Aussie govt papers in second-hand store
SYDNEY • Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's top bureaucrat is conducting an urgent probe after hundreds of classified documents spanning the inner workings of five Australian governments were found in a second-hand furniture store. Mr Martin Parkinson, the head of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, will investigate after two locked filing cabinets were discovered in a shop in Canberra.
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Far-right lawmaker heads budget board
BERLIN • A lawmaker from the eurosceptic, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) who has criticised euro zone rescues and the European Central Bank has been chosen as the chair of the Parliament's influential budget committee.
The committee voted yesterday to accept AfD candidate Peter Boehringer, who rose to prominence by campaigning for the repatriation of Germany's gold reserves from overseas.
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French police detain Oxford professor
PARIS • French police on Wednesday detained prominent Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, a legal source said, months after two women filed rape charges against him.
The Oxford professor was summoned for questioning to a Paris police station and taken into custody "as part of a preliminary inquiry in Paris into rape and assault allegations", the source said.
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