Lebanon snaps reveal lifestyle of influential family not likely to be pushover in event of child recovery attempt and other top stories.

• Lebanon snaps reveal lifestyle of influential family not likely to be pushover in event of child recovery attempt

  

  Lebanon snaps reveal lifestyle of influential family not likely to be pushover in event of child recovery attempt They were supposed to be the family happy snaps that would provide intelligence for a plot to snatch two children in Lebanon, but instead the expensive cars and grand backdrops should have been warning.Last year as desperate Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner was liaising with child recovery agencies to find out how she might recover her two children Lahela, 6, and Noah, 4, in Lebanon..

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• Perth shopkeeper assaulted in convenience store attack caught on CCTV

  

  Perth shopkeeper assaulted in convenience store attack caught on CCTV Posted April 16, 2016 13:38:12 Confronting CCTV footage of an assault and robbery at a Perth convenience store has been released by police as part of an appeal to help locate the attackers.Police said a male employee, 24, was working as an attendant at the store in Wellington Street in Perth earlier this month when a man entered the shop.The worker began to serve the man who then became aggressive a..

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• Stan Grant 'honoured' by council appointment

  

  Stan Grant 'honoured' by council appointment

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• Malcolm Turnbull returns from China; talks heated by South China Sea tensions

  

  Malcolm Turnbull returns from China; talks heated by South China Sea tensions Posted April 16, 2016 08:42:04 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has returned home after a whirlwind 36-hour visit to China in which he tried to prevent rising tensions over China's military build-up from overshadowing business ties.Deepening trade, tourism and research links dominated the formal side of the visit, but rapidly rising tensions between China and the US in the South China Sea pro..

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• Charges laid after 2014 show ride death

  

  Charges laid after 2014 show ride death

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