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Gun rights and gold medals: US shooters sweep the skeet in Tokyo | Tokyo Olympic Games 2020
It was a rough winter for the US shooting team, with some members sent to practise in an abandoned Macy’s department store when...
How ‘super-detector’ dogs are helping free Iraq from the terror of Isis mines | Global development
On the wide, flat plain of the Sinjar district of northern Iraq, Naif Khalaf Qassim lets his dog, an eight-year-old Belgian shepherd, range...
Decision to adopt independent complaints process will create safer parliament, Brittany Higgins says | Australia news
Former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins has welcomed the Morrison government’s decision to adopt an independent complaints mechanism for serious incidents in Parliament House,...
‘Reckless and dangerous’: Erasmus posts footage criticising Lions play | British & Irish Lions
Rassie Erasmus, South Africa’s director of rugby, has resumed taking pot shots at the British & Irish Lions on Twitter after posting footage...
Nine Fiji opposition MPs arrested over criticism of land bill | Fiji
Nine prominent opposition politicians – including two former prime ministers – have been arrested in Fiji for voicing concerns about a contentious land...
Ben Roberts-Smith: first Afghan witness tells court he saw ‘a big soldier’ kick his uncle off a cliff | Ben Roberts-Smith
“A big soldier”, an Australian SAS trooper, kicked a handcuffed Afghan villager down a steep embankment, before the man’s body was later seen...
Coronavirus live news: China reports highest cases since January; France adopts vaccine passports law | World news
As the country grapples with the worst coronavirus outbreak in Asia, president Joko Widodo announced on Sunday that while overall curbs...
Round one to Ariarne Titmus but duel in the pool with Katie Ledecky continues | Tokyo Olympic Games 2020
After losing to Australia’s Ariarne Titmus in the women’s 400m freestyle, American Katie Ledecky departed the press conference tent at the Tokyo Aquatics...
Supermarket workers in south-west Sydney to get priority access to Pfizer vaccine | Sydney
Supermarket workers in south-west Sydney will soon have priority access to the Pfizer vaccine via pop-up clinics and appointments at the Sydney Olympic...
Skateboarding: Japan’s Momiji Nishiya, 13, wins Olympic women’s street gold | Tokyo Olympic Games 2020
On the Olympic podium, three teenage girls 13, 13 and 16 with weighty gold, silver and bronze medals around their young necks, rewards...