Новости за 23.02.2017

London: A defiant Julie Bishop has hit back at suggestions she was disloyal to former Prime Minister Tony Abbott saying she is elected Deputy Leader by the Liberal partyroom and her loyalty is to her colleagues and not the leader.

The bodies of 13 migrants who died of suffocation have been recovered from a shipping container in western Libya, the Red Crescent said on Thursday.

ACT workers react to penalty rate cut, and Breitbart ads pulled.

With a 24-7 sports bar, Marquee nightclub, hundreds of poker machines and blackjack tables and the fact it is the very place where many a rugby league player has thrown away his career - and where Corey Norman was last year busted with MDMA and muscle relaxants while rubbing shoulders with underworld figures - it seems the logical place to stay.

Matt Renshaw has responded to Allan Border's criticism of his decision to leave the field to use the toilet, saying when you've got to go, you've got to go.

"There is a sinister organisation that is trying to warp its way into our ranks," said the executive director of the American Conservative Union.

They came by the hundreds, in big cities and rural hamlets, to heckle, plead, badger and, in some instances, to protest the protests themselves.

Earlier Francis said Christians should see atheists as good people if they do good.

An 80-year-old man is one of three people arrested over a large cannabis crop in south-western NSW that police said would have fetched more than $5 million

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The blast happened at the ammonia production facility for a company that produces fertilisers and other chemicals.

US-backed Iraqi security forces captured Mosul airport on Thursday, state television said, in a major gain in operations to drive Islamic State from the western half of the city.

Pakistan has been struck by a wave of militant attacks in recent weeks which have killed at least 130 people. One attack at a Sufi shrine in southern Sindh province killed 90 people.

The last time Malcolm Turnbull spoke with one of the handful of world leaders Australia might consider among its closest friends, the verbal stoush that ensued ended up becoming a global story.

The male passenger asked a Pakistani man and woman if they had a bomb in their luggage.

Big games demand big performances from big players.

A former war correspondent arrested in Bali for allegedly possessing hashish has revealed his former employer has agreed to pay for his PTSD treatment when he is released from the notorious Kerobokan jail.

The Canberra Fisherman's Club is calling for more bins along the territory's waterways to prevent dead fish and other material from endangering wildlife and repelling visitors.

February is too early for judgments, but the early signs are positive for St Kilda's new-look backline.

The Rebels opened their Super Rugby campaign against Auckland Blues on Thursday night losing 56-18.

Chosing names for the new electorates was no easy task, according to the commission.

Spring has traditionally been the most popular season to sell, but the biggest auction weekends over the past year aren't in spring at all.

Raiders recruit Dave Taylor was ready to quit rugby league before a chance meeting with Ricky Stuart.

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