American politician to give away assault rifles 

Peter Holley 6:53 PM   A Republican from Tennesse increased his giveaway to two assault weapons after the Orlando tragedy.

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Jakarta cyanide coffee murder trial starts

2:58 PM   The woman accused of murdering her friend with a cyanide-laced coffee was allegedly seeking "revenge" over comments made about her former boyfriend in Australia, prosecutors allege.

Brazilian Speaker's assets frozen, job in doubt

Brazil's congressional ethics committee has voted to strip suspended Speaker Eduardo Cunha of his seat for allegedly lying about undeclared Swiss bank accounts, the latest in a series of political earthquakes for the country.

South China Sea statement mystery

Philip Wen 12:29 PM   ASEAN retracted a joint statement voicing "serious concern" over rising tensions in the South China Sea just hours after its release.

Rye Hunt got killer drug from Australians

Laura McQuillan 10:26 AM   Brazilian police believe the party drugs Rye Hunt took before his death in Rio de Janeiro came from fellow Australians he had met in Argentina days earlier.

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How Russia supports Trump's campaign

Chris Zappone 5:21 AM   On social media, white supremacists in the US and Russian ultra-nationalists have joined forces to give Donald Trump a boost.

Exposed child abuser Freud linked to Madelaine McCann family

Nick Miller 11:40 PM   Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann alerted to the fact that Clement Freud had a villa in the resort where the three-year-old went missing in 2007.

Brexit flotilla 'battle' on the Thames between Nigel Farage and Sir Bob Geldof

Nick Miller 10:52 PM   The Brexit battle reached new levels of absurdity on Wednesday, in a naval face-off on the Thames between rival flotillas commanded by Nigel Farage and Bob Geldof.

Early release ends Matthew Ng jail nightmare

Philip Wen 10:17 PM   Australian businessman Matthew Ng, dubbed the country's first Chinese political prisoner by his supporters, has been granted early release from prison 18 months after his landmark transfer from the mainland.

Oscar Pistorius walks on stumps in court

10:07 PM   Oscar Pistorius has walked on his stumps in court as part of his defence team's argument that the double-amputee athlete, convicted of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, is a vulnerable man who deserves leniency when he is sentenced.

The gay jihadist? What motivated Orlando gunman Omar Mateen

Paul McGeough 8:58 PM   Was Orlando gunman Omar Mateen motivated by Islamic extremism or confusion about his own sexuality?

Alligator drags toddler into water in US

Marika Dobbin 8:54 PM   An alligator has dragged a child into the water near Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa in Orlando, Florida.

Sailors remember night WW2 cruiser's luck ran out

Jewel Topsfield 6:52 PM   Cats may have nine lives but Red Lead, the ship's cat on HMAS Perth, seemed to know that hers had come to an end 74 years ago.

Tidal waves leave Bali tourists, Ku De Ta patrons terrified

David Prestipino 6:10 PM   Terrifying footage has emerged of giant waves crashing into tourist hot-spots in Bali as flooding and high tides continue to damage houses and buildings in coastal areas.

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'Our sweet Julianna is finally free'

Rachel Browne 3:53 PM   Five-year-old Julianna Snow, whose story about confronting terminal illness touched millions, has died at home in her mother's arms.

Clinton romps to victory in last primary in Washington DC

John Whitesides 3:08 PM   Hillary Clinton formally concluded the US Democratic presidential race on Tuesday with a win in the District of Columbia primary, then turned her focus to uniting the party during a 90-minute private meeting with defeated rival Bernie Sanders.

Paris protests inflamed by gangs with stones and firebombs

Brian Love 11:56 AM   Gangs of masked youths hurled stones and makeshift firebombs at riot police as thousands of people continued to march through Paris in protest over proposed changes to labour laws.

China bans some exports to North Korea to curtail weapons production

Megha Rajagopalan 11:45 AM   China's Ministry of Commerce has released a list of goods banned for export to North Korea, saying the items could be used to build weapons of mass destruction.

Thai police stop heroin post parcels reaching Australia

Ron Corben 10:46 AM   Thai police have arrested two men and seized seven kilograms of heroin bound for Australia in parcel post boxes following a joint operation by Australian and Thai investigators.

Hillary Clinton has 12-percentage-point lead over Donald Trump in national poll

John McCormick 10:42 AM   Democrat Hillary Clinton has opened up a double-digit lead nationally over Republican Donald Trump, whose negatives??remain unusually high for a presidential candidate amid early indications that the Orlando terrorist attack has had little direct impact on the 2016??race.

Incendiary memoir by Chinese rights lawyer smuggled abroad

Michael Forsythe 10:29 AM   A book written by Gao Zhisheng, a Chinese human rights lawyer who spent years in prison, has made it out of China and been published in Taiwan.

Barack Obama denounces Donald Trump for his 'dangerous' mind-set

Julie Hirschfeld Davis 10:12 AM   President Barack Obama on Tuesday angrily denounced Donald Trump for his rhetoric following the shooting massacre in Orlando, Florida, saying the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was peddling a "dangerous" mind-set that recalls the darkest periods in American history.

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Ramadan raid on stallholder sparks online campaign for greater tolerance

Jewel Topsfield 8:33 AM   A 53-year-old woman who tearfully begged officials not to confiscate food from her roadside stall as punishment for trading during Ramadan has become the unlikely face of a push for greater religious tolerance.

Shooter's wife 'tried to talk him out of attack'

Megan Levy 7:46 AM   The wife of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen was with him when he purchased the weapons used in the deadly assault on a gay nightclub, and attempted to talk her husband out of launching the attack, according to reports.

Islamic State lone wolf Larossi Abballa kills policeman, partner live on Facebook

Henry Samuel, David Chazan 7:35 AM   A Frenchman who murdered a police commander and his partner live on Facebook claimed he was answering Islamic State's call for lone wolf attacks in Ramadan, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

16,666,000 pesos donation: an epic troll of presidential proportions?

Max Bearak 6:25 AM   An already tense relationship between the world's two most powerful Argentines became more so recently when the pope rejected a sizeable charitable donation to an organisation he backs from Argentina's president, Mauricio Macri.