Monday, January 11, 2016

Kim Jong-un calls for better bombs and other top stories.

  • Kim Jong-un calls for better bombs

    Kim Jong-un calls for better bombs
    North Korean military personnel clap hands in a rally, after North Korea said Wednesday it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test last week.Photo: APSeoul:North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called on his scientists to do more to boost the country's arsenal after the regime conducted its fourth nuclear test last week in defiance of neighbours including China and South Korea.Speaking to the scientists responsible for building what North Korea said was a hydrogen bomb, Kim said it was his "expectation and..
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  • Vladimir Putin prepares for a wave of Russian unrest

    Vladimir Putin prepares for a wave of Russian unrest
    Polls show three-quarters of Russians still blame the West for their economic woes.APbyOwen MatthewsPredicting a coming Russian revolution has been a favourite hobby of Russia watchers for years now. But since President Vladimir Putin's annexation of Crimea in March 2014, the doomsaying has intensified, as plunging oil prices and Western economic sanctions wreak havoc on the Russian economy. Yet even though the rouble has lost more than half of its value, inflation has risen from 5 per cent to 1..
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  • Spanish Princess Cristina Due in Court as Fraud Case Begins

    Spanish Princess Cristina Due in Court as Fraud Case Begins
    Spanish princess Cristina de Borbon has arrived in court as proceedings in a landmark fraud trial that became a lightning rod for anger at institutional corruption get under way.Cristina, the sister of Spain’s King Felipe VI, arrived at a court in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, shortly after 8 a.m. for preliminary hearings ahead of a wider fraud trial examining the activities of her husband’s Noos foundation. A judge ordered Cristina to trial in December 2014 over allegations she was an accessory to ..
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  • More than 500 criminal complaints reported after New Year's eve attacks in Germany

    More than 500 criminal complaints reported after New Year's eve attacks in Germany
    BRENDAN TREMBATH: Police in Germany say they are now investigating more than 500 complaints over assaults and theft in Cologne on New Year's Eve.At the weekend, far-right protestors demanded stricter migration policies after police revealed asylum seekers and illegal migrants are among their suspects.The German Justice Minister says he believes the crimes were planned and coordinated.Sarah Sedghi reports.SARAH SEDGHI: In Cologne around 3,000 demonstrators took to the streets at..
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  • Mexico's celebrations over 'El Chapo' capture conceal a near escape

    Mexico's celebrations over 'El Chapo' capture conceal a near escape
    Video will begin in5seconds.First look at El ChapoDrug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman is presented to media as he will likely be extradited to the US, according to an anonymous Mexican government official.PT0M47S620349Los Mochis, Mexico:For a few frantic hours after a bloody shootout in north-west Mexico on Friday, Mexican security forces lost track of notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman as they chased him through a sewer. He had slipped the net yet again.As his security team fought ba..
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  • TPP benefits only modest for Australia

    TPP benefits only modest for Australia
    5 things you need to know about the Trans-Pacific PartnershipAustralia will reap fewer benefits from the planned Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal than most of the members, according to the first comprehensive research on the economic impact of the deal since it was agreed last October.The findings on the main beneficiaries come as the prospects of the deal being implemented appear to have been improved significantly in the new year, with key US business groups endorsing it after earlie..
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  • 'We will make a Brexit work': David Cameron on leaving the EU

    'We will make a Brexit work': David Cameron on leaving the EU
    Video will begin in5seconds.David Cameron cops protest song on-airBritish rock band 'Squeeze' sings pointed lyrics at Prime Minister David Cameron live on BBC television.PT1M6S620349London:It would not be the "right answer" for Britons to vote to leave the European Union, but the government would have to make it work if they do, British Prime Minister David Cameron said.An opinion poll published on Thursday showed that a majority of Britons who have made up their mind would back leaving the EU i..
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  • Will and Kate make a surprise appearance

    Will and Kate make a surprise appearance
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  • Bus crash in Mexico's Veracruz claims at least 21 football players and fans

    Bus crash in Mexico's Veracruz claims at least 21 football players and fans
    Bus crash in Mexico's Veracruz claims at least 21 football players and fansPostedJanuary 11, 2016 14:43:49 Twenty-one people, including children, have died after a bus carrying amateur football players and fans plunged into a river after careening off a bridge in eastern Mexico, authorities have said.Another 30 people were injured in the crash in the municipality of Atoyac, in the eastern state of Veracruz.A preliminary investigation found the bus was speeding.The driver lost control of the ..
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  • Profanities on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's Twitter account raise hacking fears

    Profanities on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's Twitter account raise hacking fears
    Video will begin in5seconds.David Cameron cops protest song on-airBritish rock band 'Squeeze' sings pointed lyrics at Prime Minister David Cameron live on BBC television.PT1M6S620349Followers ofBritish Labour leader Jeremy Corbynwould have been forgiven for thinking the avowed socialist had gone entirely off the reservation, as his official Twitter feed turned into a perverse and often baffling tirade.In rapid-fire succession, Mr Corbyn appeared to tweet: "Here we... here we... here we f---ing g..
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