Syria deputy FM travels to Moscow

THE Syrian deputy foreign minister, Faisal Muqdad, was headed for Moscow, an airport source in Beirut told AFP, amid reports of a US-Russian initiative for a transition in Syria. The Syrian deputy foreign minister, Faisal Muqdad, was headed...

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UAE busts Saudi-Emirati 'terror' cell

UAE authorities have announced busting a cell of Saudi and Emirati members plotting "terror" attacks in the two countries and other states. The suspects "imported material and equipment with the aim of committing terror acts," said an official...

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Tube strike can't stop London shoppers

STRIKE action has heavily disrupted London's Underground train network, as hundreds of thousands of bargain hunters headed to the shops for the traditional Boxing Day sales. All 13 of the Tube lines were running a reduced service after just...

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National holiday road toll reaches 17

AUSTRALIA'S national road toll stands at 17 after a man was killed in a single car accident in Western Australia. Perth Now reports the man died when his car flipped on the North West Coastal Highway at Yannarie, which is about 1200km north...

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US stocks up ahead of 'fiscal cliff' talks

US stocks have opened slightly higher, as President Barack Obama heads back to Washington to try to secure a year-end "fiscal cliff" deal with Republican lawmakers. In roughly the first 15 minutes of trade on Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial...

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Spain seizes 11 tonnes of hashish

SPANISH police have seized 11 tonnes of hashish smuggled from Morocco on trucks with fuel tanks rigged to hide the drugs and arrested 35 people in what has been described as the breakup of a major smuggling ring feeding the European market. The...

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Oil rises on housing data

THE price of oil is rising sharply on higher US home prices and hopes of a budget deal in Washington. US benchmark crude jumped $2.31, or 2.6 per cent, to $90.92 a barrel overnight in thin post-Christmas trading. US home prices rose in most...

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Russia parliament says no to US adoptions

RUSSIA'S lower house of parliament has given key support to a bill banning Americans from adopting children, resulting in a huge outcry from rights groups. The bill, which came in retaliation for a US measure that punishes Russia for its rights...

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Iraqi leader set for German hospital

KURDISH officials say Iraqi President Jalal Talabani will be flown to Germany for further treatment after suffering a stroke earlier this week. Medical experts from Germany and other countries began arriving on Wednesday to assess the 79-year-old...

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Outrage grows in India over bus gang-rape

THE hours-long gang-rape and near-fatal beating of a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi has triggered outrage and anger across the country as Indians demand action from authorities who have long ignored persistent violence and harassment against...

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US stocks mainly lower

US stocks have drifted mostly lower in early trade as investors eye Washington's budget impasse amid a looming deadline. In the first 30 minutes of trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 9.82 points (0.07 per cent) at 13,341.14. The broad-market...

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Dictator's daughter new SKorea president

SOUTH Korea has elected its first female president, handing a slim but historic victory to conservative ruling party candidate Park Geun-Hye, daughter of the country's former military ruler. As leader of Asia's fourth-largest economy, Park, 60,...

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Minogue and Donovan on stage for duet

KYLIE Minogue and Jason Donovan will end more than two decades of anticipation in London this week when they team up on stage for the first live performance of their number one hit, Especially For You. The former Ramsay Street sweethearts will...

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Pakistan: 8 polio workers killed in 2 days

GUNMEN have shot dead a woman working on UN-backed polio vaccination efforts and her driver in northwestern Pakistan, officials say, raising to eight the number of people killed in the last 48 hours who were part of the immunisation drive. The...

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'Serious differences' in fiscal stand-off:

THE White House and politicians have yet to reach a deal on averting a looming fiscal crisis, with the top Republican in Congress warning on Wednesday that "serious differences" remain on how to further reduce the debt. "We don't have an agreement...

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NKoreans hail rocket launch; UN condemns

NORTH Koreans have danced in the streets to celebrate the country's first satellite in space, as world leaders in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo condemn the successful rocket launch. The UN Security Council is meeting to discuss the launch, which...

