Refugees on hunger strike in Australia
Up to 100 asylum-seekers in detention in
Australia were on hunger strike yesterday after being informed they
would be transferred to a remote Pacific island under a tough new
refugee policy. An Immigration Department spokesman said “around
100” asylum-seekers being held at the Christmas Island detention
centre had launched the strike on Saturday night after they were
told they would be sent to Nauru.
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Apollo 11’s giant leap for mankind and Cold War rivalry
At 9:32 am on July 16, 1969 a 2,900-tonne Saturn
V rocket blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida
carrying the Columbia lunar command module and the dreams of a
generation. The mission was Apollo 11, the commander was 38-year-old
former navy pilot Neil Armstrong and the destination was the Sea of
Tranquility, on the moon.
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Clinton’s planned Pacific trip ‘sends message to China’
It’s almost like the Americans saying, ‘Hey,
don’t forget about us’-analysts:
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to
make a rare foray to the South Pacific this week, in a move analysts
say is aimed at curbing China’s growing influence among the region’s
small island nations. While Clinton’s previous trips to the area
have focused on Canberra and Wellington, this time she is expected
to visit the Cook Islands, a nation of just 11,000 people whose 15
islands cover an area barely larger than Washington DC.
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Assange allegations ‘not crimes’ in 95% of world-Ecuadorean
leader
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said the
allegations in Sweden against Julian Assange would not be crimes in
nearly every other country, in an interview with British newspaper
The Sunday Times.
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