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Suicide bombers die in botched attack

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 19 Januari 2013 | 20.07

A SUICIDE bomber and his accomplice were killed when their device went off in a botched attack on a district government headquarters in western Afghanistan, officials say.

The two attackers were riding a motorbike when they were blown up, but there were no other fatalities in the attack on Guzara district headquarters in Herat province, the district governor Nesar Ahmad Popal told AFP on Saturday.

"It killed no one but the attacker and the helper," he said.

Provincial police spokesman Abdul Raouf Ahmadi confirmed the details.

No group has yet claimed the responsibility for the incident but suicide bombings are among the tactics used by Taliban insurgents, who are leading an 11-year insurgency against the US-backed government of President Hamid Karzai.

The bombing came days after the Taliban militants stormed the Afghan spy HQ in Kabul, leaving one dead and 17 others - mostly civilians - wounded.


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Two to be airlifted to Melb after crash

TWO people will be airlifted to Melbourne hospitals after being seriously injured in a collision between a bus and a car on Phillip Island, which also resulted in minor injuries for 17 others.

An Ambulance Victoria spokesman said two helicopters were on the way to the scene at Ventnor, near Cowes, to airlift two badly injured people to hospitals in Melbourne.

He said another 17 people had also received minor injuries when the bus and car collided at 10pm (AEDT) on Saturday.

Paramedics were still on the scene assessing people, he said.


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Toddler injured in Vic rollover

A TODDLER is in hospital with serious head injuries following a collision in Melbourne's southeast.

Police believe a Ford Fiesta was forced into oncoming traffic after it was clipped by another car on Heatherton Road at Noble Park at 7.45pm (AEDT) on Saturday.

The car collided with an oncoming van, causing the van to roll over, injuring the toddler.

The boy, aged between two and three, has been taken to the Royal Children's Hospital suffering serious but non-life-threatening head injuries.

An elderly woman who was also in the van, as well as the driver of the Ford, a woman in her 20s, have been taken to Dandenong Hospital for treatment.

Investigators want to speak with the driver of the car believed to have clipped the Ford Fiesta.


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Frenchman 'hid for 40 hours' during attack

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 18 Januari 2013 | 20.07

A FRENCH national says he hid under his bed for 40 hours during the hostage-taking in Algeria before being rescued by soldiers during an assault that involved heavy exchanges of gunfire.

Alexandre Berceaux, an employee of CIS Catering at the desert gas complex, also told Europe 1 radio that the initial attack on the site was a surprise as the base was heavily guarded.

"There were intervals of heavy gunfire" on Thursday when Algerian forces stormed the base, he said.

"There are terrorists who are dead, expatriates, locals," Berceaux said, adding that he had been taken to another nearby site and was unaware if the operation was continuing on Friday morning.

He said the hostage-taking on Wednesday had come as a complete shock.

"I heard an enormous amount of gunfire. The alarm telling us to stay where we were was going off. I didn't know if it was a drill or if it was real," he said.

"Nobody expected this. The site was protected. There were soldiers in place.

"I stayed hidden for nearly 40 hours in my room. I was under the bed and I put boards everywhere just in case. I had a bit of food, a bit to drink, I didn't know how long it would last."

Berceaux said he was found during Thursday's assault by men he believed to be Algerian military.

"They were soldiers dressed in green. I think they were Algerian soldiers," he said.

"I recognised some of my colleagues with them, otherwise I would never have emerged.

"I've heard there was a wounded person in the restaurant storeroom yesterday morning. Three Englishmen who had hidden above the dropped ceiling were found along with this wounded person, who was taken directly to hospital.

"I think there are still people hidden. They are in the process of doing a count now."

Algeria came under mounting international criticism on Friday as fears grew for dozens of foreign hostages still unaccounted for after the deadly commando raid against Islamist militants who had seized the remote In Amenas gas field in the Sahara desert.


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Motorcyclist dead after multi-car crash

A MOTORCYCLIST has died after he struck a barrier and was hit by two cars in western Sydney, sparking a multi-vehicle crash.

The man in his thirties crashed into a concrete barrier on the M4 at Homebush at 12.35pm (AEDT) on Friday and was thrown from his bike, police said.

