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Obama campaign calls Romney 'vampire'

Barack Obama

THE Obama campaign attacked Mitt Romney as a "vampire" who amassed his vast personal fortune as a venture capitalist by exploiting ordinary workers.
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Afghan President annouces transitions

President Karzai announced on Monday that the third tranche of provinces would begin the transition to Afghan-led security responsibility.

AUSTRALIAN soldiers stationed in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province will start heading home as early as the middle of this year, says the Afghanistan President.
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49 bodies dumped on Mexican hwy

Forensic experts examine the area where dozens of bodies, some of them mutilated, were found on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in the town of San Juan near the city of Monterrey, Mexico.

FORTY-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies have been found dumped on a highway in what could be the latest outburst in an escalating war among drug gangs.

 

NZ PM comes out for gay marriage

Neq Zealand Prime Minister at the Big Gay Out festival

NEW Zealand Prime Minister John Key has joined US President Barack Obama in declaring that he is ''not personally opposed'' to same-sex marriage.
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Obama supports same-sex marriage

Barack Obama has come out in support of same-sex marriage.

BARACK Obama has become the first US president to say publicly he was in favour of same-sex marriage, in a pre-election debate roiling American politics.
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CIA stops al-Qaeda bomb plot

A file photo released in 2010, by Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Interior purports to showmaster bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri.

THE CIA have thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design.

 

Hollande is new French president

France's Socialist Party (PS) newly-elected president Francois Hollande.

IN WHAT may prove a game-changer for the Eurozone crisis, France has elected Francois Hollande as its first socialist president in 17 years.

 

Bin Laden's last words leaked online

Osama bin Laden

OSAMA bin Laden wanted to change his business strategy, but he was worried that his instructions were being deliberately ignored by bungling subordinates.

 

Rupert Murdoch 'turned a blind eye'

A video grab from pooled footage taken inside the Leveson Inquiry shows former News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch giving evidence into press standards at the High Court in London on April 26, 2012.

RUPERT Murdoch is not a fit person to run a major international company, a committee of British MPs inquiring into phone hacking has concluded.

 

Ferry sinking death toll over 100

ABOUT 105 people are confirmed dead and almost as many are missing after a river ferry with 350 people aboard broke apart and sank in northeast India.

 

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