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[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAAn alleged fraudster is on the run, having not returned to her trial in a Brisbane court since the day after her family was involved in a scuffle with security outside the building.Fatima I’lache, 65, was two weeks into a trial in the Brisbane District Court, accused of fraudulently receiving more than $240,000 in welfare payments, when she stopped coming to court.Between 2012 and 2019, she allegedly owned and rented out her house without telling the government.Fatima I’lache (right) leaving court on the…

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[ad_1] Mack LiedermanJune 10, 2026 — 7:23pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAADescribing an elaborate ruse that “read like a movie script”, Canadian authorities accused a long-time Air Canada pilot of fraud on Tuesday, saying he had flown many hundreds of hours over 17 years despite not having the proper credential to sit in the captain’s seat.The pilot, Geoff Wall, 59, faces seven charges, including fraud over $US5000 ($7000), forging documents and public mischief. The charges were brought by the Peel Regional Police Department in Ontario, which has jurisdiction over…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is hoping to use a visit to Melbourne and Sydney next month to unlock a flood of uranium imports and boost defence ties with Australia in a move that will be closely watched by China.Australia and India struck a historic deal to allow uranium exports in 2014, but there have been only negligible shipments in the following 12 years.The blossoming relationship between Narendra Modi and Anthony Albanese has sparked concerns Australia is staying silent on human rights issues.James…

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[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAVancouver: In June 1994, soccer’s bold attempt to break into the North American market seemed to have been derailed by O.J. Simpson and his white Ford Bronco.While FIFA hoped all eyes would be on reigning champions Germany playing Bolivia in the opening match of the 1994 World Cup at Chicago’s Soldier Field, Americans instead were transfixed as the former footballer and actor turned suspected killer led police on a bizarre, two-hour, low-speed chase across Los Angeles.Jurgen Klinsmann celebrates after scoring the only goal…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAMultiple people have been injured after a spate of alleged random slingshot attacks from a moving car in Brisbane.At least four people reported being hurt in the inner-city, including a woman who claimed she was almost blinded by metal projectiles, before four men were arrested.“I was just really scared because it was Paddington, and I didn’t think anything like this could happen,” one injured woman, who asked not to be named to protect her safety, told Nine News.Police allegedly found two slingshots when…

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[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWashington: Newly minted Liberal Party president and former prime minister Tony Abbott says the party needs to give Australians a better product after a “dreadful year” of opposition as One Nation’s primary vote surged in the polls.Speaking in Washington, DC, at the US launch of his book, Australia: A History hosted by BHP, Abbott described the Trump administration as an “in-house insurgency” with “what was effectively a hostile takeover of the Republican Party from within”.Asked by former NSW premier Dominic Perrottet, now BHP’s…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThere was one thing only child Gai Williams was certain of from a young age: she had no intention of having only one child herself.Articulate, self-sufficient, “pretty good” at sharing and “very good” at keeping herself occupied, the 73-year-old rejects most negative stereotypes that pop-psychologists swear prove the debunked “only child syndrome” is alive and well.But there is one stereotype, as Williams reveals in the video below, that she does lend weight to.While she was surrounded by cousins and friends growing up, her…