He was hit by a Mitsubishi Lancer and then run over by a Toyota, police said.

Two other cars then collided as they attempted to avoid the first crash.

The motorcyclist died at the scene.

No one else was seriously injured and police are appealing for witnesses to the incident to come forward.

They are particularly keen to speak to the driver of a black vehicle, who they believe could have crucial information about the incident.


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Fire destroys historic temple in Japan

A FIRE has razed a 250-year-old wooden temple in Japan at a site that has been a place of worship since the 13th Century.

Tokumanji temple, which sits deep in the mountains of Nagano prefecture was destroyed by the fire, which started late Thursday night, police said.

The blaze broke out at the chief priest's house and spread to the wooden main hall, gutting an area of 355 square metres, a local police spokesman said.

No one was injured in the fire, but locals spoke of having lost a treasure.

"The temple's history goes back to the 13th century, with the current temple building constructed in 1755," said a curator of a local museum.

"The temple was one of very few buildings which survived a big earthquake in 1847," she said. "We lost a very precious asset."

Japan is dotted with temples dedicated to various Buddhist deities, which local people continue to visit at certain points in the calendar and to mark life's milestones.

Buddhism, which was imported to Japan from mainland Asia, sits alongside the native Shintoism.

Many people practise elements of both religions, freely mixing their differing traditions and beliefs.


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Delhi gang-rape suspect 'beaten in jail'

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 17 Januari 2013 | 20.08

ONE of the men accused of taking part in the fatal gang-rape of a student on a New Delhi bus in a crime that outraged India has been badly beaten up in jail by other prisoners, his lawyer says.

A.P. Singh told reporters that his client Vinay Sharma, a gym instructor accused of the murder and rape of the 23-year-old woman on a moving bus last month, was in agony during a court appearance on Thursday.

"Vinay Sharma was badly tortured in jail by other inmates who pounced on him. He was not in a position to stand up in court because he was in great pain," Singh said.

"It is sad the jail authorities cannot provide security to them."

Sharma, 26, is one of six people - one of them a juvenile - arrested over an attack that has fuelled nationwide anger and led many in India to stage mass demos, protesting the country's treatment of women.

The case is expected to be transferred to a fast-track court later this month, as calls grow for a swift trial and stiffer penalties for sex attackers.

The five adults could face the death penalty if convicted.

A lawyer for another defendant, bus driver Ram Singh, told reporters he would ask the Supreme Court to transfer the case out of the Indian capital, saying: "I know we will not get justice in Delhi".

A wide-ranging gagging order has been imposed on media reporting of the case.

The young student died on December 29, 13 days after the attack, due to severe internal injuries suffered when she was violated with a metal rod.


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Pakistan cleric signals end to sit-in

A PAKISTANI cleric has announced that a mass sit-in of tens of thousands of people outside parliament in Islamabad would end on Thursday, the latest twist in a drama that has gripped the nuclear-armed state.

Tahir-ul Qadri made the announcement as the country's corruption watchdog told the Supreme Court it did not yet have enough evidence to arrest Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on graft allegations, as the top judge had ordered.

Tension in Pakistan has been at fever pitch since Tuesday, when the arrest order coincided with a fiery speech by Qadri denouncing politicians and praising the armed forces and judiciary.

The timing sparked panic about a rumoured judiciary-military plot to derail elections due by mid-May. The polls, if successful, would be the first democratic transition of power between two civilian governments in Pakistan's history.

The political crisis comes as Pakistan battles problems on numerous fronts: the economy is struggling, Taliban and other violence is at a high, the rupee is sinking, there is an appalling energy crisis and fledgling peace gains with India appear in jeopardy following five cross-border killings in a week.

Qadri on Thursday gave the government until 1000 GMT (2100 AEDT) to negotiate on his demands for reforms, after which he said he would announce unspecified further action.

His announcement prompted cheering and dancing among his supporters, who have braved cold weather and heavy rain to camp out on Islamabad's main commercial avenue since early Tuesday.

"The situation does not allow me to put all the people, young people, children, women to further test. I give the government, I give the rulers a deadline of one-and-a-half hours. This deadline will end at 3pm," Qadri said.

