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Australia has some of the strictest biosecurity rules in the world
Australia to lift import ban on US beef after Trump tariffs tiff
SYDNEY — Australia will lift restrictions on the import of beef from the US, a trade barrier which had angered the Trump administration.American beef has effectively been banned from the country — which has some of the strictest biosecurity laws in the world — since 2003 after an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease.The White House cited the restrictions when explaining tariffs imposed on Australia in April, as part of US President Donald Trump's so-called Liberation Day scheme.The Australian government has denied the timing of the decision was related to the trade tiff, saying a decade-long department review found the US had improved beef safety measures.Canberra technically lifted the ban on US beef in 2019, but cattle from Mexico and...
July 24, 2025

Australia to lift import ban on US beef after Trump tariffs tiff

The women were ordered off a flight and checked for whether they had given birth
Five Australian women win right to sue Qatar Airways over invasive searches
SYDNEY — Five Australian women who were strip-searched and invasively examined at Doha airport have won the right to sue Qatar Airways after an appeal.The women were ordered off a flight and checked for whether they had given birth after a baby was found abandoned in an airport bin in 2020 — an incident that sparked global outrage.An Australian judge last year found the state-owned airline could not be prosecuted under the laws governing global travel, and said the proposition its staff could have intervened was "fanciful, trifling, implausible, improbable, [and] tenuous".The women appealed, with the full bench of the Federal Court finding the primary judge erred in throwing out the case.The five women filed a lawsuit in 2021, against Qatar Airways, Qatar's Civil Aviation...
July 24, 2025

Five Australian women win right to sue Qatar Airways over invasive searches

Najeeb Ahmed mysteriously disappeared in October 2016
A mother's heartbreak: The unresolved mystery of missing Indian student
DELHI — Nine years ago, an Indian student vanished into thin air.Najeeb Ahmed was studying biotechnology at the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi, when he mysteriously went missing in October 2016.The night before his disappearance, the then 27-year-old who lived in one of the university's residential hostels was involved in a scuffle with members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a right-wing student group. The students have denied any involvement in his disappearance.For years, India's crime-fighting agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), has been trying to figure what may have happened to Ahmed — the agency took over the case from city police in 2017.Now a court in Delhi has finally shut the investigation after the CBI said it...
July 24, 2025

A mother's heartbreak: The unresolved mystery of missing Indian student

Other remains were found in Shobhana Patel's casket after her body was returned to the UK, her son says
Air India crash victim's son says he received wrong remains
DELHI — The son of a woman killed in the Air India plane crash has told the BBC "other remains" were found in her casket after her body was returned to the UK.Miten Patel, whose father also died in the crash, said the coroner identified the mixed-up remains and left him to worry: "How many others are in there?"The Daily Mail reported on Wednesday that the wrong bodies were being sent to loved ones following the crash which killed 260 people shortly after take-off in early June.All remains were handled with "utmost professionalism" and dignity, India's foreign ministry said, and that it was working with UK officials to address concerns.Ashok and Shobhana Patel were travelling home to visit their sons and grandchildren on 12 June. After the Gatwick-bound...
July 23, 2025

Air India crash victim's son says he received wrong remains

Peter and Barbie Reynolds were arrested in Afghanistan in February
British couple held by Taliban 'may die in prison,' son warns
LONDON — The son of a British couple detained by the Taliban five months ago has told the BBC that he fears they may die in prison.Peter Reynolds, 80, and Barbie, 76, were arrested on 1 February while returning to their home in central Bamiyan province, Afghanistan.Their son Jonathan Reynolds said their health was rapidly deteriorating, with his father suffering serious convulsions and his mother "numb" from anaemia and malnutrition.It is not known exactly why they were detained, and a Taliban official told the BBC in February that the group planned to release the couple "as soon as possible".The UN has also warned that they could perish "in such degrading conditions" if they do not receive medical care at once, calling their detention...
July 23, 2025

