Thursday, September 8, 2016

BREKKIE WRAP: Jazmine Howarth tried to go 'halfway to heaven' to say bye to best friend Dionne Corbett and other top stories.

  • BREKKIE WRAP: Jazmine Howarth tried to go 'halfway to heaven' to say bye to best friend Dionne Corbett

    BREKKIE WRAP: Jazmine Howarth tried to go 'halfway to heaven' to say bye to best friend Dionne Corbett
    Jazmine Howarth and fiance Brendan Cawley. Picture: Facebook/Brendan CawleyMathew MurphyNews Corp Australia NetworkA BEREAVED bride-to-be accidentally took her own life after believing she could go “halfway” to heaven to say a final goodbye to her dead best friend.Jazmine Howarth, 25, believed she could meet up with mother-of-one Dionne Corbett, who had committed suicide just weeks prior, before returning “to the land of the living”.The Sun reports the UK woman was found dead in a community gard..
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  • Former US Commanders Take Increasingly Dim View of War on ISIS

    Former US Commanders Take Increasingly Dim View of War on ISIS
    It’s a most peculiar war: rarely has the U.S. been killing so many while risking so few. The U.S. is beating ISIS handily, judging by Vietnam’s body-count metric. The total number of ISIS battlefield deaths claimed by U.S. officials has jumped, from 6,000 in January 2015 to 45,000 last month—a bloodbath for an enemy force estimated to number about 30,000. Three U.S. troops have died. That’s an eye-watering U.S.-to-ISIS “kill ratio” of 15,000-to-1. “We’ve got good momentum going,” General Jose..
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  • Retired 88-year-old Aussie judge offers to swap places with refugee on Manus Island or Nauru

    Retired 88-year-old Aussie judge offers to swap places with refugee on Manus Island or Nauru
    An 88-year-old former Australian judge has offered to “live out” the rest of his years in one of Australia’s offshore detention centres, with an offer to swap places with a refugee detained on Manus Island or Nauru. Dr Jim Macken, a former justice of the industrial commission, prominent unionist and member of the Order of Australia, wrote to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton last month with the “sincere” proposal to “body swap” with a refugee, to give them the opportunity to become an Australia..
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  • Brazil's Workers' Party down, but not out, following Rousseff's ouster

    Brazil's Workers' Party down, but not out, following Rousseff's ouster
    Brazil’s Workers’ Party (PT) is facing its worst-ever crisis in the wake of a long impeachment process that saw Dilma Rousseff removed from the presidential office on Thursday, but the party is unlikely to be going away anytime soon. After 14 years of uninterrupted rule in Latin America’s largest and richest country, the left-wing PT saw Rousseff ousted for good from the Planalto presidential palace after a parliamentary marathon – with numerous votes in the lower and upper chambers and a tria..
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  • Angela Merkel admits flaws in migrant policy

    Angela Merkel admits flaws in migrant policy
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  • Mia's mother haunted by 'horrific visions'

    Mia's mother haunted by 'horrific visions'
    AU QLD: French Citizen Charged With Murder of British Woman August 254:30A 29-year-old French man has been charged with murder, attempted murder, cruelty to animals and assaulting police after he was arrested for the stabbing of Mia Ayliffe-Chung. On the evening August 23, police arrived to find the 21-year-old British woman dead at the scene after she was stabbed multiple times with a kitchen knife. The suspect, who has not been named, was caught on police body camera saying ?Allahu Ackbar..
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GWS coach Leon Cameron says Giants can go all the way after top ... .Two New South Wales men charged over Mundubbera murder .
Memsie Stakes 2016: Season-opening Group 1 promises to be electric from the jump .NRL casualty ward: Panther cops back breaker .

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