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A Florida scientist says armed police pointed a gun at her children during a raid she's blamed on the state's "gestapo" Governor, accusing him and other officials of covering up the extent of the local COVID-19 outbreak.
Rebekah Jones, who developed the state's COVID-19 online dashboard, was reportedly fired by the Department of Health (DOH) in May - officially for exhibiting "a repeated course of insubordination". Jones claims it was because she refused to alter data to make the outbreak look less serious than it really was.
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A Chinese official's tweet of an image of an Australian soldier that sparked a furious reaction from Canberra was amplified across social media by unusual accounts, of which half were likely fake, an Israeli cybersecurity firm and Australian experts said.
The digitally altered image of an Australian soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of an Afghan child was tweeted by China's foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Monday.
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Diplomacy is always a tightrope but what happens when your old mates turn on your new friends and demand you line up with them?
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Taiwan is calling for a new alliance of "like-minded" nations to resist China's expansionism.
Speaking to The Guardian this week, Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu warned that China was seeking to "expand its authoritarian order", pointing to its growing military presence in the contested South China sea, recent skirmishes on the border with India, and the judicial crackdown in Hong Kong.
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The former head of Israel's space program has claimed aliens are hiding on Earth and have reached an agreement with US President Donald Trump to stay quiet while they conduct experiments here.
Prof Haim Eshed, who holds a degree in electronics engineering, a master's in performance research, and a doctorate in aeronautical engineering, made the claims in an interview with Israeli paper Yedioth Aharonoth, the Jewish Press reported.
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The ACT Party is calling on the Government to deliver "practical and honest solutions" following the Royal Commission's inquiry into the Christchurch mosque attacks.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she will raise radicalisation directly with YouTube’s leadership following the Royal Commission of Inquiry’s report into March 15.
The terrorist told the Commission that YouTube was his main source of both inspiration and information on how to carry out the terror attack, which saw 51 worshippers murdered in two mosques.
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ACT MP Nicole McKee has used her maiden speech to slam the Government’s gun control laws, hours after the release of a royal commission of inquiry’s report on the March 15 terror attack.
McKee called for the Government to “stop hammering minorities” such as law-abiding gun owners.
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