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Sharri Markson can reveal football's governing body had invited Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen to attend the Women's World Cup final in Australia this weekend.
Share on Twitter Farhad Bandesh is now a free man, but up until last week the 39-year-old was detained with about 60 others at the Mantra Hotel in Melbourne. "Can you imagine, for 20 months they’re stuck in this hotel? They are suffering," he tells SBS News. "And they spend six years in offshore detention centres. They need to be with us.” Mr Bandesh - a Kurdish asylum seeker and musician - fled Iran in 2013. After arriving on Christmas Island he was detained on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. He came to Australia last year with about 200 other refugees under the now-repea...