‘Political drama’ now over, says Aussie PM
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday
said the “political drama” was now over after defeating Kevin Rudd
in a leadership ballot and vowed to go on and win next year’s
elections. The nation’s first female Prime Minister retained office
after smashing Rudd 71-31 in a secret ballot of the 103 - member
Labor caucus, although only 102 votes were ultimately cast with one
member absent.
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Taliban bomber kills nine at NATO base over Koran
A Taliban suicide car bomber targeting a NATO
base at Jalalabad airport in eastern Afghanistan killed nine people
on Monday, following days of deadly anti-US protests over the
burning of the Koran. Six civilians, an Afghan soldier and two local
guards were killed, police said, but there were no reports of NATO
casualties, according to a spokesman for the US-led International
Security Assistance Force.
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Murdoch eyes 2m sales for new Sun tabloid
Rupert Murdoch said he wanted his new Sun on
Sunday tabloid to sell well over two million copies as the paper
intended to replace the scandal-hit News of the World was about to
roll off the presses. The benchmark would make the new edition
comfortably the most-read weekly newspaper in Britain, topping the
1.9 million circulation of The Mail on Sunday.
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