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Two Greek nationals have been arrested in Sydney after police allegedly found 120kg of cocaine, worth $60 million, hidden inside a shipping container the men allegedly wanted to break into.

The pair from Athens, neither whom spoke English, were allegedly the onshore crew of a "rip on, rip off" drug smuggling operation that went wrong, police said.

Police allegedly found 120 one-kilogram bricks of cocaine after they had responded to reports of a break-in at a logistics company at Port Botany, near Sydney's primary wharf operation.

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Officers arrested a 27-year old man at the container holding yard, while a 19-year-old allegedly fled.

Specialist cops took control of the investigation, under Strike Force Biles, and found the drugs with help from Australian Border Force.

The drugs allegedly found stored within the walls of the container had a street value of approximately $60 million.

Strike Force Biles was set up to investigate the large-scale supply of illicit drugs using the "rip on, rip off" methodology.

With this system, traffickers piggyback drug consignments inside shipping containers being used by legitimate companies, who have no idea what is taking place.

Detective Acting Superintendent Matthew Kennedy said police were now investigating how the Greeks were allegedly linked to criminal syndicates and underworld figures in Sydney.

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"We believe they've only been in the country for a very, very short time," Kennedy said.

The container had originated in Italy, he said.

Kennedy said criminal organisations will "compartmentalise" their operations, to protect syndicate leadership.

"They're always trying to distance themselves as much as they can. They're always trying to push it off."

Detectives executed search warrants at three units across the Balmain and Leichhardt areas on Friday, where they allegedly found crow bars, breaking tools, gloves, bags and other items.‌

During the search of a unit in Leichhardt, police arrested the 19-year-old who allegedly fled the logistics yard where the container was being held.

He was charged with intent to commit indictable offence, large commercial supply of prohibited drugs and attempt to possess a commercial quantity of border restricted drug.

The other man, 27, was charged with enter enclosed lands, assault, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and malicious damage.

‌He was refused bail and is scheduled to appear at Waverley Local Court on June 13.

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The 19-year-old was also refused bail and is set to front Downing Centre Local Court on July 20.

"If organised crime want to do this, continue to do this 'rip on, rip off', they're going to get caught," Kennedy said.

"We're going to arrest them, we're going to find their drugs (and) seize their drugs."

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A 28-year-old man has been charged after a man was allegedly stabbed during an altercation last night in Brisbane's west.

The 63-year-old Riverview man died shortly after he was found by police at unit block on Mine Street at Redbank about 10.25pm.

Police say three people, the two men and a woman, were inside a unit when the altercation allegedly occurred.

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The man was allegedly stabbed by 28-year-old, who was found at the unit and he was taken into custody, police say.

The man has been charged with one count each of murder, threatening violence and possess dangerous drugs.

He is due before Ipswich Magistrates Court tomorrow.

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Police arrested two US parents after finding their seven children living in "unsanitary" and "unsafe" conditions – including caged rats and faeces on the Pennsylvania's home floor.

Authorities responded to reports on April 23 of three children entering an abandoned trailer in West Rockhill Township, 64km north of Philadelphia, according to a police affidavit filed May 19.

When the police found the children, they spoke with the parents and returned them to their home next to the abandoned trailer.

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There, the officers observed "deplorable living conditions" and a refrigerator secured with a padlock, according to authorities.

The mother, Crystal Robertson, told police she had to lock the refrigerator because the children were "'stealing' everything, according to the affidavit.

She referred to the children as "garbage disposals with legs".

Parents face felony charges

When officers later returned to the home after filing a report with Bucks County Children and Youth Social Services Agency, they discovered four more children inside.

The children were aged from 4 to 16.

One of the rooms had approximately two dozen rats in cages, according to the affidavit.

Faeces was found on the floor of another area of the home.

"There was also a bad odour … and several bugs," the affidavit read.

It was noted that "two dogs, two turtles, two rabbits, snakes, toads, and a four-foot (1.2 metre) reptile" were also in the home, the affidavit read.

None of the children had been formally educated and lacked basic knowledge, police said.

Some did not know their own birth dates, and four suffered from speech impediments, investigators said.

The children were taken into protective custody and transported to a hospital for medical treatment.

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A later investigation revealed none of the seven children had attended school, according to authorities.

They also exhibited social anxiety, police said.

Authorities said medical evaluations concluded the children were "clinically underweight and malnourished."

"Personal hygiene of the children was also found to be concerning, resulting in two of the children having to shave their hair due to severe matting," according to Pennridge Regional Police Department.

