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King Charles says he has been 'reduced to tears' by public support after cancer diagnosis

Speaking during his weekly audience with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the king also said he was gratified to see how his diagnosis had boosted support for cancer charities across the UK.
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Almost 100 SA patients die waiting for delayed ambulances to arrive, since state election

Nearly 100 South Australian patients in need of emergency and urgent care have died while waiting for delayed ambulances to arrive since Labor took office with a promise to "fix the ramping crisis".
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Trial over handwritten lyrics to Hotel California set to begin

A criminal trial is set to open over the handwritten lyrics to the Eagles' legendary hit Hotel California.
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Martial arts instructor charged with three counts of murder after bodies found in Sydney

Police have charged Kwang Kyung Yoo with three counts of murder after the discovery of the bodies of a husband, wife and their child in two separate locations in Sydney on Tuesday.
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SA government accepts inquest findings into five-year-old student who choked at school

More than 2,500 South Australian public school staff will get first aid training in response to a coronial inquest into the choking death of five-year-old student Lucas Latouche Mazzei in March 2017.
Lucas Mazzei

Inquest into Queensland's voluntary assisted dying laws begins after man takes wife's end-of-life medication

Queensland's voluntary assisted dying (VAD) process is being probed by a coroner after an elderly man took an oral substance, which was prescribed for his terminally ill wife.
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Inquest hears American Staffordshire terriers are the breed 'most' responsible for dog attacks on Central Coast

A council ranger has told an inquest into fatal attacks that the dog breed that mauled a newborn to death in 2021 was commonly involved in attacks across New South Wales' Central Coast.
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Inquest begins into man's death in custody after pleading guilty to child sex abuse offences

Coroner hears David James Dorling complained to custody officers at Dandenong Police Station he had chest pain and said he had taken a large amount of medication.
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Grace didn't have a terminal illness, but she was allowed to die on her own terms

Terry Phillips's mother, pictured here an hour before her death, was adamant that it was time to go and the Canadian system allowed her to do just that. Her daughter says Australia should consider a similar program.
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'It's pretty frightening': Three bodies found in two Sydney locations as police treat them as linked

The body of a man was located in Baulkham Hills, while two other bodies, a woman and a child, were found inside a martial arts studio in North Parramatta.
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NSW Police officer charged over collision that resulted in death of Indigenous teenager

An Indigenous teenager died in 2022 after an unmarked police car collided with a motorbike he was riding in Sydney.
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Widow of Alexei Navalny blames Putin for husband's death, vows to keep fighting for freedom

Yulia Navalnaya has accused the Russian president of killing her husband in a video she uploaded to social media.
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Funeral prices show the cost of dying varies but does not have to be expensive

Bobbie wanted a simple funeral. Her family did it for less than $1,000, but they had to think outside the hardwood box.
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Mushroom meal survivor breaks his silence six months since his wife died from mushroom poisoning

Pastor Ian Wilkinson has delivered a sermon to his church for the first time speaking publicly since his world was turned upside down.
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Memes tell the story of a secret war in tech. It's no joke

You've heard the arguments to put the brakes on the development of powerful Artificial Intelligence. But this secretive tech movement wants to do exactly the opposite.
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Navalny spokesperson alleges he was murdered, demands body be returned to family

More than 100 people are arrested, including a priest who attempted to conduct a service for Alexei Navalny in St Petersburg, while in other cities police took pictures of those who turned out to pay their respects to the late opposition leader.
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Critics point finger at Vladimir Putin as Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dies in jail, aged 47

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, one of the president's most vocal critics, has died, according to the prison service of the region where he had been serving a lengthy sentence.
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Police offer $1m reward nearly 50 years after Melbourne woman was brutally murdered with her baby nearby

Mary Anne Fagan was found by her children bound, gagged and fatally stabbed multiple times. For 46 years they've been searching for answers.
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Mary Anne Fagan.

Hospital staff didn't think man's condition was 'bad enough to be admitted', GP tells inquest

An inquest hears evidence from a general practitioner who had treated a man who later died after seeking help from an Adelaide emergency department multiple times.
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Jackson Stacker's mysterious death leaves family seeking answers as inquest hears heartbreaking testimony

A truck driver says a young man's distinctive hair stood out as he passed him on a northern NSW highway. An inquest has heard the driver may have been one of the last people to see him alive.
Parents Sandra MacFarlane and Ian Stacker standing outside Byron Bay Court holding a photo of their don Jackson.

'Lives can be saved': Mother of NRL player who died after training sends message after inquest

Keith Titmuss's mother hopes 'lives will be saved'  as an inquest investigates the death of the former Manly Sea Eagles player after training session
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Man's pleas for hospital help 'went unheeded' despite vomiting blood, inquest told

An inquest begins into the deaths of two young men who sought help several times from Adelaide emergency departments during the COVID pandemic, with one allegedly told by paramedics that he was being "over dramatic" before he died at home.
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Inquest hears details of Melbourne man's mysterious death near Byron Bay

Jackson Stacker's decomposing body was found in a paddock with a knife embedded in his chest.
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MP pushes to legalise telehealth consultations on voluntary assisted dying

Telehealth conferences related to voluntary assisted dying are currently illegal because of separate laws that make it a crime to encourage suicide over a carriage service. Independent MP Kate Chaney is pushing parliament to resolve that technical ban.
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A man has died during a waterskiing race on the Murray River

The annual Southern 80 race was called off following the death with the circumstances that led to the accident being investigated.
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