British couple held by Taliban 'may die in prison,' son warns

Achuthanandan was a former chief minister of Kerala state
Thousands pay tribute to veteran Indian communist leader
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM — Thousands are paying their respects to veteran Indian communist leader VS Achuthanandan whose funeral will be held on Wednesday.VS, as he was popularly known, died on Monday at the age of 101. He was a founding member of India's largest communist party and a former chief minister of the southern state of Kerala.Tens of thousands of people have thronged the streets to pay tribute to the politician, widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in Kerala's political history.Forced to drop out of school as a child, Achuthanandan overcame grinding poverty and torture in police custody to become one of the state's most beloved leaders.He was being treated at a hospital in Thiruvananathapuram after suffering a cardiac arrest last month. His funeral...
July 23, 2025

Thousands pay tribute to veteran Indian communist leader

The F-35B was diverted to Thiruvananthapuram airport following an emergency
Meme-famous UK fighter jet stuck in India finally departs
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM — A state-of-the-art British fighter jet that became a subject of jokes and memes after being stranded at an Indian airport for more than five weeks has finally left after repairs.The F-35B is now airborne and on its way to Darwin in Australia, an airport spokesman told the BBC.The jet first landed on 14 June at Thiruvananthapuram airport in the southern state of Kerala where it was diverted after it ran into bad weather during a sortie in the Indian Ocean. It then developed a technical snag.Its prolonged presence on Indian soil sparked curiosity and raised questions about how such a modern aircraft could remain stranded in a foreign country for so long.In a statement on Tuesday morning, the British High Commission confirmed the aircraft's departure. "A UK...
July 22, 2025

Meme-famous UK fighter jet stuck in India finally departs

Air India Flight 171 crashed into a crowded neighbourhood in Ahmedabad
Voices in the cockpit fuelling controversy over Air India crash
DELHI — When the preliminary report into the crash of Air India Flight 171, which killed 260 people in June, was released, many hoped it would bring some measure of closure.Instead, the 15-page report added fuel to a firestorm of speculation. For, despite the measured tone of the report, one detail continues to haunt investigators, aviation analysts and the public alike.Seconds after take-off, both fuel-control switches on the 12-year-old Boeing 787 abruptly moved to "cut-off", cutting fuel to the engines and causing total power loss - a step normally done only after landing.The cockpit voice recording captures one pilot asking the other why he "did the cut-off", to which the person replies that he didn't. The recording doesn't clarify who said what. At the...
July 22, 2025

Voices in the cockpit fuelling controversy over Air India crash

Jagdeep Dhankhar's tenure as vice president was expected to end only in 2027
Indian vice president's resignation sparks speculation
DELHI — The sudden resignation of India's Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday night has sparked speculation about what prompted the move.Dhankar, also the chairman of the upper house of the parliament, announced his resignation on the first day of the monsoon session, citing health concerns.The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had nominated him for the post, has yet to comment on his resignation.But many opposition leaders have expressed surprise at the move, with one MP saying there was more to it "than meets the eye".Dhankhar, 74, took office in August 2022, with his term set to run until 2027.On Monday, Dhankhar presided over a Rajya Sabha — the upper house — session and swore in new members.He also received an impeachment notice against high court...
July 22, 2025

Indian vice president's resignation sparks speculation

Authorities say more than 400 species of marine life have died
Australia's toxic algae bloom is 'natural disaster'
SYDNEY — An algal bloom catastrophe which has turned usually pristine South Australian waters toxic green and suffocated masses of marine life is a "natural disaster", the state premier has declared.The algal bloom — a rapid increase in the population of algae in water systems — has been spreading since March and is now twice the size of the country's capital territory.The federal government has unveiled an assistance package of A$14m ($9m; £6.7m) but refused to designate the event a natural disaster - a term usually used for cyclones, floods and bushfires and which would trigger a greater response.Authorities say more than 400 species of marine life have died and local industries are suffering.Algal bloom is naturally occurring but is caused by ocean warming, marine...
July 22, 2025

Australia's toxic algae bloom is 'natural disaster'

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