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READ MORE The super blue blood moon has wowed stargazers in Perth, with clear skies giving a good view of the once-in-a-lifetime lunar triple treat. A total lunar eclipse turned the moon a brooding, dark red over night on Wednesday with the eclipse coinciding with both a supermoon and a blue moon – for the first time in 150 years. While clouds blanketed much of NSW, the ACT and South Australia late on Wednesday night, watchers in Perth and along the coast of Western Australia were treated to clear skies and the best views. Viewers on Twitter tweeted a mixture of grainy pictures to professionally shot snaps, as they watched the earth’s satellite above them. Stargazers in parts of Tasmania, north of the Sunshine Coast and inland in the Northern Territory also had better luck. “It’s pretty cloudy across much of the country,” a bureau spokesman told AAP on Wednesday. “Coastal Western Australia should have beautiful clear skies but Sydney and Brisbane mig...

READ MORE ASIO officers secured thousands of sensitive government cabinet documents at ABC offices in Canberra and Brisbane after they were found in a locked filing cabinet bought from a second-hand shop. The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet launched an urgent investigation on Wednesday after the ABC revealed it had obtained papers covering details five federal government cabinet meetings over a decade. Around 1am on Thursday, ASIO officers brought a safe to the public broadcaster’s bureaus at Parliament House and Brisbane so the documents could be kept securely. The trove, some classified “top secret”, was sold cheaply at a second-hand shop in Canberra, which stocked ex-government furniture. The filing cabinets were unlocked with a drill months later. Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said the person responsible for losing the documents will have serious questions to answer. “Obviously someone’s had a shocker and the investigation will find out ...

READ MORE The White House said no members of Congress were seriously injured, and that President Donald Trump had been briefed on the accident. The truck was carrying three people, one of whom was killed and another seriously injured, Senator Bill Cassidy, a licensed physician who helped attend to the injured, said on Twitter. “There is one confirmed fatality and one serious injury. There are no serious injuries among members of Congress or their staff,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. “Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone that has been affected by this incident.”  Train operator Amtrak said in a statement that there were “no reported injuries to passengers or crew members” on the train, and that local law enforcement was investigating the scene in Crozet, Virginia. But the office of Jason Lewis, a first-term congressman from Minnesota, confirmed to AFP that the House Republican was taken to hospital to be ch...

READ MORE Nearly half of US military sites are threatened by wild weather linked to climate change, according to a Pentagon study whose findings run contrary to White House views on global warming. Drought, wind and flooding that occurs due to reasons other than storms topped the list of natural disasters that endanger 1700 military sites worldwide, from large bases to outposts, said the US Department of Defense (DoD). “Changes in climate can potentially shape the environment in which we operate and the missions we are required to do,” said the DoD in a report accompanying the survey. “If extreme weather makes our critical facilities unusable or necessitate costly or manpower-intensive workarounds, that is an unacceptable impact.” The findings put the military at odds with US President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly cast doubt on mainstream scientific findings about climate change, including this week during an interview on British television. Trump has also pu...

READ MORE Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Bolstered by his knowledge of Perth Stadium’s initial central cricket tie between Australia and England on Sunday, Tim Paine is anticipating that Perth Scorchers will be impeded by a expectations of a sell-out throng of some-more than 50,000 spectators when a Big Bash League’s many vaunted organisation takes on Hobart Hurricanes in a initial semi-final. Paine was a final male out for Australia as a hosts were impressed by Tom Curran’s late detonate of retreat swing, and pronounced a Hurricanes were some-more than happy to enter a knockout compare with few expectations of success over their possess sauce room, carrying scraped into a finals and afterwards mislaid D’Arcy Short to Australian Twenty20 duty. They also forsaken a out-of-sorts Tymal Mills from their patrol for a semi-final, replacing him with a childish paceman Riley Meredith . The Scorchers, meanwhile, have been strengthened b...

READ MORE An Amtrak newcomer sight carrying Republican members of a U.S. Congress from Washington to a celebration shelter in West Virginia slammed into a rubbish lorry on Wednesday (January 31) in Crozet, Virginia, murdering during slightest one chairman who was not aboard a train, according to authorities and media reports. Amtrak pronounced in a matter that a collision occurred during 11:20 a.m. (1620 GMT) and that “there are no reported injuries to passengers or organisation members.” “Local law coercion is questioning a occurrence and crews are inspecting apparatus for damage,” Amtrak added. Fox News reported that one chairman died, and that a particular had not been a passenger. Passengers had a “few bumps and bruises,” one newcomer on a sight told Reuters. U.S. Representative Carlos Curbelo told MSNBC there were teenager injuries though “most people are OK.” “We’re fine, though a sight strike a rubbish truck. Members wi...

READ MORE The US preference to put a conduct of Palestinian Islamist transformation Hamas on a apprehension blacklist will not deter a group’s “resistance” to Israel, a transformation said. “The American preference to embody (Ismail) Haniya on a belligerent list is a unsuccessful try to vigour a resistance,” pronounced a matter from a organisation that runs a Gaza Strip. “This preference will not deter us from fortitude a insurgency choice to ban a occupation.” Hamas has fought 3 wars with Israel given 2008. The organisation receives troops support from Iran. US puts Hamas arch Haniya on apprehension blacklist The United States on Wednesday put a conduct of Palestinian Islamist transformation Hamas, Ismail Haniya, on a apprehension blacklist and slapped sanctions on him – a pierce certain to lift tensions, after Washington famous Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The 55-year-old Haniya, who was named conduct of Hamas in May 2017, repre...