Snowdon makes surprise Afghanistan visit

VETERANS' Affairs Minister Warren Snowdon has concluded a surprise visit to Afghanistan, declaring Australian troops close to completing their mission. Mr Snowdon met senior Australian commanders at the main base at Tarin Kowt, as well as Afghan...

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US charges Snowden with espionage: reports

US officials have asked Hong Kong authorities to detain Edward Snowden, a US newspaper reports. Source: AAP US authorities have filed espionage charges against rogue intelligence technician Edward Snowden and asked Hong Kong to detain him,...

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Singapore haze hits critical 400 level

SINGAPORE'S smog index has hit the critical 400 level, making it potentially life-threatening to the ill and elderly people, according to a government monitoring site. The level was reached at 11am (1300 AEST) on Friday, after a rapid rise in...

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A million Brazilians protest in cities

About 300,000 have rallied in Rio de Janeiro, bemoaning massive spending to stage the World Cup. Source: AAP BRAZILIAN President Dilma Rousseff has called an emergency cabinet meeting after at least a million people rallied for better public...

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Qld hospital concealed fatal death: union

THE Queensland Nurses Union is calling for an independent investigation into the Wesley Hospital manager who did not disclose a previous legionnaires' disease death at the facility. The Brisbane hospital is dealing with a deadly outbreak of legionnaires',...

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Visa crack down put off to next week

THE federal government's crackdown on skilled migration visas appears to be on shaky ground after independent MP Rob Oakeshott said he won't support the legislation. During heated debate on the bill in parliament on Thursday, Opposition Leader...

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Legionnaires' probe looks at past case

HEALTH authorities are revisiting a 2011 legionnaires' death at a major Brisbane hospital to see if it is linked to the recent outbreak of the disease. The Wesley Hospital was effectively shut down for almost two weeks after the death of a patient...

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Facebook apologises for outage

FACEBOOK has apologised after its website went down, attributing the outage to an internal issue. "Earlier today, an internal issue in our web infrastructure caused the site to be slow or unavailable for a brief period of time," a Facebook spokesman...

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Thomas Kelly killer pleads guilty

THE young man charged with killing Thomas Kelly in Sydney's notorious Kings Cross party strip has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Kieran Loveridge, 19, entered the plea when his matter came before Central Local Court in Sydney's CBD on Tuesday....

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Two-thirds of Chile faces desertification

TWO-THIRDS of Chile's territory is facing desertification in which the bone-dry Atacama Desert grows by over a metre a day, President Sebastian Pinera has warned. The changing topography and consequences for the land "is one of the greatest...

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