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| UpdatedA woman is charged over an alleged axe attack at a Sydney convenience store that left a woman with a fractured skull and a man with a serious head wound.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, enmore-2042, sydney-2000
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Bangladeshi police shoot dead two Islamist militants in a gunfight in Dhaka, including a prime suspect in the killing of 20 hostages, mostly foreigners, in a cafe in the capital last year.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, bangladesh
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New South Wales Police and the state's Attorney-General welcome plans to appeal against a reduced prison sentence for a man convicted of the murder of a police officer.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedWA Labor pledges to toughen sentencing conditions for violent offenders, outlaw revenge porn, and to introduce "no body, no parole" laws for convicted murders if it wins the state election.
Topics: laws, police, crime, perth-6000, wa
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A fourth suspect is charged with the murder of a man in Adelaide's south, after three others appeared in court this week.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, blyth-5462, christie-downs-5164, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedAn accountant who served as the president of a central Queensland sporting club has been charged with defrauding the club of almost $500,000.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, corruption, fraud-and-corporate-crime, courts-and-trials, police, rockhampton-4700, qld
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| UpdatedThe parents of teenager Wesley Ballentine pay tribute to their son after he died in a workplace accident in Perth's central business district, with his father saying he was "taken too soon".
Topics: death, workplace, police, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedFive Gympie residents facing dozens of charges appear in court in the wake of a senior police officer being hit by a car fleeing a robbery in Cooroy.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, police, gympie-4570, cooroy-4563, hervey-bay-4655, qld
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| UpdatedA man is helping police with their inquiries after three snakes were sent through the post in New South Wales.
Topics: reptiles, animal-welfare, police, glendale-2285, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedThe Thai Government says it will prosecute nearly 60,000 drink-drivers caught during the New Year period, which claimed 426 lives.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, traffic-offences, police, thailand
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| UpdatedNSW police charge a man over an alleged hit-and-run that left an elderly man dead in Sydney's south-west last week.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, condell-park-2200
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Soldiers and police will head to PNG's Hela Province this weekend as part of a large scale security call-out operation, following an escalation in tribal fighting last month that left at least one person dead.
Topics: community-and-society, defence-and-national-security, defence-forces, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, police, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedA man who was hit by a semitrailer after being pulled over by police in Sydney's west dies at the scene.
Topics: road, police, accidents, kings-park-2148
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Police on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island have defended their treatment of two asylum seekers who were injured while being arrested on New Year's Eve.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, immigration, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedPolice on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island defend their treatment of two asylum seekers who were injured while being arrested on New Year's Eve, saying their officers used "reasonable force".
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, immigration, police, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedNeighbours say they were woken by screams for help after a man fell from a rock face at the Mary Booth Reserve at Kirribilli on Sydney's North Shore.
Topics: accidents---other, police, sydney-2000
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Police say the third suspicious fire at a Bankstown business with links to corrupt former politician Eddie Obeid had several ignition points.
Topics: fires, industrial-fires, law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, bankstown-2200
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Despite Australia having some of the toughest guns laws in the world, police say people are still managing to get their hands on illegal weapons through a variety of avenues — including in the mail.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, police, crime, community-and-society, crime-prevention, nsw, australia, qld
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| UpdatedPolice and the Australian Defence Force launch an investigation after several rifles were stolen during a break-in on the New South Wales mid-north coast.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, police, crime, defence-and-national-security, defence-forces, army, taree-2430
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The disappearance of a mother of two from Victoria's Mornington Peninsula who was reported missing last year is now being treated as suspicious, as police call for information on her whereabouts.
Topics: missing-person, community-and-society, police, dromana-3936, rosebud-3939
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A former commander of Papua New Guinea's defence force is warning that relations between the country's two armed forces needs to improve rapidly or PNG's democractic processes and the country's constitution are at risk.
Topics: police, defence-forces, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedA car involved in a hit-and-run that killed a cyclist on New Year's Eve in Darwin is found abandoned, NT police say, but the search for the driver continues.
Topics: accidents, road, police, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, darwin-0800, nt
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| UpdatedBathurst prison staff contain a riot which involved 76 inmates in the jail's accommodation unit and saw one officer struck on the head several times by a prisoner.
Topics: police, prisons-and-punishment, bathurst-2795