Several asylum seekers set to be released from detention, offered bridging visas
Several asylum seekers from detention centres in Melbourne and Brisbane have been told they will be freed from detention and offered bridging visas to live in the…
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Unnecessary hype over Covid Omicron variant? Here’s what South African doctor who first raised alarm said
Omicron Variant Latest Updates: South African Dr. Angelique Coetzee, who first raised the alarm over the Omicron variant, has recently said that world is over-reacting in relation…
Read moreToday in History for December 1st
Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama; Former communist official Sergei Kirov is assassinated in Leningrad; Beatlemania arrives in America; Actor and director Woody Allen is born….
Read moreGhislaine Maxwell Trial: A view from courtroom
A woman testified on Tuesday that British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was often in the room when the witness, then just 14, had sexual interactions with the financier…
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At least three dead and eight wounded in Michigan school shooting
A student is in custody after opening fire at a high school near Detroit, killing three students and wounding eight other people, police say.
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Australians touch down in Fiji on the first tourist flight in 20 months
A tourist flight from Sydney to Nadi has landed for the first time since Fiji’s borders closed in March 2020.
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A traveller who arrived in Sydney from Nigeria is ‘likely’ to have Omicron variant
Initial testing indicates another overseas traveller, who recently arrived in Sydney from Nigeria, has the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
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Trio who allegedly escaped from the Howard Springs quarantine facility arrested
The trio allegedly jumped the fence at the Howard Springs facility near Darwin early on Wednesday.
Read moreMichigan school shooting: Student kills three and wounds eight
The suspect, a 15-year-old student, was taken into custody five minutes after police were called.
Read moreAlice Sebold apologises to man cleared of her rape
Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of raping Alice Sebold.
Read moreSurvivor: I’m haunted by deadliest Channel crossing
Mohamed Isa Omar, one of two survivors of last week’s disaster, tells the BBC he saw people drown.
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Students’ quick act once shooting started may have saved their life
Aiden Page, a senior at Oxford High School in Michigan, describes barricading in his classroom during a shooting that left three people dead and several injured.
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Merck’s Covid Treatment Pill Wins Blessing of F.D.A. Panel
The treatment, known as molnupiravir, could be authorized in the United States within days, and available within weeks, if the F.D.A. follows the committee’s recommendation.The treatment, known…
Read moreIn America’s gun violence ‘epidemic,’ Oxford High in Michigan is 28th school shooting of 2021
There have been at least 28 school shootings in 2021, according to Education Week, which tracks school shooting incidents across the U.S.
Read moreTiger Woods’ golf future uncertain after car crash
Tiger Woods says he’s unsure if he’ll be able to play professional golf again and at what level as he continues his recovery from a car crash…
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