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Facebook A second Australian teenager has died of suspected methanol poisoning, bringing to six the number of foreign tourists who have died after apparently drinking tainted alcohol in Laos. The family of Holly Bowles, 19, said it was with “broken hearts” that they confirmed her death, more than a week after she fell ill in…

Getty Images Boualem Sansal has not been seen since he flew from France to Algiers last weekend (file pic) France’s Emmanuel Macron has joined calls for information about Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, who has gone missing after he flew to Algiers last Saturday. An outspoken critic of the Algerian regime, Sansal is reported by some…

US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated veteran prosecutor Pam Bondi as his new pick for attorney general, hours after Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration. Bondi has a long track record in law enforcement and previously served as Florida’s attorney general. The 59-year-old is a long-time Trump ally who defended him during his first…

EPA / REUTERS / SUPPLIED From left to right: Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif US President Joe Biden has called an International Criminal Court war crimes arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister “outrageous”. The ICC also issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu’s now sacked defence minister Yoav Gallant, and a Hamas…

BBC The latest of 43 journeys made by North Korean oil tankers to Russia since March 2024, documented by the Open Source Centre Russia is estimated to have supplied North Korea with more than a million barrels of oil since March this year, according to satellite imagery analysis from the Open Source Centre, a non-profit…

Reuters “What will Vladimir Putin do next?” It’s a question I’ve been asked a lot this week. Understandably so. After all, this was the week the Kremlin leader lowered the threshold for the use of Russian nuclear weapons. It was the week the US and UK crossed (another) Putin red line, allowing Ukraine to fire…

Singer Katy Perry has successfully appealed a trademark decision over her name, after being sued by an Australian designer who sells clothes under her birth name Katie Perry. Three appeals judges on Friday overturned a court decision last year that favoured Katie Taylor over merchandise sold by the pop star during a 2014 tour of…

A US man who faked his own death and fled the country, leaving behind his family, has sent investigators in his home state of Wisconsin a video to prove that he is safe. Ryan Borgwardt, 45, vanished on 12 August while on a solo fishing trip, the Green Lake County Sheriff’s Office said in a…

Getty Images Police have been investigating whether Bolsonaro incited a failed coup after losing the 2022 election Ex-Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his closest allies have been formally accused of allegedly plotting a coup, after he lost the 2022 presidential election. Bolsonaro’s vice-presidential candidate Walter Braga Netto and 35 other people have also…

Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza. Paramedics and Hamas-affiliated media said at least 66 were killed, including women and children, when several houses sheltering displaced people were hit near Kamal Adwan hospital in the town of Beit Lahia. One unverified video showed more than…