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A 32-year-old man whose car hit a power pole with enough force to split it is the fourth road crash victim within 24 hours, with SA Police saying speed is a major factor behind a surging death toll.
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Across EU, voters boost Greens and far right to leave centrist groups diminished
EU election live results 2019: across Europe European election live results 2019: across the UK Five things we learned from the UK results Five things we learned from results across
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Only weeks after overturning what would have been the first suspension of his storied career, Geelong’s Gary Ablett is again mulling whether to challenge a one-game ban.
Match review officer Michael Christian came down hard on the dual Brownlow medallist for hitting Gold Coast opponent Anthony Miles in the jaw
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It is the first time since 1963 that a Turkish Cypriot has been elected to office [Philippos Christou/AP]
Cyprus has elected a Turkish Cypriot as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the first time on the ethnically divided island.
Niyazi Kizilyurek, a 59-year-old university professor, was
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Pro-European parties retained a firm grip on the EU parliament, provisional results from the bloc’s elections showed on Monday, though eurosceptic opponents saw strong gains.
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Nasdaq withdrew its offer for Oslo Bors on Monday, giving pan-European exchange Euronext free rein to pursue its bid for the Norwegian stock market operator after a five-month battle.
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French police have arrested a 24-year old man suspected of being behind last week’s bomb blast in the central city of Lyon that injured 13 people.
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President Donald Trump doubled down on his support for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s scathing view of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Monday, dismissing criticism that he was siding with a dictator over a fellow American.
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U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton is “more than ignorant” to argue that North Korea’s recent missile tests violated U.N. resolutions, the North’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday.
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James* travelled to Russia last year with ‘fan ID’ on the promise of a glittering football career, but soon found himself stranded in Sochi [Julian Colling/Al Jazeera]
Names marked with an asterisk* have been changed to protect interviewees’ anonymity.
Sochi and Moscow, Russia – At around the time
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Benin says it is working with the French government to arrange the return of precious artifacts stolen during the colonial era.
But one of the challenges is the capacity to look after the items once they arrive.
Many of the items are thought to have been taken from the Kingdom
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed received General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Abu Dhabi [AP]
The head of Sudan’s military council has concluded a visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ahead of a general strike called by Sudan’s protest movement demanding the council hand over power to civilians.
General Abdel
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Police officials said authorities were investigating Sunday’s blasts [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]
Security forces in Nepal have been on high alert amid a general strike on Monday called by an outlawed communist group suspected in a series of explosions that killed four people and wounded seven more in the capital.
Two vehicles were
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Algerian demonstrators march during a protest in Algiers on March 29, 2019 [File: Toufik Doudou/AP]
As the announcement of the deal of the century approaches, the Arab world is growing increasingly tense. Widespread rumours about the contents of the proposal have fuelled public outrage across the region.
By
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Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) surged to a clear victory in Sunday’s European Parliament vote, a stamp of approval for the party’s nationalist, eurosceptic platform before a national election later in the year.
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ASAD Ahmed, one of about 1.2 million young Indians entering the cutthroat job market each month, diligently scribbles notes at a computer class in New Delhi.
While nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a new five-year term promising to step up his campaign for a “new India”, 18-year-old Ahmed is
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DONALD Trump on Monday became the first foreign leader to meet Japan’s newly enthroned Emperor Naruhito — an honour Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes will help charm the US president when it comes to thorny trade talks.
After Trump and Naruhito greeted each other in the Tokyo palace, they stood
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As Europe stands at the precipice of further integration or a stark return to the supremacy of nation states, one member — Hungary — is showing what might happen if the latter route is chosen.
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Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber becomes the first big-name to fall at this year’s French Open, but there is no such worry for the returning Roger Federer.
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The Pope urges doctors and priests to support pregnancies being carried to term even if the foetus is likely to die and says opposing abortion is not a religious issue but a human one.
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Papua New Guinea is being engulfed in political turmoil; in the face of growing dissent, the Prime Minister has announced he is stepping down, but who will replace him, and how it will happen, remains very uncertain.
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China’s automated censors are working overtime to block content as the 30th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests at Tiananmen Square nears.
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The families of Islamic State fighters, including Australians, are living in increasingly desperate conditions at a Syrian refugee camp. But some aid groups are choosing to stay away.
