Quota to fall by a third to Coalition-era levels in move that the Greens say makes Australia ‘meaner and weaker’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s annual refugee intake will fall by a third next financial year, as Labor works to drive down migration levels over increasing political pressure from One Nation . Currently set at 20,000 arrivals per year, the annual refugee quota will drop back to Coalition-
The UK Foreign Office has been asked to intervene to secure the release of a British-Egyptian woman who it is claimed has been arrested in Cairo because of her sister’s political activism. Eman el-Shazly, a 45-year-old based in Birmingham, was arrested on 16 August while visiting Egypt. Her lawyers say she has been detained in an attempt to silence her sister Mona, a relentless and harsh critic of the Egyptian government on her UK-based YouTube channel. Her two brothers have already spent three
A sanctioned shadow fleet tanker carries oil from Nato member Turkey to a Russian Baltic port. A deal is signed for Russian oil to be processed in Kazakhstan. Fuel cargoes arrive from India via Egypt. The Kremlin pressures allies to sell it badly needed fuel. The data points may be diverse, but they point to a single inescapable conclusion. In the space of a summer, Russia, once the world’s second-largest producer of crude oil, has been plunged into a desperate scramble to find sources of gasoli
A fugitive Sydney developer allegedly warned the then-New South Wales building commissioner that he would “harm” him if he got in the way of his projects which were being inspected for defects, the corruption watchdog has heard. Giving evidence to the Independent Commission against Corruption on Thursday, David Chandler described an interaction he had with Toplace developments’ Jean Nassif. “He just basically said: Don’t you harm my project, and if you harm my project, I’ll harm you,” Chandler s
CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow earlier this week in part to warn Russia not to attack NATO countries, sources familiar with the trip told ABC News.
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Powerful floods in Himalayan border area sweep away houses, roads and bridges. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Dozens of Australian tourists are reportedly missing in the deadly flash floods that swept through the Nepal-Tibet border. According to the Nepal Tourist Board, as reported by Agence France Presse, at least 291 foreigners were among the missing. Continue reading...
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At least one dead after car crashes into crowd in northern France At least one person has been killed and 10 people injured after a car crashed into a group of people near a train station in northern France, police say. One person had been arrested and taken into custody after authorities launched a major emergency response in Caen, in the Normandy region, local officials told the BBC. The incident took place near a bar, with local media reporting that a fight had broken out there before the inc
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A federal judge will consider whether to free Andrew and Tristan Tate from a Miami detention center while they challenge extradition to face rape and sex trafficking charges in the United Kingdom
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A man accused of using a forged signature of Chief Justice John Roberts on a bogus Supreme Court order in an alleged attempt to get his own Indiana criminal case dismissed has been arrested on federal charges, according to court documents. Joshua M. Culver, who authorities say also used the alias "Maverick A. Young," was arrested last Friday in Colorado after a federal grand jury in Indiana indicted him on four counts of falsely impersonating a U.S. officer or employee and one count involving th
