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Gunmen fire inside El Salvador bus, kill 6

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 24 Mei 2014 | 18.16

Police in El Salvador say gunmen boarded a bus in a town near the capital killing six people. Source: AAP

POLICE in El Salvador say gunmen boarded a bus in a town near the capital and opened fired on passengers, killing six.

National police director Rigoberto Pleites said another five people were wounded during the Friday bus attack in the town of San Luis Talpa near San Salvador.

Pleites said witnesses told police the assailants were gang members dressed in uniforms similar to those issued to road maintenance workers.

He said investigators haven't confirmed they belonged to a gang.

Police Commissioner Mauricio Ramirez said there have been threats of increased violence in the country in the coming days, but he didn't provide any other details.


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Suspected drug ring busted in Canberra

Police have raided 10 north Canberra properties, uncovering what they say is a major drug syndicate. Source: AAP

A MAJOR drug ring has been busted in the national capital, with a Canberra man set to face court charged with trafficking drugs.

ACT Policing raided several north Canberra properties on Friday afternoon where they seized $200,000 worth of illicit drugs, cars and cash.

They found 728 grams of cocaine, a methylamphetamine-suspected substance, tablets suspected to be ecstasy, and steroids.

Police believe the operation cracked a major drug syndicate operating in the capital.

A 28-year-old man will appear in court on Saturday charged with drug trafficking.


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Pope set to begin Middle East pilgrimage

Pope set to begin Middle East pilgrimage | The Courier-Mail

Last updated: May 24, 2014

POPE Francis has headed for Jordan at the start of a Middle East tour aimed at boosting ties with Muslims and Jews as well as easing an age-old rift within Christianity.

Live NRL: Broncos v Tigers

Live NRL: Broncos v Tigers

NRL Saturday night footy: It's nip and tuck between Wests Tigers and Brisbane Broncos at Campbelltown Stadium. Follow it live!

How to stop this happening to you

How to stop this happening to you

LATE one night, four friends were soundly asleep. Moments later, they were trapped, desperately trying to escape a raging fire sweeping through the house.

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Motorbike and truck collide, rider dead

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 22 Mei 2014 | 18.16

A 45-YEAR-OLD man is dead after his motorbike collided head-on with a truck in Tasmania's north.

Rain was falling when the crash occurred near Sheffield just before 1pm on Thursday.

Police say the motorbike crossed to the wrong side of the road, on a left-hand bend, and into the path of an oncoming truck.

The rider was from Sheffield, as is the 39-year-old truck driver, who was uninjured.


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No refugee ticket to first world: Morrison

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says Cambodia wants refugees from Australia to rebuild the nation. Source: AAP

IMMIGRATION Minister Scott Morrison has signalled that Australia is about to cut a deal with Cambodia to resettle refugees held in Nauru.

His comments come after Nauru and Papua New Guinea determined the refugee status of some asylum seekers sent to them by Australian authorities.

Mr Morrison said the government was making good progress on an agreement with Cambodia, but didn't want to jump the gun.

"We've got a positive response (from Cambodia)," he told Sky News on Thursday.

He is adamant the resettlement of refugees cannot solely belong to a club of first-world economies, like Australia.

Federal Labor is demanding the government release details of its Cambodia plan, including what safeguards are in place to ensure refugees' safety.

The kingdom is one of the poorest nations in the region and is still recovering from civil war.

There are also concerns about internal government corruption, a worry rejected by Mr Morrison.

"If that were true we should immediately cancel the almost $80 million in aid we provide to Cambodia," he said.

Thirteen asylum seekers, assessed as refugees, have been released into the Nauru community.

Seven others had their claims rejected while 21 others are waiting for a decision to be handed down on Thursday.

It's understood the refugees will be resettled temporarily on Nauru with five-year visas.

Refugees will have access to language classes, training, health care, work rights and a living allowance at local standards.

They will get some financial assistance, but will be asked to stand on their own feet after a year.

"Many of those being resettled on Nauru have skills, capability - things that Nauruans would welcome in their community," Mr Morrison said.

In PNG, 11 refugees have received positive decisions, with 15 denied.

PNG MP Ron Knight, who represents Manus Island, said accommodation for the refugees was almost complete at the town of Lorengau, west of the detention centre.

They will temporarily be in prefabricated units with airconditioning, secured behind mesh fences with 24-hour security guards.

The first group is expected to move in within weeks.

Originally, 300 refugees were going to be sent there, but that's been cut down to 75.

Catering and laundry will be done for them and they will be free to walk about the town.

