Tsunami warning canceled for Alaska, Canada

OFFICIALS have canceled a tsunami warning for parts of southern Alaska and coastal Canada. The Alaska Tsunami Warning Centre says a tsunami was generated by a strong earthquake, but the waves don't pose a threat to the areas. The centre says...

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Cooler weather helps Vic firefighters

Victorian firefighters hope to gain control over two major bushfires as the temperature cools. Source: AAP FIREFIGHTERS are making progress against a major bushfire in Victoria's southwest. About 40 trucks and several aircraft were at...

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Afghan govt releases 80 Taliban prisoners

SOME 80 Taliban prisoners once held at the US military Bagram jail have been released by the Afghan government amid hopes that it might help reconciliation efforts. Their release was secured through a special complaints committee that looked into...

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Quake hits off Alaska, tsunami 'no threat'

OFFICIALS have cancelled a tsunami warning for parts of southern Alaska and coastal Canada. The Alaska Tsunami Warning Centre says a tsunami was generated by a strong earthquake, but the waves don't pose a threat to the areas. The centre says...

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TV channel facing charges for gang-rape interview

INDIAN police they had filed a case against a cable news channel for airing an interview with the boyfriend of a woman whose gang-rape and murder has spurred protests across the country. A criminal case was registered late on Friday against...

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Man seriously hurt in Qld machete attack

A MAN is in a critical condition in hospital with serious head injuries after being attacked with a knife and a machete by two men at Landsborough in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. Police said the 49-year-old victim also suffered wounds to his...

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Chavez suffers lung woes, aides allege war

VENEZUELA'S government has accused opposition leaders of waging a "psychological war" to destabilise the country, as cancer-stricken president Hugo Chavez battles a serious lung infection. The hardline stance was adopted after Vice President Nicolas...

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CCTV website expands Down Under

AUSTRALIANS are now able to view CCTV footage in UK stores and receive rewards for spotting thieves after a controversial website expanded Down Under. Cornwall-based Internet Eyes offers rewards of up to STG250 ($A387) a month to people who detect...

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HK seizes huge haul of smuggled ivory

HONG Kong says it has seized more than a tonne of ivory worth about $US1.4 million ($A1.34 million) in a shipment from Kenya, the city's third big seizure in less than three months. Customs said on Friday they seized the 779 pieces of ivory...

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Malala leaves UK hospital

A 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education has been released from a Birmingham hospital to live with her family, doctors said Friday. Photographs released by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham...

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Syria rebels assault northern airports

REBELS have launched assaults to try to take strategic airports in northern Syria. Insurgents battled with troops on the perimeter of the Aleppo international airport on Thursday, besieging the nearby military Brigade 80 in an attempt to push...

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Vaccine temporarily brakes HIV: scientists

A TEAM of Spanish researchers say they have developed a therapeutic vaccine that can temporarily brake growth of the HIV virus in infected patients. The vaccine, based on immune cells exposed to HIV that had been inactivated with heat, was tested...

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Case against top judge illegal: court

SRI Lanka's highest court has declared a parliamentary committee acted beyond its authority in disqualifying the country's chief justice from office. The case against Shirani Bandaranayake, the country's first chief justice, has drawn local...

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Gang-rape suspects charged with murder

AUTHORITIES filed rape and murder charges against five men accused of the gang rape of a 23-year-old university student on a New Delhi bus, a crime that horrified Indians and provoked a national debate about the treatment of women. Police said...

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Delhi gang-rape suspects formally charged

Five men charged with the gang-rape of an Indian student will make their first appearance in court. Source: AAP INDIAN police have formally charged five men with murder, kidnapping and rape following the fatal gang-rape of a young woman that...

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Stampede caused by barricades: victims

TWO survivors of the New Year's stampede in Ivory Coast that killed 61 people say barricades set up unofficially created the crush of thousands of people who were leaving a fireworks display. The two survivors, who are hospitalised at Cocody...

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Indon city cracks down on women passengers

A CITY in Indonesia's Islamic law stronghold of Aceh will ban women passengers from straddling motorbikes, describing the position as "improper". The move comes after leaders from the country's only province ruled under strict sharia law drafted...

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Minister pens Bollywood love song

INDIA'S communications minister, already a poet in his spare time, has found another outlet for his creative ambitions: penning a slushy love song for a new Bollywood film. Despite his challenging role as a minister and government troubleshooter,...

