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Since last Monday’s motion for a leadership spill was defeated, bookies have backed in Mr Turnbull from $1.60 to $1.45 to be Prime Minister before the next election. “We can’t write a bet for Mr Abbott to still be in charge come election time and his odds have blown from $2. |
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By Chuks Iloegbunam Wole Soyinka knows that, in linguistics, there is something called register.Yet, while addressing students at a recent Lagos gathering, the Nobel laureate employed an elevated language suitable for addressing an international literary convention. Why? The answer must be found in the acute dilemma Soyinka found himself in. |
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Pope Francis celebrates a mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, February 15, 2015. Reuters.
Pope Francis spoke candidly Monday, condemning the murder of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya by militants from the Islamic State. Speaking at a meeting with an ecumenical delegation from.... |
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Andreas Solaro—AFP/Getty Images Pope Francis leads a mass on February 15, 2015 at St. Peter's basilica in Vatican. 'The blood of our Christian brothers is a witness that cries out' Pope Francis on Monday condemned the killing of 21 Coptic Christians hostages in Libya by militants affiliated with the.... |
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By Laura Larkin – 16 February 2015 12:51 PM COMEDIAN Jason Byrne may have a string of TV shows behind him but his very first payday resulted in a just packet of crisps and a Coke.
The funnyman has revealed that as a teen his first job was collecting trolleys in Superquinn in Balinteer. |
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THEY’VE had their problems, God knows, but priests may be the last public figures who can still say exactly what they think. Take Fr Michael King, who made national headlines because he was in the middle of the traveller wedding shooting. Matilda McGinley (17) and 16-year-old Jimmy Connors had a.... |
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CAIRO Egypt said Monday it has launched airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Libya after the extremist group released a grisly video showing the beheading of several Coptic Christians it had held hostage for weeks. A spokesman for the Armed Forces General Command announced the strikes on.... |
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There is one human rights commissioner who should get the sack. And it's not president Gillian Triggs, a former dean of law at the University of Sydney, who has come under sustained attack from the Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his News Ltd cheer squad since the Wednesday launch of her report on children in detention. |
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There is one human rights commissioner who should get the sack. And it's not president Gillian Triggs, a former dean of law at the University of Sydney, who has come under sustained attack from the Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his News Ltd cheer squad since the Wednesday launch of her report on children in detention. |
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The Whitewell Tabernacle in Belfast is holding a ‘This Was Your Life’ celebration on Monday night to mark 60 years of ministry by founding pastor Jim McConnell. Pastor McConnell, who hit international headlines last year after controversial comments about Islam, said that he had started the current.... |
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The council had been competing for superiority with another militant group, the Abu Salem Brigade, some of whose fighters' loyalties lay with al Qaeda, according to Noman Benotman, a former Libyan jihadist now involved in counter-terrorism for the Quilliam Foundation. Al Qaeda's top envoy in Libya, Abdulbasit Azuz, left Derna after U. |
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