"It's like a three-star hotel," Mr Knight told AAP.


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Thailand's army launches coup

Thailand's army declares martial law, coup in action | The Courier-Mail

Last updated: May 22, 2014

THAILAND'S army chief says the army is taking control of the government to "restore order and push through political reform", Sky News reports.

Labor leader cries in concentration camp furore

Labor leader cries in concentration camp furore

AAP, Jason Tin, John McCarthy, Sarah Vogler, Steven Wardill THE state Opposition Leader has cried in Parliament while speaking about her grandfather's seven years in a Polish work camp in World War II.

Doctors text patients over $7 fee fear

Close up view of a medicare card. Picture: Publishing Ingram

DOCTORS fear people are abandoning treatments because they think the cost of a visit to a GP already has gone up and they can't afford it.

More to Watson than making easy runs

Ashes Test Series Australia v England

AUSTRALIA batting coach Michael Di Venuto has vigorously defended Shane Watson against accusations of only scoring runs when the pressure is off.

Twins won't do their Block

Supplied Editorial The Block wins, Alisa and Lysandra Fraser

TWINS Alisha and Lysandra Fraser will not be left out of pocket after their renovated apartment on The Block was caught up in an insider trading case

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Sydney bus driver demolishes wall

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 21 Mei 2014 | 18.16

A bus has hit two vehicles and demolished a family's front yard wall in Sydney early on Wednesday. Source: AAP

A BUS has hit two vehicles and demolished a family's front yard wall in Sydney.

Police will question the 74-year-old driver after the Transdev public bus lost control on Rabaul Road at Georges Hall, near Bankstown, in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

The bus hit a parked tow truck, veered across the road and smashed into a family's front-yard brick wall.

It then hit another parked car and a fence before finally coming to a stop.

The driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

No passengers were aboard the bus, which was badly damaged.


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10-year-olds hurt after minibus rolls

A mini-bus has rolled on its side after colliding with a car in Melbourne, injuring two children. Source: AAP

TWO children have been taken to hospital after a school mini-bus accident in Melbourne.

The mini-bus and a car collided in Northcote on Wednesday morning, an Ambulance Victoria spokesman said.

The mini-bus tipped onto its side and two children, both aged 10, were taken to the Royal Children's Hospital with minor injuries.

The mini-bus, which was on a regular school run to St Paul's College in Kew, was carrying three staff and two students, a statement from the school said.

The school said the children were taken to hospital only as a precaution and were later released.


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Nauru refugees not told of Cambodia: govt

Nasty steeplechase fall at Sandown

Nasty steeplechase fall at Sandown

THE opening race at Sportingbet Park (Sandown) today, the 3400m steeplechase proved to be a chaotic one with the race being abandoned after three horses fell.

Tony's wink on phone sex gran

Tony's wink on phone sex gran

TONY Abbott has been called a "total creep" by the Greens, after being caught winking when a woman told him she works on a sex line to make ends meet.


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17 killed in Indian bus accident

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 20 Mei 2014 | 18.16

17 killed in Indian bus accident | The Courier-Mail

Last updated: May 20, 2014

AT least 17 people are dead and 27 are injured after a bus fell into a gorge in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

'I still blame the police': Daughter

'I still blame the police': Daughter

DAUGHTER of a couple killed by a drunk, speeding driver holds police responsible for their deaths despite the coroner clearing officers of wrongdoing.

What's all the fuss about the GST?

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IT'S the buzzword of the day that could see your shopping bill rise by 10 per cent. Here's everything you need to know about GST but were too embarrassed to ask.

It's ugly behind the bigot fence

It's ugly behind the bigot fence

LAST year it was the Collingwood president, last Friday it was an Essendon member, on Monday it was a bunch of cyber rednecks.

MasterChefs enjoy off-screen reunion

MasterChefs enjoy off-screen reunion

ALLA Wolf-Tasker has been cooking up some MasterChef joy, yet also having off-screen having fun with colleagues Matt Preston, Kylie Kwong, George Calombaris, Maggie Beer and Gary Mehigan.

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Tough budget necessary: Treasury Sec

Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson says Australians needs to know the nation faces a challenges. Source: AAP

THE Australian public needs to know that the nation faces a challenge and a tough budget was necessary, Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson says.

Dr Parkinson said while it was not his role to comment on specific government policies, Australians "deserve" to know there is a challenge ahead.

"It's within my responsibility as Treasury secretary to say to the community we do have to actually take this seriously to start to address the issue," Dr Parkinson told a business lunch in Sydney on Tuesday.

