par This Is Beirut, 27/03 16:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Australian Rules football said Wednesday it was reviewing its illicit drugs policy after a whistleblower aired claims of widespread cocaine use among players. Independent MP Andrew Wilkie said the Australian Football League (AFL)—one of the country's most popular spectator sports—was "secretly" manipulating drug tests. Wilkie claimed that ...
par This Is Beirut, 13/04 10:57 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Australia POLICE stabbing SYDNEY This is Beirut
Australian police on Saturday said they had received reports that "multiple people" were stabbed at a busy shopping centre in Sydney, where at least six individuals were reportedly killed. Eight people, including a child, have been taken to the hospital after the attack, according to the ambulance services. The incidents occurred at the sprawling ...
par This Is Beirut, 14/04 13:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Australia bondi junction stabbing SYDNEY This is Beirut
Australian police have identified a 40-year-old man as the perpetrator of a shopping centre stabbing rampage that killed six people and left several more in a critical condition. New South Wales police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke said Sunday the man had come from the northeast state of Queensland and was known to law enforcement. "There ...
par This Is Beirut, 15/04 15:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A knife attack at a live-streamed church service in Australia wounded four people on Monday and sparked clashes between riot police and outraged members of the local community. A bishop and the 15-year-old suspect were among those being treated for "non-life threatening injuries" after the attack at an Assyrian Christian church in the west of ...
par This Is Beirut, 16/04 12:42 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Due to climate change, Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef is becoming a watery graveyard of bleached reef. It is suffering one of the most severe coral bleaching events on record. Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef is suffering one of the most severe coral bleaching events on record, leaving scientists fearful for its survival as the impact ...
par This Is Beirut, 24/04 11:31 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Australian police said seven people who posed an "unacceptable risk and threat" to the public have been arrested after anti-terror raids that involved more than 400 officers Wednesday. Police said the individuals were linked to a 16-year-old accused of stabbing an Assyrian Bishop in Sydney, and adhered to a "religiously motivated extremist ...
par This Is Beirut, 05/05 10:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Australia POLICE Terrorism This is Beirut
Western Australian police shot and killed a "radicalized" 16-year-old boy with a knife. The boy had wounded a member of the public in Perth, police and the state premier said on Sunday. The teenager "rushed" at police after wounding someone and was fatally shot by an officer, Premier Roger Cook told a news conference. "There are indications he ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/07 10:39 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The foreign ministers of the United States, Japan, Australia and India expressed on Monday "serious concern" over the situation in the South China Sea in a veiled rebuke to Beijing. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his counterparts in the so-called Quad grouping issued a joint statement calling for a "free and open" Pacific after talks in ...
par This Is Beirut, 02/08 09:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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An Israeli strike that killed seven charity workers in a Gaza aid convoy was the result of "mistaken identification" and a raft of other serious failures, the Australian government found in a report released Friday. Australian national Lalzawmi "Zomi" Frankcom was among a group of seven World Central Kitchen staff killed when their convoy, ...
par This Is Beirut, 21/08 11:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Australia Climate Change Singapore Solar Power
Australia approved on Wednesday plans for a massive solar and battery farm that would export energy to Singapore, a project billed as the "largest solar precinct in the world." Authorities announced environmental approvals for SunCable's US$24 billion project in Australia's remote north that is slated to power three million homes. The project, ...
par This Is Beirut, 26/09 13:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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A Japanese warship cruised through the Taiwan Strait for the first time to assert its freedom of navigation, local media said Thursday, a week after a Chinese aircraft carrier sailed between two Japanese islands near Taiwan. Japan's top government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi declined to comment on the reports at a regular briefing because they ...
