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SA independent Bob Such battling cancer as state faces more turmoil

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 12:58 AM PDT

Premier Jay Weatherill's tenuous grip on power could be weakened further if Such stands down, forcing a byelection

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill's tenuous grip on power could become even more precarious with the news that a key independent has been diagnosed with a brain tumour, presenting the possibility of a by-election in his largely conservative seat.

It has been revealed the independent member for the seat of Fisher, Bob Such, is fighting a brain tumour and that he will undergo a course of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Earthquake strikes near Los Angeles

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 10:39 PM PDT

Magnitude 5.1 quake 20 miles from Los Angeles was only 1.2 miles deep but only minor damage has been reported

A magnitude-5.1 earthquake shook the Los Angeles area and surrounding counties on Friday evening, authorities said.

The US Geological Survey said the quake struck at about 9:09 p.m. and was centred near Brea in Orange County about 20 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.








Tony Abbott hails 100 days without asylum-seeker boats arriving

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 08:38 PM PDT

Prime minister says that during the same period under the former Labor government there were 66 boat arrivals

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has touted the success of his anti-people- smuggling operation, but stopped short of labelling it mission accomplished, as the end of the monsoon season is looming.

Abbott on Saturday said it had been 100 days since an asylum-seeker boat had reached Australian shores.

Saudi Arabia: Obama seeks to ease backlash over Syria

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 06:35 PM PDT

US president said to be considering sending air defence systems to Syrian rebels following discussion with King Abdullah

The United States is considering allowing shipments of portable air defence systems to Syrian rebels, as president Barack Obama sought to reassure Saudi Arabia's king that the US is not taking too soft a stance over the conflict.

The president and King Abdullah met for more than two hours at the monarch's desert oasis outside the capital city of Riyadh. Obama advisers said the two leaders spoke frankly about their differences on key issues, with the president assuring the king that he remains committed to the Gulf region's security.

Flight MH370: Fresh objects found in new Indian Ocean search area

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 06:14 PM PDT

Five aircraft have spotted 'multiple objects of various colours' after the air and sea search was moved 1,100 km north on Friday

Fresh objects spotted by planes searching for a missing Malaysian passenger jet in a new area of the southern Indian Ocean have again raised hopes of unravelling the three-week-old mystery.

Australian authorities coordinating the operation dramatically moved the air and sea search 1,100 km north on Friday after new analysis of radar and satellite data concluded Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 travelled faster and for a shorter distance after vanishing from civilian radar screens on March 8.








Putin calls Obama to discuss proposal for Ukraine, says White House

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:51 PM PDT

US president insists Russia must pull troops back from Ukraine border in discussion over Crimea crisis

Russian president Vladimir Putin called Barack Obama on Friday to discuss a US diplomatic proposal for Ukraine and the US president told Putin that Russia must pull back its troops and not move deeper into Ukraine, the White House said.

It was believed to have been the first direct conversation between Obama and Putin since the US and its European allies began imposing sanctions on Putin's inner circle and threatened to penalise key sectors of Russia's economy.

NSA chief Keith Alexander avoids Snowden in retirement speech

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 02:53 PM PDT

NSA and Cyber Command chief speaks at Fort Meade
General tells NSA: 'Thanks for protecting our civil liberties'

With minimal reference to Edward Snowden, the former contractor who ushered in a new and unwelcome era for the National Security Agency, General Keith Alexander ended his NSA directorship and his 39-year army career on Friday.

Feted at a retirement ceremony attended by intelligence colleagues, legislators, fellow officers and White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, Alexander hailed the NSA by quoting General Douglas MacArthurs musings on patriotism, morality and service from his 1962 retirement speech at West Point, which Alexander called especially applicable with all that has gone on in the past year.

Chris Christie accepts resignation of ally in effort to bury bridge scandal

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 02:42 PM PDT

Samson refused to be interviewed for inquiry into closure of traffic lanes leading to the George Washington bridge last year

The governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, announced the resignation of his most senior appointee on a regional transport agency on Friday, in an attempt to bury a scandal that has battered his administration and undermined his presidential ambitions.

