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The worst dust storm in 40 years was Monday dusting the snow with an orange powder in the alpine region of Australia's south-east corner and bringing what locals call mud rain.
Winds of up to 100 kilometres per hour are lifting soil from the arid interior of New South Wales and dumping it nearer the coast. When combined with rain, it can fall with the... |
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 Governments around the world are trying to reduce emissions
of carbon gases because these are responsible for global warming. Australia has
made the first step in this process. A large underground carbon storage
facility was opened in the southern state of Victoria,
near the town of Warrnambool, west of Melbourne. It will
capture...
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 A New
Zealand teenager was convicted on Tuesday
due to his major role in a global cyber crime ring that managed to infect
nearly 1.3 million computers worldwide and caused $20 million in losses. The
investigation was launched after an assault involving 50,000 computers crashed
the server at the University of Pennsylvania in the...
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 Two pilots were wounded by a
woman in an attempt to hijack a regional domestic flight in New Zealand
Friday, the Associated Press reports.
The woman was carrying a knife
and stabbed the two pilots, and also threatened to blow up the 19-seat
Jetstream J32, which had on board four New Zealanders, an Australian and an
Indian...
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 The new Australian Prime Minister Kevin Ruud will
present the first formal apology to “the stolen generations” for the policies led
in the past by the state of Australia,
according to which Aboriginal children were taken from their families.
The apology will be made on Feb. 13 and
represents the first topic on the agenda in the...
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 The people of New Zealand and the mountain Sherpas of Nepal joined
Tuesday in Auckland at the state funeral of Everest conqueror Sir
Edmund Hillary, to honour a man loved and revered in both countries.
"He was a colossus. He was our hero," said New Zealand Prime
Minister Helen Clark. "His extraordinary life has been...
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 Thousands of New Zealanders defied heavy rain on Monday to pay their
respects to the country's greatest modern-day hero, Everest conqueror
Sir Edmund Hillary, who died on January 11, as he lay in state at
Auckland's Anglican Cathedral.
The cathedral's doors will stay open all night to allow thousands
of mourners to file past the...
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 Two anti-whaling activists taken hostage by Japanese whalers in
Antarctica earlier this week have been freed and are now on the
Australian ship the Oceanic Viking, the Sea Shepherd protest
organization said Friday.
Australian Benjamin Potts, 28, and Briton Giles Lane, 35, were
detained since they risked their lives boarding a...
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Australia on Thursday offered to send a ship to secure the freedom of
two anti-whaling activists held by Japanese whalers in Antarctica.
Australian Benjamin Potts, 28, and Briton Giles Lane, 35, have been
detained since they forced their way aboard a Japanese harpoon vessel
on Tuesday.
A stalemate has developed with the Japanese...
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Japan has ordered the release of two activists detained when they
boarded one of its harpoon vessels in Antarctica to deliver an
anti-whaling protest, Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said
Wednesday.
Paul Watson, the captain of the Steve Irwin protest ship, said the
conditions set for the release of Australia Benjamin...
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 An Australian court on Tuesday ruled Japanese whaling in the Antarctic illegal but admitted it had no power to stop it.
The Federal Court, in a hearing brought by the Humane Society
International, declared the Japanese in contravention of Australian
environment protection legislation because they were killing and
injuring minke and...
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 KyrgyzstanEarthquake Killed Sixty People
A powerful earthquake shook Kyrgyzstan, close to China’s border. Sixty people were killed during the calamity, as the top emergency official of Kyrgyzstan announced on...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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