Catalano’s lawyer says press attention ‘potentially detrimental’ to Australian Community Media co-owner’s mental health
A media mogul charged with assaulting his wife has avoided facing court in person over concerns growing media attention could be detrimental to his mental health.
Antony Catalano, 59, was charged with assault, false imprisonment and making threats to kill over an incident in the early hours of March 13.
Continue reading...The 17 passengers to be transferred to a quarantine center in Nebraska to ‘assess them for risk’, as one tests positive and another shows symptoms
The 17 Americans onboard the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship M/V Hondius have disembarked the vessel after it docked in Tenerife on Sunday and are being repatriated to the US.
Upon their arrival in Spain, medical teams from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awaited and interviewed the passengers, whose identities have not been publicly disclosed and who have not tested positive for the virus, about their exposure on the cruise.
Continue reading...Zbigniew Ziobro has been accused in Poland of leading an organised criminal enterprise and abuse of power, which he denies
Poland’s former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro, wanted on several criminal charges in his home country, has fled Hungary to the United States, he confirmed on Sunday, after being granted asylum from former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s government last year.
“I am in the United States,” Ziobro told rightwing Polish broadcaster Republika. “I arrived yesterday, and this is my third time travelling around the country,” he said.
Continue reading...Actor and comedian speaks for the first time since his 42-year-old daughter died by suicide in February
Martin Short has spoken for the first time about the death of his daughter, Katherine Short, saying her death has been “a nightmare for the family”.
Katherine died in February aged 42, at her home in the Hollywood Hills. The County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s office confirmed she died by suicide.
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Continue reading...US president expresses ire at Tehran’s reported demands, as drones strike Gulf nations and Israel warns war ‘not over’
Donald Trump has rejected an Iranian response to a US peace proposal as “totally unacceptable”, on a day the month-old ceasefire showed signs of fraying as drone strikes were reported around the region and Benjamin Netanyahu warned the war was “not over”.
The Iranian counter-proposal was passed to Washington through Pakistani mediators.
Continue reading...Chances of Starmer remaining in No 10 appear to be diminishing as about 40 Labour MPs call on him to quit
Keir Starmer faces a fight for his political life in the next 24 hours as potential Labour leadership rivals from Wes Streeting to Angela Rayner began to position themselves for a contest.
Starmer is hoping to save his job on Monday with a speech promising to “face up to the big challenges” for the country on growth, energy, defence and Europe.
Continue reading...1st Lt Kendrick Lamont Key Jr was participating in largest military exercise among US, Nato allies and African nations
A search team recovered the body of a US soldier who went missing near a cliff during a training exercise in Cap Draa, Morocco, the US Army said on Sunday.
Moroccan searchers found the remains on Saturday in the water within a mile (1.6km) of where the soldier went missing on 2 May, the army said in a statement.
Continue reading...Soldiers dropped oxygen supplies and medical aid to Britain’s most remote overseas territory
Paratroopers landed on a “golf course covered in rocks” to supply medical personnel and oxygen to Britain’s most remote overseas territory as it deals with a suspected hantavirus case, an army commander has said.
The UK Health Security Agency confirmed on Friday that a British national had disembarked from the cruise ship MV Hondius to the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, where they live, with a suspected case of hantavirus.
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