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They pored over street footage and digital data to guess his brand of backpack , debate how he had silenced his pistol and scrutinize his getaway bike .A little over six months ago Ezra, a young Congolese artist, landed in Australia with his large family straight from one of the largest refugee camps in Malawi to a quiet, leafy street where he appreciated the sounds of chirping birds. or signup to continue reading "Cockatoos are the most unique creatures I've ever seen in my life and that's why I decided to paint them," he told AAP. "There is much security here not the same as overseas, we were insecure." The 18-year-old was referring to Dzaleka, the sprawling United Nations-administered camp housing over 50,000 people, mostly comprised of Democratic Republic of Congolese like himself where millions have fled violence into neighbouring countries in recent years. "Once you move outside of the camp, you would get beaten and robbed. You have no rights once you step outside of the camp," Ezra noted. The renewed fighting in February between Rwanda-backed Tutsi rebels and the army in the resource-rich nation has displaced over seven million internally. "Sometimes I look at it (violence in DR Congo) on social media and feel depressed because we have friends and relatives back in Congo so I usually feel sad about it." Packed in classrooms of 250 students in the Malawi refugee camp where his learning was impeded, Ezra was quickly drawn to stencil drawing and painting aged 9. "I didn't get the chance to study arts formally because I was assisting my family financially but I started learning from my friends and would pick up information from them then use my own perspective and my own ideas." He and one of his brothers would sell chickens at the markets to make ends meet because they would go hungry for days without food due to looters. "Life was so difficult. I couldn't even afford to have my own mobile phone so I couldn't even capture what my paintings are about," he said. Since joining a creative arts mentorship program with Settlement Services International, a large Australian agency tasked with resettling refugees, he has been able to track his progress with photos of his canvases on his phone. The initiative which began last year is spearheaded by Ghasan Saaid, a prolific Sudanese-Australian visual artist who is a manager with the Humanitarian Settlement Program which helps new arrivals navigate their way in Australia from education to housing to finding a job. "Art is powerful because there's emotions and it's a very good tool for healing where artists become leaders in their communities," Mr Saaid explained. "So when we take care of those talents we are increasing the sense of belonging and enriching the cultural scene in Australia too." The creative arts project run out of Sydney provides refugees with artistic opportunities whether it is in music, theatre or visual arts with a professional industry setting. They pair them with experts and masterclasses in collaboration with cultural bodies such as the Art Gallery of NSW and link them with local art centres such as Casula Powerhouse and Blacktown Arts Centre in culturally diverse western Sydney with the view to earning a living off their work. "The art scene in Australia is very difficult to navigate especially with all the settlement barriers so ... guidance is the best thing to nurture them," Mr Saaid said. This was Ezra's experience, having sold one of his paintings displayed at an exhibition at NSW Police headquarters recently. He is hard at work painting a couple of new canvases for an upcoming exhibition next month marking International Human Rights Day. DAILY Today's top stories curated by our news team. 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CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Joshua Meo and Jordan Battle both scored 13 points as Coastal Carolina beat South Carolina Upstate 73-51 on Saturday. Meo shot 4 for 7 (2 for 3 from 3-point range) and 3 of 6 from the free-throw line for the Chanticleers (3-4). Battle went 6 of 10 from the field (1 for 3 from 3-point range). Noah Amenhauser shot 5 of 7 from the field and 2 for 3 from the line to finish with 12 points. The Spartans (2-8) were led in scoring by Brit Harris, who finished with 12 points and two steals. Karmani Gregory added 11 points and two steals for South Carolina Upstate. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Darren Rizzi would be an unconventional choice to take over the New Orleans Saints' head coaching job on a permanent basis. That doesn't mean it can't happen. The Saints (4-7) had been on a seven-game skid when Rizzi, the club's special teams coordinator, was promoted. They've since won two straight, and as the club entered its Week 12 bye, prominent players were already discussing their desire to continue improving Rizzi's resume. “He’s definitely had an impact on our football team,” quarterback Derek Carr said after New Orleans' 35-14 victory over Cleveland last weekend. “We want to keep winning so that maybe he gets a chance to be the coach here for a long time. “That’s what we want as players,” Carr continued. "Hopefully, we can continue to have success, keep winning and give him that opportunity.” Before the Saints' demoralizing defeat at Carolina precipitated the firing of third-year coach Dennis Allen , Rizzi had never been a head coach at the NFL or major college level. The north New Jersey native and former Rhode Island tight end got his first head coaching job at Division II New Haven in 1999. He also coached his alma mater in 2008 before moving to the NFL with Miami in 2009 as a special teams assistant. By 2010, he was the Dolphins' special teams coordinator and added the title of associate head coach in 2017 before ex-Saints coach Sean Payton lured him to New Orleans in 2019. A common thread shared by Payton and Rizzi is that both worked under Bill Parcells. Parcells — known best for winning two Super Bowls as coach of the New York Giants — was coaching the Dallas Cowboys when Payton was his offensive coordinator. Rizzi, who grew up a Giants fan during the Parcells era, got to know his childhood idol during his first couple years in Miami, where Parcells executive vice president of football operations. Since his promotion, Rizzi has spoken to both Payton and Parcells. And he has begun to employ motivational techniques reminiscent of Payton, who left New Orleans in 2022 as the franchise leader in wins (152 in the regular season and nine in the postseason — including New Orleans' lone Super Bowl triumph). Payton as a big believer of symbolic imagery and motivational props, from baseball bats distributed before contests that were expected to be especially physical to gas cans left in the lockers of aging veterans whose performance was key to the club's success. Rizzi, who describes himself as a “blue collar” guy, has his own spin on such things. He began his tenure by asking players to accept individual responsibility for the metaphorical hole the team had dug itself and asked them all to embrace the idea of filling it up — one shovelful at a time. He even has brought a shovel — as well as a hammer, tape measure, level and