Black market tobacco trade continues to thrive as sellers turn to counterfeit packaging to skirt bans, prompting calls for the urgent passing of tougher laws. Intelligence provided to the federal ...

A person has died in Russia after contracting a severe lung infection in a case of suspected plague. Experts say that key details remains unanswered, and call for transperency from Russian authorities ...

Convenience store owners across Australia are being threatened, attacked and losing billions in revenue if they do not bend to the illegal tobacco trade. Owners have lost $3 billion in legal cigarette ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Convenience store owners across Australia are being threatened, attacked and losing billions in revenue if they do not bend to the ...

Launched in 1997, the graphic campaign spearheaded a decline in smoking rates as the nation embarked on a war against cigarettes. But now, nearly three decades later, Australia has started to lose the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoke rising from a cargo ship on fire in the Black Sea off the Turkish coast, November 2025 - AFP via Getty Images/Security ...