"Today is the last day of this sit-in. Tomorrow there will be no sit-in. We have to end it today."

Ashraf chaired a meeting of coalition partners, several of whom have urged the government to start dialogue with Qadri. Deputy information minister Samsam Bokhari told private TV station Geo the government was open to talks.

Qadri wants parliament dissolved immediately and a caretaker government set up in consultation with the military and judiciary to implement reforms before free elections can be held.

The government has so far stuck to its position that parliament will disband in mid-March to make way for a caretaker government, set up in consultation with political parties, and elections within 60 days - sometime by mid-May.

Qadri's sudden emergence after years in Canada has been criticised as a ploy by sections of the establishment, particularly the armed forces, to delay the elections and sow political chaos.

In the Supreme Court the chairman of the National Accountability Bureau, Fasih Bokhari, told Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry that investigations into a power projects graft case were not complete.

He said it took time to find evidence to prosecute those allegedly involved.

Chaudhry - who Tuesday ordered the prime minister's arrest - ordered Bokhari to report back with the case files so that the court could itself point out evidence that could form the basis for a prosecution.

The court in March 2012 had ordered legal proceedings against Ashraf, who at the time was a close aide of President Asif Ali Zardari and was water and power minister when the power projects were set up.


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Journalist and two British policemen held

LONDON'S Metropolitan Police has arrested two of its own officers and a journalist from Rupert Murdoch's The Sun newspaper as part of its probe into corrupt payments to public officials by the media.

Scotland Yard said the three men were arrested before dawn at their homes by detectives working on Operation Elveden, which was set up in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at Murdoch's News of the World tabloid.

"The three were arrested at their separate home addresses at approximately 0600 GMT (1700 AEDT) in connection with a number of suspected offences between 2004 and 2011," the force said.

The journalist has been named as The Sun's crime correspondent Anthony France, 39, and is believed to be the 22nd journalist from the paper to be detained as part of the inquiry.

The owners of The Sun, News International, said it was "particularly disappointing" that another journalist from the company had been arrested.

One of the detained policemen is a 47-year-old officer with Scotland Yard's Specialist Operations command, which covers the protection of the royal family as well as airport security and counter-terrorism.

The other officer, 30, is part of the Specialist Crime and Operations command covering serious crime in the British capital.

Both men were arrested on suspicion of misconduct in a public office and were being interviewed at separate police stations, the force said.

France was arrested at his home in Hertfordshire, north of London on suspicion of conspiracy to corrupt and suspected conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office.

He was being interviewed at a north London police station.

Police have arrested a total of 56 journalists and public officials under Operation Elveden, one of three probes set up after the hacking scandal forced Murdoch to shut down the News of the World in July 2011.

Revelations that the newspaper had accessed the voicemail messages of a murdered schoolgirl as well as dozens of public figures sparked a political storm in Britain and led to a judicial inquiry into press ethics.

Twenty-six people have been arrested under the probe into phone hacking itself, Operation Weeting, while a third probe into computer-hacking, Operation Tuleta, has made 19 arrests.

Scotland Yard said the latest arrests were made as a result of information provided to the management and standards committee of News Corporation, Murdoch's US-based media empire.


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Cyclist discovered injured on Sydney road

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 16 Januari 2013 | 20.07

A CYCLIST is in hospital with serious head injures after he was discovered lying on the road in northwest Sydney.

The 47-year-old man was discovered at North Ryde about 8.30pm (AEDT) on Wednesday, police said.

He was taken to Royal North Shore Hospital with serious head injuries.

Police are investigating how the man was injured and have appealed for witnesses to come forward.


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Ute driver sought after Little River fire

POLICE want to speak to the driver of dark green utility seen close to where the Little River grassfire started that burned out 1400 hectares and threatened hundreds of homes.

The CFA was called to an area of scrub land near Bulban Road around 3.30pm (AEDT) on Monday southwest of Melbourne to extinguish the blaze which got of control.

Investigators want to speak to the driver of the single cab utility with a dark green canopy which was seen in the vicinity of Bulban and Edgars Roads on the day of the fire.


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Egypt building collapse kills 14

AN eight-storey apartment building has collapsed in Egypt's Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, killing 14 people.