Christie said he had accepted the resignation of David Samson, the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, hours before his first press conference in two months. Samson was "74 years old and tired", the governor said.

A cup of tea with the cardinal: what George Pell did in the Ellis case

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 02:15 PM PDT

The royal commission has brought to light the evolution of the Sydney archdiocese's pitiless legal strategy to defeat the victim of a paeodophile priest

St Marys was not overflowing at Cardinal George Pells farewell. The music was magnificent and 20 bishops followed the candles and banners in procession. But the governor general, prime minister and premier were somewhere else for the night. Rows of stack-away chairs stood empty.

Pell looked weary but cheerful. Less than four hours before appearing in cope and mitre under the arc lights of the cathedral, he had been in the witness box of the royal commission into institutional responses to child abuse delivering one last apology to John Ellis. Some of the time since had been spent praying at the shrine of St Mary MacKillop.

I felt anxious and unloved and was having angry outbursts, he told the commission. I felt depressed. I felt unable to cope or manage my emotions. I was particularly frightened by the self-harm, self-loathing and suicidal thoughts I was experiencing. I had never before experienced anything of that nature.

The memories were painful and frightening, and they came with strong physical memories of the abuse, particularly the anal intercourse. It made me feel ashamed and sick.

The allegations of improper sexual conduct by Father Duggan against Mr John Ellis when he was an altar boy at Christ the King Church, Bass Hill, from age 14 to 17 years and continuing on into his young adult years more likely than not occurred [and] the impact of this sexual conduct has more likely than not adversely affected Mr Ellis with regard to his mental, emotional and physical health.

I can't remember ever being asked my opinion on how much money might be paid in reparation/compensation to a Towards Healing victim. I've thought very carefully about this. I've got no such recollection.

The onus is on Ellis to prove his assertions against Fr Duggan, Corrs solicitor John Dalzell told Michael Casey. There is no onus for us to show the good character of the Reverend Father.

Cardinal, Corrs weren't your moral advisers, were they? asked Furness.

No.

This information places us in a position where we can say that the Archdiocese has never accepted that Fr Duggan was responsible for the abuse Ellis alleges he suffered, either under the Towards Healing process or at law.

I had understood until then that those instructing the lawyers for the trustees and Cardinal Pell believed without a doubt that the abuse had happened.

In my assessment, the Plaintiff was an honest witness who did his best to assist the court. In general terms, I accept his evidence as reliable.

We would have genuine and grave concern for his welfare if the letter is sent to him, Begg told Corrs. We believe that the prospect of self harm would be greatly increased. He asked that in the light of Elliss health Corrs take instructions again from those who instruct you.

Cardinal Pell wants you to know that although he believed that your claim was for many millions of dollars, he now knows that the truth of the matter was as stated in your letter only $750,000.

Further, the Cardinal was distressed to learn that his submission was never responded to by the Archdiocesan lawyers. For this he apologises. Once again the Cardinal reiterated that he will do all in his power to ensure that this sort of legal abuse is never repeated again.

Three Democratic California state senators suspended over criminal cases

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 01:12 PM PDT

Senators Calderon, Yee and Wright keep full salaries
Republican Joel Anderson is lone vote against suspension

The Democratically controlled California Senate has voted to suspend three Democrats who face charges in separate criminal cases, after the latest lawmaker to be hauled into court refused to step down.

Friday's 28-1 vote in the 40-member chamber came amid one of the most severe ethical crises in modern times for the legislature in the nation's most populous state.

Suicide attackers storm Kabul aid agency as Taliban step up violence

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 01:06 PM PDT

One child and driver killed in latest attack before April's elections

One child and a driver were killed and five people injured after a suicide attack on an aid agency in Kabul on Friday, the third bloody assault to hit the Afghan capital in a week as insurgents stepped up a campaign of violence ahead of presidential elections.

