| Police deny cash demand from refugees
November 15, 2009 at 11:04 pm
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| | INDONESIAN police who shot at a group of asylum seekers attempting to reach Australia have denied trying to extort money from the Afghans before opening fire. |
| UN hunger summit 'waste' without rich
November 15, 2009 at 10:14 pm
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| | A UN summit on the plight of the planet's one billion hungry opens today, with activists warning it risks being a waste of time as leaders of the world's wealthiest nations are to be conspicuous by their absence. |
| 16 arrested in soccer riot
November 15, 2009 at 9:17 pm
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| | A SOCCER referee's unpopular decision sparked riots and looting in the Solomon Islands at the weekend, showing that ethnic tensions remain high despite years of relative calm. |
| 'Secret Call Girl' outed as scientist
November 15, 2009 at 5:42 pm
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| | A 34-YEAR-OLD British scientist has been outed as Belle de Jour, the prostitute whose sex blog Diary of a London Call Girl became an international best-seller and TV series. |
| Mafia 'number two' boss arrested
November 15, 2009 at 3:32 pm
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| | ITALIAN police have captured the number two leader of Sicily's Cosa Nostra Mafia, Domenico Raccuglia, after 15 years on the run. |
| Man arrested over sex attacks on elderly
November 15, 2009 at 3:26 pm
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| | BRITISH police have arrested a man in connection with more than 100 sex attacks on the elderly dating back to the 1990s. |
| APEC leaders vow new economic model
November 15, 2009 at 12:16 pm
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| | ASIA-Pacific powers, including the United States and China, have vowed to overhaul the crisis-stricken world economy, rejecting protectionism and touting plans for a gargantuan free market. |
| Indonesia planning to deport boatpeople
November 15, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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| | INDONESIA is planning to deport Sri Lankan asylum seekers at Merak who have spent more than a month at the Javanese port refusing to leave their vessel. |
| Obama mania grips Shanghai
November 15, 2009 at 8:01 am
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| | EXCITEMENT was building in Shanghai today ahead of President Barack Obama's first visit to China, which many expect will raise the US-China relationship to new heights. |
| 'Angel of freedom was ready to die'
November 15, 2009 at 6:00 am
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| | AN Iranian killed in protests over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection in June was willing to be "shot in the heart" for her cause, her boyfriend said in an interview today. |
| Communist rebels free soldier
November 15, 2009 at 4:51 am
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| | COMMUNIST rebels in the Philippines today freed unharmed a soldier they seized two weeks ago amid deadly clashes that have left almost two dozen guerrillas and security force members dead. |
| US, Russia expect deal on missile cuts
November 15, 2009 at 4:38 am
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| | RUSSIA and the US said today after talks between their leaders that they expect to agree on the text of a new missile cuts treaty by the end of the year. |
| German minister shot at during tour
November 15, 2009 at 4:13 am
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| | A HELICOPTER convoy carrying German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg came under fire from the ground during a recent surprise visit to troops in Afghanistan, several media outlets reported today. |
| Charles 'hoped for Australian republic'
November 15, 2009 at 4:07 am
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| | PRINCE Charles secretly confided he believed Australia should split from Britain and become a republic while touring there 32 years ago, a new book claims. |
| UK PM to apologise to Aussie kids
November 15, 2009 at 3:42 am
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| | BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown is preparing an apology for thousands of children shipped off to Australia and other Commonwealth countries last century. |
| Iran hangs two for rape, murder of 8yo
November 15, 2009 at 3:15 am
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| | IRAN has hanged two men convicted of rape and murder in the western city of Hamedan, the Kayhan newspaper reported today. |
| APEC tips watered-down climate pact
November 15, 2009 at 3:11 am
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| | ASIA-Pacific leaders said today that talks on a binding international pact to combat the potential disaster of climate change would drag on past a crunch meeting in Copenhagen next month. |
| NASA readies space shuttle Atlantis
November 15, 2009 at 2:34 am
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| | THE US space agency was readying the space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts for a Monday launch to deliver a stockpile of spare parts for the nearly completed International Space Station(ISS). |
| Madoff's $1m spoils go under the hammer
November 14, 2009 at 11:34 pm
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| | A TREASURE trove of spoils from Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff and his wife raked in nearly $US1 million ($A1.08 million) yesterday in an auction to help pay back some of his victims. |
| Illinois tipped for Guantanamo inmates
November 14, 2009 at 11:28 pm
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| | THE Obama administration is considering relocating some Guantanamo detainees to a mostly vacant prison in the President's home state of Illinois, US media reports. |
| Rumours of 2012 royal wedding
November 14, 2009 at 10:51 pm
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| | THERE is new speculation that Prince William could marry long-time girlfriend Kate Middleton in 2012 – the same year as the summer Olympics in London and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. |
| Sombre burials for Fort Hood soldiers
November 14, 2009 at 10:49 pm
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| | DUSK fell on the flag-draped coffin of a young soldier, gunned down while waiting to get a booster shot at Fort Hood, as an honour guard slowly marched Michael Pearson to his grave. |
| People smuggling deal continues - Rudd
November 14, 2009 at 10:45 pm
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| | PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has discussed the Oceanic Viking with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono but flagged there is still a way to go to finalise a deal on people smuggling. | | | 
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