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Gang rape horrors haunt Rohingya refugees
Leda Refugee Camp (Bangladesh) (AFP) - Shamila clutches her daughter's hand so tightly it turns white as she recounts how soldiers broke into her home in Myanmar and gang-raped her in front of her children -- a story heard over and over in Bangladesh refugee camps.
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Ship blaze at Port of Tauranga is out
An early-morning fire on a ship at Port of Tauranga has been extinguished and burnt timber is now being removed from the hold.
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German campaign takeaways and challenges
Berlin (AFP) - Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to sail to victory in Germany's general elections on Sunday but her win is likely to be clouded by the entry of an Islamophobic hard-right party in parliament and prospects of tough coalition talks.
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Germany's political parties at a glance
Berlin (AFP) - German voters will head to the polls for a general election on September 24, with surveys giving Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives a double-digit lead over their closest rivals, the Social Democrats.
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Rick Flori to run at upcoming Qld election
Alleged police whistleblower Rick Flori has announced he will run as an independent at the next state election in the Gold Coast seat of Southport.
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Insured breast cancer patients worse off
A survey of women with breast cancer has found those with private health insurance had higher out-of-pocket costs than those without.
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Myanmar cartoonists lead media-jeering as Rohingya flee
Yangon (AFP) - Cartoons taking aim at Rohingya Muslims are spreading rapidly across social media in mainly Buddhist Myanmar, where public opinion on the crisis stands in stark contrast to the outcry overseas.
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NZ doesn't need poll advice from us: govt
Senior government minister Greg Hunt isn't about to offer New Zealand advice how they should resolve their deadlocked election result.
NewsAustralian Associated PressNZ doesn't need poll advice from us: govt
Senior government minister Greg Hunt isn't about to offer New Zealand advice how they should resolve their deadlocked election result.
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Fighter jets, drones on table as Mattis visits key ally India
New Delhi (AFP) - Fighter jets, drone deals and shared concerns over Afghanistan's security challenges look set to dominate the agenda when US Defence Secretary James Mattis visits India this week.
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How Germany's complex electoral system works
Berlin (AFP) - If popular Chancellor Angela Merkel faced a US presidential-style vote, she would almost certainly win by a landslide -- but things are not so simple under Germany's complex election system.
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Puerto Rico rushes to evacuate many amid fears dam will burst
San Juan (AFP) - Authorities in Puerto Rico rushed Saturday to evacuate people living downriver from a dam said to be in danger of collapsing because of flooding from Hurricane Maria.
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Deadly weekend on NSW roads claims five
A deadly hit and run in Sydney's southwest has lifted NSW's weekend road toll to five people.
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Martin Schulz, luckless challenger 'shadow-boxing' Merkel
Frankfurt am Main (AFP) - A high-school dropout who grafted his way into the EU corridors of power, Germany's Martin Schulz is used to battling the odds.
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Angela Merkel, Germany's 'eternal chancellor'
Berlin (AFP) - Angela Merkel has been derided as Europe's "austerity queen", cheered as a saviour by refugees and hailed as the new "leader of the free world".
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Merkel heads for German poll win, hard-right AfD for first seats
Berlin (AFP) - Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to cruise to victory in elections Sunday but also to face the breakthrough into parliament of hard-right populists for the first time in Germany's post-war history.
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New dad Casey leads PGA Tour Championship by two shots
Atlanta (AFP) - Paul Casey has been flying under the radar heading into the Tour Championship but the Englishman emerged from a star-studded leaderboard on Saturday to seize a two-shot lead heading into the final round.
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French police evacuate 200 in Lille over car with gas cylinders
Lille (France) (AFP) - Nearly 200 residents of a wealthy suburb of the northern French city of Lille were evacuated Saturday night after five gas cylinders were found in a car, police said, while playing down the likelihood of it being terrorist-related.
NewsAustralian Associated PressCommonwealth Bank axes ATM fees
The Commonwealth Bank's decision to no longer charge customers of other banks to withdraw cash from its ATMs has put pressure on other banks to follow suit.
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New Zealand leaders line up to woo kingmaker Peters
Wellington (AFP) - Both of New Zealand's major political parties moved to open coalition negotiations with maverick MP Winston Peters Sunday after the country's general election stalemate left him in the position of kingmaker.
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General's 'intervention' comment raises eyebrows in Brazil
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - A general's comment that the military could be forced to intervene in Brazil's corruption crisis has rattled a country that only exited a two-decades long dictatorship in 1985.
