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Benin's Republican Police issue wanted notice for suspected coup leaders and hefty reward for information to help locate them.
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Newest first · UTC+11:00‘It’s wrong’: Former judge says mental health suppression orders threaten court system
Victoria’s top law officer says she is working to balance the need for transparency in the courts with the right to a fair trial, after a report warned of a “crisis” in open justice.
· Cassandra Morgan, Chip Le Grand
Eight-year-old Gold Coast girl killed at Japanese ski resort
An eight-year-old girl from the Gold Coast has died in a suspected snowmobile accident while on holiday with family overseas.
· Catherine Strohfeldt
Pakistan says it killed 67 Afghan force members
A man inspects a car damaged after a Pakistani strike in on a refugee camp in Takhta Pul district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Sibghatullah)
· Munir Ahmed
Ex-Apple Daily executive first to appeal sentence in landmark Hong Kong trial
Fung Wai-kong, former managing editor of Apple Daily’s English edition, filed appeal with Hong Kong’s High Court on Monday
· Jess Ma
At least 787 killed as US-Israel strikes hit 153 cities: Iranian Red Crescent
Iran’s Red Crescent says the death toll from US and Israeli attacks has climbed sharply, with hundreds killed across the country since strikes began at the weekend.
· Middleeasteye
State Department confirms Foreign Service Officer is suspect in Virginia ‘road rage’ mass stabbing
The suspect in a highway “road rage incident” Sunday that left one woman and a dog dead and several other women wounded was a Foreign Service Officer, the State Department confirmed to Fox News Digital.
· Fox News
Bodycam footage shows ‘American Idol’ contestant reacting to wife’s death — before being charged with her murder
Chilling new police bodycam video has captured former “American Idol” contestant Caleb Flynn’s reaction after his wife and mother to their two children was found dead inside their home.
· Chris Bradford
Iran holds mass funeral for girls, staff killed in US-Israel school attack
Iran held a mass funeral ceremony for 165 schoolgirls and staff killed on Saturday in what Iran has described as a United States-Israeli attack on a girls’ school in the southern city of Minab.
· Al Jazeera Staff
Israel assures lifelong assistance to family of slain Filipina caregiver
MANILA, Philippines — The Israeli government assured comprehensive assistance, including lifelong livelihood support, to the family of Filipina caregiver Mary Ann Velasquez de Vera who was killed in an Iranian airstrike in Tel Aviv, according to Israeli Ambassador to Manila Dana Kursh.
· Franco Jose C. Baroña
Iran’s regime is vile, but what Trump and Netanyahu have done is a war crime
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· Geoffrey Robertson
Man shot dead by police after ‘threatening officers with knife’
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DV prevention groups reject NT plan to increase mandatory sentencing
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· Jacqueline Breen
Is the US arming Mexican cartels?
The day after one of Mexico’s most wanted drug lords, known as “El Mencho”, was killed in a dawn raid last week, Defence Minister Ricardo Trevilla Trejo told reporters that 80 percent of weapons seized from cartels have been smuggled across the border from the United States.
· Al Jazeera
Radiohead blasts ICE for using their song in video mourning victims of migrant crime, demands it be taken down
English rock band Radiohead told ICE to “go f— yourselves” on Friday after one of their songs had been used in a video mourning the victims of illegal immigrant crime.
· Fox News
Man arrested after deadly street fight
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‘I’ve waited 10 years for the truth’: The billionaire, the French president and the satellite that crashed to Earth
A decade ago, Singapore property mogul Ching Chiat Kwong made a promise to himself – one day he would return to Australia and seek justice in the courts for the investors who were burnt in the collapse of satellite company NewSat.
· Sarah Danckert
Tobacconist targeted by arsonists four times destroyed by molotov cocktails
Police say they cannot rule out an organised crime connection to the arson of a tobacconist in north Queensland.
· Liam Mcnally
Police have released CCTV footage of arsonists setting a tobacconist ablaze in the early hours of the morning in Mackay, Queensland.
Police have released CCTV footage of arsonists setting a tobacconist ablaze in the early hours of the morning in Mackay, Queensland.
Man acquitted of 2009 murder later confessed twice, court hears
An application is being heard in the Court of Appeal to re-try a man previously acquitted of a 2009 murder. (ABC News: Brendan Mounter)
· Talissa Siganto
Queensland massage therapist charged with sexually assaulting four clients
Police have charged a Diamond Valley man with three counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault. (Supplied: Queensland Police Service)
· Madeline Grace
Malaysian student charged with desecrating Koran in viral video
The viral post showing a man stepping on the Koran and mocking the Prophet Mohammed has triggered 82 police reports and a national outcry
· Iman Muttaqin Yusof
‘Now they only deport’: Afghans trapped in Pakistan arrested and sent back after ‘open war’ breaks out
Journalists and activists who fled Taliban rule are living in fear as Pakistani police hunt and deport refugees after escalating cross-border clashes
· Zahra Nader and Freshta Ghani for Zan Times
Malaysian, Filipino killed in helicopter crash southeast of Manila
The Bell 505 helicopter was en route to Quezon when it crashed in a grassy area in Pililla town at about 7.30am
· Agence France-Presse
Mentally ill Hongkonger admits killing mother he mistook for ‘monster lizard’
Man has been under mental healthcare since 2015 for schizophrenia symptoms, including hallucinations and delusions, court told
· Brian Wong
2 killed in helicopter emergency landing in Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A civilian helicopter made an emergency landing Tuesday in a grassy clearing near a village east of the Philippine capital, killing two people and injuring the three others onboard.
