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Breaking News: One dead in bushfire chopper crash
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Coffs Harbour :: Australia | updated Tue Dec 08 18:51:42 -0800 2009 | travel-news

A helicopter has crashed during a fire-fighting operation on the New South Wales mid-north coast, killing one person on board. A second person is being treated for chest injuries and is in a critical condition. The accident happened in dense...
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Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Sydney :: Australia | updated Tue Dec 08 19:45:30 -0800 2009 | travel-news

The fire has been going since the weekend, and jumped the Tanglewood Road earlier today. Stuart O'Keefe from the Rural Fire Service (RFS) says firefighters and tankers are taking up positions near the threatened houses. He says there have been...
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Source: The Age

Melbourne :: Australia | updated Tue Dec 08 18:51:29 -0800 2009 | travel-news

Police have presented an application to Attorney-General Michael Atkinson to have the Rebels Motorcycle Club declared under the Serious and Organised Crime Control Act. It follows a declaration against the Finks bikie gang in May this year and, if successful,...
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Current World News: Killer driver jailed for 11 years
Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Melbourne :: Australia | updated Wed Dec 09 17:39:45 -0800 2009 | travel-news

Michael Talkes, 26, was affected by cannabis when he sped through the Hoppers Crossing intersection in Melbourne's west at between 109km/h and 116km/h in July last year. The crash killed Peter Fuss, 39, and Mark Cornea, 27, both of whom...
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Latest World News: Fire service probes chopper accidents
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Coffs Harbour :: Australia | updated Wed Dec 09 18:17:55 -0800 2009 | travel-news

The New South Wales Rural Fire Service Commissioner says there will be an investigation into three separate accidents over the past 24 hours involving helicopters fighting bushfires. A 41-year-old National Parks and Wildlife ranger died in a fatal crash near...
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Current Event: Philippines police name 161 suspects in Maguindanao massacre
Source: Christian Science Monitor

Manila :: Philippines | updated Wed Dec 09 18:13:38 -0800 2009 | travel-news

The list includes government militiamen as well as members of the powerful Ampatuan clan, now facing charges of murder and rebellion. Meanwhile, the Philippine Congress convened on Wednesday to discuss last week's imposition of martial law in Maguindanao.      According...
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Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Bunbury :: Australia | updated Wed Dec 09 15:09:29 -0800 2009 | travel-news

Frank Mason from Geographe was flying an ultralight from Narrogin to Bunbury on Sunday when he crash landed in a paddock in Chester, near Augusta. He was found the following morning suffering a shattered ankle and fractured spine...In a statement,...
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Source: The Star

Alor Setar :: Malaysia | updated Wed Dec 09 15:37:48 -0800 2009 | travel-news

A student was so determined to finish her Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination that she borrowed a uniform from her neighbour after her house was razed by fire. Siti Nurannasuhah Arif Johari, 17, was scheduled to sit for her Commerce...
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Source: GMA News

Manila :: Philippines | updated Wed Dec 09 15:59:35 -0800 2009 | travel-news

The consolidated bill entitled �An Act Strengthening The Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction And Management System" was approved by the chamber Tuesday night, a week before Congress goes into recess for the Christmas break...We cannot always anticipate disasters but we can...
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Source: The Courier-Mail

Brisbane :: Australia | updated Wed Dec 09 17:05:46 -0800 2009 | travel-news

Melbourne freeway, killing a man, has been jailed for three years. Shayne Hodge, 42, drove his prime mover into a line of stopped cars on the West Gate Freeway in September 2005. The Victorian County Court heard Hodge was driving...
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