Main stories in Tuesday's 0745 ABC news

AAP General News (Australia)
08-23-2011
Main stories in Tuesday's 0745 ABC news

SYDNEY, Aug 23 AAP - Main stories in Tuesday's 0745 ABC news:

- Fighting in Tripoli between Libyan rebels and supporters of Muammar Gaddafi has become
bogged down in parts of the capital.

- US president Barack Obama says the Gaddafi regime is all but over, although the UN
points out there are still risks ahead.

- The Italian prime minister has called on Colonel Gaddafi to give himself up and is
planning a meeting with the country's government-in-waiting.

- New York prosecutors have asked judges to drop sexual assault charges against the
former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn because of a lack of evidence.

- The Greens say the federal government has been using statistical trickery in its
reporting on troop injuries in Afghanistan.

- Another Australian soldier has been killed in Afghanistan, the 29th to die since
the conflict began.

- An initial report into last week's chopper crash that killed three ABC newsmen has
ruled out bad weather as a cause.

- Workers at BlueScope Steel will have to weigh up their future this morning as the
company begins to offer voluntary redundancies.

- The state opposition is planning to target Environment Minister Robyn Parker in parliament
today over her response to two recent incidents at an Orica chemical plant in Newcastle.

- A family in Bossley Park has been awoken by gunfire in the fourth shooting in just
four days in Sydney's west.

- Brisbane's Justin Hodges will today learn the extent of a hamstring injury suffered
during last night's win against Newcastle.

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