Mexico's vigilantes turn over 11 captors

Farmers in the mountains of Mexico are holding gang violence suspects in improvised jails. Source: AAP FARMERS who have taken up arms against drug-gang violence in the mountains of southern Mexico have turned over 11 of 53 people they've been...

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Assange urges leak of US drone rules

Julian Assange has condemned Obama's green light to kill American citizens conspiring with al-Qaeda. Source: AAP WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has urged US officials to leak secret documents on drone strikes, saying that the broad discretion...

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Greens say 'dud' mining tax can be fixed

The Australian Greens say Labor's minerals resource rent tax has turned out a dud. Source: AAP THE Australian Greens have declared Labor's mining tax a dud. Greens lower house MP Adam Bandt said if it's not fixed before the May budget,...

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More delays cause Sundance share plunge

SHARES in Africa-focused iron ore hopeful Sundance Resources plunged almost 12 per cent after it revealed yet another delay in the drawn out takeover by its Chinese suitor. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in China on Thursday...

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Obeid brother 'knew nothing about deals'

WHEN Paul Obeid, son of former Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid, was asked by a Sydney corruption inquiry whether his younger brother might have been a conduit for inside information relating to a coal mining deal in the Hunter, he laughed. "No,...

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Jemima Khan 'demoralised' by Assange

SOCIALITE Jemima Khan, once a high-profile supporter of the whistle-blowing website, has warned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that he risks falling from a "hero" to the Australian L. Ron Hubbard, expecting his supporters to follow him "unquestioningly,...

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China radar-lock on Japan ship 'dangerous'

THE radar lock that a Chinese frigate put on a Japanese warship is "dangerous", Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says, as tensions in a territorial row heighten. "It was a dangerous act that could have led to an unpredictable situation," Abe...

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Flat retailing trend confirmed by data

RETAIL spending flattened out over the second half of 2012. It's hardly a controversial observation, but figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Wednesday confirm the plateau extended through to the end of the year. The figures...

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Ulcer study could clear WA man of murder

A TRIO of West Australian Supreme Court judges have been urged not to delay a decision that could clear a man of a 30-year-old murder conviction, following new evidence supplied by Nobel Prize-winning scientist Barry Marshall. Chris von Deutschburg...

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Kashmir girl band splits after fatwa

AN all-girl teenage rock band from Indian-administered Kashmir has split after the region's top Muslim cleric declared their music to be "un-Islamic". Pragaash, a three-piece group whose members are still in high school, had been the target...

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Claims children murdered at Salvo home

CLAIMS that children were murdered at a Salvation Army children's home in eastern Melbourne decades ago should be investigated more thoroughly, an abuse survivor has told an inquiry. Brian Cherrie told a Victorian parliamentary inquiry there were...

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Motorists set to pay more at the pump

MOTORISTS can expect further price rises at the petrol bowser over the next couple of weeks, reflecting rising world oil prices, Commonwealth Securities says. The Australian Institute of Petroleum in its latest report on Monday said the national...

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Sri Lanka rescues 138 on sinking boat

SRI Lanka's navy rescued more than 100 Bangladeshi and Myanmar nationals from a sinking fishing vessel off the island's eastern coast, a spokesman said. One passenger was found dead on Sunday while many of the 138 plucked from the boat were...

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US, Europe stock surge runs on

STOCK markets in the United States and Europe have been building up steam for six months and now seem oblivious to still fragile economic growth, but analysts say this does not yet amount to another financial bubble. Markets tend to anticipate...

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