The girl and the driver died when a suicide bomber detonated his car outside the Roots of Peace landmine charity in Kabul and four gunmen stormed the aid agency's office. Four civilians and a policeman were injured in the attack, said a spokesman for the chief of police, Hashmat Stanikzai.

Janitor suspected in Relisha Rudd case had contact with three other girls

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 12:50 PM PDT

DC police: 'We are concerned about what that contact was'
Kahlil Malik Tatum suspected in case of missing girl, 8

A janitor suspected of abducting and possibly murdering an eight-year-old girl had inappropriate contact with three or four other girls at the homeless shelter where she lived, a police chief said on Friday.

Relisha Rudd had been missing for almost three weeks before the FBI launched a manhunt for Kahlil Malik Tatum, a janitor at the shelter where she lived. Tatum is also wanted for shooting dead his wife, and police fear he may also have killed Relisha, who was last seen on 1 March.

Animal rights campaigner convicted of Huntingdon Life Sciences conspiracy

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 12:44 PM PDT

Debbie Vincent says she has been made a scapegoat and criticises the Metropolitan police's use of an undercover officer

An animal rights campaigner convicted of taking part in a conspiracy to blackmail the research company Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) told the Guardian she is a "scapegoat" targeted because detectives cannot catch the "real culprits" who have terrorised the company and its suppliers.

Debbie Vincent, who faces up to 14 years in prison when she is sentenced next month, insisted she is a lawful and peaceful campaigner who had been found guilty of "nebulous" charges that are increasingly being used to clamp down on legitimate protest against vivisection.

Robert Mugabe to boycott EU-Africa summit after wife denied visa

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 12:34 PM PDT

Harare had earlier urged the African Union as a whole to shun the summit over the failure to invite all of the bloc's leaders

Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, will boycott next week's EU-Africa summit in Brussels after his wife was denied a visa to enter Europe, a foreign ministry official said . "We disagreed on the composition of our delegation," said a source at the ministry.

Harare had earlier urged the African Union to shun the summit for failing to invite all the Africa bloc's leaders and lift a ban on Zimbabwe's first lady. But EU diplomats said they were not expecting a boycott. The summit next Tuesday and Wednesday will bring together representatives of 90 nations from both continents, including 65 heads of state and government.

Jeremiah Denton, former Alabama senator and Vietnam POW, dies at 89

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 12:28 PM PDT

Denton spent seven and a half years in captivity in North Vietnam before winning Senate seat for Republicans in 1980s

Former Alabama senator Jeremiah Denton, who survived seven and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and alerted the US military to conditions there when he blinked the word "torture" in Morse code during a television interview, died Friday. He was 89.

Denton's grandson, Edward Denton, said he died about 8am at a hospice facility in Virginia Beach, Virginia, surrounded by family. Edward Denton said his grandfather had been in declining health for the past year and died from heart problems.

MH370: planes spot several objects in new search area

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 11:35 AM PDT

Six ships travelling to zone 1,150 miles west of Perth in attempt to verify possible plane wreckage in Indian Ocean

Follow the latest on our live blog

A multinational fleet of planes and ships searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has raced to a fresh search zone after a "credible new lead" suggested the plane was flying faster than first thought before it plunged into the vast Indian Ocean.

Ten aircraft from six countries have been diverted to an area 685 miles(1,100km) north-east of where the search had been concentrated for a week, far off western Australia. Late on Friday, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said five aircraft had spotted "multiple objects" in the new search area but they were not expected to be reached by ship for confirmation until Saturday.

Angelina Jolie urges action against use of sexual violence as war weapon

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 11:14 AM PDT

UNHCR ambassador pays tribute to victims of 1995 Srebrenica massacre and meets women raped during war in Bosnia

Angelina Jolie has paid tribute to the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre after urging the international community to stop the use of sexual violence as a war weapon.

Jolie was accompanied by the British foreign secretary, William Hague, while on a trip to Bosnia.