Assistant Interior Minister Abdel-Aziz Tawfeeq said rescue teams were continuing to search for survivors under the rubble. Another eight people are injured, he added.

It was not immediately known what caused the collapse, but violations of building specifications have been blamed in the past for similar accidents. The governor of Alexandria, Mohammed Abbas Atta, told Egypt's official news agency that the building was constructed without a permit.

Alexandria's security chief Abdel-Mawgood Lutfi said the building was constructed five years ago and had 24 apartments.

That the building collapsed early in the day means that most tenants were home, a fact that could contribute to an even higher death toll. Police evacuated residents of two adjacent buildings out of concern that the collapse may have caused structural damage to them.

The collapse is likely to fuel a popular outcry against the administration of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, whose critics say he has failed to carry out reforms and overhaul the nation's deteriorating public services.

It came one day after 19 police conscripts were killed when the last car of the train they were riding on jumped the tracks and smashed into another train. Two months ago, 50 children died when a train rammed into their school bus in southern Egypt. That tragedy also sparked a storm of criticism of Morsi, who took office in June.

The train wreck led to protests on Tuesday at train stations in Cairo, Alexandria and a third city in the Nile Delta. The demonstrators were protesting what they said was official negligence in maintaining and upgrading the country's aging rail network.

Morsi's government has blamed Tuesday's train accident on what officials say is nearly 30 years of corruption and misrule under ousted president Hosni Mubarak.


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Saudi court jails Egyptian for trafficking

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 15 Januari 2013 | 20.08

AN Egyptian rights lawyer whose arrest on drug trafficking charges in April sparked a diplomatic row with Cairo, has been sentenced to five years in prison and 300 lashes in a Saudi court.

Ahmed al-Gizawi, arrested in April, was accused of trying to smuggle 21,380 capsules of the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, which is banned in Saudi Arabia where drug trafficking carries the death sentence.

Another Egyptian, arrested over the same case, was sentenced to four years in prison and 400 lashes, while their Saudi partner was jailed for two years and will receive 100 lashes.

"These verdicts are lenient" given the defendants' "good morals ... and the lack of judicial precedents," the judge said at the hearing on Tuesday.

The verdicts can be appealed within one month.

The prosecution, which alleged that Gizawi had hidden the banned substance in two milk cartons and a cover for the Koran, had demanded the death penalty for the lawyer.

Gizawi had travelled in April to Saudi Arabia with his wife to perform the omra, the minor pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites in Mecca and Medina, when he was detained at Jeddah airport, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said at the time.

The Egyptian organisation said that Gizawi was held after he was sentenced in absentia to one year in prison and 20 lashes for criticising the Saudi government.

Gizawi was being targeted for his activism over Egyptian detainees in Saudi prisons, it said.

Hundreds of Egyptian protesters had rallied outside Riyadh's embassy in Cairo demanding his release, prompting the kingdom to shut down its mission.

The embassy reopened on May 4 following a fence-mending visit to King Abdullah by a large delegation of prominent Egyptian figures.


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No business as usual with Pakistan: India

INDIAN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has warned there "cannot be business as usual" with neighbouring Pakistan after last week's deadly flare-up along the border in disputed Kashmir.

"It cannot be business as usual" with Pakistan, he told reporters on the sidelines of an army function on Tuesday.

"What has happened is unacceptable," he added in reference to the killing of two Indian soldiers, one of whom was beheaded.

"Those responsible for this crime will have to be brought to book."

Singh's comments came a day after commanders of the rival armies traded protests over the border exchanges and the chief of India's million-plus military ordered an "aggressive" response to any fresh cross-border firing.

The Indian government has accused Pakistani soldiers of crossing into Indian territory and killing two of its soldiers on January 8.

Pakistan denies its troops were involved in any such incident and has accused Indian troops of killing two of its soldiers.

Foreign ministers of both sides have warned against escalating tensions. But the Indian army chief of staff told his commanders on Monday to respond "aggressively" to any future Pakistani firing across the de facto border in Kashmir, known as the Line of Control.


