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Cyclone Jasper hits Australia, alert sounded for 'life-threatening' floods

Tropical Cyclone Jasper hit northeast Australia on Wednesday, leaving thousands of people in coastal communities without power and preparing for potentially “life-threatening” floods. The Category Two storm barrelled in off the Coral Sea, making landfall at around 5:00 pm on Wednesday, government meteorologists said. Damaging winds of up to 113 kilometres (70 miles) per hour […]

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deaths of her 4 kids gets Australian woman in jail for 20 years

A woman imprisoned for 20 years over the deaths of her four children, and pardoned in June, saw her convictions quashed by New South Wales state on Thursday, with her lawyer saying she plans to claim “substantial” compensation. Kathleen Folbigg was convicted in 2003 of murdering three of her children, and of manslaughter in the

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