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Hey Dad! star Hughes to land in Sydney

ACTOR Robert Hughes will arrive in Sydney within hours to answer child sex abuse allegations dating back to the 1980s, when he was a Hey Dad! television star. Hughes, 64, boarded Qantas flight QF2 at London's Heathrow Airport bound for Sydney...

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Over 2 million Afghans at risk this winter

MORE than 2 million Afghans are at risk from cold, disease and malnutrition this winter as an international appeal for funds to help one of the world's poorest countries has fallen drastically short of its goal, the United Nations and several humanitarian...

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Pope hits 1m mark as he tweets

POPE Benedict XVI has hit the one million Twitter follower mark as he sent his first tweet from his new account, blessing his online fans and urging them to listen to Christ. In perhaps the most drawn out Twitter launch ever, the 85-year-old Benedict...

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German parliament allows circumcision

GERMANY'S parliament has passed a law to allow religious circumcision, clarifying the legal situation after a court said the rite amounted to grievous bodily harm in a ruling that caused international uproar. Members of the Bundestag or lower...

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Mali gets new PM

MALI'S interim president has named a replacement prime minister after soldiers behind a coup earlier this year forced out his predecessor and placed him under house arrest, provoking international condemnation. The political turmoil has deepened...

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Britain faces more austerity pain

FINANCE minister George Osborne has warned Britons that they faced an extra year of austerity measures and insisted that reversing his belt-tightening measures now would be a "disaster". Chancellor of the Exchequer Osborne said Britain would face...

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Citigroup to axe more than 11,000 jobs

CITIGROUP says it will eliminate more than 11,000 jobs. The bank says it's looking to cut expenses and improve efficiency. The company said on Wednesday that the cuts will result in about $US1 billion ($A958.91 million) in charges in the fourth...

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Cannibal mystery as Russians found in wild

RUSSIAN investigators have opened a murder case after two fishermen were rescued following three months lost in a remote far east forest amid fears the pair could have eaten a companion to stay alive, officials say. Four men disappeared in August...

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US stocks mixed in opening trade

US stocks have opened mixed after a weak November private-sector jobs report reflected the impact of the devastating superstorm Sandy. After five minutes of trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 41.62 points (0.32 per cent) at 12,993.40....

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Somali Islamists attack Puntland troops

SOMALIA'S Islamist Shebab have killed at least ten soldiers from the northern Puntland region, an area where the al-Qaeda linked militants are feared to be carving out new bases, officials say. Khalif Issa Mudan, defence minister of the semi-autonomous...

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Israel advances settlement plan

AN Israeli plan to build new settler homes in a sensitive area near Jerusalem has passed a first hurdle, sparking fury from the Palestinians, who said building there would end all hopes of peace. Israel's plan for construction in a strip of West...

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EU, US in alliance to hit web child sex

THE 27-nation European Union, the United States and a score of other countries including Australia have launched a "global alliance" to stamp out trade in online images and videos of child sexual abuse. "Child sexual abuse online is a hideous...

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Red Square bomb plotter gets 15 years

A MAN whose plot to cause carnage on Moscow's iconic Red Square was thwarted by a spam phone message has been sentenced to 15 years in jail. Ilyas Saidov, a member of an underground Islamist group, brought explosives-laden belts disguised as...

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Egypt panel poised to finish constitution

THE text of Egypt's new constitution was set to be completed later today, the drafting committee said, with the controversial document at the heart of a legal and ideological battle to be put to a subsequent vote. "The discussions over the draft...

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Cameron mum on press regulation

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron failed to offer any clues on whether he will support new more stringent regulation of Britain's press following the conclusion of a yearlong inquiry into the country's unruly tabloids. Mr Cameron got a sneak...

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Italian teacher jailed for killing rabbits

AN Italian teacher has been sentenced to eight months in prison for killing two rabbits with a hammer in front of his pupils in an anatomy class, the animal protection association LAV said on Wednesday. Carlo Rando, a trained surgeon, had ordered...