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The father, Shane William Robertson, and the mother were charged with seven felony counts each of endangering the welfare of children, according to the release.

Both posted the requisite 10 per cent of the US $10,000 bail amount, police said.

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A passenger who opened an emergency exit door during a flight in South Korea told police that he felt suffocated and tried to get off the plane quickly as it approached landing.

Twelve people were slightly injured when the man opened the door of the Asiana Airlines Airbus A321 on Friday, causing air to blast inside the cabin.

The plane, which was flying to the city of Daegu from the southern island of Jeju, landed safely.

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"He felt the flight was taking longer than it should have been and felt suffocated inside the cabin," a Daegu police detective, according to The Guardian.

"He wanted out quickly."

The man was detained by police in Daegu for allegedly violating the aviation security law.

If convicted, he could face up to 10 years in prison.

The 33-year-old told police that he had wanted to get out of the plane because he was feeling suffocated, Yonhap news agency reported, citing police.

Yonhap said the man told police he had suffered stress after losing his job recently.

Other South Korean media carried similar stories on the man's motive.

The reports said police requested a warrant to formally arrest him.

Reached by The Associated Press earlier, Daegu police officers refused to provide details about the man, citing privacy issues.

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The plane was carrying 194 people including teenage athletes on their way to a track and field competition.

The man pulled the door open when the plane was reaching the Daegu airport at an altitude of 213 metres.

The people who were taken to hospitals were mainly treated for minor problems such as breathing difficulties.

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Police in Sydney's west are investigating the death of a seven-week-old baby.

Officers were called to a home in St Marys, in the city's west, about 4.15am after receiving reports a baby was unresponsive.

Paramedics performed CPR before the baby boy was taken to The Children's Hospital at Westmead, but died soon after.

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Homicide Squad and local police have established a crime scene and are investigating the circumstances surrounding the baby's death.

Police will prepare a report for the coroner. 

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Australians have shivered through more chilly temperatures, with some places recording their coldest May morning ever.

A cold front sweeping across the south-east is responsible for the wintery conditions, and comes a day after much of the country saw temperature records tumble.

The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) confirmed this morning Penrith, Bankstown and Tamworth saw their coldest May morning on record, with minimums of 0.6, 0.7 and -4.8 degrees respectively.

The chill is expected to stick around until Monday at the least.

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The BoM has also issued marine wind warnings for Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia as the system passes through.

The cold airmass, combined with clear skies and high pressure, caused the mercury to plummet overnight.

So just how cold did it get in the capitals?

The temperature dipped to a frosty -2 degrees in Canberra, while the majority of Sydney woke up to 7 degrees.

Brisbane recorded 8 degrees, Melbourne 10 degrees and Tasmania clocked in a minimum of 9 degrees.

In Perth the temperature dipped to a minimum of 5 degrees, while Adelaide clocked a minimum of 11C.

This is balmy in comparison to Saturday. 

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May temperature records tumble

Temperature records tumbled on Saturday morning, with many capitals clocking their coldest May mornings in decades. 

By 5:30am on Saturday the temperature at Perth Airport had dropped to 1.1 degrees.

"(That's) the coldest May morning the airport has experienced in 59 years," Weathezone said.

"This is only 2.4 degrees warmer than Perth Airport's record minimum of -1.3°C, which was set on 17 June 2006".

Temperatures also plummeted in Sydney.

"Sydney's Observatory Hill recorded a temperature of 6.9°C at 7:04am – its coldest May morning in 24 years," the weather service said.

"Bega's minimum temperature of -1.6°C made for its coldest May morning in 15 years.

"Not to be outdone, Camden and Tibooburra recorded their coldest May mornings in 12 years , with minimum recorded temperatures of -1.2°C and 3.8°C respectively.

"Additionally, multiple locations across QLD, NSW, WA, and the NT registered their coldest May mornings in 5 to 11 years."

No end to cold in sight

Another cold front will approach Western Australia from Monday night.

Cloud cover associated with the front will result in warmer temperatures over the state, however Weatherzone said a different story may play out in the south=east.

"Another cold morning may be on the cards for the nation's southeast," it said.

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Cruise passengers were called from their rooms in the early hours of the morning after a small fire broke out on a ship's balcony off the NSW coast.

The blaze was detected on the Pacific Adventure at about 3.30am, with photos showing travellers watching on in shock.

A P&O Cruises Australia spokesperson said the fire was quickly extinguished.

However, the extent of the damage and cause is yet to be determined.

