Australasia

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  Calls for Australian war hero be stripped of medal over killings in Afghanistan

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  Australia’s most decorated living solider ‘committed war crimes’, court rules as he loses civil defamation case

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  OnlyFans model reveals horrifying moment she discovered stepfather was her number one customer

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  95-year-old woman who was tasered by police in her care home dies

• Family of detained WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hold rally demanding his release

  

• Stun gun used on dementia sufferer (95) at Canberra nursing home

  

• Man charged with arson over hostel blaze that killed six

  

• Women who attended same school in 1999 were sent used condoms and ‘creepy’ messages in the mail

  

• New Zealand police say a fire at a hostel in Wellington is suspected to have been arson

  

• ‘A once-in-a-decade fire for this country’ – six dead and 11 missing after blaze in New Zealand hostel

  

• New Zealand’s largest city Auckland hit by flash flooding and landslides

  

• Teetotaller saved by bottle of wine after becoming stranded in remote Australian bushland

  

• Australia hit by high winds, snow and hail

  

• Remains of missing Australian fisherman found in stomach of two huge crocodiles

  

• Australia to buy longer-range missiles due to Chinese threat

  

• Cancelled children’s cat-killing contest ‘disappoints’ bird lovers in New Zealand

  

• Man who kidnapped Cleo Smith from family’s tent beat her when she asked for chocolate, Australian court hears

  

• Jacinda Ardern’s first post-politics roles revealed as she says she won’t miss being PM

  

• Jacinda Ardern: former New Zealand prime minister to take up unpaid anti-extremism role

  

• Australian and US police seize €640m of cocaine and swap it for fake drugs to catch smuggling gang

  

• WHO describes bird flu situation as ‘worrying’ after virus kills girl in Cambodia

  

• Man (64) takes case to have pension age lowered for Australian Aboriginals in light of their shorter life expectancy

  

• Eleven dead and thousands unaccounted for after Cyclone Gabrielle batters New Zealand

• New Zealand cyclone: ‘Grave concerns’ for missing as child among four dead

  

• State of emergency declared in New Zealand as Cyclone Gabrielle batters islands

  

• New Zealand declares national emergency as Cyclone Gabrielle wreaks havoc

  

• Parents’ tribute to ‘vibrant’ girl mauled to death by shark in front of friends

  

• No place for King Charles on Australia’s new fiver note

  

• Funeral for Australian Cardinal George Pell draws both mourners and protests

  

• Lost radioactive capsule the size of a fingernail is tracked down on 1,400km Australian highway

  

• Three dead and one missing as Auckland hit by record rainfall

  

• Authorities in race against time in urgent search for tiny radioactive capsule lost in Western Australia

  

• Novak Djokovic’s father poses for pic with pro-Putin supporters at Australian Open

  

• ‘The greatest privilege’ – Jacinda Ardern in emotional farewell at final event as New Zealand leader