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The Royal Commission into Labor's home insulation¹ scheme will hold a preliminary hearing in Brisbane today. The Federal Government set up the inquiry² earlier this month. It will investigate the decision-making process and whether the deaths of four young tradesmen could have been avoided. 

 

The United Nations is relocating all its non-critical staff from south Sudan as the violence in the country escalates³. Six days of fighting between government and rebel forces has left more than 500 people dead. Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes. The Federal Government is warning Australians in south Sudan to leave immediately.

 

And there are fears scores of people may be trapped under the wreckage⁴ of a train that derailed and crashed in one of America's...ah...ah...sorry, Africa's biggest slums. Four cargo⁵ wagons⁶ toppled onto makeshift homes in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Rescue workers have pulled at least seven people alive from the rubble⁷.  

 

And tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have held another rally through the streets of the Thai capital Bangkok. Protesters marched to the home of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, demanding that she resigns. The main opposition⁸ says it will boycott⁹ snap elections which will be held in February.

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