Phillipines military claims to have killed ‘most wanted” terrorist

February 3rd, 2012

The Philippine military said it killed Southeast Asia’s most-wanted terrorist and two other senior militants Thursday in a U.S.-backed airstrike that would mark one of the region’s biggest anti-terror successes in recent years.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46232542/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/?google_editors_picks=true#.TyqVYoHz4pt

Hospital security concerns over injured Bikie gang leader

February 3rd, 2012

Unions say security issues because of Vincenzo Focarelli’s presence in the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) raise concern about what the new city hospital will be like.

The self-appointed Comancheros bikie gang leader remains in a stable condition in the RAH, after he was shot four times on Sunday night in an attack which killed his 22-year-old son Giovanni.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-01/hospital-security-prisoners-rah/3804464?section=sa

12,000 isolated by floods in NSW

February 3rd, 2012

Thousands of residents in northern New South Wales are bunkered down in evacuation centres, as the worst floods in over 35 years hit the region.

Across the state, more than 12,000 people were isolated by rising floodwaters as heavy rains fell, sparking 13 flood warnings. Evacuation operations continued in and around Moree last night, with about 2300 residents rushing to sandbag their homes and leave.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10783048

Ferry carrying 350 sinks off PNG

February 3rd, 2012

Authorities say more than half of the 350 people who were aboard the MV Rabaul Queen have been rescued, over 12 hours after it sank to the northeast of the PNG mainland.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10783052

Suspected Molotov cocktail found at Occupy Wellington site

February 1st, 2012

Police are investigating the discovery of what’s understood to be a Molotov cocktail at Wellington’s Civic Square.

The park is the former site of the Occupy protesters, who were evicted yesterday.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10782743

Boy charged with plot to bomb his school in Utah

February 1st, 2012

US authorities have filed charges against a 16-year-old boy accused in a plot to detonate a bomb at a high school in the western U.S. state of Utah.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10782606

Thailand to investigate shooting of civilians by military in South

February 1st, 2012

Thailand has ordered an investigation into the deadly shooting of four Muslim civilians by paramilitaries in the restive south.

http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8411786/thailand-to-probe-army-shooting-of-four

More heavy rain for Fiji

February 1st, 2012

A week after a killer flood, Fiji’s western districts are again on alert as the country’s sugar and tourist belt is pounded by heavy rain.

Six people were killed in last week’s storm.

Just after 5pm today, Fiji’s National Disaster Management Office (DISMAC) broadcast appeals for all government department heads to report to their offices immediately – particularly in Lautoka.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/6343673/Fiji-fears-new-weather-disaster

South Auckland barman bashed in armed robbery

January 31st, 2012

A barman was beaten over the head with a gun while being forced to clear the safe at his workplace of tens of thousands of dollars by two men in Auckland last night.

As two workers were closing up at the Clendon Inn Sports Bar in Manurewa at about 9.30pm a man putting the rubbish out was confronted by two men with a gun, Detective Sergeant Malcolm Hassall said.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10782429

4 dead in anti-governmnt rallies in Bangladesh

January 31st, 2012

The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its ally, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, had called for anti-government rallies across the country but the government slapped a ban on all gatherings in the capital, Dhaka, and five other cities including Chittagong, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Khulna and Barisal.

In protests elsewhere, police confirmed two deaths in Chandpur district and two in Laxmipur district after clashes with demonstrations, who demanded an independent caretaker government to oversee general elections in two years. The government has rejected that demand.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/29/world/asia/bangladesh-protests/index.html