"It is (a challenge) that if we start today to take sensible decisions, particularly those that are essentially structural policy changes that take place over time, we'll be in a much better situation.

"Otherwise we're banking the house on 33 years of uninterrupted economic growth and there's no precedent for that.

"We're banking on another 10 years of fiscal drag and ... that has quite significant regressive impacts."


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Fed gov is attacking lowest paid: ACTU

ACTU claims the federal government is launching sustained attack on Australia's lowest paid workers. Source: AAP

THE federal government is launching a sustained attack on Australia's lowest paid workers, which the ACTU says will result in their living standards being crushed.

After delivering a cruel and unfair budget, the government now was considering a plan to cut the minimum wage every year for 10 years, ACTU president Ged Kearney said on Tuesday.

She was speaking at an Adelaide rally, as the ACTU appeared in Melbourne before the Fair Work Commission hearings in the Annual Wage Review.

The union body is calling for a $27 a week increase, which Ms Kearney said was now even more necessary given the punitive budget.

"Tony Abbott is not 'sharing the pain' as he said, he is going after those that can least afford it," she said.

"Under the plan being considered by the government, Australia's minimum wage will be reduced to 44 per cent of average weekly earnings, wiping off $136 per week in today's dollars, taking the minimum wage down to about $480 per week, or just $12 per hour."

She called on the government to rule out the Commission of Audit recommended minimum wage change to reassure low paid workers immediately.

"This is a recipe straight out of the United States - pushing down the minimum wage, getting rid of decent health services and privatising core government services."


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Insulation scheme a 'recipe for disaster'

Written By Unknown on Senin, 19 Mei 2014 | 18.16

THE Rudd government's decision to include foil products in its home insulation program was "a recipe for disaster" that could have easily been avoided, an inquiry has heard.

Master Electricians chief executive Malcolm Richards says the product should never have been permitted in the scheme given the dangers posed by electrical cables in the roofs of older homes.

Mr Richards has told a royal commission in Brisbane, which wound up on Monday, that allowing foil to be retrofitted was a "recipe for disaster" that Master Electricians would have advised against had it been consulted.

"If it wasn't funded in the first place, we would have eliminated this as a risk issue," he said.

Two of the four young men killed in the program were using foil insulation.

Mr Richards said the government's failure to consult Master Electricians before the program's July 1, 2009 rollout was a "critical oversight" given the inclusion of foil increased the risk of electrocution.

The association only became aware foil was being used in late August 2009, after members received several calls about power tripping out at homes where the product had been installed.

They were "horrified" to discover metal staples used to secure foil sheeting had been driven into electrical cabling, Mr Richards said.

That October, Master Electricians drafted a warning letter highlighting the dangers of foil to then environment minister Peter Garrett.

But it wasn't sent before Matthew Fuller, 25, became the first installer to die when he put a metal staple through electrical cabling while laying foil insulation in Queensland on October 14 2009.

Two days after Mr Fuller's death, Mr Richards sent the letter urging the government to ban foil immediately.

He received a response from Mr Garrett on November 19 2009, a day after 16-year-old Rueben Barnes became the scheme's second fatality.

Marcus Wilson, 19, was killed installing insulation less than a week later, while Mitchell Sweeney, 22, was the last to die under the program on February 4, 2010.

Mr Richards said it was regrettable Masters Electricians didn't raise its concerns about foil sooner, although he doubted whether it would have done any good.

"From the ensuing events, I deem it highly unlikely we would have been heard or listened to until the events got serious," he said.

Foil was banned from the program on February 9, 2010, five days after Mr Sweeney died installing it.

The scheme was ultimately canned less than two weeks later amid allegations of fraud and unsafe work practices.

A royal commission has been investigating what warnings Labor received about the program and whether the men's deaths could have been avoided.

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd and then environment minister Peter Garrett have both accepted "ultimate responsibility" for the program, but said public servants failed to pass on serious safety warnings.

But bureaucrats have said horrendous deadlines denied them adequate time to consider safety risks.

Commissioner Ian Hanger, QC, has been granted an extension to consider large volumes of evidence, including 77,000 documents.

Mr Hanger now has until August 31 to produce his report.

He may recall witnesses if he intends to make adverse findings against them.


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Guard distressed after shooting bandit

A SECURITY guard who shot dead an armed bandit outside a Gold Coast tavern appears to have acted instinctively, police say.

Police have interviewed the 47-year-old guard but haven't laid charges against him after the fatal incident on Monday morning.

