Australia urged to repatriate Sri Lankan asylum seekers
Sydney - Australia should repatriate the 78 Sri Lankans who for more than two weeks have been refusing to disembark from an Australian Customs vessel moored off Indonesia's Bintan Island, an influential parliamentarian said Sunday. The asylum seekers...
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2009-11-08 ] Category : [
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Plain sailing for round-the-world Australian
Sydney - Australian teenager Jessica Watson said Saturday that loneliness was not an issue as she passed the two-week mark in her bid to become the youngest person to sail solo and unaided around the world. Jessica, 16, set sail from Sydney on Octobe...
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2009-11-07 ] Category : [
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Austrian shop staff dreaming of a quiet Christmas
Vienna - Austrian retail workers face additional stress from Christmas songs blaring in shops, their union said Friday, and urged employers to keep the music down in the coming weeks. With pressure building up as business becomes hectic in the time l...
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2009-11-06 ] Category : [
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German Red Cross worker shot in Indonesia's Aceh
Jakarta - A German Red Cross worker was shot and injured by an unknown assailant in Indonesia's Aceh province, the state Antara news agency reported Friday. The Jakarta-based Red Cross official was in a car with three other people Thursday when a man...
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2009-11-06 ] Category : [
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New Zealand police find doll in 'baby's' grave
Wellington - New Zealand police found a doll when they exhumed a casket from a cemetery while investigating the reported death of a baby, a newspaper reported on Friday. A 33-year-old woman later confessed to staging a funeral to avoid admitting to h...
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2009-11-05 ] Category : [
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Australia says no more troops for Afghanistan
Sydney - Australia told its ally the United States Thursday that it would not increase the size of it military deployment to Afghanistan. Defence Minister John Faulkner told senior US officials in Washington that Australia would not be adding to the ...
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2009-11-05 ] Category : [
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New Zealand's oldest immigrant dies at 104
Wellington - New Zealand's oldest immigrant, Eric King-Turner, has died at the age of 104, news reports said on Thursday. He was also said to be Britain's oldest emigrant when he moved across the world with his New Zealand-born wife, Doris, early las...
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2009-11-05 ] Category : [
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