Marine Le Pen’s presidential bid threatened by court ruling – Financial Times

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  1. Marine Le Pen’s presidential bid threatened by court ruling  Financial Times
  2. French court to rule in Marine Le Pen embezzlement case – Europe live  The Guardian
  3. France’s Le Pen Found Guilty in Case Over Misuse of EU Funds  Bloomberg
  4. Marine Le Pen Could Be Banned From France Election if She’s Found Guilty of Embezzlement  The New York Times
  5. Decision day in court for Marine Le Pen's French presidential hopes  BBC.com
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After Duterte’s arrest, Philippine drug war victims face abuse and online falsehoods – Reuters

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  1. After Duterte's arrest, Philippine drug war victims face abuse and online falsehoods  Reuters
  2. Duterte's ICC detention, disinformation loom large in Philippine midterms  Nikkei Asia
  3. Digging Digong’s grave deeper  VERA Files
  4. Blind zeal  manilastandard.net
  5. Legal action eyed over 'manipulated' images of drug war victims  The Manila Times
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US airstrikes pound Yemen overnight, killing at least 3, Houthi rebels say – AP News

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  1. US airstrikes pound Yemen overnight, killing at least 3, Houthi rebels say  AP News
  2. After debilitating strikes, Trump tells Houthis: Stop shooting at us and 'we will stop shooting at you'  Fox News
  3. Houthis claim to shoot down American drone as U.S. airstrikes continue in Yemen  MarketWatch
  4. US says it killed top Houthi missile expert, but questions linger  The Jerusalem Post
  5. Trump: Houthi rebels have been ‘decimated’ by ‘relentless strikes’  The Hill
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Cadia goldmine operators fined $350,000 for breaches of NSW clean-air laws

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Testing had previously revealed the mine was emitting more than 11 times the legal limit of dust containing heavy metals

The operators of Cadia goldmine have been ordered to pay $350,000 in fines and convicted of three offences after a prosecution by the New South Wales Environmental Protection Authority.

Cadia Holdings Limited, trading as Cadia Valley Operations, pleaded guilty to three offences under the environmental protection act relating to breaches of clean air regulations at the mine in central west NSW.

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Peter Dutton’s plan to move to Sydney instead of Canberra if elected ‘arrogant’, Labor says

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Opposition leader confirms he would move into Kirribilli House if elected PM – a statement Anthony Albanese says shows ‘a fair bit of hubris’

Labor frontbencher Katy Gallagher has accused Peter Dutton of “arrogantly measuring the curtains at Kirribilli House” and disrespecting the national capital.

Peter Dutton has confirmed he and his family would move into Sydney’s Kirribilli House – a harbourside mansion overlooking the Opera House – rather than the Lodge in Canberra if elected on 3 May.

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Red Cross outraged over killing of eight medics in Gaza – BBC.com

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  1. Red Cross outraged over killing of eight medics in Gaza  BBC.com
  2. Bodies of missing aid workers found in Gaza ‘mass grave’ following Israeli attacks  CNN
  3. LIVE: Israel continues attacks on Gaza on second day of Eid al-Fitr  Al Jazeera English
  4. Red Cross federation ‘outraged’ at deaths of Red Crescent medics in Gaza  The Guardian
  5. Bodies of 8 Red Crescent medics found a week after Israeli soldiers fired at ambulances  CBS News
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Ben Roberts-Smith demands defamation retrial citing alleged recording of Nine investigative journalist

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Federal court hears Nick McKenzie allegedly told a witness that Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife and her friend were ‘actively briefing us on his legal strategy’

Ben Roberts-Smith has argued his case should be retried because there was a “miscarriage of justice” caused by the alleged “misconduct” of Nick McKenzie, the Nine journalist whom Roberts-Smith unsuccessfully sued for defamation.

In an interlocutory application, published by the federal court in Sydney on Monday, Roberts-Smith claimed that McKenzie “engaged in wilful misconduct in the proceedings by improperly and unlawfully obtaining and retaining information concerning [Roberts-Smith’s] legal strategy concerning the trial that was confidential and privileged”.

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Greenland’s new PM rejects Trump’s latest threat: ‘We do not belong to anyone else’

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Newly sworn in Jens-Frederik Nielsen says ‘Trump says that the United States is getting Greenland. Let me be clear: the United States won’t get that’

The US will not get Greenland, its new prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, has said in response to Donald Trump’s latest statements that he wants to take control of the vast Arctic country.

“President Trump says that the United States is getting Greenland. Let me be clear: the United States won’t get that. We do not belong to anyone else. We determine our own future,” Nielsen said.

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German space rocket explodes seconds into test flight – DW (English)

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  1. German space rocket explodes seconds into test flight  DW (English)
  2. Rocket crashes back to Earth just moments after launch in Norway  BBC.com
  3. Spectrum takes flight and clears the launch pad  European Space Agency
  4. Orbital Rocket Crashes After First Launch From Continental Europe  The New York Times
  5. Isar Aerospace completes first orbital launch vehicle test flight in Norway  Euronews
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Baulkham Hills stabbing: woman arrested and three children in hospital after alleged attack in Sydney suburb

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Two girls, boy in stable condition and 46-year-old woman under guard in hospital after alleged attack in Baulkham Hills

A mother has been arrested after she allegedly stabbed her three children multiple times in their home in Sydney’s north-west.

New South Wales police Det Supt Naomi Moore said on Monday that the children’s father woke to yells in their Baulkham Hills home, and secured the kitchen knife from his partner.

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