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• Canberra Raiders player Corey Horsburgh future at risk after Christmas Day drink driving conviction

  23-02-2021 09:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Raiders player has confessed to having '10 or 11' drinks at a Christmas party in Canberra before driving, as coach Ricky Stuart warned his job is now at risk for the mistake.
  
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• Senior Morrison government minister Christian Porter goes public to DENY raping a teenage girl

  03-03-2021 05:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The attorney general, 50, was accused of raping a woman when he was 17 and she was 16 at an event in Sydney in 1988. The woman took her own life and police closed an investigation.
  
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• Summer holidays may be back on as Spain plans 'green corridor' for UK tourists

  03-03-2021 05:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The country's tourism minister Fernando Valdés said Spain is considering a 'green corridor' for vaccinated Britons
  
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• Homeowners from Sydney suburb baffled by mystery vandal who is slicing new stop signs in half

  03-03-2021 04:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Locals and homeowners from an upmarket Sydney suburb are baffled by a mystery vandal who continues to damage and remove parking stop signs.
  
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• Raw chicken and metal shavings: Poor food has hospitalized Michigan National Guard troops in DC

  03-03-2021 04:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than a dozen soldiers on deployment have become ill - with some serious enough to be hospitalized - after reportedly being given undercooked and contaminated food.
  
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• Two men rescued from floating ice sheet after it breaks off while they were fishing on it

  03-03-2021 04:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two men were sitting on a mattress on the ice fishing on the Rock River in Illinois. Suddenly the ice sheet they were on broke free and the pair found themselves floating along with the current.
  
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• Shoppers spot a NAZI-themed face mask in a Sydney Westfield store

  03-03-2021 04:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A face mask printed with Nazi symbols including a swastika and the Reichsadler imperial eagle has shocked shoppers after it was discovered on mannequins in a Sydney Westfield store
  
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• Security in DC is beefed up further amid threat from far-right group Three Percenters

  03-03-2021 04:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Capitol police received an intelligence bulletin on Tuesday warning of a far-right militia plot to breach the Capitol this Thursday, specifically naming a threat from the Three Percenters.
  
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• Black rhino calf takes her first wobbly steps at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo

  03-03-2021 04:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The critically endangered black rhino calf was born at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo, NSW, during the early hours of February 24.
  
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• Melbourne pensioner nearly killed by neighbour over dispute about washing machine

  03-03-2021 04:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Annick Henenberg, 65, still bears the scars from the unprovoked attack by her neighbour Brett Vaisey, 56, at their public housing block in Melbourne's bayside suburbs on Australia Day last year.
  
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• Incredible moment brave Aussie shoos a gigantic saltwater crocodile off a walking track

  03-03-2021 04:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Footage has emerged of a massive crocodile casually shooed out of the road by Outback Wrangler star Matt Wright
  
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• How bed sheets, vases and logos could help catch evil paedophiles

  03-03-2021 04:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The public is being asked for help to identify items found in disturbing child abuse videos as the Australian Federal Police launch a new program to catch offenders on Wednesday.
  
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• University students face thousands of dollars in extra fees to change their degrees

  03-03-2021 04:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Current students wishing to switch university degrees are being slapped with extra fees under new legislation politicians promised would not impact them.
  
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• Seven students plunge to deaths from university balcony as railing collapses

  03-03-2021 04:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. The students were filmed falling to their deaths at the Public University of El Alto (UPEA), in a highland city near La Paz, when a balcony crush led to a railing collapsing
  
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• Shocking footage has revealed the moment a police officer violently arrests a transgender woman

  03-03-2021 04:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Anya Bradford was arrested by Senior Constable Mark Follingon in the Golden Fleece Hotel in Liverpool, south-west Sydney, in 2019.
  
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• Australian of the Year Grace Tame eviscerates Scott Morrison with six brutal words

  03-03-2021 03:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Australian of the Year Grace Tame has hit out at Scott Morrison over his response to the federal parliament's sexual assault crisis.
  
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• Big Apple mayoral candidate Andrew Yang says he's getting the A train to the Bronx ridiculed Twitter

  03-03-2021 03:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang tweeted on Monday that he was 'On the A train Bronx bound'. Twitter users were quick to point out the A line trains do not go up to The Bronx.
  
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• Parliament House staff sent email with helpline to talk with counsellor about sexual assault

  03-03-2021 03:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Department of Finance has sent an email to all past and present staffers who have worked at Parliament House - a fortnight after Brittany Higgins went public with a rape accusation.
  
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• Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson QUITS over miner's destruction of Indigenous Juukan Gorge site

  03-03-2021 03:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pressure from Indigenous groups, government and Rio Tinto investors is believed to be behind the plans the company's chairman, Simon Thompson, has to quit the board.
  
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• Brother of British engineer killed in French Alps shooting hits out at investigators

  03-03-2021 03:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Saad al-Hilli, 50, an engineer from Surrey, was murdered in 2012 with his wife, Iqbal, 47, and mother-in-law Suhaila al-Allaf, 74, during a shooting near Lake Annecy.
  
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• Just three states - Florida, New York and Texas - reported more than 5k new daily COVID-19 cases

  03-03-2021 03:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  On Tuesday, there were 54,248 new COVID-19 cases reported and 1,885 deaths nationwide, but only New York, Florida, and Texas had more than 5,000 new infections.
  
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• Beijing says Australians who 'vilify' China will be 'cast aside'

  03-03-2021 03:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Minister Wang Xining accused Australia's free press of deliberately sabotaging the relationship between the two countries and 'brainwashing' Australians by publishing negative stories.
  
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• Yellow fog warnings issued as UK temperatures set to plummet below -10C

  03-03-2021 03:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
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• Severe fog warnings as UK temperatures to plummet below -10C in Arctic freeze

  03-03-2021 03:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The severe fog warnings were issued across eastern, southeastern and southwestern parts of the country overnight
  
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• Half of smart motorway cameras designed to spot drivers ignoring lane closures 'NOT yet operational'

  03-03-2021 03:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The roads, which can use variable speed limits and the hard shoulder as a live running lane to manage traffic flow, have sparked concerns over high-speed crashes.
  
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• Statues linked to slavery should STAY if 'counter-memorials' installed, says Historic England chief

  03-03-2021 03:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sir Laurie Magnus suggested that authorities reflect on the events of last year during Black Lives Matter rallies that saw the likeness of 18th-century slave trader Edward Colston toppled in Bristol.
  
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• Texas man, 64, shoots his 54-year-old wife and turns gun on himself at doctor's office 

  03-03-2021 02:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Andrew Wang is accused of shooting his wife twice before shooting himself dead in the office building next door to the Woman's Hospital of Texas, Houston, Monday.
  
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• Liberal MP John Sidoti resigns after ICAC probe was announced

  03-03-2021 02:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ICAC said it would hold a hearing on March 29 to probe allegations Mr Sidoti improperly advanced developments around Five Dock, in his inner western Sydney electorate of Drummoyne.
  
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• Families of the Yorkshire Ripper's victims call for his estate to be shared

  03-03-2021 02:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The families of Peter Sutcliffe's victims are calling for the estate left in his will to be shared between them following his death at the age of 74 at the University Hospital of North Durham last year.
  
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• Foreign holidays hopes boosted: WHO appears to be warming to Covid 'vaccine passports' plan

  03-03-2021 02:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The UN health agency advised against using them, but the director of WHO's emergencies programme said the agency was now 'looking at different options' around vaccine passports.
  
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