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Raymond Flaherty was found dead in the living room of his flat by a neighbour.

Coroner’s urgent plea after fake Xanax kills Melbourne man

The death of Raymond Flaherty is among dozens now linked to “street benzos”.

  • Melissa Cunningham

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Admiral Frank Bradley attends a Senate committee hearing in July.

After decades in combat, a top SEAL suddenly comes under scrutiny

Admiral Frank Mitchell Bradley is now an example of the potential legal peril the US military faces as it carries out the orders of Donald Trump and his defence secretary.

  • Helene Cooper and John Ismay
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during a military commemoration last week.

Trump declares Venezuelan airspace closed as stand-off escalates

The US president is threatening to take more aggressive steps over the alleged drug trade, while planning to pardon a former Honduras president jailed on cocaine charges.

The plane had first departed from Cairns in North Queensland and – after a stop in the North Queensland town of Coen - flew to Merauke, Indonesian authorities said.

‘No passports, no visas’: Australians detained after mysterious South Papua flight

Indonesian officials said one of the Australians was supposedly linked to a drug case, while another was on parole. Searching the plane, authorities say they found a small amount of meth.

  • Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
The Princes Highway in Pakenham.

One in five drug drivers: Victoria’s worst-offending region revealed

This outer Melbourne suburb is home to more drug drivers than anywhere else in Victoria after hundreds were arrested there in one year.

  • Gemma Grant and Cassandra Morgan
Brisbane high school graduates: Harris, Lara, Amelia and Owen.

Pill-testing has been banned from schoolies. Here’s what teens really think about it

Last year, 27 drug samples showed up at pill-testing services at schoolies. This year, drug takers will have to chance it.

  • Stephanie Felesina
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The USS Gerald R. Ford is the world’s largest aircraft carrier.

World’s largest aircraft carrier in position as Trump weighs Venezuela strike

The USS Gerald R. Ford has now arrived in the Caribbean as the US president says he has “sort of made up his mind” on whether to attack.

  • Ben Finley
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli and former senior public servant Michael De’Ath.

Key public servant speaks out on ‘alarming’ health program ban

School-leavers will descend on the Gold Coast later this week. The lack of drug-checking services for them – and the state – has driven one bureaucrat to act.

  • Matt Dennien
The world’s opium is sourced from Afghanistan, where production has surged.

Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium

Clandestine night flights dropped billions of genetically modified seeds over poppy fields in a classified mission to disrupt the country’s lucrative opium trade.

  • Warren P. Strobel
The safe injecting room on Lennox Street in North Melbourne, which sits on the high-rise public housing estate, and is next to Richmond West Primary School.

‘Greatest public policy disaster’: Yarra backflips, wants injecting room moved

After years of complaints about anti-social behaviour, syringe litter and crime, Yarra Council has voted to lobby the state to move the North Richmond injecting room.

  • Rachael Dexter

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