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High-profile Australian rape case abruptly ends in mistrial
High-profile Australian rape case abruptly ends in mistrial
by  AFP

A high-profile rape case that ignited nationwide protests across Australia abruptly ended Thursday in a mistrial, the latest twist in a courtroom saga involving some of the country's most senior politicians. The jury -- comprising eight women and four men -- had been deliberating for five days when Chief Justice Lucy McCallum discharged them and declared a mistrial on a technicality.

100 years on, nostalgia for Fascism persists in Italy
100 years on, nostalgia for Fascism persists in Italy
by  AFP

On October 28, 1922, Benito Mussolini's Fascist blackshirts entered Rome, marking the start of a dictatorship still viewed today with some indulgence in Italy. - 'Heirs of Il Duce' - According to an October 2021 poll, 66 percent of 16- to 25-year-olds believe Mussolini's Fascist regime was a dictatorship that must be condemned in part, but which also had beneficial effects.

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