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Police are investigating new claims of assault, stalking and intimidation by former Miss USA beauty queen Nikki Poteet against a former male partner. Three police local area commands in different parts of NSW have been involved in an operation over the past six weeks to interview Ms Poteet over the allegations. The glamorous former pageant

URW has dual listing in Australia, albeit with a small register. Its ASX-listed shares were down 3.5 per cent at $3.85 in early afternoon trade. URW management said, in an overnight briefing from Paris, it was “too early to provide new guidance on the outlook for 2020.” The management added that the first half was

Crown Resorts conducts its due diligence of junket partners to check for potential criminal links from within the marketing team tasked with luring wealthy high rollers to its Australian casinos, creating what the group’s legal chief concedes could be a conflict of interest. Joshua Preston, who is responsible for legal and regulatory compliance at the

The body of a woman, believed to be in her 30s, was found in bushland in Sydney’s southwest on Wednesday. A member of the public made the grim discovery before calling officers to bushland near Sandy Point Quarry off Heathcote Rd, Menai, about 5.15pm. Detectives are treating the woman’s death as suspicious. The woman is

Police will allege an interstate truck driver in South Australia was planning to use his status as an essential worker to transport more than a million dollars’ worth of drugs around the country. Key points: The drugs were seized at Port Adelaide on Tuesday and three men were arrested Police allege the value of the

Cybercrime Squad detectives have charged two men as part of an ongoing investigation into an alleged $2.6 million email scam syndicate targeting Australian businesses. In September 2019, detectives from the State Crime Command’s Cybercrime Squad established Strike Force Belltree to investigate a criminal syndicate targeting businesses across the country through email scams. Their inquiries revealed

An appeal by accused child sex offender Malka Leifer’s lawyers has been heard in the Supreme Court of Israel regarding her mental capacity to face justice. The hearing, now at number 70 in a near decade-long legal saga, follows a District Court decision made earlier this month which deemed Leifer fit to face an extradition

It’s still possible to be arrested and charged with a crime at the age of 10 in Australia. There’s been a sustained campaign to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14, in line with the average across Europe, but Australian political leaders want to see more evidence and more options first. Today on the

SYDNEY (BLOOMBERG) – Australia granted “major project status” to an ambitious A$22 billion (S$21.7 billion) plan to export power from a giant solar farm in the country’s north to South-east Asia via undersea cable. The status recognizes the “strategic significance” of the project, which is expected to inject billions of dollars into the economy and

SINGAPORE – A 29-year-old Indonesian woman who is believed to have abandoned her newborn baby was arrested by the police on Wednesday (July 29). The baby boy was found outside a semi-detached home in Tai Keng Gardens near Upper Paya Lebar Road on Monday night. He was then taken to KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. The police