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Australia asked to pay compensation for violating rights of asylum seekers in Nauru camps
UN watchdog finds refugees and asylum seekers suffered deterioration of physical and mental health in offshore detention camps
Los Angeles’ two biggest fires burn at least 10,000 structures while new blaze leads to more evacuations
Venezuelan opposition leader ‘violently intercepted’ while leaving rally ahead of Maduro’s inauguration
Opposition and independent election observers claim Venezuela election was stolen with Maduro winning just 30 per cent votes
Sydney synagogue targeted with antisemitic graffiti
Southern Sydney Synagogue in Allawah spraypainted with swastikas
Moldovans grapple with outages as energy crisis grips pro-Russia region
Don Jr’s Greenland MAGA ‘supporters’ included unhoused people who were offered free lunch, Danish press reports
Trump Jr. visited Greenland after the president-elect called for the US to purchase the island
Elon Musk hosts German far-right leader on X in latest bid to sway European politics
Tech billionaire tells Germans to vote for far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in upcoming election
Edgar Welch, ‘Pizzagate’ gunman, killed by police during traffic stop
Police said man who brandished weapons years ago at the ‘Pizzagate’ restaurant, refused to drop his revolver when pulled over
Trump’s hush money sentencing will go ahead on Friday, Supreme Court rules
5-4 decision from the nation’s high court allows Trump’s sentence to move foward 10 days before inauguration
Slender Man stabber who attacked 12-year-old classmate in 2014 is granted release from psychiatric hospital
Morgan Geyser, now 22, has been at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute for nearly seven years after being convicted in the 2014 stabbing attack of Payton Leutner
A woman found in an abandoned house almost 20 years ago has finally been identified. Police fear she was the victim of a serial killer
Known only as Jane Doe since 2006 the remains have now been identified as Darylnn Washington
Paris Hilton evacuates four tiny dogs from Los Angeles home destroyed by wildfires
Paris Hilton packed up her four tiny dogs to evacuate their Los Angeles home as wildfires devastated the region this week.
Civil rights groups warn Laken Riley bill could open the door to Trump’s mass deportations
Opponents call the bill a ‘slippery slope’ for Trump’s agenda and a ‘backdoor to mass detention’
Democrats signal openness to Republicans’ Laken Riley Act with key vote
Bill may pass, led by Republicans, without amendments after Democratic resistance vanishes
Musk, after months of blustering, admits DOGE wont find $2 trillion worth of cuts in federal budget
Musk has been claiming he could make $2 trillion in cuts since October
Actor returns to pile of ashes where his Los Angeles home of 13 years once stood
Actor Cameron Mathison documented the moment he returned to his Los Angeles home to find the property reduced to ashes and rubble in the wildfires that have swept the area this week.
Germany’s former finance minister slapped with ‘soap’ cake on campaign trail
Germany's former finance minister Christian Lindner was slapped with a cake that he said was made out of soap during a campaign trail speech in Greifswald on Thursday, 9 January.
Ex-substitute teacher, 60, accused of showing sexually explicit pics to elementary students
Detectives said the former sub allegedly tried to delete the explicit images from her phone when they found her
California is in a home-insurance crisis. The Pacific Palisades fire will only make it worse
‘We need to make it incredibly expensive to build in these kinds of environments,’ one expert told The Independent. ‘If the insurance industry refuses to sell policies, maybe people won’t risk it’