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Sun, 14 Aug 2022 18:32:50 +1000
Salman Rushdie's condition improving after stabbing
Author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator after he was stabbed while on stage at a speaking engagement in New York.

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 18:15:41 +1000
Mystery deepens over deaths of thousands of fish
Germany and Poland have been shocked by the “environmental catastrophe” along their Oder River border.

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 18:03:21 +1000
Would-be bank robber has to be rescued from tunnel by authorities
Emergency services work for eight hours to free man after tunnel collapse foiled raid on bank, police say.

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 14:59:06 +1000
Salman Rushdie off ventilator, suspected attacker pleads not guilty to attempted murder
Reports say the acclaimed author was stabbed 10 times in the shocking attack at an event in New York.

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 13:35:28 +1000
Australian held hostage by Taliban for three years returns to ‘celebrate’ Islamic rule
The teacher, who was kidnapped by Taliban forces in 2016 and returned to Australia under a prisoner swap deal, now says he admires the Taliban fighters.

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 12:10:06 +1000
Ukraine targeting Russians ‘shooting at, or from nuclear plant’
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russians shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear facility would become “special target”, escalating fears of a nuclear accident.

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 11:14:54 +1000
Trump lawyer told Justice Department classified material had been returned
The signed declaration is a possible indication that Trump or his team were not fully forthcoming with federal investigators.

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 09:12:38 +1000
Stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie was 'preplanned'
Stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie was 'preplanned' said the prosecutor.

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 09:04:41 +1000
Rushdie attack: naive Westerners still refuse to accept truth about Iran’s evil regime
Iran never has lifted the fatwa on Sir Salman Rushdie, even as the West pretended it could be trusted.

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 09:00:37 +1000
Drew Pavlou to return to Australia while still under police suspicion of Chinese embassy bomb hoax
Police notified Pavlou’s legal team on Friday that they had relaxed his bail conditions, pending further enquiries, for him to return on October 21.

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 05:30:00 +1000
The man who would replace Boris Johnson has polish – but it isn’t helping
Rishi Sunak’s top-notch resume might be a dream for recruiters, but seems less popular with Conservative Party members.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 21:37:15 +1000
Strong wind causes part of festival stage to collapse
Part of a stage collapsed in strong wind at an outdoor music festival in eastern Spain, killing one person and injuring dozens of others.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 18:32:02 +1000
FBI seized 'top secret' documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home
The search warrant for Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home shows the FBI recovered 11 sets of classified documents.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 18:21:56 +1000
Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie on ventilator
Author Salman Rushdie is in a serious condition on a ventilator after being attacked on stage in New York.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:22:29 +1000
People exposed to COVID-19 may need three at-home tests: FDA
The new guidelines come as the highly transmissible BA.5 subvariant of Omicron continues to spread.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:20:02 +1000
Salman Rushdie stabbed onstage in New York
The Indian-born novelist, who spent years in hiding under death threats from Iran because of his writing, will likely lose an eye and suffered severed nerves in an arm.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 12:52:08 +1000
Donald Trump’s voters will lap up tale of unjust persecution by FBI
Republicans and independents have started to tire of his myopic focus on the “Big Lie” of a stolen election, and nothing riles up Trump followers like an existential fight against “The Establishment”.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 12:18:40 +1000
Europe should not be a ‘supermarket’ for rich Russians, says Zelensky
The Ukrainian president first urged a visa ban in an interview this week, saying Russians should live in their own world until they changed their philosophy. 

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 11:08:49 +1000
Joe Biden wins, US drug giants lose in major new bill
Despite the pharmaceutical industry’s spending at least $US142 millionon lobbying efforts, the $US430 billion Inflation Reduction Act to change climate, health and tax policies will become law. 

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 10:45:56 +1000
‘Exceptional’ drought reshapes food and energy supplies across Europe
In Western Europe, hydropower output dropped 20 percent in the second quarter of this year compared to the average, with low river and lake levels starving plants.



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