ASIO boss reveals multiple nations plotted to murder critics in Australia

Intelligence officials have disrupted numerous attempts by hostile countries to kill or harm critics in Australia, and in one recent operation even thwarted a plot to lure an unsuspecting human rights activist overseas, who was to be silenced in an “accident”. The boss of the country’s domestic intelligence agency has delivered his annual threat assessment,…

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Sudan: At least 200 killed in paramilitary attack

Sudan’s paramilitary forces launched a three-day assault near Khartoum, killing more than 200, the Emergency Lawyers network said Tuesday. The rights group said hundreds were injured or missing, and that hundreds had been subjected to “executions, kidnappings, forced disappearances and looting.” The lawyers’ network said the paramilitaries shot at villagers as they were trying to…

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Detained Britons charged with espionage in Iran

Detained Britons Craig and Lindsay Foreman have been charged in Iran with espionage, the country’s judiciary news agency has said. Mr and Mrs Foreman were arrested in January but news of their detention, on unspecified security charges, emerged last week. A judiciary spokesperson said that the couple, both aged 52, had “entered Iran under the…

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Congo M23 rebels seize two more towns as president seeks support abroad

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels fighting in eastern Congo seized two towns on their march towards a provincial capital, residents and the rebels said on Friday, as the president seeks international support to end the crisis. The rebels have been trying to push south towards Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, since they seized Goma, the…

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Chernobyl nuclear plant hit by explosion, IAEA says

An explosion caused a fire overnight at the site of the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Friday. The agency said the blast was reported at the New Safe Confinement, a dome which protects the remains of reactor 4. It said no casualties were reported. “Radiation…

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Hamas releases 3 more Israeli hostages in exchange for 183 Palestinian prisoners

Hamas militants released three more Israeli hostages on Saturday in exchange for Israel releasing another 183 Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire agreement between the warring sides. The latest round of the hostage release took place in the city of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday morning. Two Red Cross officials…

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M23 Rebels Expand Their Control Of Goma In Eastern Congo

Rwanda-backed rebels captured large parts of Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, including its airport, the United Nations said, as Rwanda’s president on Wednesday joined calls for a ceasefire in the decadeslong conflict amid mounting international pressure. Much of Goma was calm after a day during which thousands of fleeing people hunkered down by…

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Sweden Seizes Vessel Suspected Of ‘Sabotage’ After Undersea Data Cable Rupture In Baltic Sea

Swedish prosecutors announced Sunday night that they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated “sabotage” and ordered the detention of a vessel in the Baltic Sea suspected of damaging an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland earlier that day. “Several authorities, including the National Police Operations Department, the…

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