Australia says divers injured by sonar pulses from Chinese navy

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Australian says divers were injured after the Chinese navy used sonar while they were in the water clearing fishing nets. Australia's defence minister Richard Marles said the government had expressed his concerns to Beijing for its "unsafe and unprofessional" use of the technology. It comes after similar complaints from the US, Canada and Australia over alleged actions taken by Chinese forces in the western Pacific. Mr Marles said the HMAS Toowoomba stopped while it was in international waters on Tuesday in Japan's exclusive economic zone after the fishing nets became caught on its propellers. It had been helping the UN...