NSW:Main stories in ABC radio's 7.45 am news

AAP General News (Australia)
04-08-2011
NSW:Main stories in ABC radio's 7.45 am news

SYDNEY, April 8 AAP - Main stories in ABC radio's 7.45am news on Friday:

- Afghanistan's human rights commission has opened an investigation into the death
of a toddler shot in a battle between Australian troops and insurgents.

- Rebel leaders in Libya say NATO airstrikes have mistakenly killed some of their soldiers.

- At least 10 children are dead after a gunman opened fire at a school in Brazil.

- A powerful aftershock from last month's earthquake has rocked northern Japan.

- A woman and a baby have narrowly escaped being hit by a semi-trailer on the Pacific
Highway in northern NSW.

- A restraining order has been taken out against former federal MP Belinda Neal over
a confrontation with her husband's former lover.

- The NSW Labor party will announce its front bench team later today, with Linda Burney
expected to become deputy leader.

- A former union official, George Wright, is preferred by Prime Minister Julia Gillard
to lead the federal Labor party's head office.

- Leading medical figures say they're concerned that funding for medical research will
be cut by the federal government.

- Australia's largest provider of port services, Patrick, is set to appeal against
approval for strike action which it says will affect 50 per cent of traffic.

- Northern Ireland's Rory Rory McIlroy is the first round leader in the US Masters
golf tournament.

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