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Brisbane Times

Colonial attitudes reappear in our plans for Christmas and Cocos islands
Brisbane Times
AUSTRALIA'S use of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island has the capacity to undermine our international standing and our regional aspirations. Both these remote territories were crumbs from the British Empire's table fed to us when the age ...
Island undertakings drown in an ocean of diplomacySydney Morning Herald
Australia catches another boatload of asylum seekers off its coastMI News 26
Militarising Cocos Islands will be betrayal, says former ambassadorStock and Land

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Sydney Morning Herald

Wife, mother ... security threat
Sydney Morning Herald
Pam Nielsen, who met Ranjini earlier on, after she was transferred from Christmas Island to the Leonora detention centre, south-east of Derby in Western Australia, and then to Inverbrackie centre in the Adelaide Hills, agrees. ''She's a kind, generous, ...

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Brisbane Times

ALP brawl derailed China talks
Brisbane Times
He also says he would like a Sino-Australian free trade agreement sealed Christmas. THE Labor leadership feud stalled for more than a year the creation of an annual summit to strengthen Australia's brittle relationship with China.
feud held back relations with ChinaSydney Morning Herald

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Alabama, 'Christmas in Dixie' at Center of Australian Lawsuit
The Boot
In 2009, Caswell sued his publishing company, Sony ATV Music Publishing Australia, saying that they didn't do their job by collecting royalty payments from Alabama. Why? Because that band's 1982 holiday-themed single, "Christmas in Dixie," Caswell ...

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USA TODAY

Peter Sagan of Slovakia increases Tour of California lead over Heinrich ...
Washington Post
Sagan swung wide to the right to edge Heinrich Haussler of Australia for the third day en route to claiming the 115.3-mile San Jose to Livermore road race in 4 hours, 50 minutes and 49 seconds. ?It's a surprise for me,? said Sagan, the former junior ...
Photos: Stage two of the Tour of CaliforniaSan Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Sagan makes it back-to-back winsModesto Bee
Peter Sagan Takes Stage 2 Of Amgen TourKERO-TV 23
Patch.com
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Australian tourist dies of overdose in northern Colombia
Colombia Reports
According to reports, Martin Trent Alexander, 36, was found dead in his room in the Las Vegas Hotel in Santa Marta, a major tourist destination along Colombia's Caribbean coast. Colombian authorities said initial reports suggest Alexander died of a ...

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Santa Monica Daily Press

Tourists account for $1.39B in Santa Monica in '11
Santa Monica Daily Press
Californians once again comprised the majority of those visiting Santa Monica from inside the US, according to the bureau's report, followed by folks from Texas, New York, Illinois and Nevada. For international tourists, Australia/New Zealand led the ...

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Welcome to hemp house?
Santa Maria Sun
BY JEREMY THOMAS California's first home made from industrial hemp materials could be coming to Santa Barbara County, if the owner of Knapp's Castle can navigate his way through a labyrinth of red tape. With its spectacular views of the Santa Ynez ...



New team to take on lights on roundabout
This is Cornwall
EYE-CATCHING Christmas lights which brighten up a gateway to Truro could be under new management this December. The display on Trafalgar roundabout has appeared for more than 30 years. Nigel Parris, who runs House of Fabrics, first introduced Christmas ...



More Christmas lights set for town
Horncastle News
Horncastle Town Council agreed last week to push forward with plans to purchase 30 sets of pea lights to be installed in the Market Place trees. The town authority had put aside £10000 in this year's budget to purchase new festive decorations.



Christmas lights
This is Lincolnshire
A TOWN council is continuing to light up Horncastle by agreeing funding to provide additional lights for Christmas. Horncastle Town Council is buying new Christmas lights for the town and has agreed to install additional 'pea lights' in the Market ...



Christmas wreath planning begins
Shoshone News Press
Although Christmas is still more than seven months away, two longtime Kellogg natives are already in the spirit, and have already taken steps to light up the neighborhood this holiday season. Millie Savage and Joan Head ? who began their crusade to ...



liherald.com

Christmas comes early at Winthrop
liherald.com
Feeling grateful that his disease was not life threatening, Raymond decided to return to the hospital with his own Christmas presents to cheer up patients still in the hospital. The next year, Raymond went door to door to raise money to purchase new ...

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Mother Nature Network

Father's Day gift ideas for grown-ups
Mother Nature Network
(Photo: bark/Flickr) Thanking Dad for all he's done for you doesn't have to stop at a greeting card and a gift-wrapped tie. But coming up with fresh, unique ideas for Father's Day gifts can be hard, especially when you've outgrown homemade construction ...

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Auction to raise money to send Christmas gifts to troops
Lexington Dispatch
All proceeds from the auction will be used to fund ONS' Christmas Gift Box Project whereby the organization, which originated in northern Davidson County, will ship 1500 gift boxes filled with North Carolina products, goodies and messages of thanks and ...



Waldrop is deputy of the year
Bowling Green Daily News
Zachary, who suffers from terminal brain cancer, is sponsored through the Warren County Sheriff Department for Christmas gifts, clothes, a tour of the department and lunch. (Miranda Pederson/Daily News) Posted: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 12:30 pm ...



Christmas Central Launches Diva At Home for Today's Woman
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
ChristmasCentral.com focuses on the shopping needs of modern women with new web store, DivaatHome.com. Christmas Central, a leading online retailer of Christmas merchandise and home décor, recently launched DivaatHom.com to accommodate the shopping ...

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Warren garden and Christmas store damaged in morning fire
Detroit Free Press
The fire was contained to the Christmas shop but other parts of the building had smoke damage, fire officials said. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, and no injuries were reported. ?This has been our lives,? Roback said.

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Fines for offenders on toy safety
Sky News Australia
The successful prosecutions, that resulted in more than $17300 in fines, follow a pre-Christmas crackdown on toy safety by NSW Fair Trading. All four stores had fallen foul of safety standards on previous occasions. 'What is concerning is that those ...
Fines for worst offenders on toy safetyHerald Sun
Sydney's little shops of horrors caught selling dangerous toysThe Daily Telegraph

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Harris Teeter adding security after several Triad robberies
WXII The Triad
Police in Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point have investigated five robberies and two attempted robberies at multiple stores since Christmas Eve. The most recent robbery took place May 10 at the store at 401 Pisgah Church Road in Greensboro.

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