Great to see efforts are paying off. Conservation success stories are all too rare! https://t.co/3CSqygrg6t via @newscomauHQ
— Raffaella Ciccarelli (@raffaella_cicc) September 23, 2017
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Friday, September 22, 2017
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Spain: police say reports missing boy has been found are false
El País reported on Saturday that Julian Alessandro Cadman had been located in hospital. However, Catalan police denied the report in a tweet from its English language account.
Julian, who has dual British and Australian citizenship, became separated from his mother during the chaos on Las Ramblas on Thursday.
Theresa May, the prime minister, spoke about the case after Julian’s grandfather Tony Cadman, a British man living in Australia, appealed for information .
May said on Friday that British authorities were urgently looking into reports of a child believed missing, who is a British dual-national, but did not name him.
Cadman said Jom, his daughter-in-law, had been injured in the attack in Las Ramblas and that she was in a serious but stable condition in hospital.
He left Sydney on Friday to travel to Spain.
It has been reported that the boy and his mother previously lived in Kent. Cadman posted a picture of Julian wearing a uniform from a British nursery school.
Source: Spain attacks: police say reports missing boy has been found are false | World news | The Guardian
Saturday, July 22, 2017
Paige Spiranac deemed too sexy for the LPGA Tour
And Major winner Lexi Thompson has mocked the move in a hilarious Instagram post.
Social media star Paige is famed for her tantalising photos.
They show her wearing low cut tops and skimpy shorts as she biffs away drives and splashes some bunker shots.
Spiranac does not have a spot on the LPGA Tour but she recently spoke out about their decision to bring in new guidelines, which includes no leggings unless under a skirt or short and no jogging bottoms.
“As both an ambassador for golf and an advocate for the continued progress of women’s rights and equality in society, I fear that these new rules are stifling the growth of the women’s game,” she wrote in Fortune.
CLIP: Paige Spiranac Instagram mocks LPGA dress code rules
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Man arrested in WA after flight disruption
A Qantas spokeswoman said the man, 38, repeatedly failed to follow crew instructions on the overnight flight, prompting the pilot to return QF652 to Perth after about an hour in the air.
The man was arrested by Australian Federal Police on arrival and the flight was delayed by about three hours, arriving in Brisbane at 8.30am on Wednesday.
An AFP spokeswoman said the man was expected to face charges including assaulting aircrew, harming a Commonwealth officer and obstructing police.
Source: Man arrested in WA after flight disruption | Perth Now
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Sunday, April 30, 2017
Congress no shutdown but no border wall with $15bn more on the military and $1.5 billion on enhanced border security –
Top Capitol Hill negotiators reached an agreement on a huge $1 trillion-plus spending bill that will fund the day-to-day operations of virtually every federal agency through September, aides said on Sunday.
Details of the agreement were expected to be made public Sunday night, said aides to lawmakers involved in weeks of negotiations. The House and Senate had until midnight Friday to pass a measure to avert a government shutdown.
The catchall spending bill would be the first major piece of bipartisan legislation to advance during President Donald Trump’s short tenure in the White House.
It also rejects White House budget director Mick Mulvaney’s proposals to cut popular programs such as funding medical research and community development grants and adds $1.5 billion for border security measures such as additional detention beds.
Most of the core decisions about agency budgets had been worked out, but unrelated policy issues – such as a Democratic request to help the cash-strapped government of Puerto Rico with its Medicaid burden – were among the final holdups.
The aides required anonymity because they were not allowed to speak about the agreement by name.
Democrats have denied Trump a big-picture win on obtaining an initial down payment for his oft-promised border wall with Mexico, while anti-abortion lawmakers didn’t even attempt to use the must-pass measure to try to cut off federal money for Planned Parenthood.
Details were being closely held ahead of an agreement, but Trump and Capitol Hill defense hawks procured a $15 billion infusion of cash for Pentagon readiness and won funding for other border security accounts, such as detention beds for people entering the country illegally.
Democrats praised a $2 billion funding increase for the National Institutes of Health – rejecting the steep cuts proposed by Trump – as well as additional funding to combat opioid abuse, fund Pell Grants for summer school and additional transit funding. A provision extending health care for 22,000 retired Appalachian coal miners and their families was on track to provide permanent health benefits, a priority of Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other Appalachia region lawmakers.
Democratic votes will be needed to pass the measure, so even though Republicans control both the White House and Congress, Democrats have been actively involved in the talks, which appear headed to produce a lowest-common-denominator measure that won’t look too much different than the deal that could have been struck on President Barack Obama’s watch last year.
Republicans had pressed for policy wins with so-called riders related to other abortion-related issues and blocking environmental regulations such as Obama’s sweeping expansion of the Clean Water Act. They also hoped to chuck new financial rules. But Democrats pushed back and were hopeful that the measure would not contain many items they deemed ‘poison pills.’
Source: Congress avoids shutdown with $1 trillion deal | Daily Mail Online
Monday, February 20, 2017
Oliver Stone outlines ‘the death of this planet and the extinction of us all’
The ‘country has become more prosperous for many but in the name of that wealth we cannot justify our system as a center for the world’s values’
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