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"This fire activated our emergency response procedures including a full muster of guests and crew and we thank everyone on board for their cooperation," the spokesperson said.

"There are no reports of injury.

"The extent of the damage and the cause of the fire are yet to be fully determined and remain under investigation."

9News understands the ship was carrying 3017 guests and 1080 crew.

The vessel is in the midst of a three-day cruise in and out of Sydney.

The ship is scheduled to return on Tuesday.

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An Indian government official has landed himself in deep trouble after draining 2 million litres of water from a dam to retrieve his phone, which he dropped while taking a selfie.

Food inspector Rajesh Vishwas dropped his Samsung phone, worth about $1200, into Kherkatta Dam in Chhattisgarh last weekend, reportedly while taking a selfie.

Vishwas first called upon local divers to try and find the device and when they failed he ordered an industrial diesel pump to drain the 2 million-litre dam.

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That much water is enough to irrigate roughly 600 hectares of land.

It took three days for Vishwas to be reunited with his phone as the dam was completely drained, however, the device was completely destroyed by the water – it never turned back on. 

The food inspector claims there was sensitive government information on the phone, which is why he needed to retrieve it.

He also claimed that another government official gave him permission to drain it.

However, an official from the water resource department accused Vishwas of misusing his position.

He has now been suspended from his role.

"Water is an essential resource and it cannot be wasted like this," Priyanka Shukla, a Kanker district official, told The National newspaper.

Chhattisgarh is a state in central India.

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Ukraine's military intelligence has claimed, without offering evidence, that Russia is plotting a "large-scale provocation" at a nuclear power plant it occupies in the southeast of the country with the aim of disrupting a looming Ukrainian counteroffensive.

A statement released by the intelligence directorate of Ukraine's Defence Ministry claimed that Russian forces would strike the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, and then report a radioactive leak in order to trigger an international probe that would pause the hostilities and give the Russian forces the respite they need to regroup ahead of the counteroffensive.

In order to make that happen, Russia "disrupted the rotation of personnel of the permanent monitoring mission" of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency that was scheduled for Saturday, the statement said. It didn't offer evidence to back up any of the claims.

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The IAEA said in an emailed response to the AP that it did not have any immediate comment on the allegations, and Russian officials did not immediately comment on the Ukrainian claims.

The claim mirrors similar statements Moscow regularly makes, alleging without evidence that Kyiv is plotting provocations involving various dangerous weapons or substances in order to then accuse Russia of war crimes.

It comes as Moscow's military in Ukraine braces for a looming counteroffensive by Kyiv's forces, which hasn't started yet but could begin "tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or in a week, the secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, Oleksiy Danilov, told the BBC in an interview Saturday.

The Zaporizhzhia power plant is one of the 10 biggest nuclear plants in the world. It is located in the partially occupied Zaporizhzhia region in southeastern Ukraine. The plant's six reactors have been shut down for months, but it still needs power and qualified staff to operate crucial cooling systems and other safety features.

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Fighting near it repeatedly disrupted power supplies and has fuelled fears of a potential catastrophe like the one at Chernobyl, in northern Ukraine, where a reactor exploded in 1986 and spewed deadly radiation, contaminating a vast area in the world's worst nuclear disaster.

In other developments:

— Russia on Saturday reported more attacks on its territory, with drones crashing in its western regions and areas on the border with Ukraine coming under shelling.

Two drones attacked an administrative building of an oil company in Russia's western Pskov region that borders Belarus, Latvia and Estonia, Pskov Gov. Mikhail Vedernikov reported Saturday. The building was damaged as the result of an explosion, Vedernikov said.

Another drone went down in the Tver region about 150 kilometres north of Moscow, local authorities said.

Russia's Belgorod region on the border with Ukraine on Saturday came under multiple rounds of shelling, according to its governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. In the neighbouring Kursk region, which also borders Ukraine, one person was killed by cross-border mortar fire, its Gov. Roman Starovoit said.

— The British military said on Saturday that Russia's private military force, Wagner, is withdrawing from areas around the eastern city of Bakhmut that Moscow claims to have captured earlier this month.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin earlier this week announced the pullout, saying Wagner would hand control over the ruined city over to the Russian military. Some were skeptical, however: Prigozhin is known for making unverifiable, headline-grabbing statements on which he later backtracks.

But the British Defence Ministry said in a series of tweets Saturday that Wagner fighters "have likely started to withdraw from some of their positions" around Bakhmut. "The Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister also corroborated the rotation out of Wagner forces in the outskirts of the town," the ministry said.