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Sydney Swans will sanction players for ‘serious breach’ over sexual assault allegations
Aug 18, 2026 - World 
Club’s board meets on Tuesday night to decide penalties after league boss calls reports ‘deeply concerning’The Sydney Swans AFL club will decide on sanctions for players for “serious breach” of standards over an incident that led to a report of sexual assault.Victorian police on Tuesday confirmed the sexual crimes squad was investigating a reported sexual assault at Melbourne’s Pullman Hotel early on Monday morning. No arrests have been made and no charges have been laid. Continue reading...
Trump Cites Indian Poll Chief's Question To Make A Case For Save America Act
Aug 18, 2026 - World 
Trump noted that not even one per cent of voters in India used postal ballots in the recent general elections, and every voter had a valid photo identity document.
Controversial NDIS bill passes Senate with ‘substantial’ amendments as Labor and Coalition strike deal
Aug 18, 2026 - World
David Pocock says legislation still includes ‘indiscriminate cut’ impacting thousands of participants but will pass lower house on WednesdayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe government’s controversial NDIS bill will pass after “substantial” amendments were agreed to in a deal between Labor and the Coalition, with some of the changes attracting heavy criticism from the Greens, the ACT senator David Pocock and the disability community.Sixty-three government amendments across both houses were introduced as part of backroom deals to pass the bill in the upper house on Tuesday night, the NDIS ministers, Mark Butler and Jenny McAllister, revealed. Continue reading...
‘Migration has been weaponised’: Italy’s security law criticised after death of Moroccan man in police restraint
Aug 18, 2026 - World
Case of Abderrahim Fakir is first in which legal shield giving police greater protection from prosecution has been invokedIf, before 19 July, few people in Italy beyond his family and friends knew who Abderrahim Fakir was, by the late afternoon of that day the final moments of his life were being watched across the country.Video footage widely shared online showed him being handcuffed and forcibly restrained by police on a street in Pilastro, a neighbourhood in the north-east of Bologna. Continue reading...
Drills cut by Trump are central to the US-South Korea alliance
Aug 18, 2026 - World 
The United States and South Korea have regularly conducted military drills to prepare for potential conflicts with North Korea
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