Kenya to toughen poaching sentences

Poaching has recently risen in east Africa, with whole herds of elephants massacred for their ivory. Source: AAP KENYA plans to bolster lenient sentences for convicted wildlife poachers or ivory smugglers in a bid to stamp out a spike in elephant...

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Call for witnesses to horror crash

A CRITICALLY injured woman was trapped in her car for more than an hour after ploughing into a road barrier at Wacol on Saturday afternoon. Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward as officers attempt to piece together the crash, which...

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New PM vows to guard Lebanon from Syria

LEBANON'S newly named Prime Minister Tamam Salam pledged in his first speech to safeguard the country's security from the war raging in neighbouring Syria. "There is a need to bring Lebanon out of its state of division and political fragmentation,...

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NSW police nab boy over BMX bandit robbery

A 15-YEAR-OLD boy has been charged after a bottle shop in NSW's Southern Highlands was robbed by a knife-wielding youth who fled off on a BMX bike. The youth was spotted stashing cigarettes and bottles of liquor into his backpack at the Mittagong...

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Greek offshore accounts probed

OVER a hundred Greek offshore banking accounts will be probed by authorities after an international journalist group published information on over 122,000 tax haven accounts. Finance ministry official Haris Theocharis confirmed on Thursday statements...

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Children should leave Manus: Aristotle

ASYLUM seeker children and their families should be taken off Manus Island if the Australian government can't ensure adequate safeguards, a member of the government's asylum review panel says. Australian authorities on Thursday transferred the...

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Severe storm warning for Gold Coast

Check out this incredible time-lapse of Brisbane's 'super storm'. Image Credit: Noelia Ramon, videographer - photographer journalist. A SEVERE thunderstorm warning for the Gold Coast City Council area has been cancelled by the Bureau...

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African forces suspend hunt for Kony

UGANDA'S top military official says African Union troops have suspended the hunt for the fugitive warlord Joseph Kony in Central African Republic because the new government there is not co-operating with the mission. General Aronda Nyakairima,...

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Hollande vows new minister's law

FRENCH President Francois Hollande is vowing that a new law on the "publication and control" of ministers' wealth will be presented within weeks, after his ex-budget minister was charged in a tax evasion probe. Hollande said on Wednesday the...

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Sydney school fire 'suspicious'

POLICE are treating a fire which damaged an abandoned high school in Sydney's south as suspicious. Emergency services were called to the former school on Willarong Rd, Caringbah about 3.30pm (AEDT) following reports an old gymnasium was alight,...

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US priest to plead guilty to drug charge

A SUSPENDED Roman Catholic priest accused of making more than $US300,000 ($A289,000) from methamphetamine sales is expected to plead guilty to one of the charges. The 61-year-old is scheduled to appear in the US District Court for a hearing in which...

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CSG problems start with Labor: Joyce

NATIONALS Senator Barnaby Joyce has weighed back into the coal seam gas debate, saying it was Labor governments who oversaw approvals for projects now being brought into question. The Queensland government is being urged to hold a full public...

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Afghan teenager fatally stabs US soldier

AN Afghan teenager has killed an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan by stabbing him in the neck while he played with a group of local children, officials say. The killing comes as the monthly US death toll rose sharply in March to 14 with...

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Qld cops see double over drink drivers

QUEENSLAND police have pulled over the same car four times in one afternoon, resulting in drink driving charges for a man and woman who took turns in the driver's seat. Officers first stopped the vehicle on North Stradbroke Island, southeast...

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Asian markets fall

ASIAN markets slipped in holiday-hit trade Monday, with investors unimpressed by a slight improvement in key economic indicators out of China and Tokyo. The yen climbed against the dollar and euro ahead of a Bank of Japan (BoJ) policy meeting...

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Alarm over child solidier killings in CAR

SOUTH African soldiers who survived last week's rebel takeover of the Central African Republic are traumatised after discovering later that some of the rebels killed were child soldiers, local Sunday newspapers reported. In what has turned out...

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N Korea vows to strengthen nuclear weapons

NORTH Korea has vowed to strengthen its nuclear weapons, a day after announcing it is in a "state of war" with South Korea, and says it will never trade its atomic deterrent for aid. Tensions have risen sharply on the peninsula since the United...

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Clashes erupt in Mali's Timbuktu

MALIAN troops backed by French forces have clashed with Islamist fighters who infiltrated the northern city of Timbuktu, leaving two jihadists dead and four Malian soldiers wounded. "Jihadists have infiltrated the centre of Timbuktu ... Our...

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