The search resumed Monday for five of seven crewmen who were on board a St. Vincent and the Grenadines registered cargo vessel that capsized in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday. Two of the MV Fair Chance vessel crewmen were rescued by a passing powerboat and taken to Trinidad. […]
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CNW- Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders are expected to meet later this week to discuss the controversy that has arisen following Jamaica’s decision to announce that its Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Kamina Johnson Smith will challenge the incumbent Baroness Patricia Scotland for the post of Commonwealth Secretary General in June. At the end of […]
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Giacomo Tognini Forbes Staff From Caribbean islands to northern Europe, these nations finally have a billionaire citizen. There are 87 fewer billionaires in the world this year, according to Forbes’ 2022 World’s Billionaires list. But even as countries like Russia, where the invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions have sent markets plummeting, and China, which […]
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Perth soccer player Danny Hodgson is pleading for an end to violence on the city's streets.
A one-punch attack left the 26-year-old with a catastrophic brain injury in September last year.
His teenage attacker was given a sentence of three-and-a-half years.
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Mr Hodgson and his family are now pushing for harsher penalties eight months after the encounter.
His mother Nicola said the unprovoked attack "broke our family, literally broke it to pieces".
"We're literally putting those pieces back together every day and it's never going to be normal," Ms Hodgson said.
The push follows an announcement today that boxer Danny Green's Stop the Coward Punch campaign will receive a million-dollar federal government boost.
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The family believes it's a start but it isn't enough.
They are calling for a minimum mandatory sentence of 10 years.
"If they want to stop this happening, they've got to act now," Mr Hodgson said.
"The quicker they act, the quicker it stops."
Mr Hodgson is making progress on his road to recovery and is doing things doctors believed he never would again.
"Every day is a challenge," he said.
"The main thing now is to learn how to walk again, which I'm improving rapidly."
Ms Hodgson said she was amazed by her son's progress.
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"It's something we didn't think we were going to see," she said.
"We were told he wouldn't do it and here he is just knocking down barriers and making me proud every day."
Mr Hodgson's parents flew to Perth to be by their son's side and they haven't left since.
After 186 days in hospital, the Joondalup player said he wouldn't be where he is without them.
"There's always light at the end of the tunnel," he said.
"You've just got to brace yourself and set a mindset that you're going to get through it and happier days will come."
By Jorge Engels and Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) Some 130 people have been killed and more than 3,000 have been forcibly displaced this year as violence has surged in eastern Colombia, according to the United Nations and the Catholic Church. The institutions have called on armed groups to stop the violence and respect international humanitarian […]
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By Brian Ellsworth MIAMI, April 4 (Reuters) – A former Colombian soldier pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges by U.S. prosecutors that he conspired to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States in connection with the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. The U.S. Justice Department in January said Mario Palacios was part […]
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By Marcelo Rochabrun and Sebastian Castaneda LIMA, April 4 (Reuters) – Peruvian President Pedro Castillo imposed a curfew in the capital, Lima, on Tuesday, banning people from leaving their homes in an attempt to curb protests against rising fuel and fertilizer costs that have spread throughout the country. “The cabinet has agreed to declare a […]
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BRASILIA, April 4 (Reuters) – Hundreds of indigenous people began gathering in the Brazilian capital on Monday for a 10-day protest camp to defend their land rights and oppose a government bill in Congress that would allow mining and oil exploration on their reservations. Organizers are hoping to gather 7,000 people from 200 of Brazil’s […]
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By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO, April 4 (Reuters) – Pope Francis’s long-awaited apology to Canada’s indigenous community for more than a century of abusive residential schools, many of them run by the Catholic Church, should be followed by millions of dollars in compensation and the release of residential school records, survivors and indigenous leaders […]
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The mother of a young woman who was killed 17 months ago says she can now start to heal after police charged a man with her daughter's murder earlier today.
Emergency services found the body of Jessica Geddes, 27, inside a home in Endeavour Hills in Melbourne, at about 7pm on November 6, 2020.
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Following a lengthy investigation from detectives, Geddes' mother Saasha Brimble says she has greatly welcomed the outcome.
"I've been waiting every day, 'is today the day?', 'is today the day?" she said.
"Today [is] the day."
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Her former boyfriend, 28-year-old Robert Rickaby was arrested and charged for her alleged murder in Queensland today.
Ms Brimble said the outcome was a step forward for the family.
"I can start somewhat healing because I know my girl isn't coming back through the door," she said.
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"She deserves justice and my granddaughter deserves to know there is justice for her mummy and that a bad person can't get away with this.
"She never deserved to be beaten and broken."
The accused has been charged and faced the Roma Street Magistrates' Court in Brisbane.
He will now be extradited back to Victoria.
