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• Paris attacks: Vigil held outside French Embassy in Canberra as flowers continue to pour in - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

  

  Paris attacks: Vigil held outside French Embassy in Canberra as flowers continue to pour inUpdatedNovember 16, 2015 13:30:40 A vigil has been held at the French Embassy in Canberra, in a continued show of solidarity with France in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris.At least129 people were killed in a coordinated series of attacks in Paris.Another 200 were injured, 80 seriously, including19-year-old Hobart woman Emma Grace Parkinson, who is nowrecovering in hospital after being shot i..

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• Hundreds queue for the official opening of Ikea Canberra

  

  Video will begin in5seconds.IKEA opening dayHear from the people who got there first and why.PT0M55S620349After 18 months of anticipation, the first Ikea Canberra store has officially opened its doors at Majura Park.Like moths to a blue and yellow flame, hundreds lined up to be first inside with many arriving well before dawn.First in line: Belinda Turner, Mandi White, Nardine Johnson and Mel Preston arrived at 3.15am for Ikea's opening.Photo: Jay CronanExpected traffic delays around Majura Park..

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• Missing Canberra woman Elizabeth Sturgeon found

  

  On Monday ACT Policing called for the public's help to find the missing 49-year-old. Elizabeth was last seen in O'Connor around 1.00am Monday. She was last ...

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• Heartbroken French nationals leave floral tributes at embassy in...

  

  Parliament House lit up in the colours of the French flag after the terrorist attacks in Paris.Photo: Dimitri TolleterFrench nationals in Canberra have left their messages of love and hope at the gates of the Embassy of France in Yarralumla on Sunday before Parliament House lit up in the French Tricolore come nightfall.A steady stream of Canberrans were adding their flowers on Sunday to a mix of tributes, flickering candles, and written messages like the French national motto "Liberty, equality ..

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• Canberra taxi driver claims he was beaten and racially abused in Civic attack

  

  Video will begin in5seconds.Canberra cabbie explains his injuriesCanberra taxi driver Vishal Sachdeva claims he was physically assaulted and racially abused.PT1M26S620349A Canberra taxi driver says he was physically assaulted and racially abused while working on Bunda Street in Civic during the early hours of Saturday morning.Vishal Sachdeva, who has been working as a taxi driver for only five months, said his confidence was shaken after allegedly being struck in the head and called an "Indian m..

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• Tony Abbott staying at Peta Credlin's Canberra apartment | afr

  

  Former Prime MinisterTony Abbottand his former chief adviserPeta Credlinobviously enjoyed each other's company (and the company of their other former colleagues) during their vaycay in the rolling hills of France's south. On return to Canberra on Tuesday morning (Abbott on the 8am flight and Credlin on the 8:15am), the Member for Warringah bedded down for the week in the spare room at Credlin and husbandBrianLoughnane's Canberra apartment. Sure beats the Federal Police College in Barton, where A..

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• Man, 24, fronts Canberra court charged with sexually assaulting teenager after night out - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

  

  Man, 24, fronts Canberra court charged with sexually assaulting teenager after night outUpdatedNovember 16, 2015 12:04:05 A 24-year-old man has appeared in court charged overthe alleged sexual assault of teenager at a home in Cook, in Canberra's north.Kerry Roy Bye, of Cook is facing five charges over the alleged assault ofa 19-year-old woman in the early hours of Friday morning, following a night out in Civic.Police said between 3:00am and 4:00am the woman was placed in a vehicle with Bye a..

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• Mobile speed cameras set to launch in Canberra school zones

  

  Mobile speed cameras will be used in Canberra school zones from this week.Photo: Jane DysonMobile speed cameras will be deployed outside nine Canberra schools from Monday, as upgraded technology allows speed monitoring in school zones for the first time.ACT Justice Minister Shane Rattenbury​ said speed and traffic volume surveys were conducted outside the schools around Canberra and found the need for better targeting of speed reduction efforts outside schools.The nine sites are: Lyneham Prima..

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• Pedestrians and cyclists favoured over drivers in new Canberra planning strategy

  

  Pedestrians and cyclists are favoured over drivers in a new Canberra planning strategy.Photo: Rob HomerPedestrians, public transport users and cyclists are favoured over drivers in a new five-year planning strategy released by the ACT government, prioritising population density and compact neighbourhoods.Planning Minister Mick Gentleman will release the government's new statement of planning intent on Monday, designed to guide planning in the ACT to 2020. The document calls for high quality publ..

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• A black Seat linked to the terror attacks is taken away. Photo: AP

  

  A black Seat linked to the terror attacks is taken away. Photo: APThree key pieces of evidence are driving aninternational investigation into the accomplices, masterminds and financiers behind theterrorist atrocity in Paris.One, a Syrian passport found with a suicide bomber at the Stade de France, suggests the attacker had registered on a Greek island as a refugee in early October. Greek authorities said on Saturday another of the attackers might have come through the same way two months earlier..

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