‘It’s a torture regime’: the last days of Alexei Navalny

 

Navalny understood he might never leave prison alive. Yet there is little doubt his dispatch to IK-3 in the remote Yamalo-Nenets region hastened his demise, either due to the extreme conditions or a more direct act of foul play…

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Beau Lamarre-Condon arrested

 

Beau Lamarre-Condon, a 28 year old Sydney special command police officer has been charged with two counts of murder.  He allegedly used his own gun to murder his ex-lover and his new boyfriend — before hiring a van to dump their bodies and then handing himself in to his former colleagues in Bondi.

 Police are still searching for those bodies tonight (Friday).

Mother leaves 16 months old daughter alone for 10 days

 

Kristel Candelario, 32, left her 16-month-old daughter, Jailyn Candelario, “alone and unattended” while she vacationed in Detroit and Puerto Rico.  

She left on 6 June 2023 and didn’t return home until 16 June when she found the child unresponsive and called police.

Police found Jailyn in a filthy playpen, and the girl was pronounced dead. She had been “extremely dehydrated,” according to police.

New character test for migrants

 

The Home Affairs Department can't say how many migrants they expect to fail the character test under planned changes to make it easier to deport foreign criminals. 

Department officials were grilled by a Senate Inquiry about government plans to lower the bar for criminals' visas to be cancelled.

Under the proposed laws, non-citizens convicted of a crime that carries a maximum sentence of at least two years would automatically fail the character test, regardless of whether they are sentenced to any jail time.....

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Visas for Palestinian refugees

 

Michael Willard

A Palestinian refugee given a visa to resettle in Australia has reportedly shown support for the Hamas attacks on Israel. 

Despite government assurances the visa vetting process has been thorough, Deputy Secretary of Immigration Michael Willard said the medium processing time for approvals was 24 hours with some visas reportedly approved in as little as one hour. 

Kim Kardashian's Cybertruck

 

Kim Kardashian showed off her flashy new Tesla Cybertruck while taking the luxury vehicle out for a spin in Malibu on Thursday morning.

Kelvin Kiptum, Kenya's champion marathon runner, dies is car crash

 

Students line up to see the hearse carrying the coffin of late marathon runner Kelvin Kiptum during his funeral in the village of Chepkorio. 

Kenya’s world record holding marathon runner, who ran three of the seven fastest marathons in history and was ranked first among the world’s men’s marathon runners, died in a car crash in Kenya on 11 February 2024 at the age of 24.