The Australian mainland will now be excised from the migration zone and all asylum-seekers who arrive anywhere in Australia will be eligible to be sent offshore, after a controversial amendment to the Migration Act passed the Senate. The legislation today passed the upper house 28 to 10, with Labor and the Coalition voting to allow the …
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the Boston Marathon bombing suspects planned to detonate the rest of their explosives in Times Square. Mayor Bloomberg said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect, had told the FBI he and his brother "spontaneously" decided that New York would be next. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters …
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President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the Boston bombing proved his tough line on insurgents in the North Caucasus was justified and that Russia and the United States must step up cooperation on security. After receiving almost 2 million questions from the Baltic Sea to Russia's far east, Putin used his annual "hotline" dial-in to present …
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Officials have told US media the US government added one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects to a counter-terrorism database about 18 months ago. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was flagged after Russian authorities suspected him of plotting an attack there. An FBI preliminary investigation found no evidence of a threat to the US. Also yesterday, a US …
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US officials have travelled to the Russian republic of Dagestan to speak to the parents of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev lived briefly in Dagestan, and Tamerlan made a lengthy visit there in 2012. The US is seeking more information on the visit, and whether he became radicalised through his contacts there. …
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The US Department of Justice says the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction. The suspect who was charged in hospital, could face the death penalty. A White House spokesman said he will not be treated as an "enemy combatant", as suggested by some Republican members of Congress. …
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Transport shut down, roads closed and residents confined to their homes with the police conducting door to door searches. Such is the state of affairs in Watertown Boston where the US authorities have launched a gargantuan man hunt to flush out one of the Boston bombers. The suspects in the Monday bombing are now believed to be brothers from a …
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