Australian shoplifter hid steaks in her underwear
Sydney - A 24-year-old Australian caught with four steaks in her underwear pleaded guilty to stealing in the Darwin Magistrates Court on Friday. The court was told that when the woman was stopped outside a local supermarket she had meat worth almost ...
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Flasher causes bus collision with police station
Wellington - A man who exposed himself to a woman on a bus in the North Island city of Hamilton on Friday sparked a chain of events which led to the vehicle hitting a police station. A police statement said the flasher's behaviour terrified the woman...
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Six arrested in big New Zealand drug bust
Wellington - New Zealand authorities arrested four Japanese as they brought 6 kilograms of the banned drug crystal methamphetamine into the country from Malaysia this week, police said on Friday. Worth an estimated 6 million New Zealand dollars (4.4 ...
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Maori Party tells foul-mouthed legislator to go
Wellington - Leaders of New Zealand's Maori Party Friday urged one of its lawmakers, Hone Harawira, to quit after he accused the country's white majority population of raping our land and ripping us off for centuries. We are having difficulty contro...
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Australia to extradite alleged war criminal to Hungary
Sydney - An 88-year-old Australian citizen accused of killing a Jewish teenager in his native Hungary in 1944 learned Thursday he had lost his legal battle to prevent extradition to face a war-crimes trial in Budapest. The Australian government appro...
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Rights group exposes China's 'black jails' - Summary
Beijing - China is subjecting petitioners and rights activists to serious abuses in a network of illegal black jails in Beijing and other major cities, New York-based Human Rights Watch said Thursday. Since 2003, large numbers of Chinese citizens ...
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Australian bomb-sniffing dog back from the dead
Sydney - An Australian Army bomb-detection dog given up for dead 14 months ago after going missing during a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan has been found alive and well, news reports said Thursday. Sabi was about to complete a second tour of duty with...
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Plot thickens in Indonesia's corruption, murder scandal
Jakarta - Indonesian police on Wednesday denied allegations by a police officer that he had been forced to make false statements to implicate the country's anti-corruption chief in a murder case. The allegations by the policeman, on trial for his inv...
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