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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Thirty-five years after he was gunned down by a right-wing death squad as he celebrated Mass, Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero moved a step closer to possible sainthood Tuesday when Pope Francis declared he was a martyr killed out of hatred for his Catholic faith. |
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West Australian backbencher Dennis Jensen has called for the party to move to oust Mr Abbott, while Queensland MPs Warren Entsch and Mal Brough want the leadership issue resolved. Senator Cormann warned the backbenchers against risking the fate of the previous Labor government. |
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is facing a growing backbench rebellion, with three MPs calling for a vote on his leadership. One Liberal MP, Dennis Jensen, has publicly called on the prime minister to step down. Questions over Mr Abbott's leadership have grown amid a popularity slump and a.... |
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CANBERRA: It has been another forgettable day for Australian prime minister Tony Abbott, with several backbench MPs calling for a change of leadership on Tuesday evening. Western Australian Liberal MP Dennis Jensen became the first to publicly request Abbott’s resignation, before Queensland Liberal.... |
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Tony Abbott has received an official report into the Martin Place siege and has pledged to release it by the end of the month. The prime minister says the head of his department delivered the report to him on Wednesday morning. "We will carefully digest this report," Mr Abbott told Macquarie Radio in Sydney. |
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THE prime minister could face a challenge as early as next week after three of his MPs publicly broke ranks to disavow their leader. West Australian backbencher Dennis Jensen has told Mr Abbott he no longer has his support while Queenslanders Warren Entsch and Mal Brough say they want the leadership issue resolved. |
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Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre will try to convince Pope Francis to visit Montreal in 2017 when the city celebrates its 375th birthday, Radio-Canada has learned. In an interview from Rome, Coderre told Radio-Canada he will meet with the leader of the Catholic Church Wednesday morning. |
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero while he was saying Mass in San Salvador on March 24, 1980, came at the beginning of the country's 12-year civil war between a right-wing government and leftist rebels — a conflict that claimed nearly 75,000 lives. No one was ever put on trial for Romero's death. |
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Prime minister Tony Abbott's leadership of the Liberal Party is now terminal, former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett says. Mr Kennett says the Abbott government should bring on a spill of leadership positions or risk derailing next month's NSW state election in a similar way to Queensland. |
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Tony Abbott has received an official report into the Martin Place siege and has pledged to release it by the end of the month. The prime minister says the head of his department delivered the report to him on Wednesday morning. "We will carefully digest this report," Mr Abbott told Macquarie Radio in Sydney. |
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The PM now has a strong chance to tough out the remarkable attack on his authority just halfway through his first term in office because no one has yet put their hand up to take him on. Mr Abbott continues to rank below some of his colleagues as preferred Prime Minister in opinion polls but his.... |
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