Main stories in today's 0900 ABC News

AAP General News (Australia)
12-07-2006
Main stories in today's 0900 ABC News

PERTH, Dec 6 AAP - The main stories in the 0900 ABC news:

PERTH, Dec 7 AAP -

- US president George W. Bush has promised to seriously consider the report of a high-level
panel which calls for the withdrawal of most US troops from Iraq by 2008.

- The US Senate has overwhelmingly confirmed Robert Gates as the next Defence Secretary
to replace Donald Rumsfeld.

- Fiji's newly-appointed Prime Minister says military rule could prevail in his country
for years.

- Police investigating the Claremont serial killings in Perth say they no longer consider
a man waiting to face a murder charge in the United Kingdom as a suspect.

- The federal Labor backbencher Jennie George has criticised the selection of Kevin
Rudd's new frontbench.

- British police say they are now treating the death of former Russian spy Alexander
Litivenko murder.

- ABC broadcaster and human rights activist Phillip Adams is a joint winner of the
2006 Human Rights Medal.

- In sport, the Perth Wildcats have gone down to the Melbourne Tigers 106 to 92 in
their National Basketball League match in Melbourne.

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