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| Australia takes on tobacco giants |
| Australia faces a smoking hot battle against big tobacco companies over a plan to remove their last bastion of advertising - the cigarette pack. |
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Published: Mon, 30 May 2011 08:12 a.m. |
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| Strauss-Kahn assembles crisis team to fight back |
| Faced with a legal and media onslaught, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is pulling together a crack team of investigators, former spies and media advisers to fight back against charges he sexually assaulted a hotel chambermaid. |
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Published: Mon, 30 May 2011 08:01 a.m. |
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| Lagarde has G8 backing for IMF role |
| G8 leaders all back French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde's bid to run the IMF, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Sunday, as she attacked a call to investigate her role in a 2008 legal case that may harm her chances. |
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Published: Mon, 30 May 2011 07:56 a.m. |
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| Britain readies 'bunker-busting' bombs for Libya |
| Britain is to add "bunker-busting" bombs to the arsenal its warplanes are using over Libya, a weapon it said would send a loud message to Muammar Gaddafi that it is time to quit. |
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Published: Mon, 30 May 2011 07:45 a.m. |
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| Breakaway Yemen army units add to pressure on Saleh |
| A breakaway military group called for other army units to join them in the fight to bring down Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh, piling pressure on him to end his three-decade rule over the destitute country. |
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Published: Mon, 30 May 2011 07:27 a.m. |
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| Nato air strike kills 12 children - Afghan officials |
| An air strike called in by Nato-led troops in southern Afghanistan killed 12 children and two women, Afghan officials said on Sunday, one of the worst civilian death tolls by foreign forces in months. |
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Published: Mon, 30 May 2011 07:14 a.m. |
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| Blanchett draws fire over carbon tax ad |
| Hollywood A-lister Cate Blanchett has found herself under fire for fronting a campaign promoting the Government's planned carbon tax, with critics saying she is out of touch with ordinary Australians.The wealthy Oscar winner features... |
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Published: Mon, 30 May 2011 06:32 a.m. |
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| Storm sparks nuclear fears in Japan |
| Typhoon Songda churned northeast along Pacific coasts in southern Japan yesterday, bringing heavy rains and staying on course to hit Tokyo as it weakened.It was expected to be downgraded to a depression today but could still dump... |
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Published: Mon, 30 May 2011 06:00 a.m. |
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| Mistress: Best book fiction |
| The former mistress of George Best, Gina Devivo, has joined forces with the late superstar footballer's widow to claim that a new book about the period leading up to his death is largely fiction.Devivo is so upset by what she... |
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Published: Mon, 30 May 2011 05:42 a.m. |
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| Fish dying by the truckload |
| More than 800 tonnes of fish have died and rotted on a fish farm near Manila that Philippine authorities are blaming on a sudden temperature drop.Government fisheries official Rose del Mundo said yesterday that the die-off started... |
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Published: Mon, 30 May 2011 05:35 a.m. |
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