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 Mike Tyson
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Australia crime victims want Tyson barred
Canada Dot Com
| CANBERRA, Australia - Australian crime victims are demanding ex-heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson be barred from entering the country to take part in a professional poker tournament with retired cricketer Shane Warne. | Tyson, a convicted rapist, is planning to travel to the southern city of ...
 Mike Tyson
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Ban Mike Tyson from Australia, say crime victims
The Australian
| Mike Tyson to play poker in Australia The former boxing champ has rape conviction Victims of crime say 'ban him' | A STORM has erupted over plans by ex-heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson, a convicted rapist, to come to Melbourne to play poker. | Crime victims have called for the ex-con, who once ...
All Blacks are a law unto themselves as they make winning start to Tri-nations
The Daily Mail
| New Zealand 19 South Africa 8 | New Zealand extended their unbeaten home run to 30 matches with a gutsy victory | over South Africa. | In the opening Tri-Nations match in Wellington, the new-look All Blacks, without injured captain Richie McCaw and...
NZ: 10 000 march against crime
News24
| Wellington - About 10 000 people, mainly Asian immigrants, staged a march through suburban Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, on Saturday calling for a crackdown on violent crime following three homicides last month. | Two of the murder victims ...
Rfu Investigation To Continue
Sporting Life
| The Rugby Football Union will continue their misconduct investigation into England's recent tour of New Zealand, despite the woman at the centre of a sexual assault allegation opting not to make a formal complaint against four players. | The unname...
Huge turnout for anti-crime march
TVNZ
Jul 5, 2008 12:21 PM | A demonstration against violence in the Auckland suburb of Botany has attracted twice the number of people organisers had hoped for. | Police put the numbers at the Asian Anti-crime Group march at more than 10,000 as they forme...
Wine - Alcohol /aaeh
GFDL / Scmtb
Tougher liquor laws supported
TVNZ
Jun 24, 2008 4:16 PM | A Government bill aimed at toughening laws on the sale of liquor to minors is gathering support. | Associate Justice Minister Lianne Dalziel is drafting the ...
Australian beauty student Schapelle Corby looks to her lawyers during her trial in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, in this July 20, 2005 photo. An Indonesian high court on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005, slashed five years off the sentence of convicted Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby, requiring her to serve 15 years for allegedly smuggling marijuana into Bali, her attorney said.
AP Photo / Firdia Lisnawati, FILE
'Schapelle Corby should admit her guilt': judge
The Australian
| THE Indonesian judge who sentenced Schapelle Corby to 20 years' jail says he hopes new revelations about fabricated evidence in the Australian drug smuggler's trial might convinc...
MEDICINES - DRUGS
WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo
Illegal prescription drug trade on the risk
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| This is a transcript from AM. The program is broadcast around Australia at 08:00 on ABC Local Radio. | You can also listen to the story in and and formats. | Illegal prescription...
BHP-Rio deal faces lengthy EU investigation
International Herald Tribune
| : European Union regulators extended an investigation into a hostile bid by BHP Billiton for Rio Tinto Group that would give the combined company control over a third of the world's iron-ore production. | The European Commission, in charge of antit...
EU opens investigation of Rio-BHP deal
International Herald Tribune
| : The European Commission opened an in-depth investigation on Friday into BHP Billiton's $170 billion (85.7 billion pound) unsolicited bid for rival miner Rio Tinto , with prices of iron ore already soaring. | The European Union's executive arm iss...
EU opens in-depth investigation of Rio-BHP deal
The Boston Globe
| BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission opened an in-depth investigation on Friday into <BHP.AX><BLT.L> $170 billion unsolicited bid for rival miner Rio Tinto <RIO.L>, with prices of iron ore already soaring. | The European U...
Australia Headlines
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, center, welcomes members to the first day of Parliament watched by Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, left, and and government lawmaker Anthony Albanese, right, in Canberra Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008. Aborigines in white body paint danced and sang traditional songs in Australia's national Parliament on Tuesday in a historic ceremony many hoped would mark a new era of race relations in the country.
(photo: AP / Mark Graham)
Lakes visit 'a missed opportunity'
The Australian
| THE Rudd Government has missed another opportunity to announce much needed short-term reform of the Murray-Darling Basin, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) said today. | Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Federal Climate Change Minister Penny Wong today visited the lower lakes region of South Australia's Murray-Darling Basin to highlight th...
Business Law
A Taliban's militant is seen with an AK- 47 rifle gun, right, as farmers collect resin from poppies in an opium poppy field in Naway district of Helmand province, southwest Afghanistan Friday, April 25, 2008. Helmand province, one of the world's top opium poppy-producing regions, was the bloody frontline of battles last year between international forces and insurgents
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New ways to crack opium
The Australian
| AUSTRALIAN Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty's trip to Afghanistan throws the spotlight on the Taliban's drug trade. | Keelty is sending 12 AFP agents to join up to 1000 international officers training the Afghan police in counter-narcotics. But the Pentagon's first post-invasion assessment of conditions in Afghanistan reveals that the Tali...
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