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Prosecutor will not pursue a French writer's complaint of attempted rape against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn due to lack of evidence.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, crime, france
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| UpdatedAsylum seekers will be processed in Australia for the foreseeable future, but Prime Minister Julia Gillard says Labor will continue to pursue offshore processing.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedThere is new hope for the critically endangered southern bluefin tuna, with a crucial meeting voting to adopt a new management plan to allow the lucrative species to replenish.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, environment, fish, fishing-aquaculture, rural, bali, australia, indonesia
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| UpdatedTour de France winner Cadel Evans has been named the winner of The Don award for the year's most inspirational sporting moment.
Topics: sport, cycling, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA plane carrying dozens of passengers has crashed in Papua New Guinea, and most of those on board are feared dead.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, air-and-space, emergency-incidents, papua-new-guinea
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Celebratory bursts of gunfire and fireworks have lit up the skies over Tripoli as rumours spread that Libyan government fighters had captured Moamar Gaddafi's son Mo'tassim in Sirte.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, libyan-arab-jamahiriya
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| UpdatedA member of a Federal Government advisory group says even if both sides of politics want to pursue offshore processing, serious thought needs to be given to the best way to process asylum seeker claims onshore.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedThe ABC has been told it should maintain the resources required to internally produce quality programming across regional Australia in addition to news, sport and current affairs.
Topics: abc, government-and-politics, public-sector, broadcasting, information-and-communication, australia
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| UpdatedOne person is dead and cars have been swept away after severe thunderstorms swept across south-east Queensland on Thursday.
Topics: storm-event, storm-disaster, hillcrest-4118, toowoomba-4350, parkinson-4115, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedDissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been named the world's most powerful artist by influential magazine ArtReview.
Topics: visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, china, united-kingdom
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Victorian residents in the state's fire-prone areas face another fire season without bushfire refuges.
Topics: bushfire, disasters-and-accidents, fires, royal-commission-victoria-2009-bushfires, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, dandenong-3175, vic, australia, flowerdale-3717
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| UpdatedAn aviation commentator says there is no clear end to the ongoing stoush between Qantas management and the unions, as the crisis escalates into an all out war.
Topics: air-transport, unions, industrial-relations, australia, brisbane-4000, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000, adelaide-5000
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Vaccine and cancer experts in Australia have defended criticism of the country's HPV vaccination program.
Topics: vaccines-and-immunity, cervical-and-vulval-cancers, diseases-and-disorders, health, university-of-wollongong-2522
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Alice Springs police have charged two men over alleged child abuse at a Central Australian substance abuse facility.
Topics: crime, child-abuse, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, alice-springs-0870, nt, australia
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Mexico's armed forces have arrested a high-level Zetas drug cartel boss who was in charge of operations in three states along the US border and was a right-hand man of the cartel chief.
Topics: drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, crime, mexico
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The emergency relief effort to ensure the small island nation of Tuvalu has enough drinking water is now in full swing.
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| UpdatedBhutan's hugely popular king has married a 21-year-old student in a colourful ceremony showcasing the rich Buddhist culture of one of the world's most remote and insular countries.
Topics: royal-and-imperial-matters, world-politics, bhutan
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The Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) has dismissed a Government complaint against Liberal National Party leader Campbell Newman.
Topics: liberal-national-party-queensland, states-and-territories, qld
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| UpdatedThe local share market closed higher on gains by the big mining companies and hopes of a resolution to the European debt crisis.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, markets, stockmarket, work, currency, australia
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| UpdatedJulia Gillard says the Government has no choice but to process all asylum seekers onshore after it fails to get the numbers in Parliament to pass its Malaysian solution.
Topics: refugees, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedA crane lifting an in-ground swimming pool into place has tipped over in a suburban street in Palmerston.
Topics: accidents, palmerston-0830, darwin-0800
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Two Australian Defence Force Academy cadets involved in the so-called Skype sex scandal have again appeared in court.
Topics: courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, defence-and-national-security, canberra-2600, act
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United States president Barack Obama will address Federal Parliament when he visits Australia next month.
Topics: foreign-affairs, world-politics, federal-parliament, canberra-2600, united-states
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| UpdatedPerth born and bred orangutan Semeru will be released into the wild in Indonesia as part of an effort to boost orangutan numbers there.
Topics: animals, zoos, perth-6000, sumatra
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| UpdatedA strong earthquake has struck off the coast of Bali, shaking the police compound where an Australian teenager is being held on drugs charges.
Topics: earthquake, bali, indonesia, newcastle-2300, australia