Fraser Coast Chronicle

GALLERY: All wars remembered at River Heads service

Jim Wilson will never forget his mate, Shannon Mcaliney, who lost his life serving in Somalia in 1993

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25th April 2019 11:04 AM

T.S Krait Hervey Bay navy cadet Taidhg O'Brien in a guard of honour at the River Heads dawn service on Anzac Day 2019.

‘How does it feel to know you’re going to die?’

Young reporter Amanda Lindhout was aware of the risks, but three days after entering Somalia, she and her friend Nigel...

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08th Aug. 2018 5:08 AM

Amanda Lindhout speaks to Andrew Denton. Picture: Seven

Qld photographer Nigel Brennan hailed hero after kidnap ordeal

KIDNAPPED Queensland photographer Nigel Brennan has been hailed as a hero by a judge for refusing to leave a female...

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08th Dec. 2017 7:12 AM

Saudi vows to wipe terrorists out

Terrorism had been "functioning in all our countries'' while governments failed to co-ordinate to fight it, Saudi crown...

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28th Nov. 2017 5:11 PM

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman addresses a meeting of the Islamic Military Counter-terrorism Alliance in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Huge truck bomb kills hundreds

A truck packed with hundreds of kilograms of explosives has been detonated killed several hundred people and injured...

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16th Oct. 2017 12:10 PM

Somalis search for survivors after a huge explosion in the capital, Mogadishu.

Green light for green cards in travel bans

John Kelly has stepped in to approved the entry of Green Card holders to the country as confusion reigns over a US...

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30th Jan. 2017 12:01 PM

Khulud Fidama, 26, of Dearborn, Michigan, stands with her family outside the McNamara Terminal at Detroit Metropolitan Airport to speak against President Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations.

Car bomb aimed at MPs' hotel

Islamist militants rammed a car bomb into the gate of a hotel in Mogadishu, the Somalian capital, then stormed inside and...

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26th Jan. 2017 12:01 PM

Somalis walk near a hotel heavily damaged by a car bomb blast in Mogadishu.

US air strikes kill 150 militants in Somalia

AIR strikes by the US on an al-Shabaab training camp in Somalia have killed more than 150 Islamist militants about to...

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09th March 2016 5:03 AM

An Al-Shabaab fighter views the bodies of two dead government soldiers, in the north of Mogadishu Monday, July, 13, 2009. Islamic insurgents have retreated from areas around Somalia's presidential palace after a day of fighting that killed dozens of people and wounded about 150, witnesses said Monday. Sunday's fighting marked the first time African Union peacekeepers directly intervened to support government forces, Somali military spokesman Farhan Asanyo said the government made a strategic retreat. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

Nigel’s clues lead to man’s kidnap arrest

FORMER Bundaberg NewsMail photographer Nigel Brennan has welcomed the news that Canadian police have charged a man with his...

Australian Navy ship in 449kg heroin seizure off Somalia

AN Australian Navy ship has seized a drug smuggling boat off the coast of Somalia, seizing more than 449 kilograms of...

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15th May 2014 1:05 PM

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