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Australia

600 arrested for people-smuggling

More than 600 people-smugglers have been arrested across six countries since Australia introduced its hardline border policy, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said on Tuesday, with more than 30 asylum-seeker boats turned back. Before the conservatives took power and adopted a zero tolerance stance, an estimated 50,000 asylum-seekers flooded into Australia on more than 800 boats over the previous five years.

Indonesia

Jailers busted over fancy cells

Inmates at a prison paid for luxury cells equipped with air conditioning, flat-screen TVs and private washrooms, anti-graft officials said, in the country's latest corruption scandal. Jail staff allegedly took bribes of $14,000-$35,000 from inmates to renovate cells and supply banned mobile phones or even let them temporarily leave prison, Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission said.

United States

More students join USC lawsuits

Fifty-one former and current female students have filed lawsuits against the University of Southern California, alleging the university failed to protect patients from sexual misconduct by a longtime campus gynecologist. More than 225 students and alumnae are now suing the USC for failing to protect them from Doctor George Tyndall, including 51 women who filed suit on Monday morning, The Los Angeles Times reported.

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