Sri Lanka arrests deported asylum seekers

AUTHORITIES in Sri Lanka on Saturday arrested 14 asylum seekers accused of hijacking a fishing boat and throwing its crew into the sea to die, police said. The 12 men, a woman and a girl were deported by Australian authorities and were immediately...

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German composer Hans Werner Henze dies

GERMAN avant-garde composer Hans Werner Henze has died, aged 86. Publisher Schott Music said he died on Saturday in Dresden. It didn't disclose the cause of death. Henze's work over the decades straddled musical genres. He composed stage works,...

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Sandy again upgraded to hurricane

FORECASTERS say Sandy has again reached hurricane strength, with sustained winds of 120 km/h. The National Hurricane Centre in Miami said that a Hurricane Hunter aircraft found Sandy had sustained winds powerful enough to upgrade it to a Category...

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Fourth Tibetan in week self-immolates

A US-based rights group says a 24-year-old Tibetan farmer has become the fourth man in a far western Chinese county to set himself on fire this week in protest against Chinese rule. The International Campaign for Tibet said Lhamo Tseten self-immolated...

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Berlusconi faces verdict in tax fraud case

AN ITALIAN court is set to deliver verdicts against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and 10 others in a six-year-old tax fraud trial. Prosecutors have demanded a sentence of 3 years and eight months for Mr Berlusconi and three years and...

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Battle mars Syria holiday truce

FIGHTING raged near a military base in Syria's north as a cease-fire in the bloody civil war was set begin Friday at dawn, activists said, illustrating the difficulty of enforcing even a limited truce coinciding with a Muslim holiday. Elsewhere,...

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Colgate to cut 6 per cent of workforce

COLGATE-PALMOLIVE will cut more than 2310 workers, or 6 per cent of its workforce, by the end of 2016 in a push to make the consumer products company more efficient. Colgate wants to streamline global functions and said on Thursday it will continue...

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Colin Powell endorses Obama

FORMER US secretary of state Colin Powell has endorsed President Barack Obama's bid for re-election. The Republican who used to be chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said, "I voted for him in 2008, and I plan to stick with him in 2012." He...

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China blocks Ai Weiwei's Gangnam Style

CHINESE Internet authorities Thursday blocked a "Gangnan Style" parody by dissident artist Ai Weiwei, which took aim at the government's efforts to silence his activism. The four-minute music video, a parody of South Korean artist Psy's viral...

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Pussy Riot punks sent to prison camps

JAILED Pussy Riot punks Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina have arrived at prison camps in remote Russian regions, a defence lawyer says. "Tolokonnikova has arrived at corrective labour camp 14 in Mordovia and Alyokhina has arrived at...

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Residents missing as homes catch fire

FIREFIGHTERS are searching for the occupants of a home that has caught fire in Sydney's west. Two adjoining properties in Rawson Road, Guildford, went up in flames late on Tuesday night (AEDT). A Fire and Rescue NSW spokesman said the first...

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European stocks drop

EUROPEAN equities have sunk on fears over debt-riddled Spain after its central bank predicted a worsening recession, one day after Moody's downgraded credit ratings for five major Spanish regions. Madrid's IBEX 35 index of top shares on Tuesday...

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UK gov't postpones badger cull

BRITAIN'S government has postponed a plan to cull badgers after protests from animal rights groups and concern over its cost and effectiveness. Some farmers had pressed for the ban because the creatures can spread bovine tuberculosis, a disease...

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School funding to stay under wraps

SCHOOLS Minister Peter Garrett has "more than a vague idea" about how the bill for school funding reform should be split between the commonwealth and states. But he has no intention of revealing the federal government's hand before negotiations....

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BBC editor steps aside over Savile probe

A TOP BBC editor has stepped aside while the broadcaster reviews its editorial decision to pull the plug on a segment about sexual abuse allegations against a prominent British children's television star, the late Jimmy Savile. The BBC said...

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Baby bonus cut penalises families: Hockey

SHADOW treasurer Joe Hockey has likened the government's decision to slash the baby bonus for second and subsequent children to China's one child policy. The policy that has restricted urban Chinese families to a single child since the 1970s has...

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France sees Syria's hand in Beirut blast

FRANCE'S foreign minister reportedly says it's likely Syrian President Bashar Assad's government had a hand in the assassination of Lebanon's intelligence chief in a Beirut bombing. Laurent Fabius told Europe-1 radio on Sunday that while it...

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Brits like empire over Assange: Ecuador

BRITAIN behaved like it was still an empire in its threat to raid Ecuador's embassy and arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Ecuadorian ambassador to London says. Ana Alban told BBC radio on Sunday the threat, made in August just before...

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New poll shows Gillard popularity rising

JULIA Gillard's now famous parliamentary misogyny speech has lifted her personal standing and widened the gap between her and Tony Abbott. Apparently it's also relegated any possible threat from former prime minister Kevin Rudd. The latest...

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