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The personal details of world leaders travelling to Australia for the G20 summit were mistakenly emailed to a member of the Asian Cup football local organising committee, a report said Monday. Australia’s immigration department confirmed there had been a data breach, but gave no details and did not say whether the world leaders had been informed. “The breach was immediately referred to the Office of the…

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Posted March 30, 2015 20:13:01 Photo: Two magnitude-six earthquakes strike off the coast of Samoa, the US Geological Survey (USGS) says. (Supplied: Geoscience Australia) Two magnitude-6 earthquakes have struck off Samoa in the Pacific Ocean, the US Geological Survey (USGS) says. The first quake was measured at magnitude-6.3, the second at 6.8, the monitor said. The epicentre of the first was measured 124 kilometres west-south-west of the…

Disaster killed 150 people including co-pilot Andreas Lubitz who ‘deliberately crashed plane into the mountain’ Pastor Michael Dietrich, from the Lutheran church in Lubitz’s hometown Montabaur, speaks out after crash Two wardens at another local service ask God: ‘Have you forgotten the people who were sitting on the plane?’ Pope Francis prays for victims – citing in particular the 16 German students – at end of Palm Sunday Mass By…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — ­Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program are focused on the pace at which sanctions and restrictions would be eased, diplomats said Sunday, as Israel’s prime minister predicted that the emerging agreement would help Tehran “conquer” the Middle East. With a deadline of Tuesday night closing in, Secretary of State John F. Kerry held a string of back-to-back meetings with Iranian negotiators and with the foreign ministers of France,…

A powerful earthquake rattled the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea on Monday, generating a small tsunami and frightening locals near the epicenter, but prompting no reports of damage or injuries. A tsunami of half a meter (1.5 feet) was measured in the harbor of Rabaul, a town near the epicenter of the magnitude-7.7 earthquake, said Martin Mose, acting director for Papua New Guinea’s National Disaster Center. The quake…

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) – An Air Canada plane that suffered heavy damage in an accident in the east coast city of Halifax on Sunday landed short of the runway and hit an antenna array, losing its landing gear, safety officials said. No one was killed in the accident that sent more than 20 passengers and crew to hospital. All but one of those treated had been released by later…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in a U.S. television interview that Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has seized swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq, has been gaining recruits since the start of U.S.-led air strikes against the militant group. Asked how much benefit he was getting from the strikes in Syria that began last September, Assad told CBS’s 60 Minutes: “Sometimes you could have…

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two bodies were found on Sunday at the site of a gas explosion that destroyed three New York City apartment buildings last week, injuring 22 people, and officials were working to determine if they were those of two men unaccounted for, police said. The bodies, whose genders were not immediately given, were recovered in an area reduced to rubble by the blast and fire in Manhattan’s…

Forensics teams have identified 78 DNA strands from body parts spread across the remote mountainside in the French Alps where Germanwings flight 4U9525 crashed, killing all 150 people on board. Rescuers are still, however, to locate the plane’s second black box, its flight data recorder, six days after the Barcelona to Dusseldorf flight crashed into a rocky ravine at 700km/h. Between 400 and 600 body parts have been located and…

BEIRUT: With Iran moving closer to a deal with world powers to constrain its nuclear programme in return for an end to sanctions, Arab analysts and leaders are focused more on how Tehran is working unconstrained to tighten its grip on Arab states, from Iraq to Lebanon, and Syria to Yemen. The man behind what some see as an attempt to create a new Persian and Shi’ite “empire”…

Michigan State guard Bryn Forbes had two late shots to help the Spartans reach the Final Four(Photo: Mark Konezny-USA TODAY Sports) SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Breaking down No. 7 seed Michigan State’s 76-70 overtime win against against No. 4 seed Louisville for the NCAA East Region championship on Sunday: WHAT WE’LL BE TALKING ABOUT : After a fast-pace, wide-open first half – the two teams combined for 72 points on 48.3%…

File: Nov. 29, 2010: Then-Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., at the Detroit Economic Club in Birmingham, Mich. (AP) Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said Sunday that a new state law that attempts to protect long-standing religious freedoms “is not about discrimination” and that he and other state lawmakers do not intend to change the legislation. Pence, a Republican, said the legislation that he signed last week prohibits Indiana laws that “substantially burden” a…

KILLER Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was to become a dad, it has emerged in the latest development following Tuesday’s plane crash tragedy. The 28-year-old’s girlfriend, secondary school teacher Kathrin Goldbach, is pregnant with his child, according to reports in Germany. Bild reports that Kathrin left Germany in the aftermath of the crash which killed 150 people thinking her fiance was one of the victims. She then arrived in France to…

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) – Iran and six world powers tried to break an impasse in nuclear negotiations on Sunday, but officials cautioned that attempts to reach a preliminary deal by a deadline in two days could yet fall apart. The two sides explored compromises in areas including numbers of centrifuges used to enrich uranium that Iran could operate, and its nuclear enrichment work for medical research. But Israel, which feels…

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Here’s what some of the 132 passengers on Air Canada flight 624 said after the plane crash landed at Halifax early Sunday. LIVE BLOG: Air Canada 624 crash landing in Halifax Karim Marzouk: “Heads were down. It was the force you’d expect during a roller coaster, something you’re total incapable of controlling. You’re just being thrown around.” ‘We didn’t look back — we just…

Arab leaders have agreed to form a joint military force in the face of the “challenges” facing the region, Egypt’s president announced on the final day of a two-day Arab summit. President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi made the comment Sunday during the Arab League’s closing session at the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh. “The Arab leaders had decided to agree on the principle of a joint Arab military…

(CNN)German investigators found antidepressants in the apartment of Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz this week, according to news reports. Die Welt, a German newspaper, cited an unidentified senior investigator who said that Lubitz suffered from a severe “psychosomatic illness” and that German police seized prescription drugs that treat the condition. Lubitz suffered from a “severe subjective burnout syndrome” and from severe depression, the source told Die Welt. The New York Times…