St Vincent police suspect 'foul play' after man found near burning yacht

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 11:09 AM PDT

John Garner found on life raft with head and leg injuries and pronounced dead after being taken to hospital

Police in the Caribbean island of St Vincent suspect "foul play" after a British man was found on a life raft near his burning yacht.

John Garner, 53, was discovered with head and leg injuries and was pronounced dead after being taken to the island's Milton Cato Memorial hospital.

Venezuelan newspaper accused of devising revolutionary crossword clues

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 11:03 AM PDT

Delcy Rodríguez, minister of information, calls for investigation of El Aragueño for allegedly printing anti-government puzzle

Crossword puzzles in a Venezuelan regional newspaper are being used to encrypt messages to incite revolt against the government, the Venezuelan minister of information has claimed.

Delcy Rodríguez, who made the accusation on Twitter, has called for a full investigation into El Aragueño, a daily in Aragua state a site of recent anti-government protests.

Libya poised to retake oil ports from rebels in move that could split country

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 10:47 AM PDT

Rebels blockading ports in the eastern province of Cyrenaica say they will form a breakaway state if government forces attack

Libyan government forces are poised to attack rebels blockading key oil ports this weekend in an offensive that risks splitting the country apart.

A deadline for rebels in the eastern province of Cyrenaica to hand over the ports, blockaded since last summer, has passed with the opposition still in control and vowing to form a breakaway state if attacked.

Obama lands in Saudi Arabia to help soothe relations with key ally

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 10:37 AM PDT

Saudi royals alarmed by US stance on Iran and Syria but officials say visit will 'reaffirm the importance' of US-Saudi relations

Barack Obama landed at a desert camp in Saudi Arabia on Friday to mend bridges with the kingdoms monarch, King Abdullah, after months of tension between the pair.

The Saudi royal family has been alarmed by Washingtons move toward a rapprochement with Iran as it seeks an agreement to limit Tehrans nuclear program. The Saudis were also angered by Obamas decision to hold back from using military force against Syria another regional adversary over its use of chemical weapons.

Ontario police officer hurt after courthouse shooting

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 10:20 AM PDT

Official said shooting in Brampton occurred inside courthouse, and that the Special Investigations Unit were on scene

A police officer has been injured after shots were fired at a court house just outside of Toronto, police said Friday.

Peel regional police colour sergeant Fiona Thivierge said the shooting occurred within the courthouse, but said that the Special Investigations Unit has been called in and police are not allowed to provide any more information.

French far-right Front National party on brink of power in Avignon

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 09:32 AM PDT

Provençal city faces up to prospect of FN future after party's candidate comes top in first round

There has been little dancing on the celebrated Pont d'Avignon of late. Since Monday morning when the historic Provençal city woke up to find that it was facing a future under the far-right Front National party, there has been a sense of shock, stupefaction and among those who voted for the party of Marine Le Pen quiet, but not yet triumphant satisfaction. The party still needs to win Sunday's second round to win power here. But already the shockwaves are reverberating.

The director of the internationally acclaimed Avignon festival threatened to resign or move the event elsewhere. "I cannot work with a mairie that is FN," Olivier Py told the Guardian. "I cannot give the party its cultural legitimacy and I will not validate its ideas. It would be a profound betrayal of the founders of the festival. If the FN wins on Sunday, either I leave or the festival moves somewhere else."

Morsi's overthrow helps Egypt's pork farmers get their sizzle back

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 09:21 AM PDT

Coptic Christian breeders enjoy surge in sales but pig farming still illegal and recovering from 2009 swine flu cull

The overthrow of Mohamed Morsi last year did little to help Egypt's economy. But for the butchers and pig breeders of the slums around Cairo, it has been an unexpected fillip.

Five months ago, pork was so scarce in Cairo that a butcher like Bishoy Samir sold pig meat just twice a month. Now Samir reckons he sells an entire pig's worth of pork every day.


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