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Australia repeals medical evacuation for refugees

04 December, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia has repealed a medical evacuation law for asylum seekers and refugees detained in its so-called offshore processing centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru citing concerns about security, and triggering an angry response from opposition politicians and refugee advocates. With the upper …

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Southeastern Australia has four seasons in one day

03 December, 2019 By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE: The start of Australia’s meteorological summer was marked by out-of-season snow that blanketed ski fields and alpine regions over the mountains in the southeast. For the second day in a row, Victoria’s Mt Hotham received significant snowfall. Hotham Alpine Resort reported that approximately 30cm …

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Maltese PM to quit over journalist’s murder probe

02 December, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies VALLETTA/ MELBOURNE: Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said he will resign next month amid growing calls for his departure over the scandal surrounding the murder of prominent anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. In a televised address to the nation on Sunday, Muscat said …

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