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Lachlan Murdoch drops lawsuit against news site Crikey

April 22, 2023 World Justice News 0

Media mogul Lachlan Murdoch has dropped his defamation case against Australian news site Crikey, which linked his family to the US Capitol attack. It comes days after Fox News paid a large settlement to vote […]

Australia espionage: Man accused of passing information to foreign spies

April 16, 2023 World Justice News 0

An Australian man who recently returned to the country after living overseas has been charged with supplying sensitive information to foreign intelligence agents. Fifty-five-year-old IT specialist Alexander Csergo was arrested by Australian federal police shortly […]

Australian rugby and NFL star Jarryd Hayne guilty of rape

April 4, 2023 World Justice News 0

Former Australian Rugby League star Jarryd Hayne has been found guilty of raping a woman in 2018. It is the third time Hayne has faced trial for the same case, with the first ending in […]

Australian man arrested over AK-47-shaped bong

March 30, 2023 World Justice News 0

Australian police have charged a man who was seen allegedly carrying what seemed to be an AK-47 assault rifle – but which turned out to have a rather different purpose. Officers rushed into action after […]

Six held over alleged kidnap and torture of Sydney man Peter Vuong

March 18, 2023 World Justice News 0

Australian police have charged six men over the alleged kidnapping and torture of a man in Sydney. The 26-year-old victim, named in local media as Peter Vuong, was rescued by police in an armed raid […]

Fake cocaine lured suspects in Australia’s biggest-ever drugs bust of cocaine worth $700m

March 4, 2023 World Justice News 0

Australian police have intercepted $1bn Australian dollars worth of cocaine from entering the west of the country, in what is believed to be the nation’s biggest-ever drug bust. In a joint collaboration with the US, […]

New Zealand drug bust: Batman-labelled cocaine haul seized at sea

February 9, 2023 World Justice News 0

New Zealand’s navy has intercepted a floating haul of cocaine in the Pacific Ocean in what the country says is its largest drug bust ever. The stash – weighing total 3.2 tonnes (3,200kg) and worth […]

Six dead in shooting at remote Australian property

December 13, 2022 World Justice News 0

Six people, including two police officers, have been fatally shot after a suspected ambush at a remote Australian property. Police said they had been searching for a missing person in Wieambilla – 270km (168 miles) […]

Violet Coco: Climate activist’s jailing ignites row in Australia

December 9, 2022 World Justice News 0

For 28 minutes in April, Deanna “Violet” Coco blocked a single lane of rush hour traffic on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, calling for greater action on climate change. Those 28 minutes would cost her a […]

Bruce Lehrmann: Australia parliament rape retrial abandoned

December 2, 2022 World Justice News 0

The case against a former political adviser accused of raping a colleague inside Australia’s Parliament House has been dropped. Bruce Lehrmann, 27, denies sexually assaulting Brittany Higgins on a minister’s sofa after a night out […]

Human Rights

Patients in chains rescued from suspected illegal rehab centre in South Africa

October 16, 2026 0

A pastor and his wife have been arrested in South Africa after 200 people, some in chains, were found held at a suspected illegal rehabilitation centre in the north-eastern part of the country. The facility, […]

Human Rights

UK threatens to ban Eritreans over migrant return policy

October 15, 2026 0

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has threatened to ban all Eritreans from entering the UK if the east African country’s government does not accept more returns of small boat migrants and foreign national offenders. From Thursday, […]

Human Rights

Report finds ‘clear human rights failures’ in southern Scotland

October 7, 2026 0

A new report has found “clear human rights failures” across the south of Scotland with basic obligations on food, health and housing not being met. The study was carried out over eight different local authority […]