Australian saviors cut their way from side to side to towns fractured by an enormous cyclone, as officials urge people trapped by the tornado to stay tranquil until help arrive
Establishment on Friday proclaims the first death linked to top-strength Cyclone Yasi, which growled into Queensland State Thursday: a young man who smothers on fumes from a maker running in an with this space.
"This is a catastrophic loss of life and again our pity goes to that juvenile man's family and friends," Queensland State crisis Services Minister Neil Roberts said, urging people with no power to aerate if using generators.
The main storm to hit Australia in a century wrought huge injure to small coastal communities, cutting some of them off totally. Other than while two men were report missing, there were no established deaths caused in a straight line by Yasi.
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The Prime Minister has warned against a rigid devotion to handing over blame for security in Afghanistan to its government by 2014, insisting the change must be tailored to the conditions on the ground. Writing a view piece for The Australian today, Ms Gillard seeks to recast outlook about the length and intensity of Australia's pledge to the war, ahead of a NATO summit on Afghanistan she will be there in Lisbon this weekend that will consider conditions for the evolution."It's important this (transition) procedure is not started until we are positive it will be irreversible," she writes. "We must not transition out only to transition back in."Australia will remain unavailable in Afghanistan for the next decade at least. So, too, must the international community."Full story
AUSTRALIAN Special Forces crowds were left for deceased by two Dutch attack helicopters through a deadly ambush in Afghanistan.When the smoke empty, one American was dead and seven SAS soldiers and two sappers lay badly injured.A shared Australian, American and Afghan perambulation was under waylaid from up to 150 enemy fighters when the two assault choppers arrived at a nearby American base.As the troops were pulverized by enemy mortar, small arms and rocket-propelled shells near the village of Khaz Oruzgan, they thought salvation had at home in the form of the Apache helicopters.
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A 90-year-old Australian has been arrested and charged with raping four young sisters whom he allegedly lured to his home in Thailand with imported chocolates and English lessons, police said Wednesday.
One girl was 5 when the alleged abuse began. The sisters are now 7 to 15, police said.
Karl Joseph Kraus was arrested Tuesday at his home near the northern city of Chiang Mai, where police confiscated about 100 photographs of the naked children, said Doi Saket police Chief Kritapol Yeesakorn.
Some photos showed Kraus posing naked with other children, and police are trying to identify them and contact with their families, Kritapol said. He said police were investigating if Kraus was in part of a pedophilia network, noting many of the pictures were e-mailed overseas.
Kraus, who has lived in Thailand for more than a decade, approached the girls' family in 2008 with an offer to teach the sisters English, Kritapol said.