A 46-year-old Upper Coomera man was shot dead after ambushing the security guard about 7.40am on Monday morning.

The guard was delivering cash to the Highland Park Tavern when he was tackled by a man wearing a motorcycle helmet and carrying a 9mm pistol.

Police say the two men struggled and the security guard fired several shots.

The bandit suffered a number of gunshot wounds and was dead by the time officers arrived just before 8am.

The shooting forced the closure of nearby streets, and sent a child-care centre into lockdown.

The security guard suffered minor facial injuries during the struggle. He was the one who asked a passer-by to call the police.

Regional Crime Co-ordinator Detective Superintendent David Hutchinson said it appeared the licensed security guard had reacted instinctively when he was attacked.

"We all must understand that under that sort of situation he would have been acting instinctively and he may not recall exactly himself how things went down," he told reporters on Monday.

"It's certainly a traumatic situation for anyone and he's traumatised by it."

Police haven't said whether the victim fired any shots.

He is yet to be formally identified but police believe they know who he is.

Officers seized a vehicle found in a nearby street and are examining it.

Police are also appealing to witnesses to the shooting to come forward.

The death is expected to be investigated by Queensland's coroner.


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One dead, two injured in Vic car crash

One dead, two injured in Vic car crash | The Courier-Mail

Last updated: May 19, 2014

A PASSENGER was killed and another man is in a life-threatening condition after a speeding car crashed into a Victorian residential garage.

Power close in on Macau deal

RCH Good Friday Appeal.

PORT Adelaide is closer to playing a pre-season game in China next year — and opening new sponsorship deals in the lucrative Chinese market.

Who's the best judge on The Voice?

Kylie Minogue episodic from The Voice. Supplied by Nine.

KYLIE, Ricky, wil.i.am and Joel: Who's the best judge on The Voice, and who's not hitting the mark? Find out as news.com.au judges the judges.

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Iran's Zarif says nuclear deal 'possible'

Written By Unknown on Minggu, 18 Mei 2014 | 18.16

IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday that clinching a final nuclear deal with world powers is still "possible" despite a tough round of talks this week.

"Agreement is possible. But illusions need to go. Opportunity shouldn't be missed again like in 2005," Zarif said on Twitter, referring to Iran's long-stalled dispute with world powers over its disputed nuclear program.

Iran and six world powers ended a fourth round of nuclear talks in Vienna on Friday with "no tangible progress".

Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany - known as the P5+1 group - want Iran to radically scale back its nuclear activities, making any dash for an atomic bomb virtually impossible and easily detectable.

The parties want to clinch a deal by July 20, when a November interim deal expires, under which Iran froze certain activities in return for some relief from crippling Western sanctions.

In return for further concessions, the Islamic republic, which denies seeking an atomic weapon, wants the lifting of all United Nations and Western sanctions, which have caused major damage to its economy.


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WA abuse victims to tell their stories

THE royal commission investigating child sex abuse in institutions will hold private sessions in the Kimberley region of Western Australia on Monday.

Officers from the commission will be in Broome and Kununurra to meet with people interested in sharing their story.

Royal Commission CEO Janette Dines says the visit will provide an important opportunity for people who were sexually abused as children in institutions to disclose their mistreatment.

"We strongly encourage all survivors who wish to share their story in private with a commissioner to make contact with the Royal Commission or a local support service," Ms Dines said.

She said more than 1500 private sessions have been held across Australia to date, including more than 160 in Western Australia.

"We are determined to ensure that regional and Aboriginal communities have a voice in this process, and we are working with local community organisations and support services to encourage survivors of child sexual abuse to tell their story to the Royal Commission."

Commissioners will also revisit the remote Kimberley from June 3 to hold further private sessions with victims.

They will run concurrent with a public hearing in Perth which is examining how a private school handled the case of a teacher who was molesting children for almost a decade.

*If you were sexually abused as a child while in the care of an Australian institution, you can tell your story to the Royal Commission by phoning 1800 099 340 or emailing contact@childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au


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Eastern Ukrainians rap Kiev in talks

Sues for more money than on Earth

Sues for more money than on Earth

A MAN, aged 62, has lodged a lawsuit in a New York Federal Court seeking damages of two undecillion dollars — more money than on Earth.

Cafes dish out brekky bills that bite

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IT'S the big breakfast bill that can leave a sour taste in your mouth. Early risers at some cafes see expensive mains, pricey sides and hidden charges take a bite out of their wallet. Compare prices


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