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Rock and roll frontman Azaria Byrne and his hairdresser partner, Brooke Mitchell, have been charged with commercial drug supply offences.

Luck runs out for glamour rock couple arrested over Sydney drug syndicate

Frontman Azaria Byrne and Brooke Mitchell were living out the rock and roll dream. They’re now in custody after police raids on a music studio and homes across the city.

  • Riley Walter

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Grant Schultz has been charged with two counts of people smuggling.

‘Black flight’: Charter flight boss charged over alleged plot to smuggle Australians into Indonesia

Two men – without visas or passports – were allegedly discovered by Indonesian immigration authorities on board a small plane in the province of South Papua.

  • Zach Hope, Jack Gramenz and Karuni Rompies
AFL CEO Andrew Dillon.

After 22 years, the AFL’s absurd pretence is over. It’s about time

There will be a cohort of law-and-order types who might view the scrapping of strikes among the changes to the illicit drug policy as the mollycoddling of footballers. But it is overdue and a necessary correction.

  • Jake Niall
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After six decades of the war on drugs, what works?

The US and its allies have spilled blood and treasure to kill kingpins and defeat cartels, but the products keep coming and the new groups are more violent than ever.

  • Maria Abi-Habib
Reports that hundreds of men may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis C after sharing injecting equipment with a male prisoner have renewed calls for needle and syringe programs in Queensland prisons.

Calls for needle-exchange program after hundreds of prisoners at risk

Almost 300 people have potentially been exposed to HIV and hepatitis C in prison, but the state government has brushed aside calls for sterile equipment.

  • Courtney Kruk
Nanette Castillo in Manila on Monday night watching the livestream from the first day of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s committal hearing at The Hague.

For more than eight years, Nanette has been waiting for Rodrigo Duterte to pay

The first day of the former Philippine president’s committal hearing for crimes against humanity took place in The Hague on Monday. In Manila, families of the dead gathered to watch the livestream.

  • Zach Hope
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Alex de Minaur is one of the Australians competing in Mexico.

How Mexican cartel violence could impact Demon, Aussie players

Alex de Minaur and a group of fellow Australian players will continue their Acapulco title pursuit this week despite ongoing violence across Mexico after the death of an infamous drug lord.

  • Marc McGowan
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Tryst with a lover brought down Mexico’s most wanted man, sparking a firestorm of violence

The infamous cartel leader “El Mencho” was tracked down with information provided by a confidante of one of his lovers, as Mexican security continue to trade fire with the cartel’s fighters.

  • Raul Cortes, Aida Pelaez-Fernandez and Sarah Morland
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Violence rocks Mexico after military kills cartel kingpin

The death of the drug lord known as “El Mencho” has decapitated one of the country’s most powerful cartels and sparked widespread retaliatory violence across the country.

  • Lizbeth Diaz and Laura Gottesdiener
Cannabis was decriminalised in Thailand in 2022, leading to a boom in dispensaries.

Will a new government breathe life into Thailand’s gasping cannabis industry?

Weed parlours were everywhere in Bangkok, like pubs in London. But the trade has been a debacle of the former government’s own making.

  • Zach Hope