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Texas man kills five neighbors, including an eight-year-old child, after they complained about him shooting an AR-15-style weapon in his front yard · fisherman is feared eaten in a fatal crocodile attack at a remote river in Far North Queensland · a huge fire in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol on Saturday has been put out after what was reported to be a Ukrainian drone strike on fuel tanks at a Russian navy depot · a Moscow court has fined a Russian baker who decorated her cakes with pro-Ukraine and peace slogans. Since Vladimir Putain sent troops to Ukraine in February 2022, authorities have banned all public criticism of the offensive · seven psychoactive drugs detected in Australian wastewater for the first time · the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces that run Roj detention camp, where wives, widows & children of slain or jailed Islamic State fighters have been held in squalid circumstances for more than three years, have regularly been removing boys from the camp once they reach 12 years of age, taking them to adult prisons, arguing they pose a security risk. But UN experts have warned boys removed from the camp “may be forcibly disappeared, & subject to sale, exploitation & … torture”.