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THERE’S no more important issue for Australia at this time in the history of its international economic and foreign affairs than to get the relationship with China right. It’s an issue that went through to the keeper during the election. But for the new Morrison government, forging a viable, credible
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THE tiny tropical nation of Brunei is making international headlines again. Repeating the international outrage that saw the absolute monarchy’s emphasis on Islam in 2013 and 2014, global attention is again focused on the ‘recent’ implementation of the Syariah Penal Code Order 2013 (SPCO 2013). Criticism has rained down on
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Taiwan’s first official same-sex weddings kicked off Friday in a landmark moment for LGBT rights in Asia as gay couples took the historic step of registering as married, the culmination of a three-decade fight for equality.
Shane Lin and Marc Yuan, a couple who fell in love at college, were
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The ABC can reveal the Australians were closely tailed by the Chinese military earlier this month as they made their way towards Vietnam, and as the Task Group departed Cam Ranh port.
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A NSW court hears a man accused of killing his girlfriend, Carly McBride, sought sex with another woman the day after the alleged murder.
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Some Wangan and Jagalingou people oppose an agreement to extinguish native title over the Carmichael coalmine area
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AFL strugglers Carlton have selected former Fremantle midfielder Josh Deluca with the top pick in the mid-season draft.
Deluca, who played four senior games for the Dockers before being delisted in 2017, has since been plying his trade for Subiaco in the WAFL.
Gold Coast on Monday night took Mitch
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First thoughts Brexit The EU election changes nothing. May’s deal is still the only way forward Simon
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“I’ve had pain in my left forearm for a few weeks and last night an MRI confirmed a grade two tear which could unfortunately could get a lot worse if I play today.
The Czech player has been replaced in the draw by lucky loser Kaja Juvan of Slovenia.
(Reporting
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An Australian man is recovering in a Kathmandu hospital after he was discovered unconscious on Mount Everest.
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A Far North Queensland man is charged with grievous bodily harm and firearm offences after his son found his pistol and accidentally shot his little sister.
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A pair of teenagers, accused of kicking and stomping a young man to death at a house party in Sydney’s west, will remain behind bars for at least two months.
Friends of 18-year-old Alex Ioane, who died at the Ingleburn gathering on Friday night, are calling for calm on the
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An expert on Papua New Guinea affairs says the outcome of the political turmoil in the Pacific island country is uncertain.
Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill announced on Sunday he would resign after seven years, citing a need for change following the resignations of several of his ministers.
Associate
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Victoria’s debt will more than double to $54.9 billion over the next five years as Daniel Andrews’ re-elected Labor government borrows big to fund major transport builds.
Net debt is now sitting at $22.8 billion, growing to $39 billion in 2019/20 before swelling to $54.9 billion – or 10 per
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US President Donald Trump said he would work with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to bring home Japanese citizens who were kidnapped by North Korean agents decades ago.
Trump, on a four-day state visit to Japan, was speaking at a meeting with some of the relatives of people abducted. They
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Australia’s new agriculture minister, Senator Bridget McKenzie, looks for practical ways to help farmers doing it tough during the drought.
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The biggest surprise of Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas’s fifth budget was there were no big surprises.
As Mr Pallas and Premier Daniel Andrews said repeatedly in the lead up to Monday’s budget: there will be a surplus, election promises will be delivered and debt will increase while interest rates are
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Foreign property investors, luxury car buyers and public servants will bear the brunt of a steep decline in stamp duty revenue amid the sharpest 12-month fall in housing prices in Victorian history.
Fresh from Labor’s thumping election win last November, and three and a half years out from the government’s
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A freak accident at a Sydney dump has left one man dead and another injured.
Media are reporting the men became trapped under tonnes of landfill during a workplace incident at Eastern Creek at about midday Monday.
Rescuers tried frantically to dig out the men by hand but it was
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Just when Australians thought they were free of Jon Snow on Mondays, winter hit the country with brutal force.
A cold snap arrived in southern NSW and Victoria, bringing with it strong winds, rain, and snow.
NSW’s snow season has started strongly, with 20 centimetres of snow falling at Perisher
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The landmark decision to allow uncapped damages in actor Rebel Wilson’s defamation case was “plainly wrong” and shouldn’t have been mirrored in the Geoffrey Rush ruling, the Daily Telegraph’s barrister says.
Rush was awarded $850,000 in general and aggravated damages plus $42,300 interest after Justice Michael Wigney found the Sydney
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