Top judicial body slams Morsi's 'attack'

EGYPT'S highest judicial authority on Saturday slammed a decree by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi that makes his decisions immune from judicial oversight as an "unprecedented attack." The new constitutional declaration is "an unprecedented attack...

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LNP selects top three for senate bid

A PARTY strategist and Barnaby Joyce's chief of staff will join long-serving senator Ian Macdonald on the Liberal National Party's (LNP) Queensland senate ticket. LNP official James McGrath and Joyce staffer Matthew Canavan were chosen to run...

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Pakistan bus crash kills 16: officials

AT least 16 people have been killed and 22 others injured when a passenger bus collided with a truck in a mountainous area of northwestern Pakistan. The accident happened as the bus travelled from the port city of Karachi to the northwestern...

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Bomb hits Damascus refugee camp

A BOMB blast in a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus has killed four people and seriously wounded a member of a faction backing Syrian President Bashar Assad. The explosion late on Thursday in the Yarmouk camp targeted the Popular Front for...

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Call for Carr to help Aussie in Dubai

FOREIGN Minister Bob Carr has been urged to intervene in the case of a Melbourne businessman languishing in Dubai following a three-year murky legal case. Matt Joyce, 45, from Melbourne, was arrested in January 2009 on suspicion of bribery while...

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Xstrata-Glencore gets EU conditional nod

THE European Commission has given a conditional green light to the massive tie-up between Swiss mining giant Xstrata and commodities trader Glencore that would create a global leader. "The clearance is conditional on the termination of Glencore's...

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Mining magnate Palmer resigns from LNP

Billionaire Clive Palmer says he isn't worried about being kicked out of the Liberal National Party. Source: AAP CLIVE Palmer says he has resigned from the Liberal National Party, despite receiving a letter that he said reinstated his membership...

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Toshiba makes dog-like robot for Fukushima

JAPANESE nuclear reactor maker Toshiba has unveiled a remote-controlled robot resembling a headless dog that they hope will be used at the battered Fukushima power plant. The tetrapod, which weighs 65 kilograms and is about one metre tall, is...

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World-first study to probe blood cancer

BLOOD cancer patients are being encouraged to bring along a family member to participate in a world-first study hoping to uncover the causes of follicular lymphoma. Researchers from the University of New South Wales are launching a unique study...

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Govt examines malaria fund claims

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard says the government is "working through" allegations that Australian aid money is going into a fund that is being used to pay for fake and ineffective anti-malarial drugs in some of the world's poorest countries. ...

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Militants fire rocket toward Jerusalem

PALESTINIAN militants have fired a rocket toward Jerusalem, causing an explosion moments after air raid sirens sounded across the city. The sound of the blast could be heard in the distance from downtown Jerusalem. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld...

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Dozens die as Kurds, rebels clash in north

The EU has recognised Syria's National Coalition as the legitimate representative of Syria's people. Source: AAP FRESH fighting between Kurdish militiamen and Syrian rebels has erupted in the northern Syria town of Ras al-Ain, where dozens...

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Sydney teen charged over stabbing

A TEENAGER has been charged over a stabbing at a railway station in Sydney's northwest. Police were called to Eastwood station around 4.15pm on Monday after a fight between two youths which allegedly ended with a 16-year-old stabbing an 18-year-old...

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Rudd, Turnbull trade barbs on leadership

KEVIN Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull could never join forces to create their own political party because they wouldn't be able to decide who should lead it. At least, that was what the former prime minister told the ABC Q&A audience on Monday -...

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Chinese poet jailed for contract fraud

A DISSIDENT Chinese poet has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for contract fraud, his lawyer says. Li Bifeng, 48 - who was previously jailed for five years for involvement in the Tiananmen Square democracy movement - was sentenced at Shehong...

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Eighty-year-old man killed in Qld crash

A MAN has died following a crash in north Queensland. The two-car crash happened on the Gillies Highway near Yungaburra about 4pm on Sunday. The 80-year-old Yungaburra man was transported to Cairns Base Hospital after the crash, but died from...

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Coalition would win federal election: poll

OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott's approval rating may be on the wane but the coalition would win an election on a two-party basis, the latest Fairfax/Nielsen poll says. According to the poll, the opposition would win 53 per cent of the vote (up...

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Craig signs on for two more Bond films

DANIEL Craig will become the highest-paid James Bond actor after signing on for two more films as the famous British spy. Craig, 44, who is in Australia driving the release of Skyfall - his latest outing as 007 - will be paid STG31 million ($A48...

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