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Suicide bomber kills Sunni Iraqi MP

A SUICIDE bomber has killed a Sunni Iraqi MP and five others west of Baghdad, wrapping his arms around the lawmaker before blowing himself up, officials said.

Ayfan Saadun al-Essawi, a member of the secular Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc that is part of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's national unity government, was targeted as he inspected a road being constructed south of Fallujah on Tuesday.

"Essawi was killed with three of his bodyguards and two civilians," said Sohaib Haqi, the MP's office chief, adding that three other guards were wounded.

"The moment he stepped out of the car to check out this road between Fallujah and Amriyah, at this moment, there was a man. He came to him, hugged him, said Allahu Akbar, and blew himself up."

Two other security officials confirmed Essawi's death.

The attack is likely to raise tensions with Iraq already grappling with a political crisis that has pitted Maliki against Iraqiya, which has frequently called for him to resign.


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Another Syria strike kills children

Written By Unknown on Senin, 14 Januari 2013 | 20.08

AN air strike on a rebel town near Damascus has killed 13 women and children, fuelling growing international calls for a war crimes probe into the 22-month Syrian conflict.

Reports of the civilian deaths came as Human Rights Watch accused President Bashar al-Assad's regime of expanding its deployment of banned cluster bombs.

Monday's air strike on several houses in the town of Moadamiyat al-Sham southwest of Damascus killed at least eight children and five women, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

"The children, all members of the same clan, were aged between six months and nine years old," said the head of the Britain-based Observatory, Rami Abdel Rahman.

The Observatory says more than 3500 children have been killed since the Syrian conflict erupted 22 months ago. The United Nations says overall more than 60,000 people have died.

On the diplomatic front, at least 55 countries prepared on Monday to demand the UN security council refer the Syria conflict to the International Criminal Court.

The demand was to be made in a letter organised by Switzerland, which has spent seven months collecting signatories.

Diplomatic sources said 55 countries had signed and others could still join even though the initiative has little immediate chance of success.

The Security Council is locked in a crippling impasse over the Syria conflict, with permanent members Russia and China having vetoed three resolutions threatening sanctions against Assad.

And with neither being members of The Hague-based ICC court, they would almost certainly reject any new resolution proposing war crimes charges.

On Sunday, Russia said Assad's removal from power was not a part of past international agreements on the crisis and hence impossible to implement.

"This is a precondition that is not contained in the Geneva communique (agreed by world powers in June) and which is impossible to implement because it does not depend on anyone," news agencies quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying.

The wrangling comes amid warnings the conflict, which according to the UN has sent more than 600,000 Syrians fleeing into neighbouring countries, is growing more dangerous for civilians due to the regime expanding its use of cluster bombs.

New York based Human Rights Watch said Damascus was increasingly resorting to firing rockets containing the sub-munitions, after previously using only aircraft to spread the weapons.


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NATO backs France in Mali, but says no aid

NATO says it supports French efforts to turn back the terrorist threat in Mali but that the alliance had received no request for assistance and had not discussed the conflict.

"We welcome the efforts of the international community in support of the implementation of the United Nations ... resolution 2085 (on Mali)," a NATO spokesman said on Monday.

"France has taken swift action to roll back the offensive of the terrorist groups in Mali.

"We are hopeful that such efforts will help to restore the rule of law in Mali and ... roll back the threat" of groups which threaten the "security and stability of the country, the region and beyond".

At the same time, NATO stressed this was a national operation, carried out by France, and there had been no request for assistance nor had there been a "discussion within NATO of this crisis".

"So far, the operation in Mali is a national operation in support of Mali. It was decided by the French government ... NATO is not involved in that."

On Monday, Islamist forces based in northern Mali vowed to avenge France's fierce military offensive against them after a series of French attacks inflicted heavy casualties.

On Sunday, French Rafale fighter planes struck bases used by al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Gao, the main city in northern Mali, and Kidal.

French warplanes also attacked rebel stockpiles of munitions and fuel further north at Afhabo, 50 kilometres from Kidal, a regional security source said.


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Climate laws advancing in many countries

MAJOR economies are now implementing important legislation on climate change, according to a survey.

Out of 33 countries, 32 have introduced or are pushing ahead with "significant" laws on climate, the survey published on Monday found.

