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Morning brief: Australian police shoot dead radicalised teen in Perth; Russian military hiring Cubans, & more

Morning brief: Australian police shoot dead radicalised teen in Perth; Russian military hiring Cubans, & more

Australian police fatally shot a teen who earlier stabbed a person in Perth. According to the police, the teen rushed at the police who responded by shooting him twice with Tasers before firing a single fatal shot. Menwhile, a BBC report has claimed that Russian military is hiring Cuban nationals and deploying them in occupied areas of Ukraine. Russia’s lucrative army contracts are what forcing nationals of the low-income country to join the army, for which they get about $2,000 a month. A convoy of the Indian Air Force was attacked by terrorists in the Surankote area of Poonch district on Saturday evening, in which at least one Air Force soldier lost his life.

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Police in Western Australia killed a radicalised 16-year-old boy who stabbed a man in a car park in Perth, the news agency AFP reported on Sunday (May 5) citing authorities. 

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Hundreds of Cubans have been hired by the Russian military to fight in its war against Ukraine, a BBC report has claimed.

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Hamas said late Saturday (May 4) that it would not accept a truce deal that did not completely end the war in the Gaza Strip.

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One soldier of the Indian Air Force was killed, and five were injured in a terror attack in the Poonch district of the Jammu region on Saturday.

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