Friday, May 24th, 2013

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Newsagents fear test run on higher freight cost

Newsagents are questioning whether a price rise for News Limited newspapers on Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Island will be a test-run for similar increases in other regions.
ABC - 26 minutes ago
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ACTU calls for emergency talks on car industry after Ford's decision to close Australian plants

Ford's decision to stop making cars in Australia has sparked a political debate over rising business costs and industry assistance.
ABC - 19 minutes ago
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Goldman unveils checks on conflicts in bid to fix image

By Lauren Tara LaCapra
SALT LAKE City (Reuters) - After dozens of meetings with executives and regulators, 100,000 hours of employee training and an immeasurable amount of public grief,...
33 minutes ago

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Matthew Joyce's Dubai jail term like 'a life sentence'

The wife of an Australian man sentenced to 10 years in a Dubai jail over a property deal gone wrong has spoken of her family's torment.
ABC - 36 minutes ago
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Former Goldman banker settles SEC 'pay-to-play' charges

By Lisa Lambert and Jonathan Stempel
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. investment banker has agreed to a five-year securities industry ban an...
38 minutes ago
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Holden ready to seek more government support

As Ford makes plans to exit manufacturing in Australia, Holden managing director Mike Devereux has flagged another approach to government for assistance.
ABC - 43 minutes ago

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Disease kills mentally ill people earlier

A new study has found mental illness sufferers in Australia are dying up to 16 years earlier than the general population, with most deaths due to disease rather than accidents or suicide.
ABC - 44 minutes ago
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Dish adds Scotiabank to finance Sprint deal -sources

By Nicola Leske
(Reuters) - Dish Network Corp has added Canada's Scotiabank to the four banks it had already lined up to finance its $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp, according ...
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Boy Scouts vote to end gay ban

DALLAS – The Boy Scouts of America, one of the country’s largest and oldest youth organizations, decided Thursday to break 103 years of tradition by allowing openly gay members into its ranks.
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12 arrested over Qld detention centre breakout

Authorities have arrested 12 people allegedly involved in a mass breakout at an immigration detention centre in far north Queensland.
ABC - 50 minutes ago
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Bob Carr meets with Syrian refugees at Lebanon camp

Foreign Minister Bob Carr has told a group of Syrian refugees in Lebanon that the United States military does not want to risk a drawn-out war with the Syrian army.
ABC - 55 minutes ago

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Park residents angered by council push

Permanent residents of Brighton Caravan Park in Adelaide's southern suburbs said they were insulted by a council suggestion they should seek advice from homeless shelters.
ABC - 55 minutes ago
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Ford will help workers who lose jobs: CEO

Ford Australia president and CEO Bob Graziano says the company will work with the government to help its workers who lose their jobs by 2016.
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Obama tackles drones, Guantanamo in reset of war on terror

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama Thursday laid out new guidelines for drone strikes and launched a new bid to close Guantanamo Bay, warning that a "perpetual" US war on terror would be self defeating.
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Tesoro expected to take over BP Los Angeles refinery

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Independent refiner Tesoro Corp is expected to take control of BP Plc's 240,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Los Angeles-area refinery in Carson, California, on ...
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Trump wins lawsuit against elderly woman

Jurors sided with US real estate mogul Donald Trump in an elderly woman's claim he cheated her in a condo bait-and-switch scheme.
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Sydney traffic delays after fatal milk truck crash

Sydney's Parramatta Road had to be closed this morning after a milk truck crashed into a shopfront in the city's inner west late last night, killing the driver.
ABC - 1 hour, 7 minutes ago

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Ohio kidnap hero gets free Maccas for year

Charles Ramsey, the man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women captive in a Cleveland house, will get free Maccas for a year.
1 hour, 9 minutes ago

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Royal Mail chief set for 500,000 sterling bonus

(Reuters) - The chief executive of Royal Mail, Moya Greene, who is responsible for leading a turnaround of the business, is set to receive an annual bonus worth nearly 500,000 pounds, as the company r...
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ACT Govt's public service pay offer angers unions

Unions have accused the ACT Government of making an "unreasonable" pay offer to the Territory's 20,000 public servants.
ABC - 1 hour, 9 minutes ago

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