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December 04, 2024
Afghan women 'banned from midwife courses' in latest blow to rights
December 03, 2024
Top Indian fact-checker in court for post calling out hate speech
December 03, 2024
Bear attacks worker, ransacks meat section in Japan supermarket rampage
SYDNEY — A man wanted over one of Australia's most infamous cold cases, dubbed the Easey Street murders, is on his way back to the country after being extradited from Italy.Suzanne Armstrong, 27, and Susan Bartlett, 28, were stabbed to death in their Melbourne house in 1977, in a case that has gripped the nation ever since.Police said suspect Perry Kouroumblis, 65, only became the focus of their investigation in recent years after DNA testing breakthroughs.Kouroumblis, who has not been charged and maintains his innocence, was detained in Italy in September. He is due to arrive in Australia late on Tuesday.Kouroumblis first came to police attention the week after the murders, when the then 17-year-old said he had found a bloodied knife near the scene in Easey Street, Collingwood, an...
December 03, 2024
Australian suspect in 1977 murders extradited from Italy
December 03, 2024
Vietnamese tycoon in race to raise $9bn to avoid execution
BHOPAL, India — Forty years ago, an Indian city became the site of one of the world's worst industrial disasters.On the night of 2 December, 1984, a poisonous gas leaked from Union Carbide India's pesticide plant in Bhopal, enveloping the central Indian city in a deadly fog that killed thousands and poisoned about half a million people.According to government estimates, around 3,500 people died within days of the gas leak and more than 15,000 in the years since. But activists say that the death toll is much higher, and that victims continue to suffer from the side-effects of being poisoned.In 2010, an Indian court convicted seven former managers at the plant, handing down minor fines and brief prison sentences. But many victims and campaigners say that justice has still not been...
December 03, 2024
40 years since world's deadliest gas leak killed thousands in India
December 03, 2024
Australian police seize $500m of cocaine after boat breaks down
December 02, 2024
Three dead and dozens sick after eating sea turtle stew in Philippines
December 02, 2024
Australian woman finds deadly tiger snake at her feet while driving 80 km per hour
November 29, 2024
China investigates a top military official as Xi broadens purge of PLA generals
