31 August 2026
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31 August 2026
Another Miss Universe Philippines alumna, Karenza De Leon, is set to represent Australia at the Miss International pageant. De Leon was crowned Miss International Australia at the national search held ...
31 August 2026
Australian authorities warn international visitors that specific mistakes made during airport arrival procedures can result in denied entry and being sent back home.
31 August 2026
Australia sets a 35-year cap for Subclass 485 Post-Study Work stream visa eligibility, targeting recent international graduates for temporary work.
31 August 2026
Pedro Sánchez says two countries are cooperating after mass incursion by 70,000 people into north African enclave Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has insisted there was no evidence to suggest the Moroccan government was behind last month’s massive border crossing into Ceuta . As many as 141 people are thought to have died trying to enter the Spanish enclave at the end of July. The influx of about 70,000 men, women and children unleashed a political crisis, a humanitarian emergency and reignited tensions over immigration within the EU .
31 August 2026
Mexican offshore contractor Cotemar has launched legal action in New York seeking to enforce a $34. 8m Mexican judgment against ABSG Consulting, a subsidiary of the American Bureau of Shipping. Cotemar values the claim at $59. 4m after adding interest under Mexican and New York law. The dispute stems from work carried out in the Gulf of …
31 August 2026
Washington has overhauled the rules governing its Title XI ship and shipyard financing programme, lowering application costs and removing a potential bottleneck for projects using foreign equipment. The US Maritime Administration’s interim final rule took effect on August 28 and cuts the Title XI application fee from $5,000 to $1,000. The agency has also replaced …
31 August 2026
Russell Vought, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, testified before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs in July. Samuel Corum/Sipa USA via AP Images In mid-July testimony before Congress, Russell Vought boasted that, as the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he’d refashioned the agency’s approach to pursuing banks and other financial companies accused of exploiting Americans — the role Congress had created for the agency after the 2008 economic crash. Vought had spent the first 18 months of the new Trump administration trying to dismantle the bureau, much as he and other appointees had done with the U. S. Agency for International Development .
