Court upholds election of Kenya's Kenyatta

KENYA'S Supreme Court has upheld the victory of Uhuru Kenyatta in the March 4 presidential election. The court unanimously ruled that the election had been conducted in a "free, fair, transparent and credible" manner and that Kenyatta and his...

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Mandela 'breathing without difficulty'

NELSON Mandela is comfortable and breathing without difficulty on his third day in hospital after the anti-apartheid hero was treated for pneumonia, South Africa's presidency says. Messages of concern for the ailing 94-year-old, one of the towering...

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Tanzanian building collapse toll hits 19

THE death toll from a building collapse in Tanzania's economic capital Dar es Salaam has risen to 19, officials say. "Two more bodies were found this afternoon," regional commissioner Saidi Mecky Sadicky told AFP, updating an earlier toll of 17...

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Two dead, hundreds rescued off Italy

TWO migrants have died at sea while trying to reach Italian shores from North Africa, while hundreds more were rescued and taken to the island of Lampedusa. The victims were on a rubber dinghy with 88 other would-be migrants. They were spotted...

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Body found as Tibet mine disaster kills 83

Eighty-three workers have been buried after a large-scale landslide hit a mining area in Tibet. Source: AAP RESCUE teams have found the first body almost 36 hours after a giant landslide in Tibet buried 83 mine workers. Xinhua news agency...

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SAC Capital funds manager arrested in US

A SENIOR portfolio manager for one of America's largest hedge funds has been arrested, accused of making $US1.4 million ($A1.35 million) illegally in a widening insider trading probe involving an investment company founded by billionaire Steven A....

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Over 80 migrants rescued off Malta

A PREGNANT woman and a baby were among a group of 82 African migrants rescued from a dinghy off the coast of Malta. The migrants were spotted some 110km south of the Mediterranean island after they had sent out an SOS via satellite phone. Officials...

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83 buried in a Tibet mine area landslide

EIGHTY-THREE workers have been buried after a large-scale landslide hit a mining area in Tibet, China's state media reports. The landslide took place about 0900 (AEDT) on Friday in Maizhokunggar County in Tibet's capital Lhasa, and trapped workers...

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Iraq, Afghan wars 'to cost US $6 trillion'

THE Iraq and Afghanistan wars will cost the United States between $US4 trillion ($A3.85 trillion) and $US6 trillion in the long term, constraining the government's budget for decades to come, a study said. Harvard University scholar Linda Bilmes...

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Five dead as Islamists clash in Bangladesh

AT least five people have been killed and scores others injured in clashes between Islamist activists and security officers in Bangladesh. Police said that three of the deaths occurred in northern Chapai Nawabganj district after officers fired...

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Newtown gunman's weapons arsenal revealed

DETECTIVES searching the Newtown school shooter's house found he and his mother kept a startlingly large arsenal of rifles, pistols and other weapons, including swords, newly released details show. The results of search warrants executed after...

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India's current account deficit hits 6.7%

INDIA'S current account deficit hit a record 6.7 per cent of GDP in the last quarter, official figures show, underscoring the nation's weak finances. The worse-than-expected deficit for the three months to December stemmed mainly from large...

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Damascus University attack kills students

MORTAR fire has killed at least 15 students at Damascus University, with state media blaming "terrorists", its term for Syrian rebels, who are increasingly targeting President Bashar al-Assad's seat of power. The attack came as battles between...

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Brazil Central Bank expects 3.1% growth

BRAZIL'S Central Bank says it expects the economy to grow 3.1 per cent this year, up from just 0.9 per cent in 2012, with inflation of 5.7 per cent. In its quarterly report, the bank said inflation is forecast to be 5.3 per cent in 2014 - above...

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Dexia recap drives up Belgium deficit

BELGIUM'S 2.9 billion euro ($A3.6 billion) share of a state recapitalisation of failed Franco-Belgian bank Dexia has driven up its 2012 public deficit to 3.9 per cent of GDP, well above the EU limit, the central bank says. The government's public...

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Flat year for US music industry: survey

US music industry sales held nearly steady in 2012 as gains from digital subscription services offset further declines in physical disc sales, an industry survey showed on Wednesday. Overall recorded music sales revenues for 2012 were $US7.1...

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Vic firefighters to assess damage

FIREFIGHTERS will get their first look on Thursday at the destruction caused by a fire that ravaged the community of Dereel in Victoria's west. The fire broke out just after 11.30am on Wednesday and spread rapidly to cover 1300 hectares, causing...

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Russia raids HRW office amid EU concern

RUSSIAN authorities have searched the Moscow offices of New-York based Human Rights Watch as they step up raids against pro-democracy groups despite growing concern from top European states. Germany said the inspections risked affecting the...

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US top court tackles law on gay marriage

THE US Supreme Court is tackling same-sex unions for a second day, hearing arguments for and against the 1996 US law defining marriage as between one man and one woman. After the nine justices mulled arguments on a California law outlawing gay...

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Bersani scambles to form Italy govt

CENTRE-LEFT leader Pier Luigi Bersani says only a mentally ill person would want Italy's top job as he scrambles against the clock to secure enough support to form a government in the recession-hit country. His comments came during last-minute...

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Kenya court orders presidential recount

KENYA'S Supreme Court has ordered a recount of votes cast at 22 polling centres, after presidential elections in which a second-round run off was only avoided by the narrowest of margins. "Retallying is to be done in 22 polling stations," said...

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Killer Spanish bull called Mouse dies

SPAIN'S most feared bull, who killed three people and injured dozens of others at bullfighting fiestas, has died, with its owner wanting to have the half-tonne beast embalmed and put on display at a museum. "It all happened within 24 hours....

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Dutch must compensate Srebrenica soldier

THE Dutch state must compensate a former soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after his deployment to the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica in 1995, a top judicial body has ruled. The Centrale Raad van Beroep (CRvB), the Netherlands'...

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Nazi submarine found off Norway

THE wreck of a German World War II submarine that was sunk with 48 people on board has been found off Norway's coast during work on an oil pipe, a maritime museum official says. The U-486 was torpedoed and broken in two by a British submarine...

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EU suspends most Zimbabwe sanctions

THE European Union has suspended most of its sanctions against Zimbabwe following a "peaceful, successful and credible" referendum on a new constitution earlier this month. However, 89-year-old President Robert Mugabe remained among 10 Zimbabweans...

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Brit in India 'shouted for help for hour'

A BRITISH woman who jumped from a hotel balcony in India fearing a sexual assault says she shouted for help for more than an hour before she fled. Jessica Davies, 31, from London, says she barricaded the door of her hotel room in Agra with furniture...

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Spain paper retracts Merkel Hitler column

SPANISH newspaper El Pais has retracted a column that compared German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Adolf Hitler and apologised for its "inappropriate" content after sparking an indignant internet outcry. In the column, published on the paper's...

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French gay marriage foes stage protest

TENS of thousands opposed to French legislation allowing gay marriage have protested on a route leading to the Champs Elysees after police banned them marching on the famed Paris avenue. The hugely controversial bill to legalise same-sex marriage...

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NY mayor to pour millions into gun control

NEW York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he will invest $US12 million ($A11.5 million) in a nationwide ad campaign to counter the powerful US gun lobby and rally support for background checks in gun sales. "We're running ads around the country....

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Swedes mystified by seal pup in forest

A SEAL pup has been found in a forest in eastern Sweden almost six kilometres from the closest body of open water, raising questions as to how it got there. "A somewhat confused person called and said he was out walking in the woods where he...

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