Briefs Australia

AAP General News (Australia)
04-01-2011
Briefs Australia
BRIEFLY IN OTHER NEWS THIS HOUR:





Three overseas backpackers have been threatened with a gun and forced to lay face down
as a gang stole their passports and wallets from their hire car at a Perth carpark.





A north Queensland cattle farmer has been fined six-thousand-dollars after being found
guilty of animal cruelty charges for cutting off the ears of two calves with a butchers
knife.





And .. Syrian opposition movements are readying for protests after Muslim prayers ..

their first since President BASHAR AL-ASSAD thwarted their hopes for greater freedoms
in a long-awaited speech.



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