Main stories in today's 0745 ABC News

AAP General News (Australia)
04-10-2006
Main stories in today's 0745 ABC News

SYDNEY, April 10 AAP - Main stories in today's 0745 ABC News:

- Two senior federal government ministers will face tough questioning at the Cole inquiry
this week.

- The Cole inquiry has already heard evidence about how the department of foreign affairs
and trade dealt with allegations about AWB paying kickbacks.

- Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile is criticised by the United Nations official who
was responsible for checking Iraqi oil-for-food contracts.

- Police raid a home as they investigate the fatal shooting of a man in south western Sydney.

- A hand gun is fired during an attempted robbery at a grocery store in Berala in western Sydney.

- Anyone who works or volunteers at a nursing home will soon be subjected to a police
background check.

- The US President George W Bush is under increasing pressure to explain his role in
the leaking of intelligence information to bolster his case for the war in Iraq.

- Iran says it has shot down a US surveillance drone in the south of the country.

- The federal opposition says the government is in disarray over its relationship with
Indonesia and its position on Papuan asylum seekers.

- Israel's acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says the Palestinian authority led by
Hamas should be considered a hostile entity.

- American Phil Mickelson is the outright leader in the final round of the US Masters at Augusta.

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