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Gillard calls leadership ballot

Headlines-Newsx24 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:52:19 +0000

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announces a ballot for the leadership of the Labor party to end a damaging split in the organisation.

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Australian PM calls for leadership vote

Headlines-Newsx24 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:44:08 +0000

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will put her future in the hands of her Labor Party parliamentary colleagues next Monday, she told reporters Thursday in Adelaide.

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Comic Frank Carson dies aged 85

Headlines-Newsx24 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:38:41 +0000

Northern Irish comedian Frank Carson, whose catch phrases included “It’s a cracker”, has died aged 85, surrounded by his family.

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Chavez ‘to go to Cuba’ for surgery

Headlines-Newsx24 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:57:01 +0000

Speculation and messages of support surged in Venezuela Wednesday, a day after President Hugo Chavez announced he would travel to Cuba for surgery.

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NHS ‘will be Cameron’s poll tax’

Headlines-Newsx24 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:42:03 +0000

Labour leader Ed Miliband tells David Cameron he risks making NHS reform “his poll tax” – in noisy Commons clashes over the health bill.

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Dozens killed in Argentina train crash

Headlines-Newsx24 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:19:38 +0000

At least 49 people were killed and more than 600 people injured when a train plowed into a platform at a Buenos Aires station, state media reports.

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DSK released after French questioning

Headlines-Newsx24 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:56:35 +0000

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, was released Wednesday from police custody in northern France after undergoing two days of questioning about an alleged prostitution ring.

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Argentina train crash ‘kills 49′

Headlines-Newsx24 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:50:35 +0000

A commuter train crash at a station in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, kills 49 people and leaves at least 600 injured, officials say.

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World seeks to stem Syria killing

Headlines-Newsx24 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:31:18 +0000

Thirty five people are reported killed in Syria, including two Western journalists, as world leaders try to put pressure on Bashar al-Assad's regime to halt the brutal crackdown.

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5 journalists killed in 2012

Headlines-Newsx24 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:15:52 +0000

The deaths of two Western journalists in Syria Wednesday, less than a week after New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid died in the violence-wracked country, highlights the danger reporters face in covering conflict zones.

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