SYDNEY, (APP/AFP) – A nuclear dump in an Australian state could handle 13 percent of the world’s atomic waste and prove “highly profitable” in the long term, initial findings from a high-level inquiry said Monday. The prospect of a nuclear dump in the vast nation has proven controversial in the past. Australia has yet to […]
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Australian state could take 13% of globe’s nuclear waste: report
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Obama urges Russia to stop bombing “moderate” Syria rebels
U.S.(APP): President Barack Obama urged Russia on Sunday to stop bombing “moderate” rebels in Syria in support of its ally President Bashar al-Assad, a campaign seen in the West as a major obstacle to latest efforts to end the war. Major powers agreed on Friday to a limited cessation of hostilities in Syria but the […]
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Republicans gear up for U.S. Supreme Court battle after Scalia’s death
Republican lawmakers (APP): and presidential candidates hardened their positions on Sunday on blocking a move by President Barack Obama to fill the Supreme Court seat left by the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, a lifetime appointment that would help decide some of the most divisive issues facing Americans The next justice could tilt the balance […]
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Myanmar army chief to get five year extension
YANGON:(APP): Myanmar’s powerful army chief Min Aung Hlaing and his deputy are slated to extend their terms for another five years, a local newspaper said on Saturday, as the military and democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi negotiate the terms of transition. The move means Min Aung Hlaing has consolidated his power base among the […]
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World has slipped into ‘new Cold War’: Russian PM
MUNICH, (APP): Germany: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday that strains between Russia and the West have plunged the world into a “new Cold War”. With tensions high over the Ukraine conflict and Russia’s backing of the Syrian regime, Medvedev said: “All that’s left is an unfriendly policy of NATO against Russia”. “We can […]
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More major attacks in Europe ‘a certainty’: French PM
MUNICH, (APP): Germany: More major attacks in Europe are a “certainty”, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told an audience at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday “We have entered — we all feel it — in a new era characterised by the lasting presence of ‘hyper-terrorism’,” said Valls, whose country was hit by two Islamist […]