Cairns news

Great Ocean Road reopens after Vic fires
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VICTORIA'S Great Ocean Road has been reopened after a devastating bushfire razed more than 100 homes in the area. AUTHORITIES reopened the road, one of the state's best known tourism drawcards, at 8am on Wednesday. The move will bring some ...and more »

Federal MP calls for end to Vic duck hunt
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FEDERAL MP Kelvin Thomson is calling on the Victorian government to cancel the 2016 duck-hunting season amid fears bird populations will struggle to recover. MR Thomson, citing a study, says the severe El Nino drought is having a significant impact on ...and more »

Man spared more US jail time over Gozi
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A LATVIAN man has been spared further prison time for what US prosecutors said was his crucial role in a conspiracy to distribute a computer virus that infected more than a million computers worldwide. DENISS Calovskis, 30, spent 21 months in prison ...and more »

'Jihadi junior' gran devastated by video
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THE grandmother of a British boy thought to feature in the latest Islamic State (IS) video says it is "really devastating" he has been taken away from her. VICTORIA Dare said she recognised Isa - thought to be aged under five - by his eyelashes and ...and more »

Copper recovers as equities recover
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COPPER prices have bounced after China pumped in an estimated $US20 billion ($A28 billion) to stabilise its equity and currency markets. HOWEVER worries over slowing demand in the world's top metals user kept gains firmly in check. China stocks ...and more »

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Cairns man fined $1000 after repeatedly punching 'best mate'
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A CAIRNS man who bashed his best mate in an unprovoked attack in southern Queensland has been warned about the deadly impacts of alcohol-fuelled violence. Gregory Lee Butler, 44, yesterday pleaded guilty in Cairns Magistrates Court to unlawful ...

Obama in new push to tighten gun rules
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PRESIDENT Barack Obama has described new steps his administration will take to tighten gun rules and urged Americans to vote for candidates who do more to prevent gun violence, wiping back tears as he remembered children who died in a mass ...and more »

Malaysia Airlines limits checked luggage
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MALAYSIA Airlines says it has temporarily banned checked-in luggage on some flights to Europe because of "unreasonably strong head winds" on the longer routes it is taking for safety reasons. THE airline did not elaborate on the safety reasons behind ...and more »

Gambia workers must wear headscarves
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GAMBIA has ordered female government employees to wear headscarves at work in a sign that the West African country is embracing a Muslim identity one month after President Yahya Jammeh declared it an Islamic republic. FROM the start of the year ...and more »

Iran unveils second underground depot
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IRAN has unveiled a new underground missile depot with state television showing Emad precision-guided missiles in store which the United States says can take a nuclear warhead and violate a 2010 UN Security Council resolution. THE defiant move to ...and more »

HK publisher went to China 'voluntarily'
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A PUBLISHER of books critical of China's leaders who went missing in Hong Kong last week has travelled to China voluntarily, his wife has revealed, as Britain reminded its former colony of its commitment to press freedom. FOUR other associates of the ...and more »

Germany shaken by mass sex assaults
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ABOUT 90 women have reported being robbed, threatened or sexually molested at New Year's celebrations outside Cologne's cathedral by young, mostly drunk, men, German police say, with one woman saying she was raped. POLICE and witnesses have ...and more »

US anti-gov't militia continue stand-off
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A STANDOFF at a remote US wildlife centre in Oregon has rolled into a fourth day with self-styled militiamen vowing to press on with the protest against the US government even as local officials told the group to go home. SATURDAY'S takeover of the ...and more »

IS territory shrinks in Iraq and Syria
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ISLAMIC State's territory shrank by 40 per cent from its maximum expansion in Iraq, and by 20 per cent in Syria in 2015, as international forces pushed it out of several cities, according to the US-led coalition fighting it. THERE was no immediate ...and more »

34 migrants drown off Turkish coast
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TURKISH authorities say they have found the bodies of 34 migrants, at least three of them children, at two locations on the Aegean coast after they apparently tried to cross to the Greek island of Lesbos. THE flow of mostly Syrian refugees and migrants ...and more »

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IS militant formerly sold jumping castles
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The British prime minister has dismissed a video in which five purported British spies are killed. Source: AAP. THE masked militant in an Islamic State video showing the killing of five men accused by the group of being Western spies is believed to be ...and more »

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Four FNQ beaches closed due to risk of jellyfish
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DANGER: Palm Cove is closed due to the capture of an Irukandji in the stinger enclosure, while Clifton Beach and Green Island were closed after swimmers were stung by Irukandji. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKE Source: News Limited. LIFEGUARDS will ...

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Teenagers stealing cars 'for kicks'
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Detective Senior Sergeant Jason Smith with a Prius and a Mazda CX-7 that were allegedly trashed by teen thieves last year. Picture: Anna Rogers. GANGS of Cairns teens are stealing cars to score “bragging rights” among their friends — and their victims ...and more »

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Low turtle numbers at Great Barrier Reef island
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TOUGH MISSION: Green sea turtles move up the beach to nest on Raine Island. PICTURE: Northern Pictures Source: News Corp Australia. STORMY weather is responsible for low nesting numbers for sea turtles at a prominent Great Barrier Reef breeding ...and more »

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Smelly corpse flower bloom in decline in Adelaide, Cairns flowering imminent
ABC Online
A rare corpse flower that in full bloom brought a stench to the Adelaide Hills is in decline, but another is due to flower in north Queensland. Thousands of visitors turned up at the Mount Lofty Botanic Garden in the Hills late last month when staff ...