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Foreign minister Julie Bishop has urged relatives or friends to blow the whistle on anyone taking children abroad to undergo female genital mutilation. The Australian Federal Police is investigating reports of a Brisbane girl being taken from her home to undergo genital mutilation in Africa. |
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The trio are overdue from an attempt on the summit of the country’s highest peak. Searchers believe the weather will remain poor until New Year’s Day, preventing a search for the trio from resuming. Police have named them as Michael Bishop, 53, from Sydney, and Raphael Viellehner, 58, and his son Johann, 27. |
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Margaret Aspinall. Photograph: Liverpool FC via Getty Images. Mrs Margaret Mary Aspinall. Chair, Hillsborough Family Support Group, Liverpool. For services to Bereaved Hillsborough Families. (Liverpool, Merseyside) His Honour Judge Brian John Barker. QC, Recorder of London. For services to the Administration of Justice and to charity. |
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It is hoped two Germans and an Australian missing on New Zealand’s highest mountain, Aoraki/Mount Cook, have dug themselves a shelter and are sitting out a storm hitting the mountain. The trio are overdue from an attempt on the summit and searchers fear the weather won’t clear until New Year’s Day to allow an aerial search to recommence. |
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It is hoped an Australian doctor and a German father and son missing on Aoraki/Mt Cook have dug themselves shelter to sit out a storm hitting the mountain. The trio are overdue from an attempt on the summit of the country's highest peak. Searchers believe the weather will remain poor until New.... |
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By NICOLE BURROWS. I S it not bad enough that, as a country, we tend to exhibit a copycat, plagiarising, uninventive mindset? Now we have to cement that in place? I’m not even a Junkanoo rat; this isn’t about my love affair with Junkanoo. You won’t find me spinning on my head in Rawson Square on Boxing Day or New Year’s Day. |
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But on Monday, as the audience was just settling in, Stipe walked unannounced onto the stage sporting a stocking cap, suit-and-tie and gray stubble. The occasion was the 68th birthday of the rock icon Patti Smith, who not only roused Stipe from semi-retirement but has planned an active year ahead including a sequel to her acclaimed memoir. |
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An in-brief look at some of the most significant news events of the last 12 months, in chronological order: JANUARY. 1 — Colorado becomes the first U.S. state to allow recreational marijuana sales to adults at licensed pot stores. Washington state followed suit in July. |
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An in-brief look at some of the most significant news events of the last 12 months, in chronological order: JANUARY. 1 — Colorado becomes the first U.S. state to allow recreational marijuana sales to adults at licensed pot stores. Washington state followed suit in July. |
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REUTERS/James Akena (UGANDA) People gather around teenage girls from Uganda's Sebei tribe who have just undergone female genital mutilation in Bukwa district, about 357 kms (214 miles) northeast of Kampala, December 15, 2008. The ceremony was to initiate the teenage girls into womanhood according to Sebei traditional rites. |
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NNA - Presidential vacuum and the extension of the House of Parliament’s tenure are the two main events that rocked Lebanon’s political scene in 2014. At the security level, a number of military men got kidnapped by a group of terrorists after the Lebanese Army succeeded in foiling a terrorist scheme to control Arsal and Tripoli. |
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