Western Australia's Premier Colin Barnett has raised the stakes in his battle over the GST, warning WA will be less generous to other states if it does not receive a bigger share. The warning comes as Prime Minister Tony Abbott also ramps up the pressure on state leaders to show more sympathy to the.... |
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By Katell PRIGENT (AFP) 14 hours ago in World France said Wednesday it stood by its choice to send a gay diplomat to the Vatican despite three months of silence from the Holy See over the appointment.
Paris has had no news on whether Laurent Stefanini, an openly gay Catholic, has been accepted to serve as its ambassador to the papal state. |
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is ramping up pressure on other states to give Western Australia a bigger share of the GST take, warning they would be screaming "blue bloody murder" if their own budgets were suffering. Treasurer Joe Hockey is weighing up his options for next year's distribution of the.... |
In its bid and continued efforts to building lives and restoring hope by supporting victims and vulnerable people of domestic violence and abuse, Against All Odds Still Standing Charity (AOS) will be hosting its annual Anniversary Fundraising Dinner Ball at the Dartford Bridge, Hilton Hotel in Kent UK on April 25, 2015. |
The spokesperson for a group of matai who have lodged a complaint with the Asian Development Bank (A.D.B) over the government’s plan for customary land in Samoa has rejected the claims by the Team Leader and Project Manager for the A.D.B TA in Samoa, Hinauri Petana. In an email to the Samoa Observer yesterday, Fiu Mataese Elisara, said Ms. |
. Irish Sun (IANS) Thursday 16th April, 2015. Pope Francis on Wednesday gave a special greeting to members of the family of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed, Vatican Radio reported. Francis greeted Bibi's husband and daughter and.... |
Fort Lauderdale Police Officer Sgt. Al Lerner asks people to move back so they can speak with Arnold Abbott, a 90-year-old chef , who was feeding homeless in violation of a recently passed city law on November 12, 2014 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The city said they passed the ordinance for sanitary and security reason, but Mr. |
BY HARUT SASSOUNIAN. Given the candidness of Pope Francis, it was not surprising that he clearly acknowledged the Armenian Genocide during the Pontifical Divine Liturgy at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on April 12. The only person who was clueless about the Pope’s true intentions was Mehmet.... |
Suspected FARC guerrillas killed 10 soldiers and injured 20 others in a pre-dawn attack in western Colombia on Wednesday prompting President Juan Manuel Santos to order a resumption of air strikes against the rebels. The attack in a remote mountainous area in Cauca province was one of the deadliest.... |
IN the late '50s and early '60s, the best live music and the musicians that played the latest hits of the swing era met and jammed every week in the crypt. The cavernous hall situated under the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Suva was home, one night a week, to bebop, swing and jazz music courtesy of the best in the business. |
A senior military official said the infantry troops were ambushed by FARC rebels as they conducted a patrol in an area considered a FARC stronghold. "They were attacked with explosives, grenades and firearms," Brigadier General Mario Augusto Valencia, the commander of the army's Third Division, told reporters. |
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