Fiji state prosecutor drops murder charge against four men citing confessions...
Murder charges levelled at four Fijian men are discontinued by the nation's prosecutor because of concerns their confessions were obtained under duress.
View ArticlePapua New Guinea Police Commissioner reopens anti-corruption unit
Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner reopens the country's anti-corruption body, three weeks after he shut it down.
View ArticleUK police apologise for Muslim phrase 'Allahu akbar' used in terrorism...
British police apologise after officers shouted the Arabic phrase "Allahu akbar!" during a terror training exercise in a shopping centre in northern England.
View ArticleEgypt's military regime tightens noose on country's media freedoms
In Egypt, the government's war on the media enters a new level of intensity with Cairo's Journalists Syndicate being raided for the first time in its 75-year history.
View ArticleTwo men killed on train tracks at Melbourne's Altona Meadows
A city-bound passenger train hits and kills two men at Altona Meadows in the city's south-west shortly before midnight.
View ArticlePolice officer taken to hospital after car hits tree and flips in Adelaide
A police car flips onto its roof after hitting a tree in Adelaide's north-east overnight.
View ArticleTwo people found dead in tent at Rollingstone camp ground near Townsville
The bodies of a man and a woman are found at the popular Rollingstone camping and swimming spot near Townsville.
View ArticleAFP raids Labor party offices, home in Melbourne over leaked NBN documents
Australian Federal Police officers search the office of a senior Labor frontbencher and the home of an Opposition staffer in a move described as "extraordinary and unprecedented" during an election...
View ArticleElection 2016: Shorten accuses Government of political interference following...
The Prime Minister emphatically rejects Labor accusations the Government influenced the Australian Federal Police raids conducted on Labor offices to investigate the leak of NBN Co documents.
View ArticleElection 2016: Why did the Australian Federal Police raid Labor offices?
Why has the AFP raided Labor offices?
View ArticleThere is hope for PNG and Australia's shared domestic violence challenge
That domestic violence remains a big issue in Australia, even after decades of effort, shows what a long journey it will be for us in PNG.
View ArticleG7 host Japan on high alert over terrorism threat, deploying up to 70,000...
Japan is on high-alert ahead of a Group of Seven summit, with thousands of police on the streets of Tokyo and fanning out across the country as authorities boost security to unprecedented levels.
View ArticleMissing Perth man Mohammad Rahimi's body found in US reserve
A body found in the US city of Atlanta is that of Perth man Mohammad Rahimi who was reported missing almost two months ago, American police confirm.
View ArticleSydney siege inquest: Police commander unaware hostage Tori Johnson texted...
The manager of Sydney's Lindt Cafe being held hostage in December 2014 texted a warning that Man Haron Monis was becoming more agitated minutes before the gunman shot him dead, an inquest hears.
View ArticleIBAC: Senior officers 'anxious' morning after woman in custody stomped on
A Victoria Police inspector tells an anti-corruption inquiry senior officers in Ballarat felt angst and anxiety the morning after a woman in custody was kicked and stomped on by officers.
View ArticleAnti-consorting laws under scrutiny, with claims NSW Police targeting groups...
New South Wales Police are defending their use of controversial anti-consorting laws, with figures showing more than 8,500 warnings have been issued during the past four years.
View ArticleSydney man Farhad Said charged over alleged terrorism plot targeting...
A 24-year-old Sydney man arrested on terrorism charges is understood to be linked to alleged plots targeting government buildings.
View ArticleRodrigo Duterte: Philippine police shoot dead drug suspects, raising fears...
Philippine police shoot dead eight drug suspects this week, following repeated calls by president-elect Rodrigo Duterte for security forces to kill criminals.
View ArticleNoel Pearson's letter raising Aurukun concerns 'lost' by Queensland...
The Palaszczuk Government appears to have lost a letter from Indigenous leader Noel Pearson that raised policing concerns in the community of Aurukun last September, Opposition spokesman Scott Emerson...
View ArticleNoel Pearson's program part of problem in Aurukun, Indigenous educator Chris...
A controversial education program being run by Noel Pearson at three Aboriginal communities in Queensland's Cape York region is part of the problem in Aurukun, Indigenous educator Dr Chris Sarra says.
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