" CANBERRA Adidas Ultra Boost Nere Scontate , June 16 (Xinhua) -- Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott has maintained he will do ""whatever is necessary"" to keep asylum seeker boats out of Australian waters, amid claims paying people smugglers has been a policy of successive governments.
The fresh allegations that the former Labor governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard were involved in the payment of people smugglers arose on Tuesday, following the current Abbott government's repeated refusal to deny its involvement in paying people smugglers to turn a boatload of asylum seekers back to Indonesia.
Australian intelligence officials have made cash payments to members of Indonesian people-smuggling rings for at least the past four years Adidas Ultra Boost Uncaged Scontate , a Fairfax Media report said on Tuesday.
It said multiple sources confirmed such payments were a tactic of successive governments, though incentivizing turnbacks were not the policy of the Rudd and Gillard governments.
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When asked to comment, Labor said it would be unlawful to "" divulge security or intelligence information,"" but denied paying people smugglers to keep people on unsafe boats.
The allegations place further pressure on Australia's weak relationship with Indonesia.
Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said on Tuesday that the 30 Adidas Ultra Boost 3.0 Scontate ,000 U.S. dollars in payments allegedly made to people smugglers by Australian officials to return asylum seekers to his country would amount to bribery.
Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi has accused Australia of ""deflecting the issue,"" but Abbott remains defiant that ""stopping the boats"" is the major issue.
Government data says no boats of asylum seekers entered Australian territory in April or May.
""Again the only thing that really counts here is that we have stopped the boats,"" Abbott said on Tuesday. ""The most moral thing you can do here is to stop the boats.
""We will do whatever is necessary within the law consistent with our standards as a decent and humane society to stop the boats because that is the moral thing to do.""
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LAGOS Adidas Ultra Boost 4.0 Donne Scontate , Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's Super Eagles will confront their South African counterpart on Wednesday in a must-win qualifying match if they must defend the title they won in January 2013.
The Super Eagles departed the country on Sunday for Cape Town after losing 2-3 to Congo Brazzaville in their first African Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2015 qualifying match.
The match was played at U.J. Esuene Stadium in southern city of Calabar.
Nigeria's Sports Minister Tammy Danagogo told reporters that the National Sports Commission (NSC) has settled all Super Eagles' allowances pertaining to their African Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers.
Danagogo said the players' match bonus were paid before they left Nigeria for South Africa for their second AFCON 2015 qualifying match against Bafana Bafana.
The Charlotte Hornets' Jeremy Lin goes for a layup against the Miami Heat on Saturday in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo: IC
Jeremy Lin scored 18 points to lead a balanced Charlotte attack on Saturday as the Hornets beat the Miami Heat 96-80 for their first NBA playoff victory in 14 years.
After two deflating defeats in Miami, the Hornets fed off their home crowd to trim the deficit in the best-of--seven Eastern Conference first-round series to 2-1.
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The cushion grew to as many as 24 points in the fourth quarter as six Charlotte players finished in double figures.
It was a complete reversal from the Heat's 106-80 home win in Game 1 and a 115-103 win in Game 2.
Kemba Walker -contributed 17 points and rookie Frank -Kaminsky added 15.
Marvin Williams notched a double-double of 12 points and 14 rebounds, and the Hornets set a club postseason record for fewest turnovers with four.
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Luo Deng led the Heat with 19 points. Dwyane Wade scored 17 and Hassan Whiteside added 13 points and 18 rebounds for the Heat, who will try to rebound on the road in Game 4 on Monday.
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They had been swept in two playoff series since.
In Portland, Damian Lillard scored a game-high 32 points as the Portland Trail Blazers beat Los Angeles 96-88 to cut the Clippers lead in the series to 2-1.
In Dallas Scarpe Adidas Ultra Boost Scontate , the Oklahoma City Thunder moved another step closer to reaching the second round of the playoffs with a wire-to-wire 119-108 win over the Mavericks.
Oklahoma City has not trailed since its Game 2 loss and it now has a 3-1 lead in the best-of--seven series with Game 5 set for Monday.
History is against a Dallas comeback in the series as only nine teams in NBA have rallied to win a best-of-seven playoff -series after trailing 3-1.
Russell Westbrook had 25 points and 15 assists, and Kevin Durant finished with 19 points.
In Indianapolis, French center Ian Mahinmi scored 22 points Adidas Ultra Boost Scontate , pulled down 10 rebounds and handed out five assists to help the Indiana Pacers to a 100-83 series-tying win over Toronto.
George Hill added 22 points for the Pacers, which knotted the Eastern Conference set at two games apiece.