The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, has vowed to strengthen the state’s hate speech laws in response to a spate of antisemitic incidents, including the vandalism of a prominent Jewish leader’s former home on Friday. The series of attacks in Sydney, which include vandalism of homes and setting vehicles alight, has prompted concern from…
A Queensland man has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly setting fire to a woman in a horrific act of domestic violence in a home south of Brisbane. After being treated by paramedics at the scene in the Logan suburb of Kingston on Saturday morning, the 34-year-old woman was rushed to the Royal Brisbane…
City workers in Atlanta have killed a man living in a tent while clearing a homeless encampment with construction equipment near Martin Luther King’s famous Georgia church. The death of Cornelius Taylor on Thursday afternoon resulted from an effort to reduce the visibility of people without shelter near the city’s historic Ebenezer Baptist church as…
A fuel tanker exploded after flipping over in central Nigeria on Saturday, killing 70 people who had scrambled to take the fuel. Kumar Tsukwam, the head of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Niger State, said a truck carrying 60,000 litres of gasoline had an accident at about 10am at the Dikko junction on…
Two judges have been killed in a shooting on Saturday at the supreme court building in Tehran, Iranian state media has reported. “This morning, a gunman infiltrated the supreme court in a planned act of assassination of two brave and experienced judges. The two judges were martyred in the act,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website…
Donald Trump has said he will “most likely” give the Chinese-owned TikTok app a 90-day reprieve from a potential ban in the US after he takes office on Monday morning. The incoming president said on Saturday, in an interview with NBC News, that he was considering the extension on a Sunday deadline laid down for…
The UK is to introduce digital driving licences this year as the government looks to use technology to “transform public services”. The digital version of driving licences will be available in a virtual wallet in a government app, instead of being added to existing Google or Apple wallets. It could be accepted as a form…
One weekend, it will be the straightforward delights of Skegness seafront; the next, the flashy private beach clubs of Dubai. Richard Tice, deputy leader of Reform UK and its MP for Boston and Skegness, is splitting his time not just between his Lincolnshire constituency and the House of Commons, but is also spending time 3,500…
A police volunteer has been found guilty of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor who was on duty in Kolkata, a crime that sparked protests across India amid concern about violence against women and girls. The outcry over the killing of the 31-year-old physician in August led to the trial being fast-tracked through…
The diary of an antisemitic British socialite who was obsessed with Adolf Hitler and struck up a personal relationship with the Nazi leader has been discovered, according to the Daily Mail. The leather-bound journals, which had been lost to historians and unseen for eight decades, appear to reveal the extent of aristocrat Unity Mitford’s relationship…