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UN vote on Palestinian status: likely yes

A LARGE majority of the 193 member states of the United Nations are expected to vote in favour of an upgraded status for the Palestinians at the world body's General Assembly on Thursday. Among the 'no' votes will figure those of Israel, and its...

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Obama, Romney to have lunch

US President Barack Obama will host his former political rival Mitt Romney for a private lunch at the White House today, their first meeting since the election. Mr Obama promised in his victory speech earlier this month to engage with Mr Romney...

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NYC nanny pleads not guilty in deaths

A NANNY accused in the stabbing deaths of two children at their upscale Manhattan home has pleaded not guilty at a hospital where she's been treated for self-inflicted stab wounds. Yoselyn Ortega, who was handcuffed to her hospital bed and wearing...

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Australian school wins global green award

A SUBURBAN Melbourne secondary school has overcome competition from Canada, the US and United Arab Emirates to win an International Green Award. Bentleigh Secondary College was named Most Sustainable Educational Institution during a ceremony...

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Blast on Tel Aviv bus as Gaza truce remain

A BLAST has ripped through a bus in Tel Aviv, injuring 17 people in what Israel says was a terrorist attack, further vexing international efforts to end relentless violence in and around Gaza. The attack came as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

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Church vote needs explanation: leader

THE Church of England has much explaining to do following its failure to vote to allow women to serve as bishops, its leader says - and politicians from the prime minister downward are already demanding action or answers. One MP even suggested...

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US stocks creep higher in opening trade

US stocks have opened slightly higher as Wall Street awaited a batch of economic data and weighed another eurozone failure to agree on a crucial aid payment for Greece. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 8.34 points (0.07 per cent) at 12,796.85...

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Argentine experts find huge penguin fossil

ARGENTINE experts have discovered fossils of a two-metre tall penguin that lived in Antarctica 34 million years ago. Paleontologists with the Natural Sciences Museum of La Plata province, where the capital Buenos Aires is located, said the remains...

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NATO receives Turkey request for Patriots

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the alliance has received a request from NATO member Turkey for a deployment of Patriot missiles to protect its troubled border with Syria. "I have received a letter from the Turkish government requesting...

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Scandal-hit US commander returns to Kabul

US General John Allen, under investigation for potentially inappropriate emails with a woman linked to a CIA sex scandal, has returned to Kabul to take up his duties as commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, his spokesman says. "He returned...

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Hamas commander killed in air strike

SENIOR Hamas military commander Ahmed al-Jaabari was killed in an Israeli air strike on a car in Gaza City overnight. "The martyr is Ahmed al-Jaabari and his bodyguard was injured," Ayman Sahabani, a doctor at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, told...

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Iraq blasts kill 19

A SPATE of apparently coordinated attacks across Iraq on the eve of a festival marking the Islamic New Year have killed 19 people and wounded more than 150 others. The 13 bombings and shootings struck in Baghdad and nine other cities, the security...

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US producer prices dip in October

US producer prices fell in October after four straight months of rises, officials say. The US Labor Department said on Wednesday the producer price index fell 0.2 per cent from September, led by a drop in energy prices of 0.5 per cent. Food...

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Pelosi set to run the House again

FORMER House speaker Nancy Pelosi said she will run to keep her job as the Democratic leader in the House. The Deomcrats will still have a minority there even as the party gained seats in the Senate and a second term for President Barack Obama....

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3 Indian troops, 2 rebels die in Kashmir

AN Indian army officer says three soldiers and two suspected rebels have been killed in a gunbattle near the heavily militarized line of control dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Lieutenant Colonel Ankur Vashist says the fighting...

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Russia loses space station contact

RUSSIA has reportedly lost the ability to send commands to most of its satellites and its segment of the International Space Station (ISS) following a power cable failure near Moscow. State news agency RIA Novosti said on Wednesday the power...

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SAfrican smuggler swallows 220 diamonds

POLICE in South Africa say they've arrested a 25-year-old man who swallowed 220 polished diamonds in an attempt to smuggle them out of the country. Captain Paul Ramaloko of the South African Police Service says investigators arrested the man...

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