Friday, April 29, 2016

The 2015 earthquake was not the worst disaster to befall Nepal and other top stories.

  • The 2015 earthquake was not the worst disaster to befall Nepal

    The 2015 earthquake was not the worst disaster to befall Nepal
    Bhaaktapur, Nepal. As if the damage of the earthquake wasn't bad enough, Nepalese people have had to wait while government officials tried to extract a cut from aid agencies disaster relief funds. David Ramos, Getty Images by Joshua Hammer A few minutes before noon on April 25, 2015, the Great Himalayan Thrust, a fault line between the Indian and Eurasian continental plates, ruptured deep beneath Gorkha district, 50..
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  • Turkish journalists jailed for Hebdo cover

    Turkish journalists jailed for Hebdo cover
    Turkish journalists jailed for Hebdo cover
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  • Tsunami warning cancelled as magnitude-7.0 earthquake strikes Vanuatu

    Tsunami warning cancelled as magnitude-7.0 earthquake strikes Vanuatu
    Tsunami warning cancelled as magnitude-7.0 earthquake strikes Vanuatu Updated April 29, 2016 08:43:21 A tsunami warning issued after a shallow magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck the Vanuatu island of Malekula, 64 kilometres south south-east of Luganville, has been cancelled.But the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC) has warned that minor sea level fluctuations of up to 0.3 metres above and below the normal tide may continue over the next few hours.The sparsely populated..
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  • Wills and Kate's five giddy years

    Wills and Kate's five giddy years
    Will and Kate's Tour of India 0:45Since their arrival in India on Sunday, Prince William and Kate Middleton have visited a slum and the Gandhi museum, dined with Bollywood's biggest stars and played cricket. Wills and Kate celebrate their fifth wededing anniversary. Picture: AP/Rajanish KakadeSophie AubreyNews Corp Australia NetworkFIVE years ago today, the world watched as Pippa Middleton’s bottom walked the aisle. And William and Kate tied the knot in their hugely anticipated royal wedding.S..
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  • Russia, China in agreement on North Korea, South China Sea

    Russia, China in agreement on North Korea, South China Sea
    Russia, China in agreement on North Korea, South China Sea By Associated Press Published: 02:23 EST, 29 April 2016 | Updated: 02:24 EST, 29 April 2016 BEIJING (AP) — Denouncing what they see as outside interference in the South China Sea and Korean Peninsula, the foreign ministers of Russia and China voiced mutual support Friday as they seek to counter the influence of Washington and its allies, particularly in Asia.Following talks in Beijing, Russia's Sergey Lavrov and China's Wang ..
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  • Bali Nine duo remembered on anniversary

    Bali Nine duo remembered on anniversary
    Bali Nine duo families to mark anniversaryBy Sarah McPhee and Gemma NajemAAPAustralian artist Ben Quilty has paid tribute to his friend and student, Myuran Sukumaran, on the one-year anniversary of the Bali Nine ringleader's execution.Sukumaran, 34, and fellow convicted drug smuggler, Andrew Chan, 31, were executed by firing squad on Indonesia's Nusakambangan island on April 29, 2015.The pair spent a decade in Kerobokan Prison after attempting to smuggle heroin out of Bali in 2005.Quilty was int..
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  • Divided Aleppo Plunges Back Into War as Hospital Is Destroyed

    BEIRUT — Syria’s divided city of Aleppo plunged back into the kind of all-out war not seen in months Thursday, witnesses and health workers said as they reeled from government airstrikes that demolished a hospital in the insurgent-held side and from retaliatory mortar assaults by rebels on the government-held side.At least 27 people including three children and six staff members were reported killed from the strike on the hospital, which turned it into a smoking pile of rubble Wednesday. At lea..
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  • Nauru refugee who set himself on fire dies in Brisbane hospital

    Nauru refugee who set himself on fire dies in Brisbane hospital
    Nauru refugee who set himself on fire dies in Brisbane hospital Updated April 29, 2016 16:05:07 An Iranian refugee who set himself on fire at the Nauru detention centre has died in a Brisbane hospital, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has confirmed.The 23-year-old Iranian known as Omid was airlifted to Brisbane yesterday with third-degree burns to most of his torso.In a statement, Mr Dutton said that "appropriate support" was being provided to his wife and friends of t..
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  • British family attacked in Thailand say they're never going back

    British family attacked in Thailand say they're never going back
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  • Italy minister says will tell Austria Brenner fence 'unacceptable'

    Italy minister says will tell Austria Brenner fence 'unacceptable'
     Reuters International Apr 28, 2016 - 11:43 ROME (Reuters) - Plans by Austria to curb migrant flows by building a fence at the Alpine Brenner Pass between the two countries are "unacceptable", Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said on Thursday. Alfano said the plans were even more unjustified because the numbers of migrants passing from Italy to Austria were at their lowest levels for many years, adding that he would say so "very clearly" to his Austrian counterpart at a m..
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Government bans online in-play betting on sports dealing blow to Tom Waterhouse .Cops: Bikie link to fatal shooting .
VW shows a high-tech SUV future with T-Prime Concept GTE .Cairns magistrates slams man over “appalling” domestic violence act .

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