One week into e-bike crackdown, 63 bikes and scooters seized
In the first week since Queensland began its e-mobility crackdown, more than 60 bikes and scooters have been seized by police.
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US strikes on Iran have killed 14 people and left 78 injured over the past two days, Iran's health ministry said on Thursday.
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Herzog, elections chief, Shin Bet head warn of efforts to disrupt upcoming vote
President Isaac Herzog met Thursday with Central Elections Committee chairman Justice Noam Sohlberg and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) head David Zini, issuing a joint warning that internal and foreign actors were seeking to undermine the integrity of Israel’s upcoming election.
· SARAH BEN-NUN
Police search for 30-year-old mother missing in regional Qld
Thu 9 Jul 2026 at 7:00pm
· Aisling Brennan
Police launch death probe after senator sounds alarm
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Woman arrested in Japan for sewing shut housemate's lips
TOKYO — Japanese police arrested a woman near Tokyo for allegedly sewing shut the lips of her housemate, officials said Thursday.
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SC junks petitions vs No Contact Apprehension Policy
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Three-time deported illegal immigrant charged with killing North Carolina girl, 6, after running stop sign
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A 'surge in calls' among pressures mounting on police, review finds
Thu 9 Jul 2026 at 6:17pm
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(3rd LD) Supreme Court upholds 7-yr prison term for ex-President Yoon for obstruction of justice
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· Lee Haye-ah
(LEAD) PPP leader visits Gwangju amid murder case controversy, fails to meet with police chief
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Hong Kong corruption watchdog charges 3 over HK$1.3 million elderly care voucher fraud
Trio allegedly conspired with 10 carers to fake attendance records, overstating 5,000 hours across 130 users
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Hong Kong corruption watchdog charges 3 over HK$1.3 million elderly care voucher fraud
Trio allegedly conspired with 10 carers to fake attendance records, overstating 5,000 hours across 130 users
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FACT CHECK: No clash between protesters, police in Liwasang Bonifacio rally
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Top court upholds South Korean ex-president Yoon's 7-year jail sentence
SEOUL — South Korea's highest court upheld ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol's seven-year prison sentence on Thursday over crimes tied to his botched 2024 martial law declaration and its chaotic aftermath.
· Agence France-Presse
New task force to examine past police investigations amid Gwangju probe controversy
SEOUL, July 9 (Yonhap) -- Police said Thursday they will launch a task force dedicated to examining past investigations amid a growing controversy over the alleged leak of investigative details by local police investigators in a recent high-profile murder case.
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Hong Kong man pleads guilty to subversive promotion of pro-Taiwan party
Chan Ho-hin earlier called on Hongkongers to support and join the Revive the Republic of China Freedom Party in Taiwan
· Brian Wong
Hong Kong man pleads guilty to subversive promotion of pro-Taiwan party
Chan Ho-hin earlier called on Hongkongers to support and join the Revive the Republic of China Freedom Party in Taiwan
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3 ex-PSS officials get prison terms for obstructing Yoon arrest warrant
SEOUL, July 9 (Yonhap) -- Park Jong-joon, former chief of the Presidential Security Service (PSS), and Kim Seong-hoon, its former deputy chief, were sentenced to prison Thursday for blocking investigators from executing a warrant to detain former President Yoon Suk Yeol last year.
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Spanish court refuses to refer migrant amnesty to Europe
Despite complaints from regional governments, the controversial mass regularisation process will not be passed up the legal chain to an EU court - for now.
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Flooding from Tropical Storm Maysak kills 39 in southern China
Flooding from Tropical Storm Maysak has killed 39 people in southern China, most of them after a dam breach inundated the city of Nanning.
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NSW Police officer taken into custody after sexually assaulting then-wife
Thu 9 Jul 2026 at 5:11pm
· Isobel Roe
Han Dong-hoon denies Ahn’s testimony over martial law night, warns of legal action
Independent Rep. Han Dong-hoon on Thursday rejected People Power Party Rep. Ahn Cheol-soo’s court testimony that he had called People Power Party lawmakers to the party headquarters, not the National Assembly, on Dec. 3, 2024, when martial law was declared by former President Yoon Suk Yeol.
