15-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: A whistleblower who helped expose allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan has been sentenced to five years and eight months in jail. David McBride pleaded guilty to stealing and sharing military secrets on the eve of his trial last year, after legal …
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15-05-2024 TBILISI: Georgia’s parliament is expected to give final approval to a controversial “foreign agent” law that has sparked weeks of mass street protests. Critics of the governing Georgian Dream party say the bill which they call the “Russia law” could be used to threaten civil liberties. Thousands of people …
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15-05-2024 WEST BANK/ GAZA CITY: Israeli protesters blocked aid trucks destined for Gaza on Monday, throwing food packages onto the road and ripping bags of grain open in the occupied West Bank. The Lorries, which were set upon at the Tarqumiya checkpoint west of Hebron, came from Jordan and were …
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14-05-2024 CAROLINA: Dozens of pro-Palestinian students at a US university commencement ceremony staged a walk out ahead of veteran comedian’s Jerry Seinfeld guest speech. Footage on social media showed some robed graduates at Duke University, North Carolina, chanting and waving Palestinian flags in protest as the actor received an honorary …
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14-05-2024 BRISBANE: A teenager who stabbed a British mother to death after breaking into her home in Australia has been jailed for 14 years. Emma Lovell, 41, was killed when confronting two intruders in Brisbane on Boxing Day in 2022. She had emigrated from Suffolk in 2011 with her daughters …
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14-05-2024 MOSCOW: Russia is claiming its forces have entered the north-eastern border town of Vovchansk, near Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv. Ukraine says there is still heavy fighting taking place there. Russia has intensified its attacks on the region following Friday’s surprise incursions across the border, seizing at least nine …
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14-05-2024 WARSAW: A raging inferno destroyed a massive shopping centre in Warsaw this morning as firefighters scrambled to save the 1,400 stores within the building. A thick blanket of smoke covered the Polish capital in the Bialoleka district as suspicions of ‘arson’ have swirled following the shocking blaze that ripped …
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14-05-2024 OTTAWA: A fourth Indian national has been arrested and charged by the Canadian authorities over the killing of a separatist Sikh activist in Vancouver last year, a case that has strained diplomatic relations with India. Amandeep Singh, 22, was already in custody for unrelated gun charges before being charged …
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14-05-2024 RAFAH/ GAZA CITY: At least 300,000 Palestinians have fled Gaza’s Rafah, according to the United Nations, as Israel expands its offensive in the southern city and confronts Hamas fighters there. Israeli tanks are moving deeper into the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, witnesses said, after launching a series …
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14-05-2024 NAIROBI/ DODOMA/ KAMPALA Internet users in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda have been complaining about poor connectivity as service providers across East Africa acknowledge there has been a problem. They have said they are working to fix it. The patchy service was a result of faults in the under-sea …
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