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NSW Police search for a man in connection with a string of armed robberies at Sydney restaurants in the past two months, after a 21-year-old Domino's Pizza employee was shot on Sunday.
Topics: armed-robbery, crime, law-crime-and-justice, wentworthville-2145, strathfield-2135, canley-vale-2166, fairfield-east-2165, nsw
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The lawyer for a man charged over a hit-and-run that killed an 18-year-old woman in Alice Springs indicates his client is likely to plead guilty.
Topics: accidents, disasters-and-accidents, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, alice-springs-0870, nt
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Young South Sudanese people living in country Victoria want people to understand that not all African youth are involved in the gang violence Melbourne has seen.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, multiculturalism, rural-youth, morwell-3840
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| UpdatedA takeaway worker is shot in the chest and hand during a robbery at a pizza shop in Sydney's west.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, nsw, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedPolice are searching for a man who handcuffed and robbed a woman at knifepoint after climbing into her Uber at Biggera Waters on Saturday night.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice
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| UpdatedAn Australian woman is arrested after allegedly being caught at Cambodia's international airport with almost 2 kilograms of heroin embedded in the side of her suitcase.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, cambodia, australia, asia
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| UpdatedA man has been arrested over the stabbing murder of Australian Kai Foley in Gothenburg, Sweden in the lead-up to Christmas, local media reports say.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, sweden
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One of two men allegedly involved in a 24-hour crime spree in which several cars were damaged and one man was stabbed in the hand has been arrested.
Topics: assault, law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, wynnum-4178, qld, brisbane-4000, wynnum-west-4178, howard-4659
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| UpdatedOne of two men allegedly involved in a 24-hour crime spree in which several cars were damaged and one man was stabbed in the hand is arrested.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, assault, qld, sunnybank-4109, brisbane-4000, howard-4659, wynnum-4178, wynnum-west-4178
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Victorian Police Minister Lisa Neville calls on the Children's Court to explain its decision to grant bail to a teenager who allegedly assaulted a police officer at a shopping centre in Melbourne's west.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, parliament, state-parliament, government-and-politics, police, maribyrnong-3032, vic
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There's a problem with the over-representation of young Sudanese men in Victoria's justice system, but tackling the issue would be easier without hyped-up political rhetoric from senior federal MPs, writes state political reporter Richard Willingham.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, federal-government, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, state-parliament, police, community-and-society
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| UpdatedWeapons, drugs, forged $100 bills and smuggling gold into China — how North Korea makes its money, according to a defector who is speaking out about his time in an organisation which began as a royal slush fund.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, business-economics-and-finance, crime, drug-offences, government-and-politics, world-politics, korea-democratic-peoples-republic-of, korea-republic-of
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Police are searching for a number of African males after two teens were attacked and homes were broken into during four-hour rampage in Melbourne's western suburbs overnight.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, vic, sunshine-3020, delahey-3037, melton-3337
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| UpdatedThe teenagers, believed to be armed, could be back in Brisbane after a 24-hour crime spree in which multiple cars were damaged and one man was stabbed in the hand.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, assault, qld, sunnybank-4109, brisbane-4000, howard-4659, wynnum-4178, wynnum-west-4178
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| UpdatedPolice are searching for a number of young African men after an "incredibly scary" four-hour rampage in Melbourne's western suburbs overnight, but have stopped short of saying the crimes were organised.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, sunshine-3020, vic, delahey-3037, melton-3337
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| UpdatedThe perpetrators made off with a brooch and a pair of earrings from the famed Al Thani Collection, which were on show in a Venetian palace, by mixing in with visitors on the final day of the exhibition, police said.
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| UpdatedThieves slip away into the crowd with a precious Indian brooch and a pair of earrings worth millions at the Doge's Palace in Venice.
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| UpdatedThe case against Australian filmmaker James Ricketson, who has been charged with being a spy, was postponed until at least next week as seized emails and documents are still being translated.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, cambodia, australia, asia
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| UpdatedA man charged with the murder of a popular Byron Bay DJ, known as DAD BOD, allegedly performed CPR on him, a court hears, but his bid for bail is rejected.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedPolice say the use of a taser and capsicum spray on a 15-year-old Sunshine Coast teen was a "last resort", as they tried to restrain him during a drug-fuelled episode.
Topics: community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, police, buderim-4556, qld
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| UpdatedA Darwin man pleads guilty to a violent assault on a man unknown to him outside a pub on Darwin's nightclub strip, which left the victim with a fractured skull and brain bleed.
Topics: assault, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, darwin-0800, nt
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| UpdatedA white man interrupts a 65-year-old Ethiopian Australian mid-interview, saying "lock 'em all up", highlighting the tenor of the law and order debate in Victoria this week, writes Guy Stayner.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, multiculturalism, community-and-society, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, melbourne-3000, vic, flemington-3031
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| UpdatedWrestler Harumafuji was angry the younger man — who was left with a fractured skull — was checking his phone while they were out drinking at a restaurant-bar, a report says.
Topics: sumo-wrestling, martial-arts, sport, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, assault, crime, community-and-society, japan, asia
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| UpdatedCommunity leaders at an African-Australian conference in Melbourne prepared a statement about recent political and media discussion of violence by African youths in the city.
Topics: community-and-society, immigration, crime, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedTopics: crime, bendigo-3550