• Wildfires rage across northern Spain - The Cairns Post

    Wildfires rage across northern Spain
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    THE Spanish government has sent firefighting aircraft to help douse dozens of wildfires in northern Spain that have erupted over the past week after an unusual dry spell. A SPATE of fires has been sweeping northern Spain for over a week now, an unusual ...and more »
  • Saudis reveal record budget deficit - The Cairns Post

    Saudis reveal record budget deficit
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    SAUDI Arabia, its finances hit by low oil prices, has announced plans to shrink a record state budget deficit with spending cuts, reforms to energy subsidies and a drive to raise revenues from taxes and privatisation. THE 2016 budget, released by the ...and more »
  • Russia 'has removed uranium from Iran' - The Cairns Post

    Russia 'has removed uranium from Iran'
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    IRAN has met a key requirement of a nuclear deal with six world powers by allowing Moscow to transfer most of its enriched uranium to Russia, a senior Russian diplomat has told news agency The Associated Press. THE diplomat demanded anonymity ...and more »
  • Officials given book of Putin one-liners - The Cairns Post

    Officials given book of Putin one-liners
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    SOME of Vladimir Putin's saltiest one-liners have been turned into a book by his supporters who have sent a batch to the Kremlin touting it as the ideal holiday gift for patriotic Russian officials. THE tome, entitled "The Words that are changing the ...and more »
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  • 80 dead in Nigeria attacks - The Cairns Post

    80 dead in Nigeria attacks
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    AT least 80 people have been killed in Nigeria in a series of attacks blamed on Islamic extremist Boko Haram militants. IN the northeastern city of Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, at least 30 were killed and more than 90 wounded in overnight blasts ...and more »
  • Vic koala rescuers fear worst - The Cairns Post

    Vic koala rescuers fear worst
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    WILDLIFE rescuers fear up to 70 per cent of animals they find in the wake of the Victorian bushfires will have to be euthanised. JIRRAHLINGA Koala Wildlife Sanctuary director Tehree Gordon says she bases the estimate on her experience going back before ...and more »
  • Vic bushfire danger set to spike - The Cairns Post

    Vic bushfire danger set to spike
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    VICTORIA'S fire danger rating is set to spike again as coastal residents count the cost of a brutal bushfire. THE Wye River blaze claimed 116 homes and holiday houses on Christmas Day and is still out of control in deep forest. Temperatures will shoot ...and more »
  • Geneva lowers threat level after 18 days - The Cairns Post

    Geneva lowers threat level after 18 days
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    THE Swiss city of Geneva has lowered its alert level, 18 days after it began a search for a number of people who officials said had possible links to terrorism. A POLICE statement on Monday said the Security and Economy Department of Geneva canton, ...and more »
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  • Thai king's favourite dog dies - The Cairns Post

    Thai king's favourite dog dies
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    THAI King Bhumibol Adulyadej's dog, Thong Daeng, has died at a seaside palace in the resort city of Hua Hin. THONG Daeng passed away on December 26 at Klai Kangwon Palace at the age of 17, according to a statement released by a veterinary team at ...and more »
  • France throws open Vichy archives - The Cairns Post

    France throws open Vichy archives
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    FRANCE is opening police and legal archives from the collaborationist Vichy regime, allowing free access to previously classified documents from World War II. THE order, signed December 24 and effective as of Monday, allows anyone access to the ...and more »
  • El Salvador soccer star Alfredo Pacheco killed in petrol station shooting - The Cairns Post

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    El Salvador soccer star Alfredo Pacheco killed in petrol station shooting
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    AN international soccer star, banned for life for match fixing, has been shot dead at a petrol station. Alfredo Pacheco, El Salvador's most-capped player, was chatting with friends when the gunman fired at the group several times, The Sun reports. Two ...and more »
  • Man dead after Gold Coast plane crash - The Cairns Post

    Man dead after Gold Coast plane crash
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    A JOY flight has turned to disaster on the Gold Coast, with a vintage Tiger Moth plane crash killing a sightseer. THE biplane came down in bushland shortly after take off from an airstrip at Norwell, near Pimpama, on Monday morning. A 58-year-old man ...and more »
  • Flooding closes 300km of Stuart Highway - The Cairns Post

    Flooding closes 300km of Stuart Highway
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    A 300KM stretch of the Stuart Highway has been closed as major flooding continues to plague the Northern Territory. THE road will be closed until at least 6am on Tuesday due to significant flooding in three places and a road train that bogged itself ...and more »
  • Excess mobile data costing millions - The Cairns Post

    Excess mobile data costing millions
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    IF you occasionally stray over your mobile plan's data limit, you're not the only one - it's costing Australians $10 million a month. TWO out of every five phone users have gone over their limit but, according to a survey by comparison web site finder ...and more »
  • Bosnian terror suspects remain in custody - The Cairns Post

    Bosnian terror suspects remain in custody
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    BOSNIA'S state court has ordered eight out of 11 Islamist terrorism suspects to remain in custody for one month, after a prosecutor said the group was believed to have been plotting a New Year attack. THE men were arrested last week in raids at several ...and more »
  • Investigation reveals cocaine abuse in toilets of iconic British churches - The Cairns Post

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    Investigation reveals cocaine abuse in toilets of iconic British churches
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    Higher power ... Traces of cocaine were found in the toilets of St Paul's Cathedral in London. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied. THE toilets at some of Britain's most iconic places of worship show signs of cocaine abuse, it has been revealed. An ...and more »
  • Vic bushfire wipes out homes, businesses - The Cairns Post

    Vic bushfire wipes out homes, businesses
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    A BUSHFIRE destroyed Sherryl Smith's Wye River home and business on Christmas Day but it couldn't destroy everything. "MY terracotta warriors, three of them are still standing," she told AAP on Monday. "Everybody who saw it just laughed." Apart from ...and more »
  • Luxury liner labelled 'floating disaster' - The Cairns Post

    Luxury liner labelled 'floating disaster'
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    PASSENGERS aboard a luxury cruise liner that docked in Sydney on Monday have labelled the vessel a "floating disaster" plagued by a nasty stomach bug. THERE are reports at least 60 of the 1500 people on board the P&O's Pacific Eden were struck down ...and more »
  • All about China and oil again - The Cairns Post

    All about China and oil again
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    SHARES in Europe and Asia have fallen in trade thinned by holidays, hit by slumping oil prices and concerns over Chinese growth and finances. PRICES of both Brent and US crude fell 1.8 per cent on Monday, reversing a brief rebound that helped shares in ...and more »
  • National road toll rises to 19 - The Cairns Post

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    National road toll rises to 19
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    The national holiday road toll has risen to 18 after the death of a 95-year-old woman in Victoria. Source: AAP. AUSTRALIA'S holiday road toll has risen to 19 after a man died when his car hit a tree in the ACT. HE was the single occupant of the vehicle ...and more »
  • John Beeden: British adventurer makes landfall in Cairns after rowing across ... - ABC Online

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    John Beeden: British adventurer makes landfall in Cairns after rowing across ...
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    Adventurer John Beeden has become the first person to row solo non-stop from North America and make landfall on the Australian mainland. Mr Beeden rowed more than 7,400 nautical miles from San Francisco and arrived in Cairns in far north Queensland ...
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    British solo rower John Beeden crosses Pacific from San Francisco to CairnsStuff.co.n