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G7 leaders have agreed to intensify pressure on Russia to end more than four years of war against Ukraine, with US President Donald Trump saying Moscow should “make a deal”. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy joined the summit at the French resort of Évian-les-Bains, with Ukraine seen as holding up well on the battlefield but its…
A Russian artist known for his satirising President Vladimir Putin has been shot dead in eastern Poland, officials say. “An investigation is being conducted … into the murder of a 44-year-old citizen of the Russian Federation … known in the media as Semyon Skrepetsky,” a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Lublin, Marcin Kozak, told…
US President Donald Trump is maintaining that an interim accord with Iran makes clear that Tehran would never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon, and he also suggested Syria could be better positioned to disarm Iran-backed Hezbollah. Speaking ahead of talks with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on the sidelines of…
Embattled Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has refused to provide a figure for how much CFMEU corruption has cost taxpayers in the state, a scandal that has put the government and her leadership under threat. Criminal activity inside the construction union had cost taxpayers in Victoria an estimated $15 billion, an investigation by Geoffrey Watson SC…
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the image and name of a person who has died. One second. That is how long a police officer said it took to storm a bathroom, order twice for Aubrey Donahue to drop a knife and fire the shot that killed him. The…
The Northern Territory’s biggest independent provider of services to victims of crime is closing its Alice Springs office, citing funding insecurity as the primary reason for the closure. Victims of Crime NT (VoCNT) is an independent community organisation that provides a range of programs and support services to people impacted by crime, including domestic, family…
Hervé Renard has been appointed Tunisia’s coach at the FIFA World Cup following the sacking of Sabri Lamouchi. Lamouchi was removed from his position in the wake of Tunisia’s humiliating 5-1 defeat to Sweden in its World Cup opener in Monterrey. The 54-year-old had only been in charge of the national team since January. Renard…
A teenager accused of planning to carry out a terror attack at a Queensland Labour Day event changed his target to the Liberal National Party after researching its nuclear power policy, a jury has heard. The boy, who cannot legally be identified, is currently on trial in the Supreme Court in Brisbane, charged with acts…
The defence lawyer for a woman accused of murdering her parents by injecting them with insulin has told a jury there is a “reasonable possibility” her 94-year-old father administered the drug to himself. Raelene Polymiadis, 65, of Craigmore, is standing trial in South Australia’s Supreme Court after pleading not guilty to the separate murders of…
A man who deliberately crashed into a 14-year-old boy and watched on as others stabbed him to death with machetes has been found guilty of murder. Today’s verdict in Victoria’s Supreme Court means three people have now been held responsible for murdering Ethan Hoac in St Albans late on June 26, 2023. The court heard…