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CNN
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A hijacker armed with explosives took 10 Australian tourists hostage on a bus in northwest China Wednesday, before police shot him dead, media in both countries reported.
The man released all but two of the hostages shortly after taking them captive, b..
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USA Today
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President Bush got a boost Wednesday from his most reliable foreign ally: Australian Prime Minister John Howard pledged to keep hundreds of Australian troops in Iraq as long as the United States needs them.
"They will not be reduced or withdrawn," Howa..
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BBC News
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Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has admitted that securing oil supplies is a key factor behind the presence of Australian troops in Iraq.
He said maintaining "resource security" in the Middle East was a priority.
But PM John Howard has pl..
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CNN
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Relatives of three Australian yachtsmen whose catamaran was found drifting off the Great Barrier Reef vowed on Monday to continue searching for the missing men, as theories about their mysterious disappearance continued to emerge.
On Sunday, police cal..
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BBC News
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Australian police say they have broken up an international sex-trafficking ring after rescuing 10 South Korean women from Sydney brothels.
Five people have been arrested and charged with offences including people trafficking and debt bondage.
Police..
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BBC News
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Reports from China say a man has been shot dead after taking 10 Australian tourists hostage.
The incident began when the man hijacked a bus carrying the tourists and their translator in the north-west city of Xian.
He later released them but was kil..
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BBC News
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The Australian government has made a formal apology for the past wrongs caused by successive governments on the indigenous Aboriginal population.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised in parliament to all Aborigines for laws and policies that "inflicted..
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BBC News
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The Australian government has announced it will issue its first formal apology to Aboriginal people when parliament resumes next month.
Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin said the apology would be the first item of business when the new legislat..
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BBC News
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Australian Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd has been sworn in as prime minister, following a landslide victory in parliamentary elections last week.
Immediately after the ceremony, he signed documents to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, revers..
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USA Today
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The fast-moving investigation into failed car bombings in Glasgow and London has swept up at least six physicians and a medical student, officials said Tuesday, including a doctor seized at an Australian airport with a one-way ticket.
Many of the men h..
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BBC News
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The bodies of two Japanese sailors who attacked Sydney harbour during World War II are to be left in their wrecked submarine, Australian officials say.
Katsuhisa Ban and Mamoru Ashibe crewed one of three mini-submarines that infiltrated the harbour in..
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News.com.au
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THE Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) said it will not help fund an advertising campaign to promote the Federal Government's controversial Work Choices laws.
Prime Minister John Howard yesterday called on Australian business to help fund the Liberal..
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CBS News
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The prison sentence of an Australian detainee who pleaded guilty to a terrorism-related charge would be limited to seven years under terms of a plea bargain, a military judge at Guantanamo Bay said Friday.
The judge later convicted David Hicks of provi..
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News.com.au
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AN Australian Federal Police (AFP) officer killed in the Indonesian airliner crash will be farewelled at a funeral in Brisbane today.
Federal Agent Brice Steele will be accorded full police honours in a service at St John's Anglican Cathedral at 10.30a..
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Guardian Unlimited
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An Australian psychologist charged with indecently assaulting a female patient told a court today that forcing her to wear a dog collar and call him master was within ethical guidelines...
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Yahoo News
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What do you get when you cross Australian beach culture with a desire to remain clothed in a way acceptable to Muslim women? If you're designer Aheda Zanetti, you get what she says is the world's first two-piece Islamic swimsuit, the burkini...
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News.com.au
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THE Australian Defence Force has banned soldiers from writing online journals and has deleted blogs from troops serving in Iraq...
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