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Thai arrested over NY tourist murder

POLICE in Thailand said they had arrested a Thai man over the death of a British tourist shot during New Year celebrations at one of the Southeast Asian nation's most popular islands. The 26-year-old suspect is alleged to have opened fire during...

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Woman trapped in supermarket for NY

WHILE others were celebrating the start of 2013, an elderly French woman has spent New Year's Eve locked inside a supermarket. The 73-year-old was trapped in the supermarket in the northern city of Roubaix after emerging from the toilet to find...

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Ivory Coast NYE stampede kills 60

AT least 60 people have died and dozens have been injured in Abidjan as crowds stampeded during celebratory New Year's fireworks, Ivory Coast rescue workers say. The head of military rescue workers, Lieutenant Colonel Issa Sako, told public television...

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UK man shot dead at Thai NYE beach party

A 22-YEAR-OLD British tourist has been shot dead as he danced at a New Year party on one of Thailand's most famous islands after a fight between rival Thai gangs erupted on the beach, police say. The holidaymaker was killed when a Thai man opened...

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Bomb found near home of Delhi rape suspect

INDIAN police has arrested a man as he tried to plant a crude bomb near the home of one of the suspects in the New Delhi gang-rape case as a backlash against widespread sex crimes gathered steam. As protests against harassment and violence against...

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Pope prays for peace at New Year mass

POPE Benedict XVI prayed for the "gift of peace" this year, condemning the inequality between rich and poor and "unregulated financial capitalism" at a New Year's mass in St Peter's Basilica. The Pope spoke of "hotbeds of tension and confrontation...

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Attacks down but Iraq in 'low-level war'

VIOLENCE in Iraq dropped in 2012, data shows, but insurgents proved they were still capable of mounting waves of attacks and a watchdog warned the country was still in a "low-level war". The warnings, which come after the first full year since...

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Sydney's firework go off with a roar

Sydney's lord mayor says the city is spending $6.6 million on its New Year's Eve event. Source: AAP SYDNEY'S skyline has exploded in gold, pink, green and blue as part of the traditional New Year's Eve family-oriented curtain raiser. The...

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UK singer remanded on child sex charges

ROCKER Ian Watkins has reappeared before a Welsh court to face allegations of plotting to rape a baby girl. The 35-year-old vocalist, whose band Lostprophets has sold more than 3.5 million records worldwide, was arrested with two women earlier...

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Iran tests weapons near Strait of Hormuz

IRAN'S navy says it has test-fired a range of weapons during ongoing manoeuvres near the Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for one-fifth of the world's oil supply. The Monday report by the official IRNA news agency quotes exercise spokesman Admiral...

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Syria says will respond to conflict talks

Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi believes he has a peace plan the international community can adopt. Source: AAP DAMASCUS will respond to any initiative that could solve Syria's 21-month conflict through talks, its premier says, after peace envoy...

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Man, 18, dies after Adelaide shooting

A YOUNG man is dead and a 17-year-old has been arrested after a shooting in Adelaide's southern suburbs. The 18-year-old was shot at Sixth Avenue, Warradale around 7.40pm (CDT) on Monday and was rushed to Flinders Medical Centre in a critical...

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Syrian troops hit Homs, kill 23 children

SYRIAN regime forces have pressed a fierce offensive in Homs after overrunning a key neighbourhood of the central city, according to a watchdog, which also listed 23 children killed in violence across the country. The latest bloodletting on Sunday...

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East Timor hailed a UN success

TROOPS sent by Australia and New Zealand have all gone home and only a handful of United Nations police will be left when the UN flag comes down in East Timor's capital of Dili after six years. "As of Monday, the liquidation team will be there....

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Russia investigates Moscow plane crash

RUSSIAN medics have begun identifying the bodies of four crew killed when a passenger jet careened off the runway of a Moscow international airport and smashed into a highway. Rescue workers recovered the flight recorders from the four-year-old...

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French paper to publish comic on Mohammed

A FRENCH weekly known for publishing cartoons of Prophet Mohammed to the ire of conservative Muslims says it plans to release a comic book biography of Islam's founder that will be researched and educational. Satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo...

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Man missing after canoe tips on NSW river

A MAN is missing after his canoe tipped over on a river in southwestern NSW. The man, aged in his late 20s, was paddling on the Murrumbidgee River when the canoe overturned about 2.30pm (AEDT) on Sunday. He failed to resurface, police say....

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