SYDNEY: Australia unveiled plans Wednesday to hold terror suspects for 14 days without charge and beef up its national database to include biometric data from driver’s licenses.

New South Wales already permits detention for 14 days, but other states and territories only allow a week or less, and the federal government wants to standardize the law.

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