here and get your Aussie accent fix! Authorities in India have demolished the homes of several people accused of being involved in last week’s riots that were triggered by derogatory comments made by politicians about the Prophet Muhammad. Muslims have been protesting all over the country. The…

Orlando Jorge Mera, The Dominican Republic’s minister of environment and natural resources, was shot dead in his office by a close friend on Monday. His murderer was arrested after confessing the crime to a priest at a nearby church. The childhood friends had recently disagreed about an environmental policy and…

Turkey has rebranded to Türkiye which is how it’s pronounced in Turkish. This was in a hope to distance themselves from the bird. The UN has accepted the request for change so it’s all official. There was a plane crash in Napal last week. The Tara Air flight went missing…

Sri Lanka is in an even worse position this week. People are waiting 30 plus hours for fuel and many petrol stations are empty causing massive chaos. There have been preventable deaths due to people not being able to access fuel to get to the hospital. The country has missed…

Welcome to this week’s Global Brief international news update! You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or Anchor. I’m really excited to have uploaded my 13th episode of the podcast! Over 100 hundred people have died in an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in a forest in…

This week’s Global Brief international news update. You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or Anchor. Last week a gunman entered a New York Subway train letting off a smoke bomb and firing 33 shots into a carriage that he was riding in. Unbelievably, ten people were injured…

Before we start you can listen to the Global Brief podcast on Apple, Spotify or Google. There have been riots this week in Peru because of inflation and the rising prices of fuel and fertiliser due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This was then made worse by the prime minister…

Every week I host a short podcast called the Global Brief. For those who don’t have podcast access here is what happened in the international news that probably didn’t make it to your local news. …

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