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We’ve rounded up all the latest stories from Australia and around the world – so you don’t have to go searching.

1. Copenhagen attacks inspired by Paris.

Danish police have said that the suspected gunman in two fatal shootings in Copenhagen may have been inspired by the Islamist attacks in Paris a month ago.

The gunman was fatally shot by police in a shootout in the Norrebro district in the Danish capital.

He has been named as 22-year-old Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein. He had just been released from prison.

A Jewish man was killed and two police officers wounded outside a synagogue in Copenhagen yesterday, just hours after a gunman killed a man during a freedom of speech event at a cafe.

The victims have been named as Danish filmmaker Finn Noergaard, who was the only person to die during the siege on a free speech event at the Krudttønden café – and Dan Uzan, 37 who was killed at the synagogue.  He had been on security duty while a bat mitzvah ceremony was taking place inside.

Police say video surveillance suggested the same man carried out both attacks.

Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has said that Denmark would do everything to protect its Jewish community.

 2. Meeting to outline executions of Bali 9 duo.

Indonesia will brief Australian officials in Jakarta today to outline the execution process for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

It is also expected that a meeting between two members of the Indonesian parliament and the Bali 9 duo at Kerobokan jail may take place after having been originally scheduled for yesterday but cancelled unexpectedly.

Overnight the parents of Andrew Chan have flown back to Sydney after saying what may be their final goodbye to their son.

For more read this post here. 

3. Judges accused of improper dealings.

Meanwhile the lawyers for Chan and Sukumaran have written a letter to the judicial committee saying that the six judges who brought down the death sentence on the two men had breached ethics – accusing them of offering to give them a lighter sentence in exchange for money.

Fairfax Media reports that the claims are made in a last ditch effort to stay the execution of the two.

4. Myuran Sukumaran’s grandmother begs Indonesian president to give death row pair a ‘chance to live.’

By ABC

The grandmother of Myuran Sukumaran, one of the Australians on death row in Bali, has made a public appeal directly to the Indonesian president to spare her grandson’s life.

Edith Visnanathan spoke at a Mercy Campaign event on Sunday, where the organisation presented a petition carrying more than 150,000 signatures to the families of Sukumaran and fellow Bali Nine inmate Andrew Chan.

“I’ve begged the president once before, this is the second time I’ve come here to beg pardon from him,” Ms Visnanathan said.

“I am asking him to forgive my grandson and Andrew.

“I am sure, in time, he will change his heart and forgive them and give them a chance to live … and do more things.

“And one day he will come to the prison and he will know about them and he will feel sorry if he killed them.”

Sukumaran and Chan could face the firing squad in a matter of weeks after being convicted of masterminding the Bali Nine heroin importation bid a decade ago.

This article originally appeared on ABC and has been republished with full permission.

 5. PM Tony Abbott flags crackdown on national security.

By ABC

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has hinted at a national security crackdown in the wake of the deadly Sydney siege, warning Australia will not let “bad people play us for mugs”.

Mr Abbott will make a security statement to Parliament next Monday ahead of the release of a joint review by both the state and Commonwealth governments into the siege, which left two hostages and the gunman dead.

In a video message at the weekend, Mr Abbott said people who might be a threat to Australia had been getting the benefit of the doubt for too long.

“There’s been the benefit of the doubt at our borders, the benefit of the doubt for residency, the benefit of the doubt for citizenship and the benefit of the doubt at Centrelink,” he said.

“And in the courts, there has been bail, when clearly there should have been jail.”

Siege gunman Man Haron Monis was on bail at the time of the Sydney attack for a string of charges, including sexual offences and abetting the murder of his ex-wife.

It has also emerged that the Iranian-born self-styled cleric was granted a visa in 1996 despite Tehran’s warnings about his criminal past.

“We are a free and fair nation. But that doesn’t mean we should let bad people play us for mugs, and all too often they have. Well, that’s going to stop,” Mr Abbott said, without providing detail on the likely changes.

Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop told Sky that authorities were looking at what lessons could be leaned from the Monis case.

“At every step along the way it seems from his history he was given the benefit of the doubt and quite clearly he made a number of fraudulent claims, so the Prime Minister is referring to us tightening the approach, bringing fresh eyes to consider some of the circumstances that our border protection and immigration people are presented with,” she said.

