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Australia World News API

Get the live top world headlines from Australia with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Australia World News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from Australia.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=au&category=world&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 149664,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "6e3416bbc5c4c939749924b8df4da7ad",
            "title": "Fiji needs to act on human trafficking indicators associated with Grace Road Group",
            "description": "Fiji needs to act on human trafficking indicators associated with Grace Road Group",
            "content": "The United States remains deeply concerned about indicators of trans-national organised crime and human trafficking in Fiji associated with the Grace Road Group as outlined in the 2025 US Trafficking In Persons Report as well as other suspected traff... [6981 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.fijivillage.com/news/us-deeply-concerned-about-human-trafficking-indicators-associated-with-the-grace-road-group-9027a5/",
            "image": "https://www.fijivillage.com/news_images/20251217161644_media_69422ac40f4c23_58560841.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-17T04:02:10Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "d09bd724492d6dd007b475108c306a91",
                "name": "Fijivillage",
                "url": "https://www.fijivillage.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "04ff8ca14bee947c2b46d6be08be7f27",
            "title": "Elon Musk’s X wins appeal to lift block on Australians seeing Charlie Kirk shooting footage",
            "description": "In successful challenge, X argued the video wasn’t excessively offensive and was an objective record of a ‘public event of historical and political significance’",
            "content": "The Australian classification review board has overturned a decision to block Australians seeing footage of the shooting of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk on social media after Elon Musk’s X appealed against the ruling sought by the eSafety com... [2871 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/17/elon-musks-x-wins-appeal-to-lift-block-on-australians-seeing-charlie-kirk-shooting-footage",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b7309d22a23a4060507b89250ef86c3b4768635d/198_0_3551_2841/master/3551.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=9ac28935b12b257bc7f8c37bd56aabd9",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-17T03:49:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3cb8688f0cdaee5671813976991f11e6",
            "title": "Trump’s ‘Article 5-Lite’ for Ukraine Is Dead End, New Report Warns",
            "description": "A Washington think tank argues that vague security promises won’t stop Putin – advocating instead for an “armed nonalignment” model to secure Kyiv’s future.",
            "content": "WASHINGTON DC – As the Trump administration tests the idea of offering Ukraine vague, “Article 5-like” security assurances in exchange for a negotiated end to Russia’s war, a new report from a Washington defense think tank argues the proposal is neit... [5839 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.kyivpost.com/post/66382",
            "image": "https://static.kyivpost.com/storage/2025/12/13/198a850f7751d21b9a1dcb95c690a2b9.jpg?w=1200&q=90&f=jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-17T03:13:54Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "02c887af92e2e2e697e74bf65abd5a9b",
                "name": "Kyiv Post",
                "url": "https://www.kyivpost.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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