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Lured into an online scam network, an African man spent almost a year in Cambodia trying to go home

In Cambodia, workers carried out online scams against people worldwide from inside massive fortified buildings they weren't allowed to leave

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Former Chinese Politburo member Ma Xingrui charged with taking bribes

China's state media say a former member of one of China’s top decision-making bodies has been formally charged with accepting bribes a week after Communist Party leaders confirmed his expulsion from the party

Hong Kong's Joshua Wong is spending years of his adult life in prison

Joshua Wong, once a rising political star in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, has been sentenced again under Beijing's national security law

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Food grown in illegal West Bank settlements being sold in Australia as ‘produce of Israel’

Analysis by human rights organisation Global Echo shows 85 of 132 shipments over eight years contained more than US$5m of organic dates grown in settlementsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMillions of dollars of food grown in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank has been shipped to Australia labelled as “produce of Israel”, a new analysis of trade data has shown.The human rights legal organisation Global Echo has analysed commercial documents and official trade data from the Israeli government and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, showing at least US$5m (A$7.2m) of organic dates grown in illegal settlements across the West Bank have been shipped to Australia over the past eight years. Continue reading...

Mother and daughter killed in grizzly bear attack, Canadian authorities confirm

Conservation officers say more than one bear may have been involved in attack on women near their homeSearch teams in Canada have discovered the body of a 20-year-old woman and confirmed that both she and her mother were killed in an attack that conservation officers now believe could have involved multiple grizzly bears.Late on Tuesday, conservation officers in British Columbia said the two women, who were reported missing over the weekend, were located near a trail a short distance from their home. Continue reading...