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Australia to tighten airport security after foiled terror plot
Oct 22, 2017 09:40Australia says airport workers in the country will undergo random searches for explosives as part of new security measures designed to reduce the risk of terrorist attacks.
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UN grills Australia over refugees, indigenous people
Oct 20, 2017 05:26The United Nations Human Rights Committee has for a second day in Geneva grilled a delegation from Australia over the country’s human rights record, slamming the government’s policies toward refugees and its indigenous population.
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Hundreds march in Sydney to support detained refugees
Oct 15, 2017 11:01Hundreds of people have staged a protest rally in the Australian city of Sydney, demanding that the refugees held at notorious Australian detention camps on remote Pacific islands be allowed into the country.
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North Korea threatens Australia with ‘disaster’
Oct 15, 2017 10:38North Korea has threatened Australia with “disaster” for aligning itself with South Korea and the United States in stepping up pressure on Pyongyang over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
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Australia’s aircraft data stolen in cyber attack
Oct 12, 2017 05:00Unclassified but “sensitive” information about Australia’s advanced aircraft has been stolen from a government contractor.
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Pope’s adviser appears in Aussie court over ‘sex abuse’
Oct 06, 2017 03:48The Vatican’s Finance Chief Cardinal George Pell, who is a top Adviser to Pope Francis, has made a second appearance at an Australian court on sexual abuse charges.
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Court obligates Australia to pay damages to refugees
Sep 06, 2017 06:47Australia has been obligated by Victoria State’s Supreme Court to pay billions in compensation to hundreds of asylum seekers it has been illegally keeping in dire conditions on a remote island.
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Australia investigates war crimes by soldiers in Afghanistan
Sep 02, 2017 06:55Australia’s military watchdog has launched a probe into reports of possible war crimes committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan over the past years.
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Australia charges 3 over attacks on a mosque
Aug 20, 2017 04:13Police in Australia have charged three men with terrorism over two “Daesh-inspired” arson attacks against a Shia Muslim mosque in Melbourne last year.
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Australian police charge two men over plane bomb, gas device plots
Aug 04, 2017 02:36Police in Australia have charged two men with plotting to bomb a plane and conduct a chemical attack in the country.