other construction tools — to team meetings to help make his points. Saints tight end Taysom Hill, who also plays on special teams, has gotten to know Rizzi well during a half-decade of working together. Hill doesn't sound surprised to see Rizzi's combination of work ethic, enthusiasm and personal touch resonating across the entire team now. He also made a lot of changes , from weekly schedule adjustments to reconfiguring players' lockers by position. “He has a really good pulse on what we need collectively as a team to get ready for a football game," said Hill, who scored three touchdowns and accounted for 248 yards as a runner, receiver, passer and returner against Cleveland. “Guys have responded to that.” Because Rizzi's first victory came over the first-place Atlanta Falcons , and because the Falcons lost again last week, the Saints now trail Atlanta by just two games with six to play. Suddenly, the idea of the Saints playing meaningful football down the stretch is not so far-fetched. “We’re starting to get our swag back, and that makes me happy,” Rizzi said. ”We’re going to have some downtime now to kind of press the reset button again and see if we can make a push here." When the Saints return to action at home against the Los Angeles Rams on Dec 1, they'll do so with a level of momentum and positivity that seemed to steadily drain out of the club between their first loss of the season in Week 3 through the six straight setbacks that followed. While Saints players have tended to blame themselves for Allen's demise, they've been quick to credit Rizzi for the turnaround. “He’s pointed us and steered the ship in the right direction,” Carr said. “Hopefully, we can just keep executing at a high level for him, because we love him.” AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflNone

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Trophy Eyes Announce “Summer in Slow Motion” TourBarclays raises 2025 S&P 500 index forecast to 6,600 from 6,500By Bill Birtles and Lauren Day for ABC Two weeks on from the first case of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos , fellow backpackers have been investigating the culprit in lieu of public information from police. It comes as Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs in a notable public statement urged authorities in Laos to be transparent. "We are clear with our Lao counterparts that Australians expect those investigations to be thorough and transparent," a DFAT spokesperson said. Police confirmed in recent days they had questioned the operators of the Nana backpacker hostel , where at least five of the six victims who died were staying. Among them were 19-year-old Australian friends Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles , who both died in hospitals in Thailand last week after becoming ill at the Nana hostel. Now a fellow backpacker who knew two of the other victims - Danish women in their early 20s - has carried out a survey of other travellers he came across in Asia, that further pins suspicion for the poisoning on the hostel. The European man wished to remain anonymous as he continued his travels in Asia, but he provided the ABC with the results of a survey of more than 20 tourists he met who had recently been to Vang Vieng, the town at the centre of the poisonings. He asked them if they or any of their friends had to seek hospital treatment for suspected poisoning while in Vang Vieng, of which 14 people answered yes. Of the 14, all but one respondent said they or the people they knew who became ill stayed at the Nana backpacker hostel. The other one had become sick in Vang Vieng on an earlier trip and blamed tainted drinks at another bar in the town. Police last week forcibly shut down the Nana hostel and questioned staff including the bartender and owner. But police haven't publicly released further information, other than a pledge by the Laos government that the perpetrators would be brought to justice. Complicating matters is that some respondents in the survey who became ill or knew of others had said they'd also visited different bars while in Vang Vieng. One of the venues, Jaidee bar, was searched by police last week and the owner Jaidee questioned, although he has vehemently denied to the ABC that his bar was responsible for the poisonings. The European backpacker also provided an account of a woman who accompanied one of the two Danish women to a hospital in Vang Vieng. She said a staff member at the hospital massaged one of the woman's toes and said she would be OK as she was having a seizure. She later died. On Monday, the New Zealand embassy in Thailand confirmed one of its citizens suspected to have been poisoned by methanol in Vang Vieng around the same time as the other victims has returned home, after being hospitalised. The embassy did not provide details of their condition. A British woman Lucy Davison also said on social media last week she spent five days in a Vientiane hospital after being poisoned around the same time. Like most of the survey respondents, she attributed it to spirits consumed at Nana, without naming the hostel. Staff at Nana backpacker hostel have denied that their drinks contained methanol. Families seek answers amid diplomatic pressure The Australian government says it's working closely with authorities in Laos, and is coordinating representatives from the other countries affected, including Denmark, the UK and US. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has also offered Australian Federal Police (AFP) assistance to the Lao government, although he acknowledged Laos is a sovereign country that would not necessarily accept the assistance. The father of one of the two Melbourne women who died, Mark Jones, has called on authorities in Laos to be transparent and get answers so that no tourist ever dies again from methanol poisoning. But an expert on the South-East Asian country thinks hopes of a transparent investigation that delivers justice should be tempered. Keith Barney, an associate professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU, said Laos did not have a good track record of openness for sensitive matters. "I'm not very optimistic about what will be turned up in any investigation, but I wouldn't want to close off the possibility of finding something," he said. "I'd be very surprised if there was any level at all of transparency in an investigation", Dr Barney said, although he noted the Lao government has worked together reasonably well with Australia before on the illegal trade of wildlife. "If there are any powerful interests behind the scenes, that normally closes off investigations." In Vang Vieng, local tourist operators, bar owners and others have been speculating on how methanol likely ended up in the spirits that tourist consumed. Some said they believe local distilleries making cheap whiskey or vodka may have unintentionally botched the ingredients. Others theorised that methanol may have been deliberately mixed in as a means of drink spiking, because most of the victims were women. But with so little public information to go off from authorities in the communist state, there are more questions than answers. - ABC

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