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Australia, US are setting global example in fight against homophobia

Posted: 17 May 2014 01:01 AM PDT

US ambassador John Berry says the two countries have achieved great advances for their LGBT communities

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Search of sunken Bangladesh ferry called off after only 40 bodies found

Posted: 16 May 2014 11:57 PM PDT

Families of missing angry and distressed as about 90 passengers lost in the storm are still not accounted for

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North Korean singer rumoured to have been executed appears on TV

Posted: 16 May 2014 11:55 PM PDT

Death of Hyon Song-wol, supposedly the former girlfriend of Kim Jong-un, was reported in Japan and South Korea

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Chris Bowen describes plan for GPs in hospitals as 'extraordinary'

Posted: 16 May 2014 10:20 PM PDT

New South Wales health minister Jillian Skinner suggests shifting patient care costs back to the commonwealth

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Manus Island violence: G4S blames multiple agencies and absolves itself

Posted: 16 May 2014 09:24 PM PDT

Company points to slow processing, poor fencing, inadequate staffing and aggression of the PNG police and asylum seekers

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Student protesters guilty of assault on Julie Bishop, claims Christopher Pyne

Posted: 16 May 2014 08:31 PM PDT

Behaviour of students protesting against proposed cuts to higher education funding 'incomprehensible', he says

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Royal commission into family violence promise by Victorian Labor party

Posted: 16 May 2014 07:35 PM PDT

Opposition leader Daniel Andrews says issue is a national emergency: it fails to protect the vulnerable, punish the guilty

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US judge temporarily halts Guantánamo force-feeding

Posted: 16 May 2014 07:30 PM PDT

Breakthrough legal ruling prevents Syrian prisoner on hunger strike being force-fed until a hearing on Wednesday

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Michelle Obama urges students to fight discrimination 'in hearts and minds'

Posted: 16 May 2014 06:48 PM PDT

Speaking on the anniversary of Brown v Board of Education, first lady says changing laws alone is not enough

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Up to 500 coal mining jobs in Hunter Valley under threat, union says

Posted: 16 May 2014 06:19 PM PDT

Workers at two mines near Singleton were warned about the looming cuts on Friday, with a final decision set for next week

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British-born man arrested in Sudan after bomb blasts killed 105 in Nigeria

Posted: 16 May 2014 04:27 PM PDT

Former Nigerian soldier Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche suspected of being a ringleader of Islamist militants Boko Haram Continue reading...






Tasmanian forests: Coalition rebuffed over proposal to cut world heritage area

Posted: 16 May 2014 04:12 PM PDT

Recommendation to World Heritage Committee flatly rejects government's bid to excise 74,000 hectares

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Arizona church gives sanctuary to migrant facing deportation

Posted: 16 May 2014 02:27 PM PDT

Southside Presbyterian Church hosts man for fourth day
Daniel Noyoy Ruiz tells Guardian: 'We are grateful'

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Anheuser-Busch cleared by jury in gender discrimination lawsuit

Posted: 16 May 2014 02:08 PM PDT

Executive Francine Katz had sued beer-maker claiming she earned significantly less than her male predecessor

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Holder renews call for immigration reform on Brown v Board anniversary

Posted: 16 May 2014 01:45 PM PDT

Attorney general says 'the fight goes on', sixty years after historic judgment outlawed separation of white and black school pupils

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Viktor Sukhodrev, interpreter at key Soviet-US summits, dies at 81

Posted: 16 May 2014 01:36 PM PDT

Sukhodrev translated for presidents and leaders at meetings beginning with Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit to the US Continue reading...






Top Veterans Affairs doctor resigns as scandal claims first victim

Posted: 16 May 2014 01:28 PM PDT

Dr Robert Petzel was due to retire this summer
VA secretary Eric Shinseki under pressure

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Idaho gay marriage supporters flock to Boise courthouse to celebrate progress

Posted: 16 May 2014 12:56 PM PDT

Gay rights supporters rally in state capital despite ruling allowing same-sex marriages to go ahead being put on hold

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Watergate conspirator Jeb Stuart Magruder dies at 79

Posted: 16 May 2014 12:53 PM PDT

Former Nixon aide spent seven months in prison
Claimed in 2008 interview president ordered infamous break-in

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House Republicans prevent vote on Enlist immigration bill

Posted: 16 May 2014 12:25 PM PDT

GOP representative behind bill to reward military service
Block is latest against attempts for immigration reform

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Narendra Modi's landslide victory shatters Congress's grip on India

Posted: 16 May 2014 12:05 PM PDT

Historic election victory for Modi's Bharatiya Janata party transforms political landscape of world's largest democracy Continue reading...






Jean-Luc Dehaene obituary

Posted: 16 May 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Belgian prime minister and EU federalist with a forte for negotiation Continue reading...






Garry Kasparov tries to unseat Russian who has ruled world chess for 18 years

Posted: 16 May 2014 11:36 AM PDT

Former world champion stands against Kirsan Ilyumzhinov who has upset many because of his links to dictators and aliens Continue reading...






65-year-old man accused of blasphemy shot dead in Pakistani police station

Posted: 16 May 2014 11:32 AM PDT

Rights activists claim the attack is evidence of rising intolerance against the minority Ahmadi community Continue reading...






Turkey mine disaster: police use riot tactics at protests about mine safety

Posted: 16 May 2014 11:08 AM PDT

Teargas and plastic bullets used on protesters at scene of worst industrial accident amid anger at PM's offhand remarks towards victims Continue reading...








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