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Breaking: Death on day of Telstra outage investigated by police
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Malacañang rejects service extension for retiring Calabarzon top cop Marantan
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South Korea's Supreme Court upholds prison sentence for Yoon
A TV screen shows an image of former South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
· Kim Tong Hyung
Couple who robbed elderly neighbor after meeting in bomb shelter sentenced to prison
A Haifa couple was sentenced to prison on Wednesday for robbing an 80-year-old woman whom they'd first met in their apartment building's bomb shelter in 2024.
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NY mom beaten to death inside Ireland home as police search for person of interest she knew: report
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· Nicholas McEntyre
Court told former Wagga Wagga MP was 'kept in dark' over visa scheme
Thu 9 Jul 2026 at 4:00pm
· Melinda Hayter
Alexander Zverev unfazed by potential Wimbledon lion’s den for Arthur Fery clash
No 2 seed set to be public enemy No 1 on Centre Court when he faces home favourite for right to meet Novak Djokovic or Jannik Sinner in final
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Alexander Zverev unfazed by potential Wimbledon lion’s den for Arthur Fery clash
No 2 seed set to be public enemy No 1 on Centre Court when he faces home favourite for right to meet Novak Djokovic or Jannik Sinner in final
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[Breaking] Supreme Court upholds Yoon’s 7-year sentence for obstructing arrest
First top-court ruling in Yoon’s martial law-related criminal cases comes 583 days after failed declaration
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Supreme Court upholds prison terms for shaman, ex-Unification Church official
SEOUL, July 9 (Yonhap) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed prison sentences for a shaman and a former Unification Church official in a bribery case linked to former first lady Kim Keon Hee.
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(2nd LD) Supreme Court upholds 7-yr prison term for ex-President Yoon for obstruction of justice
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NJ cop in charge of K-9 unit charged after leaving two police dogs to die in hot car for 7 hours: report
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WATCH: No barbs for now
Police teams transfer barbed wires, used for crowd control outside the Senate building in Pasay City, to a nearby government-owned compound for safekeeping. Videos by Bernadette E. Tamayo
· The Manila Times
(LEAD) Supreme Court upholds 7-yr prison term for ex-President Yoon for obstruction of justice
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(URGENT) Supreme Court upholds 7-yr prison term for ex-President Yoon for obstruction of justice
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Father of Australian girl shot by Pakistani police claims he was ‘coerced’ to give over signature to see her body
The father of a Perth girl who was shot dead by police while on a family holiday in Pakistan has alleged in court documents he was coerced into signing a blank piece of paper and giving over his thumbprint before he was allowed to see his dead daughter and seriously injured son.
· Hannah Murphy, Nabeel Anwar Dhakku
No term extension for Calabarzon police chief — Palace
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has thumbed down the request of Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla to extend the term of Calabarzon police chief Brig. Gen. Hansel Marantan by a year.
· Kristina Maralit
Man, 34, charged with murder over death of female partner, 17
Thu 9 Jul 2026 at 3:08pm
· Gemma Ferguson
Thai court greenlights government's $12bn emergency borrowing
Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul at the parliament in Bangkok. His government has approved an emergency decree to borrow 400 billion baht ($12 billion) to cushion the impact on energy due to the U.S. war with Iran. © Reuters
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HMP Pentonville handed my son a death sentence
An inquest found multiple failures at the prison had led to Gareth Chumber-Kelly's death
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Taylor defends Sarah Henderson’s triple-zero calls amid questions about claimed Telstra-outage death in SA
South Australian police say they’re unaware of death despite claim by Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle
· Sarah Basford Canales
Flooding in southern China has killed 39 people
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers evacuate stranded teachers and students at Xijiang education park in the aftermath of tropical storm Maysak in Guigang City, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, July 8, 2026. (Zhou Hua/Xinhua via AP)
SK chief heads to New York for SK hynix’s Nasdaq debut
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won is set to attend SK hynix’s Nasdaq debut ceremony in New York this week, as the chipmaker moves to court global investors on the strength of its AI memory business.
· Jie Ye-eun
‘They said: wear angelic white’: British women who accused US airman of rape tell of American military trial
Two women who alleged they were raped by Tyrion Davis in Suffolk had to testify at an invasive court martial on a US base
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