China quake toll up to 113

The number of people killed in the Chinese earthquake has risen to 113, with at least 2,600 injured. Source: AAP THE earthquake that has struck the steep hills of China's southwestern Sichuan province has left at least 113 people dead and more...

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Female suicide bomber kills 4 in Pakistan

A female suicide bomber has blown herself up outside a hospital in Pakistan, killing four people. Source: AAP A FEMALE suicide bomber has blown herself up outside a hospital in a lawless tribal area of northwest Pakistan, killing at least...

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Man arrested over India girl's brutal rape

The kidnapping and brutal rape of a five-year-old Indian girl has triggered protests across India. Source: AAP A FIVE-YEAR-OLD Indian girl who was abducted, raped and tortured in New Delhi was alert and stable, doctors said, as fresh protests...

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Taiwan executes six death-row inmates

TAIWAN has executed six more death-row inmates, just a few months after the same number of prisoners were put to death, as the debate continued over the need for capital punishment. Three were executed in Tainan city in the island's south and...

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Taliban attack kills 13 Afghan police

Taliban insurgents killed 13 local policemen in an attack on a checkpoint in southeast Afghanistan. Source: AAP TALIBAN insurgents killed 13 local policemen while they were sleeping, in an attack on their checkpoint in southeast Afghanistan,...

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Boston lockdown as manhunt goes on

ONE of the Boston marathon bombing suspects was killed in a shootout early on Friday as police raced on a house-to-house search for the second, with the entire city placed on lockdown. NBC News reported that the two young men believed to be responsible...

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Bid to halt mass meat recall fails

A DUTCH court has rejected a meat wholesaler's bid to quash an order recalling 50,000 tonnes of beef potentially contaminated with horsemeat. "The court rejects the request for a preliminary injunction," on Dutch food authority NVWA's recall of...

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Afghan security deteriorating: Red Cross

THE International Committee of the Red Cross warns that security is deteriorating across Afghanistan as militants flood the battlefield and conduct attacks in what could be the most defining spring fighting season of the nearly 12-year-old war. ...

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Arrests following Greek mass shooting

TWO men have been arrested in Greece after foremen for strawberry growers allegedly shot and wounded 27 migrant labourers who were demanding to be paid, police said. The migrants, mainly from Bangladesh, were hospitalised in the western port of...

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Rocket attack kills 12 in central Syria

A GOVERNMENT rocket attack has killed at least 12 people in a village in central Syria, while rebels battled regime forces over two key military bases in the northeast where government troops broke an opposition siege last week, activists said. ...

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Britain bids farewell to Margaret Thatcher

Britain will pay its final respects to Baroness Thatcher at Wednesday's funeral. Source: AAP THOUSANDS of well-wishers have applauded Margaret Thatcher's coffin as it passed through the streets of London before a funeral filled with pomp and...

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Vic protesters rally at community cabinet

MELBOURNE April 17 AAP - More than 100 protesters rallying against live animal exports have sought to leave their stamp on an otherwise subdued federal community cabinet meeting in the marginal Melbourne Labor seat of Deakin. The noisy protest,...

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Benefit concert for ailing Doc Neeson

The music industry has raised $200,000 at a concert for The Angels frontman Doc Neeson. Source: AAP THE Australian rock community has a history of helping the less fortunate - from families made homeless by bushfires to victims of the Boxing...

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Tasmanian forest deal on edge again

Green groups could pull out of Tasmania's historic forests peace deal after an upper house vote. Source: AAP TASMANIA'S forests peace deal is on a knife's edge again after the state's upper house voted to delay the creation of reserves. ...

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Quake kills at least 40 near Iran border

A MAJOR earthquake described as the strongest to hit Iran in more than half a century has flattened buildings near Iran's border with Pakistan, and was felt as far away as New Delhi, Dubai and Bahrain. Reports say it killed at least 40 people...

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Abbott quizzed on gay marriage stance

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has repeatedly been questioned about his stance against gay marriage. Source: AAP OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott has repeatedly been questioned about his stance against gay marriage at a community forum in Sydney....

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24 dead in wave of bomb attacks in Iraq

DOZENS of attacks across Iraq, including a brazen car bombing en route to Baghdad airport, have killed at least 24 people just days before the country's first elections since US troops withdrew. The violence, which struck during morning rush hour...

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Bali investigators retrieve jet wreckage

Investigators have begun to retrieve the wreckage of the Lion Air plane that crashed off Bali. Source: AAP INDONESIAN investigators have begun retrieving the wreck of a Lion Air plane that crashed at Bali's airport, as accounts emerged of a...

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First South Sudan oil reaches Sudan

SUDAN'S oil ministry says the first crude from South Sudan has reached its territory, bringing both impoverished countries closer to billions of dollars in revenue after a dispute over fees. "The first batch of oil already arrived on Sudanese...

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Unknown fault 'caused latest Japan quake'

A previously unknown active fault may have caused the magnitude-6.3 earthquake in western Japan. Source: AAP A PREVIOUSLY unknown active fault may have caused the magnitude-6.3 earthquake in western Japan this weekend, a government committee...

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Brits opposed to paying for funeral: poll

Sixty per cent of Britons are against the government paying millions to Margaret Thatcher's funeral. Source: AAP SIXTY per cent of Britons are opposed to taxpayers contributing millions of pounds to Margaret Thatcher's funeral, a new poll...

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