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He was born Hamish Watson, a surfie dude from Sydney – but he could morph into whatever you needed him to be. Hamish is due to be sentenced to jail in early 2019 for swindling a handful of victims out of more than $7m. But these crimes are just the final pages in a resume too thick to staple; for decades he’s duped victims in the US, Canada, Britain, Hong Kong and Australia. How did he do it? How did he evade authorities around the world for so long and what’s he done with all those tens of ...
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The intentional killing of women and girls is now its own crime in Italy.
Lawmakers unanimously backed a bill making femicide a specific crime punishable by life imprisonment.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called the measure a tool to "defend the freedom and dignity of every woman".
Italy Correspondent Jo McKenna told Mike Hosking it looks very much like a symbolic gesture.
She says she’s not sure how you would prove the murder of someone is related to their gender, as opposed to some other factor.
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