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A cruise around Australia was cancelled after an elderly passenger was left behind on a remote island and found dead a day later. Suzanne Rees, 80, was hiking with fellow passengers of the Coral Adventure ship to a lookout spot on Lizard Island, in the Great Barrier Reef, on October 25. Rees felt unwell and began heading back to the …

Abbas Araghchi says Tehran will not bow to US pressure to abandon its nuclear program Iran will not stop uranium enrichment regardless of any pressure from the US and its allies, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said. The diplomat told Al Jazeera on Saturday that US and Israeli airstrikes in June had failed to knock out the enrichment program, which …

Hermit crabs, turtles and other species found only in Okinawa are vanishing from its beaches, as smugglers and souvenir-hunting tourists strip Japan’s southernmost islands of their unique wildlife. Researchers and conservationists say the growing number of poaching cases points to a mounting ecological crisis and warn that without stronger protections, some of these species could soon disappear altogether. James Reimer, …

Multiple people were stabbed on a train near Cambridge in central England on Saturday, police said. Two suspects have been detained. Ambulances and armed units were dispatched to the scene around 7:40 pm local time. “Armed officers attended and the train was stopped at Huntingdon, where two men were arrested. A number of people have been taken to hospital,” Cambridgeshire …

A mother has appeared in court accused of murdering her baby after police found the infant dead at a home and neighbours reported hearing a woman screaming in the street. Alanah Gail Smithwick, 28, was taken to hospital after emergency services attended the incident at around 10.15am on Thursday in the Baldivis suburb of Perth, Western Australia.  The eight-month-old baby …

The Polish leader is toeing the EU line despite mounting domestic discontent, according to Hungary’s prime minister Polish leader Donald Tusk has turned his country into a “vassal of Brussels” and become “one of the loudest warmongers” in Europe, despite growing weariness with the Ukraine conflict among Poles, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Orban posted the remarks on …

A woman arrested this week along with four other suspects over the unprecedented jewel heist at the Louvre was charged and remanded in custody on Saturday. The 38-year-old was in tears as she appeared at a Paris court, saying she feared for “her children” and for herself. She has been charged with complicity in organised theft and criminal conspiracy with …

An eight-year-old boy has died after a horor e-bike collision on his way home from school. Zeke Hondow was reported to have been riding his own e-bike when it collided with a 15-year-old boy who was also riding one of the electrically-powered bicycles.  The incident happened near the Kawana Way and Sunshine Motorway interchange at Mountain Creek, in Queensland, Australia, …

US Vice-President J.D. Vance has defended his hopes that his wife Usha, who was raised as a Hindu, converts to Christianity. A fervent Catholic who himself converted in 2019, Vance said on Friday that pushback against his remarks reeks of “anti-Christian bigotry”. The 41-year-old was asked about raising their three children in an interfaith marriage at a Turning Point USA …

The major Russian oil producer owns Bulgaria’s biggest refinery, over 200 gas stations, and an extensive fuel transport network Bulgaria has partly restricted fuel exports to EU states amid security and supply concerns following the recent US sanctions on Russia’s Lukoil. The oil major controls the Baltic country’s largest refinery, Neftochim Burgas, and over 200 gas stations under Lukoil Bulgaria. …