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SAS veteran acted with ‘a certain recklessness or perhaps even brazenness’ when he killed a man with a prosthetic leg in Afghanistan, court finds
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Ben Roberts-Smith acted with “a certain recklessness or perhaps even brazenness” when he killed a man with a prosthetic leg in Afghanistan in full view of other soldiers by shooting him with a machine gun, the full bench of the federal court has found.
“The problem for [Roberts-Smith] is that, unlike most homicides, there were three eyewitnesses to this murder,” the judges wrote.
Transport NSW teams working to let passengers off trains safely as incident causes significant delays to T1, T2, T3 and T8 lines
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Sydney’s train network has been thrown into chaos after high-voltage wire collapsed on the top of a train, trapping 300 passengers and causing disruption to lines going in and out of central Sydney.
Howard Collins, the coordinator general for Transport NSW, told reporters on Tuesday afternoon response teams were working to on site working to ensure the correct isolations were put in place to remove the 300 passengers on that train and the trains around it which were caught when the power was switched off.
“Sleep has hardly changed since Paleolithic humans snoozed soundly in their caves,” Merijn van de Laar notes in his new book.