Calls for EU to address boat deaths

CALLS are intensifying for the European Union to prevent migrant deaths, with at least 400 people drowning in three Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks in just over a week. "I don't know how many more people need to die at sea before something gets done,"...

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Vic police commemorate Walsh St killings

THE pain of the Walsh Street killings is still raw in the minds of all Victorian police officers 25 years on, Chief Commissioner Ken Lay says. Constable Steven Tynan, 22, and Constable Damian Eyre, 20, were gunned down on October 12, 1988, after...

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Another extreme fire danger day for NSW

THE Rural Fire Service has issued a total fire ban for areas in NSW ahead of hot and gusty weather conditions. The bans will be in place on Sunday from the Illawarra to the Far North Coast as well as the North West and Central Ranges. An extreme...

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NSW father accidentally runs over child

A TODDLER is in hospital after his father accidentally ran over him with his car in the driveway of their home on NSW's north coast. Police said a 30-year-old man was moving his Holden Commodore when he reversed into his one-year-old son at...

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NZ bishop's prisoner prayer cell

THE Anglican Bishop of Wellington is to live a week in a small cabin-like "cell", praying for New Zealand's 8000-plus prisoners and their victims. Bishop Justin Duckworth's prayer vigil in the cell on the front steps of Wellington Cathedral...

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Boat sinks on Mali river, 20 dead

AT least 20 people are dead after a boat carrying hundreds of passengers capsized on the Niger River in central Mali. Dozens more are missing. Konna Mayor Sory Diakite told The Associated Press on Saturday 20 bodies had been recovered by midday....

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