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1:00 AM AWST | CHICAGO: The earthquake which struck Chile last month moved the entire city of Concepcion more than three metres to the west, say Chilean and US scientists.
1:00 AM AWST | OKCULAR, Turkey: Hundreds of earthquake survivors were huddled in aid tents and around bonfires in eastern Turkey, seeking relief from the winter cold after a strong tremor knocked down stone and mud-brick houses in five villages, killing 51 people.
1:00 AM AWST | JOS, Nigeria: Nigerian troops were patrolling villages near this northern city yesterday after the massacre of more than 500 Christians sparked international shock and outrage.
1:00 AM AWST | BRITAIN will give South Africa 42 million condoms in response to a request for an extra billion as part of an HIV prevention drive before the World Cup.
1:00 AM AWST | STOCKHOLM: A 62-year-old Uighur who has lived in Sweden as a political refugee for the past 13 years has been jailed for spying on Uighur expatriates on behalf of China.
1:00 AM AWST | JAKARTA: Indonesian police yesterday shot dead a ''big name'' suspected terrorist and are seeking confirmation whether he is Dulmatin, a key figure in the Bali bombings in 2002.
1:00 AM AWST | SHANGHAI: The Chinese government has said that it, rather than the Dalai Lama, will have the final say on who succeeds him as Tibet's spiritual leader.
1:00 AM AWST | LONDON: A French resistance heroine who saved scores of Allied lives and survived a Nazi firing squad has died at 105 in a British care home, its manager said.
1:00 AM AWST | BAGHDAD: When a massive car bomb destroyed the city's celebrated Shabander cafe three years ago, Haj Mohammed al-Khashali lost his four sons and one grandson. "Their blood was mixed with all the books outside," Mr Khashali told the Herald on Monday. "My entire family taken away from me."
1:00 AM AWST | LONDON: The British government has been forced to open an inquiry into the probation and parole system after it was revealed that Jon Venables, one of the 10-year-old boys who killed the toddler James Bulger in 1993, is to be returned to prison.
1:00 AM AWST | AS IRAQIS voted on Sunday, a message emanating from the White House was that the election and its aftermath were now "in the hands of the Iraqis''. But the visit of a leading Kurdish politician to Washington this year and direct intervention by Barack Obama in settling the pre-election stand-off suggest a continuing hands-on role.
1:00 AM AWST | BAGHDAD: Iraq's two main secular political leaders are vying for the lead in a close election contest that has seen a shift away from sectarian parties and seems set to pave the way for the complete withdrawal of US troops by September next year.
1:00 AM AWST | ISRAELI authorities have been tight lipped on the January 20 assassination of the Hamas arms dealer Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai, which is widely presumed to be the work of its intelligence agency, Mossad.
1:00 AM AWST | A fourth Australian in Israel has become a victim of identity theft, write Rick Feneley, Reid Sexton and Kirsty Needham.
09 Mar 10 | LAGOS: At least 500 people were killed on Sunday in communal clashes near Nigeria's central city of Jos, a state governor's adviser said yesterday, revising a previous toll of about 100 dead.
09 Mar 10 | KOLKATA: The Booker-prize winning novelist and activist Arundhati Roy has been invited to ''mediate'' by the leader of the Maoist guerillas fighting a violent insurgency against the Indian state.
09 Mar 10 | CONCEPCION: The officers came with loudspeakers to impoverished neighbourhoods near the epicentre of Chile's devastating earthquake, warning looters to return what they stole or face police raids.
09 Mar 10 | ISLAMABAD: Pakistani intelligence sources in Karachi say that security forces in the southern port city have arrested an American who became a top propagandist for al-Qaeda and who is wanted by the US on treason charges, but US officials say the reports cannot be confirmed.
09 Mar 10 | LONDON: The organisers of Crufts dog show in Birmingham have warned owners not to break its rules amid concerns that some are resorting to make-up, hair dye and other beauty treatments for their animals.
09 Mar 10 | WASHINGTON: The expected resignation of New York congressman Eric Massa overnight was set to cap a grim several days for the Democrats, who have suffered a series of mishaps that have undermined the party's 2006 promise to run ''the most ethical Congress in history''.
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