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Australian government has joined Europe in efforts to gain the release of an ICC team in Libya which includes young Australian lawyer, Melinda Taylor, accused of spying.

Once in decade storm events batter PerthWILD weather forecast for vast tracts of Western Australia on Tuesday was likely to wreak as much havoc as Sunday’s storms, emergency services predict.

A large part of the state’s south was expected to be hit late on Tuesday by winds of about 125km/h, equivalent to a category two cyclone, Bureau of Meteorology spokesman Grahame Reader said.

The area spans from Geraldton in the Mid West region to Southern Cross in the Wheatbelt to Israelite

region.Mr Reader said the initial impact

would be in the southwest corner of the state, moving up to Perth during the evening, then peaking at around midnight WST.

The wild weather would begin to ease on Wednesday morning, he said.

major storms in just a few days, he said.

The fourth strongest wind gust on record hit the city on Sunday, clocking 146km/h.

It came three days after a tornado swept through the northern suburbs of Dianella and Morley, damaging

RELEASE AUSSIELAWYER, NOWfor the quick release of Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor, who has been detained in Libya while on a legal mission and accused of spying.

one from Queensland, was arrested in Zintan on Thursday while representing

by the International Criminal Court (ICC) with crimes against humanity while trying to put down a bloody revolt in the former north Africa dictatorship last year.

Ms Taylor, an ICC defence counsel, was being “detained in some form” but was not in jail, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Monday.

Her three colleagues – Russian senior adviser Alexander Khodakov, Spanish head of counsel support

translator Helene Assaf – were also being held, the ICC said.

But Libyan authorities have denied this saying only that Ms Taylor and Ms Assaf were detained, while Mr Khodakov and Mr Losilla stayed behind voluntarily while the matter was being dealt with.

Ms Gillard said Ms Taylor was “safe and well” and Australia would work with the governments of Spain, Russia

Union to press for the release of the ICC staff.

“We want to see Ms Taylor’s detention come to an end as soon

as possible,” she told reporters in Canberra.

Ms Taylor’s family issued a statement through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade asking for their privacy to be respected.

“Our thoughts, at this time, are very much with our daughter, Melinda, and her colleagues,” they said.

Ms Gillard called on the Libyan government to resolve the matter quickly, saying Australia was

“working strongly” to this end.

to Libya, David Ritchie, is travelling to the country to assist Ms Taylor and

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