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| UpdatedThe reported assassination of Kim Jong-nam is the latest episode in the long and bloody history of North Korea's Kim dynasty. Here's how the key players stack up.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, international-law, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of
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The Principality of Hutt River is just one of an unusually high number of Australian micro-nations, with citizens choosing to establish their own rule and shrug off the shackles of the country's constitutional democracy.
Topics: government-and-politics, international-law, law-crime-and-justice, local-government, australia, geraldton-6530
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An Iranian refugee who fled Australia's offshore detention regime in Papua New Guinea is being treated in hospital while he awaits court.
Topics: refugees, law-crime-and-justice, international-law, foreign-affairs, papua-new-guinea, australia
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Antonio Bagnato, the kickboxer convicted of murdering a suspected drug kingpin in Pattaya, is the first Australian on death row in Thailand in 30 years but experts say he is unlikely to actually face lethal injection.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, international-law, thailand, australia
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| UpdatedIn the first program of its kind in Australia, and possibly the world, lawyer Vincent Shin works full-time at a Melbourne school.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, family-law, international-law, laws, education, schools, counselling, hoppers-crossing-3029
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| UpdatedThe former Manus Island refugee deported from Fiji last week has appeared at a district court in Port Moresby, after being charged with allegedly using false information to obtain a passport.
Topics: world-politics, refugees, international-law, law-crime-and-justice, pacific, papua-new-guinea, fiji
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| UpdatedA former Manus Island refugee who had intended to seek asylum in Fiji is charged with falsifying passport documents after being deported and returned to Papua New Guinea, police say.
Topics: world-politics, foreign-affairs, refugees, international-law, papua-new-guinea, fiji, australia, pacific
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to former senior civil servant Jill Rutter, of the Institute For Government about the Brexit debate.
Topics: trade, international-law, forms-of-government, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedNeil Gorsuch is expected to bring conservative values to divisive issues such as abortion, gun control, the death penalty and religious rights.
Topics: world-politics, international-law, judges-and-legal-profession, united-states
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Mexican political analyst Emilio Lezama about how the impending wall is affecting Mexicans.
Topics: international-aid-and-trade, international-law, government-and-politics, mexico, united-states
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| UpdatedTreasurer Scott Morrison outlines an "Australia first" trade policy after US President Donald Trump signs an executive order to leave the Trans-Pacific Partnership using similar language.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, trade, world-politics, international-law, us-elections, united-states, australia, asia
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| UpdatedBritain's Supreme Court has ruled 8-3 that the British Parliament must approve Article 50 — leaving the European Union — but that the Scottish, Northern Ireland and Welsh parliaments do not need to be consulted.
Topics: world-politics, international-law, united-kingdom, european-union
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| UpdatedLeaders of agricultural lobby groups say they will back the Government's push for a Trans-Pacific Partnership deal without the US.
Topics: trade, agribusiness, business-economics-and-finance, world-politics, international-law, us-elections, melbourne-3000, united-states, australia, asia
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| UpdatedDonald Trump signs an executive order formally pulling the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, while also ordering the US government to stop hiring more workers.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, trade, world-politics, international-law, us-elections, united-states, australia, asia
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| UpdatedNotorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is extradited from a prison in northern Mexico to the United States, the Mexican government says.
Topics: crime, drug-offences, international-law, mexico, united-states
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| UpdatedA top Vanuatu financial official has rejected suggestions his country is on the verge of being blacklisted by the OECD's Financial Action Task Force.
Topics: government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, tax, courts-and-trials, laws, international-law, pacific, vanuatu
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Woodside Petroleum says its Greater Sunrise gas field in the Timor Sea could jump to "the front of the queue" for development, if Australia and East Timor can agree on maritime boundaries in the next year or so.
Topics: oil-and-gas, company-news, international-law, world-politics, australia, east-timor
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| UpdatedThailand's military Government has vowed to take action against international media organisations and Thai citizens who breach the country's harsh royal defamation laws.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, international-law, royal-and-imperial-matters, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, thailand
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A Cambodian appeals court upholds the 23-year prison term Australian woman Yoshe Ann Taylor received for trying to smuggle heroin into Australia, as well as the sentences given to a Frenchwoman and Nigerian man.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, international-law, prisons-and-punishment, cambodia, australia
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| UpdatedFreedom of information documents released by the Australian government show that Fijian diplomats in Canberra owe nearly $10,000 in unpaid traffic fines, more than any other diplomatic mission.
Topics: international-law, traffic-offences, foreign-affairs, pacific, fiji, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedIt could be some time before Neil Prakash is back in Australia after he was captured in Turkey earlier this month, counter-terrorism experts say, warning other country's intelligence agencies will be wanting to question the Islamic State recruiter.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, international-law, law-crime-and-justice, australia, turkey, iraq, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government confirms efforts are underway to extradite the man dubbed Australia's most wanted terrorist, Neil Prakash, after his arrest in Turkey.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, international-law, law-crime-and-justice, australia, turkey, iraq, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government is formally notified of the arrests of three Australian Crown employees who were detained last month on suspicion of violating strict Chinese gambling regulations.
Topics: gambling, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, business-economics-and-finance, international-law, china, australia
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| UpdatedDFAT is refusing to release correspondence from the United Nations about alleged breaches of North Korea sanctions by two Australian companies, saying to do so could damage Australia's international relations.
Topics: international-law, government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, law-crime-and-justice, mining-industry, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, australia
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Assistant editor of Eyes on the ICC, Mattia Cacciatori, discusses Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's announcement that he may follow Russia in withdrawing from the International Criminal Court.
Topics: international-law, law-crime-and-justice, philippines, asia