She denied that stopping the benefit of the doubt meant ending the presumption of innocence.

“No I don’t believe that’s what the Prime Minister is saying at all. I think we will be looking at the procedures and processes that are in place and how we can better check out stories that are presented to our authorities,” Ms Bishop said.

Greens leader Christine Milne accused Mr Abbott of using security to bolster his leadership.

“We’ve got a Prime Minister who is so desperate that he is trying to press the terror button, press the fear, the anxiety, the difference, the division button in order to shore up his own position,” she said.

Ms Milne said it was offensive to include Centrelink in a list of agencies concerned with national security.

This is an edited version of an article from ABC and has been republished with full permission.

 6. QLD Cabinet to be sworn in today.

The new Queensland Cabinet will be sworn in today with Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announcing her 14-person ministry.

It will have eight women, including Indigenous MP, Leeanne Enoch.

The Premier has named a woman as her Deputy, Jackie Trad has also been named Minister for Transport, Minister for Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning, and Minister for Trade.

7. Baby dies while mother breastfeeding.

A coroner has heard evidence about a newborn baby who died while her mother was breastfeeding her.

The three-day old died at Sunshine Hospital in Victoria in August 2013.

The Corner has excused the mother Puneet Randhawa from giving evidence at the inquest ruling it would not be in the interests of justice.

Ms Randhawa was previously been arrested after her daughter’s death when hospital staff had some concerns about her behaviour.

Ms Randhawa told police she found her daughter Kirat cold and not breathing after she fell asleep while breastfeeding. She said that her three-day old daughter slipped between her body and the bed rail.

The Coroner is expected to hand down a finding in June.

 8. Nutella founder dies.

Ferrero produces around 365,000 tonnes of Nutella every year – also making Ferrero Rocher chocolates, Mon Cheri and Kinder chocolates.

He had suffered a long illness.

 9. QLD wakes to tremors.

The quake struck the town of Eidsvold north of Brisbane shortly before 3am.

 10. Turkey protests over woman’s murder.

Thousands of women in Turkey have participated in angry protests over the murder of Ozgecan Aslan, a 20-year-old psychology student.

Police discovered the burnt body of Ozgecan Aslan in a riverbed in the city of Mersin, on Friday – it is thought that she was killed while fighting back a sexual assault by the driver of a minibus she took to go home.

They have arrested three men in connection with her death – a minibus driver, his father and a friend.

Ms Aslan, a psychology student, was kidnapped on Wednesday on her way home. The LA Times reports that the driver allegedly tried to rape her. She reportedly fought him off with pepper spray, but was then stabbed to death. She was also hit on the head with an iron pipe.

Women’s rights activists have said that the Islamist ruling party, the Justice and Development Party is not doing enough to halt gender-based violence against women.

11. Victim told to write to attacker or face jail.

Warning: This item contains details of domestic violence and may be upsetting to some readers.

A woman who had her throat slit by her ex-husband and was tortured for seven hours has been told she may face jail if she does not write to her attacker.

29-year old Natalie Allman from the UK has been told by a court that she must write child updates to her former partner Jason Hughes who is currently serving nine years after the beating and abuse.

Hughes was jailed in 2012 but a judge has ordered Ms Allman to send three letters a year to Hughes updating him on their five-year-old boys, including photographs, under parental rights laws.

If she doesn’t send the letters every Easter, September and December, Ms Allman will be in contempt of court and could be imprisoned.

“We are the victims, not him. I thought he was going to kill me that night for no reason and my boys saw that. They were terrified.” She said.

Ms Allman was found by paramedics cowering in her bed with her twin boys, aged two at the time next to her.

“I’m so angry that the law still defends his parental rights and that he is still being allowed to control us from behind bars.

“I couldn’t believe it. I could end up being split up from my children and sent to prison when he was the one who attacked me. I’m the one being treated like a criminal.”

 12. Parents lie more in front of sons than daughters.

A study has shown that parents are more likely to tell lies in front of boys than girls.

The study by the US National Bureau of Economic Research found that while adults are more likely to be honest in front of kids in general, their rate of honesty was much higher in front of girls than boys.

It is thought that this may potentially teach boys at an early age that dishonesty is socially acceptable. Researchers also thought that it may lead to men lying more as adults.
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