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MELBOURNE, Australia — The Australian Open and all the regular regional leadup tournaments for the season’s first tennis major are set to be staged in Melbourne in January, with organizing aiming to minimize risks for players travelling and quarantining during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tennis Australia plans to transfer tournaments usually held in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Hobart to Melbourne, where a quarantine and practice hub and a bio-secure playing hub will be set up. But it's yet to be given the all-clear. Australia's international borders are mostly closed, and there is still differing domestic travelling restrictions between states.
MELBOURNE, Australia — The Australian Open and all the regular regional leadup tournaments for the season’s first tennis major are set to be staged in Melbourne in January, with organizing aiming to minimize risks for players travelling and quarantining during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tennis Australia plans to transfer tournaments usually held in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Hobart to Melbourne, where a quarantine and practice hub and a bio-secure playing hub will be set up. But it's yet to be given the all-clear. Australia's international borders are mostly closed, and there is still differing domestic travelling restrictions between states. Copy link. About sharing. Iran releases British - Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert in prisoner swap deal, Iranian state media say. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
British - Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert is released by Iran in prisoner swap, two years after she was jailed. It was not immediately clear when Moore-Gilbert would arrive back in Australia . State TV aired video showing her with a gray hijab sitting at what appeared to be a greeting room at one of
IRAN-GB-DETAINED: Australian-British researcher released by Iran
© Reuters / Wana News Agency AUSTRALIAN-BRITISH RESEARCHER RELEASED BY IRAN DUBAI ( Reuters) - Iran has released an Australian-British researcher in exchange for three of its nationals detained abroad, a news site affiliated with Iranian public television reported Wednesday.
"An Iranian businessman and two Iranian nationals who were detained abroad on unfounded charges were exchanged with a dual-nationality spy named Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who worked for the Zionist regime," said on Twitter the "Young Journalists Club".
Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a Middle East specialist at the University of Melbourne, was arrested in Iran in September 2018 and later sentenced to ten years in prison for espionage.
(Parisa Hafezi; French version Jean-Stéphane Brosse, edited by Jean-Philippe Lefief)
Who was Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who died for Iran's nuclear bomb? .
© AFP The coffin of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. The scientist murdered Friday November, arguably by Israel, was as low key as he was important to his country’s nuclear program. We do not deploy such sophisticated means and there is no risk of "grilling" agents in Iran to eliminate an underling.
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