17 h. ago At least 11 dead in mass shooting at Mexican football pitch: Gunman opens fire after match in latest gangland massacre

Members of the Mexican National Guard were stationed where the attack took place on January 25 during a football match in the city of Salamanca, Guanajuato state, western Mexico.

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54 h. ago Leviticus review – queer desire is a deadly curse in haunting horror

Sundance film festival: Conversion therapy has gory results in a smart and surprisingly romantic debut feature from Australian writer-director Adrian ChiarellaSomething rather nasty is unfolding in Sundance horror Leviticus. If you asked the god-fearing residents of the isolated Australian town at its centre, they would say it’s the curse of homosexuality, quietly infecting the youth. If you asked the gay teens themselves, they would say it’s something far more horrifying.In writer-director Adrian Chiarella’s indelible debut feature, queer desire is not only a danger to one’s safety from the bigots that you live, work and pray with, but it’s also a supernatural affliction. We first see teens Naim (Joe Bird) and Ryan (Stacy Clausen) as they engage in a clandestine hang, that familiar dance of a play-fight leading into a kiss. For Naim, it’s a new world opening up, a reason to believe there might be something to be happy about in an otherwise dull new town with his warm yet clueless s...

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3 d. ago Moment 1,000 feral camels rampage through Australian outback town in search of water

A huge mob of 1,000 feral camels have been spotted rampaging through a town in the Australian outback searching for water amid record-breaking temperatures. 

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3 d. ago Police seek man wanted in fatal shootings of 3 in small Australian town

Police are urging people in a small Australian town to stay indoors as they look for the man suspected of killing three people in a domestic violence-related shooting

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3 d. ago Lake Cargelligo shooting: Gunman remains at large after three shot dead as police confirm links to pregnant victim

Police are looking for the alleged gunman after confirming a pregnant woman who was killed has links to the suspect

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3 d. ago Manhunt for alleged gunman after three shot dead as police confirm links to pregnant woman killed

Police are frantically searching for Julian Ingram as local residents are told not to leave houses following a shooting that killed three people in a small town

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4 d. ago Lake Cargelligo shooting: Gunman on the run as pregnant woman is shot dead along with two others in suspected domestic violence killing spree

A manhunt is underway for a gunman accused of killing three people and injuring another.

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4 d. ago Lake Cargelligo shooting: Two women and a man shot dead in central NSW as gunman remains on the run and chilling new details emerge about possible motive

A manhunt is underway for a gunman accused of killing three people and injuring another.

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4 d. ago Three dead and gunman still at large after shooting in rural Australian town

Residents of Lake Cargelligo, a small town west of Sydney, are being urged to stay indoors as police hunt the gunman who they have ‘identified’

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4 d. ago Lake Cargelligo residents told to ‘stay inside’ after three killed in shooting in rural Australia town

The shooter or shooters are still at large, police say

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4 d. ago Lake Cargelligo shooting: Two women and a man shot dead in central NSW as gunman remains on the run

A manhunt is underway for a gunman accused of killing three people and injuring another.

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1 week ago Mum's headless torso only thing remaining as she was bitten in half by great white shark while paddling

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT A rogue shark sent an Australian town into a frenzied hunt after a mother-of-four was slaughtered in seconds.

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2 w. ago US and allies strike Islamic State in Syria after attack that killed three Americans

Military says it targeted the jihadist group throughout Syria in response to attack on US and Syrian troops in PalmyraUS and allied forces carried out “large-scale” strikes against the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria on Saturday, the US military said, in the latest response to an attack last month that left three Americans dead.Washington said a lone gunman from the militant group carried out the 13 December attack in Palmyra, which killed two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter. The area is home to Unesco-listed ancient ruins and was once controlled by jihadist fighters. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago ‘It’s like you’re sitting in front of an oven’: surviving the summer in one of Australia’s hottest towns

When the hot winds hit Roebourne, as many as 16 people pile into Yindjibarndi elder Lyn Cheedy’s home – one of the few with air conditioningFew places are more exposed to extreme weather than Roebourne, a tiny cyclone-prone town on the Western Australian coast, where public housing residents endure 50C heat without air conditioning.Lyn Cheedy, a Yindjibarndi elder, takes her grandson to the pool most afternoons. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Ecuador tourist beach shooting as six people, including girl, 2, shot dead in terrifying gunman attack

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