CAIRO: Freed Australian journalist Austin Mackell lashed out at the Egyptian military junta and state television shortly after his release from two days of detention, where he was accused of bribing locals to “incite” and cause violence in the northern Nile Delta city of Mahalla on Saturday. Speaking to The World Today, Mackell said he [...]
DUBAI: A New Zeland man has been sentenced to three years in jail for organizing child sex tours in Thailand, the country’s local press reported. The businessman, 48, was handed the jail term by the High Court in Auckland after being found guilty of the illicit actions last year in a trial. The man, whose [...]
CAIRO: An Australian journalist and an American student accused of “inciting” residents in Mahalla in the Nile Delta to violence were finally released on Monday said, after more than 48 hours in detention and charges brought against them. Journalist Austin Mackell, American student Derek Ludovici and their Egyptian translator Aliya Alwi had been in detention [...]
Manila (dpa) – Leprosy still afflicts more than 5,000 new patients each year in the Western Pacific despite being considered eliminated in the region by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 1991, officials said Monday. “Leprosy is still much alive in the Western Pacific,” said Shin Young-Soo, WHO regional director. Policymakers, health workers and the [...]
CAIRO: The father of detained Australian journalist Austin Mackell, a freelance reporter in Egypt, hopes that the Embassy will do all they can to intercede and ensure his son is released without harm. The father, Roger, told the Sydney Morning Herald in comments published on Monday that officials had tried to get physical access to [...]
Hanoi (dpa) – Nine people were arrested in southern Vietnam for allegedly smuggling people to Australia, a police official said Monday. “We arrested four people this month and will arrest another person involved in the case. Nine people have been arrested in total,” Do Toi Sung, deputy director of Ba Ria Vung Tau provincial police, [...]
Last weekend, authorities in Victoria legally seized 700,000 factory farmed chickens within four farms owned by a major poultry producer. The birds — some less than a week old — were at risk of starvation due to the company’s financial trouble and inability to continue to feed them. Whilst charges against this producer are likely, [...]
Rabbits are under attack in Australia as their numbers have boomed as a result of large amounts of rainfall over the past two years. Now, scientists want to introduce a virus into the rabbit population in an effort to “control” their population size. A rabbit targeted calicivirus introduced into the animal population in the 1990s [...]
Sydney (dpa) – The Syrian embassy in Canberra was trashed and demonstrators marched Sunday in Sydney to protest vetoes by Russia and China of a UN Security Council resolution urging President Bashar al-Assad to stand down. The embassy was one of several attacked around the world. Local media said around 40 men stormed the building [...]
Sydney (dpa) – An Australian academic was ridiculed Thursday for proposing that elephants could keep down the weeds that are taking over the savannah in the far north of the continent. Botanist David Bowman proposed that bringing in elephants would both help with their survival and help deal with an introduced species, gamba grass, that [...]
Koronadal, southern Philippines (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) – A former Australian soldier kidnapped last month is alive and being held in Basilan by a group of Abbu Sayyaf gunmen that is bigger than the band that abducted him from his home in Zamboanga Sibugay in southern Philippines, the authorities said Thursday. The police said that the [...]
Wellington (dpa) – Thirty-three survivors of a pod of pilot whales that twice stranded on a remote New Zealand beach this week were euthanized Thursday after beaching themselves again overnight, news reports said. Conservation Department local manager John Mason said they were showing significant signs of physical deterioration and stress, with many bleeding and blistering [...]
Wellington (dpa) – Volunteers succeeded Tuesday in refloating 39 survivors of a pod of 99 pilot whales that stranded on a remote beach at the top of New Zealand’s South Island, news reports said. The animals were refloated on the morning’s high tide. Conservation officials said they would be kept under observation to see if [...]
Sydney (dpa) – An 8-year-old Brisbane schoolgirl’s innocent world of backyard bliss has been turned upside down after her heavy metal song about loving her pets went viral on YouTube and sold up a storm on iTunes. Australians were undecided Monday whether to rejoice in the success of singing sensation Juliet’s smash-hit, My First Hardcore [...]
Wellington (dpa) – A pod of 90 pilot whales stranded on a remote beach at the top of New Zealand’s South Island on Monday, a media report said. A Department of Conservation manager, John Mason, appealed for volunteers to go to the area, off Farewell Spit, to assist efforts to refloat them, the Nelson Mail [...]
Sydney (dpa ) – A blind woman saved the life of a taxi driver who was having a heart attack, it was reported Sunday. Judy Streit was getting out of a taxi in Melbourne when the driver opened his door and stumbled out, collapsing half way out of the car in front of her, the [...]
DUBAI: An Australian man sentenced to more than 400 lashes for blasphemy in Saudi Arabia has been released from custody and sent home. Mansor Almaribe, who already had received some 75 lashes, was released to the joy of his family. Speaking to local Australian broadcasters, Issam Almaribe, the 21-year-old son, said, “we are feeling so [...]
A fresh oil leak at a New Zealand coral reef has left dozens of birds dead from the spill. The report from the Maritime New Zealand agency said that the Rena ship, which went aground in the reef months ago, continues to spill oil into the ocean, devastating the ecological system. But the agency said [...]
Sydney (dpa) – Australian officials said Tuesday that Japan would release three anti-whaling activists detained after they boarded a whaling ship off the west coast at the weekend. “We are pleased that the Japanese government has made a decision that these three men won’t be charged and will be released,” Attorney General Nicola Roxon said. [...]
Jakarta (dpa) – Indonesia and Australia on Monday agreed to take more steps to curb people smuggling and the influx of undocumented migrants. Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa and his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd met in Jakarta to discuss the issue less than a month after 90 people were killed and about 100 went missing [...]
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