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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Conservation experts warned Wednesday of alarming falls in Australian fish populations and called for more marine reserves and better management to halt the decline. A 10-year study, looking at nearly 200 species at 544 sites, found the main cause was overfishing, with climate change also contributing, although the organization that manages the nation’s fisheries disputed the findings. The research, in the decade to 2015 by the University of Tasmania and […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Qantas is poised to list Taiwan as part of China on its websites, sparking concern Tuesday from Australia’s foreign minister who said private firms must be able to conduct business “free from political pressure”. The Chinese Civil Aviation Administration sent a notice to 36 foreign airlines in April, asking them to comply with Beijing’s standards of referring to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as Chinese territories. Despite Taiwan’s having been governed […]
by Martin Parry © Agence France-Presse SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — The Commonwealth Bank Monday agreed to the largest civil penalty in Australian corporate history to settle claims it breached anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws. The Aus$700 million (US$530 million) fine — which is subject to court approval — comes after mediation between the nation’s biggest lender and the country’s financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC. It follows the bank being taken to court last August for “serious […]
(Eagle News) — Two Filipino nurses were killed in a car accident in Australia on Friday, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs. The DFA, on Saturday, May 26, extended its condolences to the families of two Filipina nurses whose identities they did not disclose., but it said that the two nurses were on their way to an anniversary event of the group “El Shaddai.” “Our thoughts and prayers go to the loved ones of […]
Russia said Friday the Netherlands had provided no evidence that Moscow was directly behind the 2014 shooting down of flight MH17 over war-torn east Ukraine, accusing the Dutch of promoting their own agenda. “Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok called me today,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters in Saint Petersburg. “They have practically no doubt that the BUK missile came from Russia. I asked him about facts proving these claims. He did not give […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — The hunt for missing flight MH370 is being reviewed and may be scrapped, Malaysia’s prime minister said Wednesday, as the country’s new government seeks cuts in public spending. The Malaysia Airlines jet disappeared in March 2014 with 239 mostly Chinese people onboard while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. No sign of the plane was found in a 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square mile) sea search zone and […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — An Australian archbishop was Tuesday found guilty of covering up child sex abuse in the 1970s — one of the highest-ranked church officials globally to be successfully prosecuted for such offences. Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson was accused of concealing abuse by notorious pedophile priest Jim Fletcher in the New South Wales Hunter region by failing to report the allegations. His legal team reportedly made four attempts to have the case thrown […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Jailed Malaysian leader Anwar Ibrahim Wednesday said his country was on the verge of a new “golden era”, with the toppling of a corruption-riddled regime offering hope to people “clamouring for freedom” everywhere. But Anwar, a leading member of the People’s Justice Party that teamed with former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad to oust scandal-tainted premier Najib Razak, also cautioned that “one election does not a democracy make”. “I always believed in […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australian police will be able to conduct random identity checks at airports under sweeping new security laws, the government said Tuesday, amid heightened terror fears following an alleged plot to bring down a plane. There has been growing concern over attacks by radicals inspired by Islamic State and other groups, with a failed effort last year in Sydney to target an Etihad flight with a crude bomb. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull […]
Youth members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) from Australia participated in the recently held worldwide event called Binhi Summit that saw young members of the Church, aged 12 to 17 years old, from all over the world actively engaging in activities for their development. This worldwide event was organized and approved by the Church Administration of the INC with the leadership of the Executive Minister Brother Eduardo V. Manalo and the […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Three generations of a single family were identified Saturday as the victims of Australia’s worst mass shooting in 22 years, a murder-suicide which left seven people dead. They included Katrina Miles, 35, and her four children — three boys and a girl aged eight to 13 — who were found Friday in a shed on a rural property near the Margaret River wine region in Western Australia, police said. Miles’ mother Cynda […]
TAMPA, United States (AFP) — When fishing, local laws often require anglers to throw back any fish that are too small. But a study Thursday found it is more important to toss back big ones, especially females. That’s because they produce far more eggs — and larger ones — than small fish, and do a disproportionate amount of work when it comes to perpetuating their species, said the report in the journal Science. “Our results […]
