BRISBANE City Council has let a site to an Audi motor car dealer after purchasing the property for $17 million and evicting the existing Audi dealer.
THE State Government will divide a whopping 5000sq km of Cape York land into a mix of national park, Aboriginal land and nature reserves.
BRISBANE City Council has let a site to an Audi motor car dealer after purchasing the property for $17 million and evicting the existing Audi dealer.
THE State Government will divide a whopping 5000sq km of Cape York land into a mix of national park, Aboriginal land and nature reserves.
French President Francois Hollande has said France will supply arms to Iraq's Kurdish forces. Source: AAP
FRANCE will send arms to Kurdish forces in Iraq to support their fight against radicals of the Islamic State group, French President Francois Hollande announced.
A STATEMENT Hollande's office said the arms shipment will be delivered "in the coming hours" and has been agreed with authorities in Baghdad.
Citing the "catastrophic" situation in Iraqi Kurdistan, it added that "mobilisation in support of Kurdistan and of all Iraq must continue."The statement did not specify what weapons France was sending.The surprise announcement comes as the United States has also increased its role in fighting back Sunni extremists of the Islamic State group that is threatening the autonomous Kurdish region in the north of Iraq. Senior American officials say US intelligence agencies are directly arming the Kurds who are battling the militants, which would be a shift in Washington's policy of only working through the central government in Baghdad.Other European leaders were also feeling the pressure to respond to the emergency. France called earlier this week for an urgent meeting of European Union foreign ministers to consider Kurdish requests for arms and an aid airlift to northern Iraq.Earlier on Wednesday, France had pledged to deliver a second shipment of humanitarian aid to northern Iraq in a bid to help religious minorities persecuted by advancing radicals.The foreign ministry said in a statement the airlift of 20 tonnes of medicine, tents and water treatment material will arrive in the Iraqi Kurdish capital, Irbil later on Wednesday.The shipment is enough to provide assistance to 50,000 people, it said, and it pledged further operations in the coming days "to aid populations in serious danger."On Sunday French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius travelled to Irbil to deliver an initial shipment of aid. France has taken a strong stance on the need to protect Christians and other minorities being persecuted in northern Iraq.THE former live-in caretaker of a Pittsburgh-area mansion has died, ending criminal charges that he drank more than $US102,000 ($A110,360) worth of old whiskey that he was supposed to be guarding.
A DISTRICT judge last year ordered 63-year-old John Saunders, of Irwin, to stand trial after hearing testimony from the owner of the South Broadway Manor Bed and Breakfast.
But Saunders reportedly died July 21, ending the case.The mansion's owner had claimed she found nine 12-bottle cases of whiskey hidden in the century-old mansion built by industrialist J.P. Brennan after she bought it in 2012.The whiskey was produced in the early 1900s and was appraised at more than $US2,000 a bottle. Saunders was charged after the owner discovered 52 empty bottles on which police found DNA from Saunders' saliva.
BRISBANE City Council has let a site to an Audi motor car dealer after purchasing the property for $17 million and evicting the existing Audi dealer.
THE State Government will divide a whopping 5000sq km of Cape York land into a mix of national park, Aboriginal land and nature reserves.
BRISBANE City Council has let a site to an Audi motor car dealer after purchasing the property for $17 million and evicting the existing Audi dealer.
THE State Government will divide a whopping 5000sq km of Cape York land into a mix of national park, Aboriginal land and nature reserves.
BRISBANE City Council has let a site to an Audi motor car dealer after purchasing the property for $17 million and evicting the existing Audi dealer.
THE State Government will divide a whopping 5000sq km of Cape York land into a mix of national park, Aboriginal land and nature reserves.
