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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says a number of "options are on the table" if Indonesia proceeds with its plan to execute the two Australians convicted of drug trafficking but has ruled out flying to Jakarta to make a personal intervention, saying it would be "counter productive". |
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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says a number of "options are on the table" if Indonesia proceeds with its plan to execute the two Australians convicted of drug trafficking but has ruled out flying to Jakarta to make a personal intervention, saying it would be "counter productive". |
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BUT diplomats have talked her out of the move, advising it could do more harm than good. "I'm told that if I flew to Jakarta at this time it could potentially be counterproductive - it could precipitate an unfavourable outcome," she told ABC radio on Monday. "What we must do is continue to press behind the scenes. |
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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has considered a last-minute mercy dash to Indonesia to personally plead for the lives of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. But diplomats have talked her out of the move, advising it could do more harm than good. "I'm told that if I flew to Jakarta at this time it could.... |
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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has considered a last-minute mercy dash to Indonesia to personally plead for the lives of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. But diplomats have talked her out of the move, advising it could do more harm than good. "I'm told that if I flew to Jakarta at this time it could.... |
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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has considered a last-minute mercy dash to Indonesia to personally plead for the lives of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. But diplomats have talked her out of the move, advising it could do more harm than good. "I'm told that if I flew to Jakarta at this time it could.... |
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Rome.- Pope Francis called today from the Vatican the new cardinals of the Catholic Church to be open before any situation, not condemn anybody eternally and advocate for a religious institution that is ever more merciful and compassionate. He also remembered the figure of Jesus Christ, who in his.... |
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VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Francis on Sunday exhorted 20 new cardinals to reach out to all those who have been shunned, physically or spiritually, by the church or society. Celebrating Mass in St Peter's Basilica with the men he installed as cardinals a day earlier, Francis told them that their mission.... |
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By Chuks Iloegbunam. Comments 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. |
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In part two of Legends of Carnival, Nasser Khan takes a broad look at the steelpan and calypso art forms and some of their major pioneers and exponents. These art forms make up the triumvirate of the major components of T&T’s world-famous Carnival. The first part of this series last week featured.... |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The youngest priest in the Diocese of Baton Rouge has a few confessions about his faith and his music: He didn't like the Catholic Church as a youth, tried for years to run from his calling as a priest, and doesn't want to be known only as the "Rapping Priest." The Rev. |
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