Australian officials said the proposed laws will increase penalties for hate speech, authorize a gun buyback, make it harder for visa applications to be denied based on racial discrimination, and lower the threshold for banning hate organizations…
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Australian parliament to cut short summer break to pass hate speech laws after Bondi attack
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BBC Verify Live: Verifying videos of clashes and casualties from Iran protests
Monday on BBC Verify Livepublished at 10:50 GMT
Adam Durbin
BBC Verify Live senior journalistGood morning from BBC Verify Live.
We’ve been analysing video that has emerged from Iran over the weekend, where mass-demonstrations…
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Finland releases ship suspected of Baltic cable damage, orders some crew to remain | Yle News
Finnish and Estonian authorities suspect the Fitburg was involved in deliberately damaging an underwater cable in the Baltic Sea on New Year’s Eve.
The Fitburg cargo vessel was escorted out of Finnish territorial waters at 11am on… Continue Reading
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Syrians in Kurdish areas of Aleppo pick up pieces after clashes | Syria’s War News
Published On 12 Jan 2026
Residents of a Kurdish neighbourhood in Syria’s second-largest city, Aleppo, have passed through government checkpoints to find blackened walls, burned-out…
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U.S. May Bankroll New Israeli Armored Vehicles With Billions of Dollars, Internal Files Reveal
The United States may finance the construction of Israel’s new armored-vehicle production plant with up to $2 billion from U.S. military aid funds, according to official American documents obtained by Haaretz. This comes even as Israel has…
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Journalists sentenced under Pakistan anti-terror laws
A federal anti-terrorism court sentenced seven journalists and social media analysts last week to life imprisonment in absentia. According to the court’s ruling, those convicted include three former army officers, Adil Raja, Syed Akbar…
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More US interventions in Latin America can’t be ruled out, says legal expert
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, arrive at the Wall Street heliport for their transfer to the federal court where they…Continue Reading
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Trump Says Iran Wants to Negotiate Nuclear Deal as Protest Death Toll Hits at Least 544
U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran wants to negotiate with Washington after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic over its bloody crackdown on protesters, a move coming as activists said Monday the death toll in the nationwide…
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India and US ‘actively engaged’ in trade negotiations, says new ambassador
Jacky Martens and Vikas PandeyDelhi
Getty ImagesSergio Gor took the oath as US ambassador to India in November India and the US are continuing to actively engage on trade deal negotiations, Sergio Gor, the new US ambassador to India, has said…
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NT government rejects Albanese’s national gun buyback scheme over co-funding proposal
The Northern Territory government has rejected the Commonwealth’s proposed national gun buyback scheme, saying the territory should not have to partly fund the initiative.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the national buyback in…
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