Cooler weather forecast for this week is expected to help bring blazes across New South Wales under control. About a hundred fires are burning with residents in the central west townships of Kandos and Rylstone still on alert. But the weather bureau

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A boat carrying 34 asylum seekers and 4 crew has reached Australian waters. The navy intercepted the boat yesterday and they will be taken to the Christmas Island detention center. Meanwhile there is no end in sight to the stand-off involving 78 asyl

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The double bomb blast in Iraq has increased fears there'll be more violence ahead of elections in January. At least one hundred people are dead and more than five hundred injured after two car bombs exploded only minutes apart near government buildin

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Three Indonesian crew members rescued from last week's shipwreck off Christmas Island are close to being charged. Australian Federal Police have already questioned the men, but they won't comment on whether any charges could include manslaughter. In

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A group of asylum seekers is refusing to leave the roof of the Villawood Detention Centre following the death of a fellow detainee. Eleven men say they won't come down unless authorities agree to review their asylum applications. The Immigration Depa

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Burmese officials say democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be released from detention next month as scheduled. Her lawyers say she is yet to be told. And they remain skeptical that this will actually happen. The Nobel Peace laureate won the country

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Mining giant Rio Tinto says the jailing of four employees, including Australian Stern Hu won't affect its relationship with China. Hu and three colleagues were found guilty of commercial spying and bribery yesterday. Stern Hu's received a 10-year sen

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The Federal Government's confirmed that four detainees have escaped Sydney's Villawood detention centre in the last month. All four have since been recaptured and the Government says security is now tighter. Another 90 asylum seekers will move to Vil

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A small plane carrying aid to the quake-hit Chilean city of Concepcion has crashed killing six people. Meanwhile the Australian government will donate a million dollars towards the emergency response to the earthquake and tsunami. At least 720 people

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Australian citizen Stern Hu and three other Rio Tinto employees will stand trial in China charged with stealing commercial secrets and accepting bribes. It's alleged they used improper means to obtain secrets and bribes from several Chinese steel fir

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Greece's new prime minister has called on Greeks to unite to solve the country's economic problems. Lucas Papademos has been chosen to lead the new coalition government after four days of haggling. The government's first task is going to be to ratify

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There are growing signs the uprising in Syria could be sliding into armed conflict. Army defectors have destroyed part of an air force base near the capital Damascus. Arab League nations meeting in Morocco have carried out their threat to suspend Syr

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Qantas and the Federal Government have welcomed that ruling by Fair Work Australia to terminate all industrial action by the airline and the unions after a marathon hearing in Melbourne. The ruling means all parties now have 21 days to negotiate a se

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US President Barack Obama isnt backing away from his call for Middle East peace negotiations based on those 1967 borders. But the president is trying to get Israel back on side. Hes told a powerful pro-Israeli lobby in Washington that the proposal is

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The Federal Government is about to do a deal with Papua New Guinea to reopen the Manus Island Detention Centre. Australian authorities have already toured the site and PNGs cabinet is likely to sign up on the deal today. The centre had been part of t

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Sydney police have charged the mother and stepfather of a six-year-old girl who went missing from her Mount Druitt home last year. The police arrested the pair early this morning. The couple is expected to face court later today. The Federal Governme

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The Federal Government is promising millions of people will be better-off under its carbon tax plan, but isn't saying how many will be worse-off. The Climate Change Minister Greg Combet says more than half the revenue from the carbon tax will be used

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Japan is fighting to avert a nuclear disaster as it tries to stabilise a third reactor. Operators are now struggling to keep fuel rods in a third nuclear reactor from melting down. Officials are reassuring the Japanese public there won't be a Chernob

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Thousands of police in Ukraine are doing battle against 20,000 protesters after at least 13 people were killed in street clashes earlier in the day. Police dismantled some of the barricades in Independence Square, the epicenter of nearly 3 months of

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Separated Families Win Small Victory from US Court A U.S. federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to stop immediate deportations of immigrant families. The order, which is enforced until at least July 24, would give families time to decide

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