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New Zealand has reported its first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu after a migratory seabird found on a beach near the capital Wellington tested positive, Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard announced. The case in a brown skua seabird comes after the virus was detected last month in Australia, the last continent to report the…
There are few more heated rivalries in world sport than England against Argentina. When the two teams meet in Atlanta in the World Cup semifinal on Thursday (AEST) it will be just the latest chapter of a furious battle that has ebbed and flowed since their first official meeting on a football pitch in the…
A parasitic infection that causes diarrhoea is spreading across the United States and officials still have not tracked down the source of the outbreak. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) said on Tuesday, local time, it had confirmed 1,645 cases of an intestinal infection from the Cyclospora parasite that causes diarrhoea, nausea and…
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has ordered its officers to suspend most vehicle stops around the country after agents fatally shot two men six days apart during traffic stops in Maine and Texas. This marks a significant shift in arrest tactics, and comes after the shooting of two US citizens in January sparked nationwide…
The former manager of a Darwin tobacconist has avoided jail time after he was busted with hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of illegally imported tobacco. Mohammed Aloachey pleaded guilty in the Northern Territory Supreme Court this morning to one count of possessing tobacco with intent to defraud the Commonwealth in 2024. The court heard…
Former assistant tax commissioner Nick Petroulias has been charged with multiple fraud offences, accused of obtaining financial advantage by deception and using false documents. The charges come four years after the Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC) found he and others engaged in serious corrupt conduct in relation to property dealings involving the Awabakal Local Aboriginal…
The United States International Trade Commission is investigating whether to impose additional tariffs on Australian lamb. It has launched a global safeguard investigation to determine if lamb meat imported from other countries, including Australia, threatens the domestic industry. Ambassador Jamieson Greer formally requested the investigation under the Trade Act on July 13. It follows an…
Police are appealing for witnesses after the attempted sexual assault of two women in Melbourne’s east was reportedly thwarted by a pack of dogs. Investigators were told a 67-year-old Toorak woman and a 39-year-old Glen Iris woman were walking with eight dogs along Gardiners Creek in Kooyong about 11:30am on Tuesday when a man attacked…
A Victorian primary school teacher allegedly groomed, indecently assaulted and made a boy sexually penetrate her in the late 1990s, a jury has heard. Warning: This story contains detailed descriptions of alleged child sexual assault. Nicole Anne Jones, formerly known as Nicky Cravino, is charged with 19 counts of indecent act with a child under…
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent. The Sunshine Protection Act passed with an overwhelming majority: 308 votes in favour and 117 against, and politicians from both parties voted for the bill. However, it still has to pass the US Senate. If the bill becomes law,…