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Two Darwin men in hospital after stabbing

TWO men are in the same hospital with stab wounds after getting into a fight after a car journey in Darwin. THE men aged 34 and 43 were travelling together in a Jeep Cherokee about 1am on Thursday when they got into an argument. They got out of the car ... >> view original

Escaped Darwin teens break back into prison after two days, captured doing ...

Two teenagers have escaped from Darwin's youth detention and then smashed their way back into the prison with a car, performing burnouts inside the facility. Police have confirmed the pair broke out of Don Dale Youth Detention Centre on Sunday night ... >> view original

Teen jail escapees allegedly steal car to break back into Darwin detention centre

Two teenagers who allegedly escaped Darwin's Don Dale Youth Detention Centre have been pictured re-entering the facility in an allegedly stolen car to perform burnouts. 9NEWS has obtained exclusive phone vision taken from a police car pursuing the ... >> view original

Five troops killed in fighting with pro-Russian rebels, Ukraine says

Five Ukrainian servicemen were killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, mostly near the government-held town of Maryinka where pro-Russian rebels were trying to make a significant advance, a presidential aide said on Thursday. Thirty-nine ... >> view original

Israel raids Gaza, Islamic State sympathisers claim rocket fire

Gaza: Israel carried out bombing raids in Gaza on Thursday in what it said was retaliation against three militant training camps, as a radical Islamist group sympathetic to Islamic State claimed responsibility for earlier rocket attacks on Israel. Witnesses and ... >> view original

Middle East updates / Syrian army airstrikes kill more than 30, monitoring group ...

Qatar says airstrikes hopeless without Iraqi national dialogue; Saudi Arabia names suspects in mosque bombings, offers $1 million bounty; Family of eight also killed in Yemen airstrikes. By Haaretz | Jun. 3, 2015 | 12:48 PM ... >> view original

First refugees from Nauru detention centre arrive in Cambodia

Four refugees transferred from the Nauru detention centre have arrived in Cambodia and have been taken away in a van with curtains covering the windows. Two Iranian men, an Iranian woman and a Rohingya man from Myanmar arrived in Phnom Penh on ... >> view original

Hong Kong's Young Find New Meaning in Tiananmen Vigil

HONG KONG — Hong Kongers plan to hold a candlelight vigil Thursday night to mark the 1989 student-led Tiananmen Square protests, an annual event that takes on greater meaning for the city's young after last autumn's pro-democracy demonstrations ... >> view original

Germany urges Sisi not to carry out Egypt death penalties - Al

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged the Egyptian president not to execute Muslim Brotherhood leaders. (AFP/File). More >. Create alert for BerlinBerlin. ,. Create alert for EarlierEarlier. ,. Create alert for Abdel Fattah el-SisiAbdel Fattah el-Sisi. >> view original

Nusra Front leader: 'Islamic State caliphate is illegitimate'

Abu Mohammad al-Julani, chief of Nusra Front, an Al-Qaida branch in Syria, said that "Islamic State's caliphates are illegitimate. Muslim religious leaders have rejected them." According to him, his group tried to reconcile with ISIS several times, to no avail. >> view original