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Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he will not be joining Queensland Premier Campbell Newman on the state election campaign. Tony Abbott has stayed away from Queensland, while Federal Opposition leader Bill Shorten and other federal frontbenchers have been joining Queensland Labor leader Annastacia Palaszczuk on the hustings. |
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott has left open the possibility of Australia withdrawing its ambassador to Indonesia if the execution of Bali nine members Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan goes ahead. Mr Abbott on Tuesday confirmed he had personally lobbied Indonesian President Joko Widodo on behalf of the.... |
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Mercy must be part of every justice system, Tony Abbott said, as he renewed calls for Indonesia to spare the lives of two Australians sentenced to death for drug offences. The Australian prime minister said Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan had displayed genuine remorse and he hoped the Indonesian government took account of their rehabilitation. |
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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Pope Francis, who pledged on the day of his installation as pontiff to make the environment a priority, is drafting a highly anticipated encyclical on ecology and climate change. Environmentalists are thrilled by the prospect of a rock-star pope putting his moral weight behind efforts to curb global warming. |
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A day after Pope Francis left the Philippines, lots of trash of pilgrims who attended the concluding Mass of his visit still littered the LUneta Park, including the Quirino Grandstand Tuesday morning.
Some of the trash was also left near the barriers set up to keep a distance between well-wishers and the pope. |
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Nigerian Islamist militants killed three people and abducted at least 50 others including women and children in neighboring Cameroon Sunday, a government spokesman said. The Boko Haram group invaded the northern town of Mokolo after an exchange of fire with Cameroonian defense forces, Communications.... |
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We reprint our sober assessment of MLK from 2009 because we don’t think it can be significantly improved. Forty years after his death, the popularity of Martin Luther King remains extraordinary. He is perhaps the single most praised person in American history, and millions adore him as a hero and almost a saint. |
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Bali Nine: Tony Abbott repeats appeal to Indonesia to show mercy to Australians on death row.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has again called on the Indonesian president to show mercy for two Australian men facing the death penalty. On the weekend Indonesia executed six convicted drug smugglers by firing squad - five of them foreign nationals. |
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Following an aircraft accident there last weekend, the Tacloban Airport was cleared for normal aircraft operations Tuesday.
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines issued a notice at 3:37 a.m. indicating the airport's status, radio dzBB reported. |
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. January 19, 2015 by RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service. A huge crowd turned out in the capital of Russia's tightly controlled, mostly Muslim Chechnya region for a state-sponsored demonstration against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader assailed the West in speeches.... |
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by Xinhua writer Huang Yinjiazi. BEIJING, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Radio France Internationale (RFI) made wrongful accusations against Chinese media in its programs for discussing limits to freedom of speech after the terrorist attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, in a show of unjustifiable pride and prejudice. |
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