Main stories in Monday's AM program

AAP General News (Australia)
08-29-2011
Main stories in Monday's AM program

SYDNEY, Aug 29 AAP - Main stories in Monday's AM program:

- While fighting has waned in the Libyan capital of Tripoli in recent days, the new
rebel authorities are struggling to deal with a growing humanitarian crisis.

- There are grave concerns in Libya that up to 50,000 political prisoners are either
trapped underground or have been executed, following the discovery of charred remains
in a hidden bunker.

- The National Transitional Council says the extradition of its citizens as demanded
by the West is not a priority, including the extradition of Lockerbie airline bomber Abdel
Basset al-Megrahi.

- New York City officials are denying they over-reacted with mandatory evacuations
and subway closures as Hurricane Irene passed causing less damage than feared, although
14 storm-related deaths were recorded along the eastern seaboard.

- A Climate Institute report to be released on Monday draws a direct link between inaction
on climate change and long-term social and mental health problems.

- DNA testing on three bones found in bushland on the Sunshine Coast has confirmed
they were the remains of 13-year-old Daniel Morcombe.

- New ACTU research shows 60 per cent of Australians want the rich to pay higher tax,
as union secretary Jeff Lawrence calls for a broader agenda at the government's tax forum
in October.

- The coal seam gas (CSG) industry says comments made by mining magnate Clive Palmer,
that CSG exploration poses a contamination and carcinogenic risk to groundwater, are a
"grave insult".

- Japan later on Monday is likely to get its sixth new prime minister in just five years.

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