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CrimePremiumLaos government pledges justice over poisoning deaths

The Laotian government has pledged justice for the victims of a mass alcohol poisoning case that has killed six tourists including two Australians.

Jintamas Saksornchai

NewsPremiumThird man charged over wild police chase

Police have charged a third man over a wild chase through Sydney’s western suburbs during which an officer was stabbed.

Clareese Packer and Emma Kirk

NEWSPremiumKey three minutes before 95yo’s Taser death

A fatal confrontation that lasted less than three minutes has been crucial in the trial of a police officer who fired his Taser at a 95-year-old who was using a walker.

Adelaide Lang

SearchPremiumNew development in anti-Israel attack

Police are hoping to speak to a driver of a white Holden as they probe a car fire and spate of anti-Israel graffiti in Sydney’s eastern suburbs this week.

Steve Zemek

CrimePremiumTeen babysitter charged with neglect of toddler

A toddler was left burnt and bruised with internal injuries so severe that he needed to be intubated in hospital, South Australian police say.

Rachael Ward

SA NewsPremiumBabysitter charged with child neglect

The police have arrested and charged a teen babysitter after a three-year-old toddler was found with horrendous injuries.

Clareese Packer

NEWSPremiumMan shot by police in remote town

A male police officer was allegedly assaulted while responding to a domestic violence incident, with a firearm allegedly discharged during the altercation.

Clareese Packer

CRIMEPremiumMan shot in Wheatbelt after assaulting police officer

A man has been shot after assaulting a police officer during a violent altercation on Saturday.

John Flint and Hannah Cross

CrimePremiumPolice shoot and injure man after officer assaulted

A man is in hospital after being shot by police responding to a family violence incident in Western Australia's wheatbelt region.

Caitlin Powell

CrimePremium'Coming for you': man shot had links to organised crime

Police continue to hunt for the perpetrators who fatally shot a man with known links to organised crime in a targeted attack on a Sydney street.

William Ton

UpdatedPremiumFresh update in Sydney shooting chaos

Police have confirmed the man who was shot dead in a targeted attack had links to organised crime, with the shooter still on the run.

Clareese Packer

CrimePremiumNine arrested after brutal alleged stabbing

Nine people have been arrested after a man was stabbed and rushed to hospital with life threatening injuries.

Emma Kirk

CrimePremiumTrigger-happy or justified? How a cop ended 95yo's life

In the hours before being cornered by police and fatally tasered, great-grandmother Clare Nowland took two steak knives and raised them at residents and staff.

Miklos Bolza

CrimeTeen in court for allegedly biting cop

The police say two teens damaged a marked cop car parked at a station and then fled to escape arrest, with one of the teens allegedly biting an officer.

Duncan Evans

CrimePremiumNew York repeals century old law against adultery

Cheating on your spouse is no longer a crime in New York after its governor signed off on repealing a century-old law banning adultery.

Anthony Izaguirre

CrimeAlbo scores huge win for Bali Nine prisoners

The remaining members of the notorious Bali Nine drug smuggling ring could soon return home to Australia following a diplomatic breakthrough.

Duncan Evans

CrimeRemaining Bali Nine prisoners to come home

Indonesia has agreed to send home the five remaining members of Australia’s Bali Nine serving life sentences for drug trafficking following a plea from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Staff writers

CrimePremiumThird bail bid for Combs ahead of sex trafficking trial

A judge says he will rule next week on Sean "Diddy" Combs' third request to be released from jail on bail while he awaits his sex trafficking trial.

Michael R Sisak

Courts & JusticePremiumWhat went on behind closed doors in Floreat teen abuse case

The extraordinary case of Floreat’s ‘starving ballerina’ has intrigued the nation, posing the burning question, what possessed her wealthy and educated parents to do what they did?

Rebecca Le May

CrimePremiumNo overhaul of hate crime laws after nine-month review

Expanding the definition of hate crimes in NSW alone could have unintended impacts on Indigenous people and people with disabilities, a review has found.

Luke Costin

CrimePremiumHunt for gunman after man shot dead in city street

A major police operation has unfolded in Sydney after a man was shot dead in an inner-city street and a Porsche set alight a couple of suburbs away.

John Crouch

CrimePremiumHungary's Orban vows to disregard warrant for Netanyahu

Prime Minister Viktor Orban has slammed the ICC's "cynical" arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu and has invited the Israeli leader to visit Hungary.

Justine Spike

CrimePremiumTwo rushed to hospital with serious injuries after rollover

Emergency services rushed to the scene on Nanutarra Road, about three hours east of Exmouth after the car rolled about 10am on Friday.

Jessica Evensen

CrimePremiumLaos hostel owners held over tainted alcohol poisonings

Police have arrested the manager and owner of a Laotian hostel where two Australian tourists stayed who died after being poisoned by tainted alcohol.

Jintamas Saksornchai and David Rising