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Criminals try furniture, brick walls and clothes to smuggle vapes and cigarettes into Australia

Officials say enhanced intelligence and stronger cooperation with international partners are helping them pinpoint high-risk consignments more effectively, regardless of where or how they enter the country.

Travellers caught with 70,000 undeclared cigarettes deported home

Authorities estimate the avoided taxes would have exceeded $940,000.

Cricket Australia regrets Gavaskar’s absence from trophy presentation, acknowledges misstep

“It’s the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, and it’s about Australia and India. I would have been happy to present the trophy with my good friend Allan Border. It shouldn’t matter who won; both names are on the trophy.”

18-year-old US traveller charged with allegedly importing 26kg of meth in suitcases

ABF Travel East Commander Rose Cracknell said the volume seized at the border today has stopped hundreds of thousands of individual street deals flooding Sydney’s streets.

Woman swims 22 miles to marry boyfriend she met on Facebook 

Krishna entered the wild forests of Sunderban, known for its Royal Bengal Tigers, and then swam for an hour in the river to enter India to marry Abhik.

Why is China so interested in Australia’s neighbourhood?

China has agreed to pump in millions of dollars to boost infrastructure in the island nation. Of course, there aren’t any free lunches in the world.

Indian family frozen to death attempting to illegally cross US-Canada border

Human traffickers had taken advantage of a family’s desire to seek a better life.

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53-foot tractor-trailer driver Baljeet Singh pleads guilty in deadly pileup, was playing phone game and fled to India

The crash killed 42-year-old mother Nancy Lefrançois and her 11-year-old son Loïc Chevalier, who were travelling in a passenger vehicle struck in the collision.

Indian Premier League could be played in Australia, Adelaide Oval explores plan

The proposal is part of a broader idea to strengthen cricket ties between Australia and India.

Perth toddler Sandipan Dhar’s death ‘probably preventable’ after missed blood test, coroner says

21-month-old Sandipan died in March 2024 after being taken to hospital with a persistent fever that had lasted for weeks.
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