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Australian woman to face firing squad
Excerpt:
"An Australian woman faces a firing squad after a Vietnamese appeal court sentenced her to death for heroin trafficking.
Jasmine Luong had been jailed for life by a lower court when she was convicted of attempting to smuggle 1.5kg of heroin on to a flight to Australia.
But the prosecution appealed, pushing for the death penalty, and yesterday the appeal court in Ho Chi Minh City increased her sentence, the state-run newspaper Liberation Saigon said."
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Thursday
Australian woman to face firing squad
Tuesday
Friday
Wikipedia Edits Cause Australian Political Scandal
Excerpt:
"The Australian press also discovered that staff from the Australian Department of Defence were the most active Wikipeda editors among Australian Government Departments, having made over 5000 Wikipedia edits. DOD edits included changes to pages ranging from the 9/11 Truth Movement, the Australian Defence Force Academy and the Vietnam War-era Pentagon Papers. A Defence spokesman said that the Department would move to ban access to Wikipeda for all staff."
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Monday
UK paper backs Rudd over strip club visit
Excerpt:
"ONE of Britain's leading conservative newspapers has sprung to the defence of Australian Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd over his controversial visit to a New York strip club.
The Daily Telegraph said that while it must have been embarrassing for Rudd to admit he went to Manhattan's Scores gentlemen's club three years ago, he had nothing to be ashamed of.
"... any visitor to a foreign city wants to see the sights, and for someone from a country as rich in heritage as Australia, the Big Apple has little to offer," the newspaper's editorial column said.
"The striptease, which was invented there, is one of its major cultural attractions, and should not be missed.
"Besides, Mr Rudd went to the club as a guest of a local newspaper editor, whom it would have been rude to refuse."
Rudd has apologised for a lapse in judgment in going to the club in September 2003, while on a taxpayer-funded visit to the UN."
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22277145-5005961,00.html
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