Most of them are emerging economies.

In 2012, Mexico passed a law that sets a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent by 2020 compared with a "business as usual" scenario.

South Korea approved a bill that will lead to an emissions trading system by 2015, Japan introduced a carbon tax and a law promoting low-carbon development in the cities, and Vietnam passed a forestry protection scheme, REDD Plus.

In China, the world's biggest emitter by volume, the southern industrial area of Shenzhen passed the country's first local legislation for managing carbon emissions. The country also began to draft a nationwide law on climate change.

The survey was published by GLOBE International, an association of legislators, which was meeting in London on Monday and Tuesday.

Some laws are inspired by energy costs rather than by climate change itself, but led to the same goal of energy security and efficiency, it said.

The report said legislative changes at home could be a useful spur to the UN talks on climate change, which are making meagre progress towards a worldwide pact on emissions.

"(They) ultimately give world leaders the political space to go further and faster in the UN negotiations, helping provide a foundation for a comprehensive, global deal by 2015."


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Opel losses to last until at least 2014

Written By Unknown on Minggu, 13 Januari 2013 | 20.07

THE head of General Motors in Europe says losses at its struggling German arm Opel will continue for at least two more years and possibly longer depending on market trends.

"We will be in the red in 2013 and 2014," Steve Girsky told Focus magazine in an interview on Sunday.

"In 2014, hopefully a bit less. Balanced books will only be achieved in 2015 or 2016, depending on the market situation," he added.

GM's European operations have run up billions of dollars in losses over the past 10 years. It had planned to sell Opel at one stage but pulled back when it could not find a suitable buyer.

Battered by a declining European car market, Opel announced in December it would halt car production at its Bochum plant in 2016 but pledged to keep the site running as a parts distribution centre.

Opel employs 37,400 people in Europe, including 20,300 at four sites in Germany, in Ruesselsheim, Bochum, Eisenach and Kaiserslautern.

Opel boss Thomas Sedran told Focus: "We do not plan further site closures."

Last week, he insisted Opel was not for sale amid rumours of a tie-up between the German firm and struggling French group PSA Peugeot Citroen.


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Greece 'past danger' but risks remain: PM

GREECE has overcome the danger of an ignominious euro exit but it must stay the course of tough reforms to avoid a "relapse", Prime Minister Antonis Samaras says.

"I believe the great danger has passed," Samaras said in an interview with the To Vima weekly on Sunday. "Drachmaphobia seems to have receded completely."

But Samaras, whose three-party government faces another reform hurdle in parliament next week, warned the nation: "There can be no letup in our effort because there is the risk of a relapse."

The government last week pushed through a tax bill introducing new annual income thresholds for salaried taxpayers and scrapping tax breaks for the self-employed, a category blamed for a large part of the tax evasion that has plagued state finances for decades.

On Monday, it will seek approval for another round of reforms tied to Greece's next slice of EU loans.

The opposition has condemned the measures as a new attack on the embattled middle class which is bearing the brunt of a fourth straight year of austerity.

Samaras' administration has been hit with several defections in the past few weeks in opposition to the continued austerity wave.

The coalition government has lost 16 deputies since coming to power in June but still retains a nominal majority of 163 in the 300-seat parliament.

The latest umbrella bill introduces closer state budget monitoring and gives greater flexibility to banks to raise fresh capital. It also regulates civil service pay cuts and layoffs and finalises a state debt buyback.

European Union leaders last month agreed to hand out 49.1 billion euros ($A61.90 billion) in aid in return for more austerity measures.

Athens has already received 34.3 billion euros of this package and is poised to get another 9.2 billion euros at the end of this month if key fiscal reforms are carried out, followed by two more slices of 2.8 billion euros in February and March.


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Horses, baby saved from car fire

TWO horses and a nine month-old baby boy have been rescued after a car pulling a horse float caught alight in Melbourne's southeast.

The 29-year-old female driver and her 48-year-old male passenger noticed smoke coming from the engine and pulled over on the Monash Freeway near Warragul Rd around 8pm (AEDT) on Sunday.

They took the baby from the car and led the horses from the float just before the car's engine burst into flames engulfing the vehicle and float.


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