Benghazi security a 'huge problem': Obama

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has admitted that a probe into a deadly assault on a US consulate in Libya had uncovered a "huge problem" in security procedures at the mission. "We're not going to be defensive about it," Obama said in an interview recorded...

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Russia sends landing ships to Syria

A RUSSIAN warship carrying a marines unit has left its Black Sea port for Syria amid preparations for a possible evacuation of nationals living and working in the strife-torn country, news reports say. The Novocherkassk landing ship is the third...

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Magazine mistakenly publishes Bush obit

GERMANY'S respected news weekly Der Spiegel has mistakenly published an obituary for former US president George Bush senior, hours after a family spokesman said the 88-year-old was recovering from illness. Bush was hospitalised in Houston November...

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Switzerland freezes Mubarak sons' $300m

SWISS authorities have frozen $US300 million ($A290 million) sitting in Credit Suisse accounts in Geneva held by the sons of deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the newspaper Le Matin Dimanche has reported. The funds are held in accounts...

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Israel must talk to Abbas: Peres

PRESIDENT Shimon Peres has urged Israel to resume peace talks with the Palestinians, saying their president Mahmoud Abbas is a willing partner with whom an agreement can be reached. Speaking with Israeli diplomats at his Jerusalem residence on...

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Nobel scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini dies

RITA Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, has died at her home in Rome. She was 103 and had worked well...

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Missing NSW man may be headed home

AN 87-year-old man who was visiting relatives in Melbourne for Christmas has gone missing and may be headed home to NSW. Vincent Poole was staying with relatives in Ringwood and was last seen at their Barkly Street flat about 2pm (AEDT) on Sunday....

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