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APEC leaders dilute carbon targets
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...1 day ago -
Nelson Mandela
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Mandela, born in 1918, South African activist, winner of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, and the first black president of South Africa (1994-1999). Born in Umtata, South Africa, in what is now Eastern Cape province, Mandela was the son of a Xhosa-speaking Thembu chief. He attended the University of Fort Hare in Alice ...4 days ago -
“I Decided That I Will Leave Liberia For The Sake Of Peace,” Taylor Tells Special Court For Sierra Leone
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Charles Taylor decided to leave the Liberian presidency for asylum in Nigeria because he wanted peace in his West African homeland, he today told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges in The Hague.“I decided that I will leave for the sake of peace,” the accused former Liberian president said.In August [...]5 days ago -
“I Decided That I Will Leave Liberia For The Sake Of Peace,” Taylor Tells Special Court For Sierra Leone
The Trial of Charles Taylor —
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Charles Taylor decided to leave the Liberian presidency for asylum in Nigeria because he wanted peace in his West African homeland, he today told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges in The Hague.“I decided that I will leave for the sake of peace,” the accused former Liberian president said.In August [...]5 days ago -
YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder
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A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...1 week ago -
Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death
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Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...1 week ago -
Old and New Trade Colonialism in Africa: a tactic with no benefit to Africans
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In the spirit of supporting and justifying further colonial efforts in Africa, there have been some arguments as to why colonialism has done Africa a lot of good. In reality, global trade has not benefited African people. They have been used in the grand globalization of trade by way of being source of raw materials ...2 weeks ago -
Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual
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This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...3 weeks ago -
6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge
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Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...3 weeks ago -
Australia faces famine, expert warns
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A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...3 weeks ago -
Swindler Madoff king of ‘wild sex and drug parties’
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Convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff presided over an office fuelled by sex and drugs, with wild late night parties that included topless entertainers, a lawsuit said. His "affinity for escorts, masseuses, and attractive female employees was well known in the office culture," said the suit which was filed in ...3 weeks ago -
Sailor remembered for ‘living twice as hard’
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Sailing veteran Andrew Short is being remembered as a brave adventurer, a keen businessman and a devoted father at his funeral in Sydney. More than 2,500 people have gathered at the service at St Marys Cathedral to farewell the 48-year-old sailing veteran who was killed when his yacht ran aground during a night race ...3 weeks ago -
Brimble jury split on Wilhelm verdict
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The jury in the Sydney trial of a man accused of killing cruise ship passenger Dianne Brimble has reached a verdict on one of two charges. Mark Wilhelm, 37, was charged with manslaughter and supplying a prohibited drug after Ms Brimbles body was found in his cabin on board the Pacific Sky cruise ship in September ...3 weeks ago -
Pakistan army advances on Taliban
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The Pakistani military has suffered its first casualties in the opening exchanges of a major offensive launched against Taliban militants in their stronghold of South Waziristan. Four soldiers were killed and a dozen wounded as about 30,000 troops supported by tanks, artillery , fighter jets and helicopter gunships ...4 weeks ago -
Zimbabwe’s latest crisis: Tsvangirai Boycotts Unity Government with Mugabe
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Zimbabwe is witnessing yet another controversy in its very difficult political climate after the recent arrest of Roy Bennett, the Movement For Democratic Change treasurer and deputy agriculture minister-designate who stands trial for three-year-old terrorism charges. “They just assume the protagonists can manage ...4 weeks ago -
Consumers push to penalise tardy telcos
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If you have ever stayed home all day to wait for that telephone repair technician who never turned up, you may have wanted some redress. Now a new consumer advocacy group has called on the Federal Government to make telcos pay automatic compensation payments to consumers when workers are late or fail to show up. The ...4 weeks ago -
Wrongful detention was ’serious error’
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Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith has described the three year wrongful detention of a Vietnamese man as a "serious administrative error". Van Phuc Nguyen was detained in 2002 and held in Sydneys Villawood Detention Centre for more than three years. He is a permanent resident of Australia but immigration ...6 weeks ago