Hazing eyed in death of Cavite student
GENERAL TRIAS CITY, Cavite — The police are investigating the death of a first year student who died of injuries sustained in a suspected hazing ritual on Sunday.
· DENNIS ABRINA
Canino, Ybanez named UAAP Players of the Week
MANILA, Philippines — Doing queen things and dominating on the court, Angel Canino of De La Salle University and Josh Ybañez of University of Santo Tomas flaunted their MVP form to propel their respective teams to an undefeated stretch in the second week of the UAAP Season 88 collegiate volleyball tournament.
· The Manila Times
Chief Justice urges review of judicial reform bills ‘to the very end’
Supreme Court Chief Justice Jo Hee-de on Tuesday expressed concern over the recent passage of three judicial reform bills, urging the National Assembly to “carefully consider until the very end” whether the legislation contains any provisions that could harm the public.
· Yoon Min-sik
Armed man shot dead by police in Sydney after two women attacked in apartment
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Man pleads not guilty to murder of pregnant woman and her partner
Athena Georgopoulos was found dead after a disturbance at a Mount Waverley home in August 2025. (Supplied)
· Alexandra Alvaro
Hong Kong police alerted after man seen repeatedly hitting baby’s foot in train
Alleged abuse captured on video is posted by commuter who says the man slapped the infant’s foot more than 20 times over seven minutes
· Fiona Chow
Murder charge downgraded to assault after man dies in Adelaide Hills
Police were called to the scene after reports a man had been assaulted. (ABC News: Daniel Taylor)
Florida man convicted of fatally shooting police officer set for execution
Clouds hover over the entrance of the Florida State Prison in Starke, Fla., Aug. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Curt Anderson, File)
DV victim’s pleas for help labelled ‘lower priority’ before her murder
Police knew of “high risk” domestic violence complaints against a man weeks before he set his estranged wife on fire and killed her, a coroner has heard.
· Rex Martinich
Police shoot man dead in Tingalpa
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Man shot dead by police in Brisbane's east
A man has died after being shot by police in the Brisbane suburb of Tingalpa. (ABC News: Cameron Lang)
· Ned Hammond
Tucker Carlson says Israeli Mossad agents arrested for planning bombings in Saudi Arabia and Qatar - DailyNews
US political commentator and journalist Tucker Carlson on Monday said Saudi Arabia and Qatar caught and “arrested Israeli Mossad agents planning bombings in those countries”.
· Supuni Kulasinghe
Police rejected reviewing Kelly Wilkinson case before murder, inquest hears
Kelly Wilkinson was killed by her estranged husband in 2021. (Go Fund Me: Natalie Wilkinson)
· Charmayne Allison
Man who 'threatened police with knife' shot dead by police at Brisbane home
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· Rebecca Masters
Teenager was ‘persistent’ when allegedly trying to lure boy away from Perth park
A teenager who allegedly attempted to lure a young boy from his local park and followed him down a laneway when he tried to get help was “persistent”, a Perth court has heard.
· Hannah Murphy
Police improperly granted Kelly Wilkinson’s estranged husband bail days before he murdered her, inquest hears
Rape allegations meant magistrate should have determined Brian Earl Johnston’s bail, Queensland coroner’s court told
· Andrew Messenger
Less than 1pc of prison strip searches find contraband, report finds
Kelly Flanagan says she was left feeling demoralised and humiliated when she was strip searched in prison. (Supplied: Tash Khan)
· Ahmed Yussuf
High Court defends parents, kids in blocking Newsom transgender law
The Supreme Court made the right decision Monday to block Gavin Newsom’s insane law barring schools from informing parents whose children say they want to change genders.
· Sonja Shaw
2 killed, 3 injured in Rizal helicopter crash
MANILA, Philippines — Two people died and three others were injured on Tuesday when a Bell 505 Jet Ranger X helicopter went down in Rizal, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) reported.
· Benjamin L. Vergara
NSW Police address media after armed man shot dead by police
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Alleged triple murderer's court proceedings halted as search continues
Julian Ingram remains on the run after more than five weeks. (Supplied: NSW Police)
· Xanthe Gregory
Rights group says 742 killed in Iran after US-Israeli strikes
At least 96 people, including 85 civilians and 11 military personnel, were killed in the past 24 hours following joint US-Israeli strikes in Iran, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said on Monday.
· Middleeasteye
Gold Coast mum's pleas to police labelled 'lower priority' before murder
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· Rex Martinich
Airport worker in court accused of Nazi salute to Jewish kids
Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
· Emily Woods