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3 hrs ago | Samoa News

Education, evacuation planning saved lives in Samoan Tsunami, researchers say

Vehicles as tsunami traps highlighted by the debris piled up at more than 12m elevation at Poloa, American Samoa.

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Related Topix: Tsunami, Natural Disasters, American Samoa, World News, Earthquake, Asian Tsunami Disaster

8 hrs ago | Telegraph Herald

Climate talks reaching the critical stage

BARCELONA, Spain -- After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world's rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in Copenhagen.

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Related Topix: Spain, World News, Papua New Guinea

13 hrs ago | People's Daily

Chinese vice premier's three-nation tour in South Pacific fruitful

The vice foreign minister on Thursday hailed Vice Premier Li Keqiang 's official visit to Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea as "very fruitful," calling it a major diplomatic activity of China with the South Pacific region.

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Related Topix: Canada, Li Keqiang, Papua New Guinea, World News, Kevin Rudd

17 hrs ago | Southeast Asia News

Foreign students need sex education: Australian study

South East Asia News.Net Thursday 5th November, 2009 There is an alarming lack of sexual knowledge among international students in Australia, says a study that followed statistics indicating one in three abortions at a hospital in the Australian city of Adelaide was performed on students from abroad.

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Related Topix: Australia, World News, Human Sexuality

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Crash

China, Malaysia canned

The troubled A1GP World Cup of Motorsport has been forced to axe its remaining 2009 rounds, in China and Malaysia, as rescue bid continues.

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Related Topix: Australia, World News

The Sydney Morning Herald

Olympic Dam output back to normal next year: BHP

Repair work to Australia's Olympic Dam uranium and copper mine is on track for a resumption of full production between January and March next year, mine owner BHP Billiton said today.

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Related Topix: Australia, World News,

NEWS.com.au

Peace prize winner slams 'immoral' policy

THE winner of this year's Sydney Peace Prize, John Pilger, has labelled the Federal Government's asylum-seeker policy "illegal and immoral". The celebrated Australian journalist, author and filmmaker will be presented with the Sydney Peace Foundation award today.

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Related Topix: Australia, Journalism, Kevin Rudd

Manawatu Evening Standard

Child pornography conviction for Invercargill man

A second man in a week has been jailed for 20 months after trading child sexual abuse images on the internet.

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Related Topix: New Zealand, World News

New York Times

Australians' Immigration Fears Find a Focal Point Behind Razor Wire on a Remote Island

CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Australia - Deep in the jungle on this small island lost in the Indian Ocean, Australia's new $370 million refugee detention center reaches its full power after its lights come on at dusk.

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Related Topix: Australia, World News, Southeast Asia, Christmas Island, Sri Lanka, Asia, Indonesia, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Kevin Rudd

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Tvnz.co.nz

Airport tears as NZ's Deputy High Commissioner to Fiji flies out

New Zealand head of mission Todd Cleaver wore a traditional sulu - a wrap-around garment like a skirt worn by both men and women in Fiji - to Nadi International Airport for his precipitate departure from the islands.

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Related Topix: Travel, World News, Fiji, Fiji Travel, New Zealand Travel,

Stuff

Hide apologises to Key

LETTING RIP: ACT leader Rodney Hide addresses the breakfast at Christchurch's Heartland Hotel Cotswold.

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Related Topix: New Zealand, World News

The West Australian

Firepower boss found on Gold Coast

Elusive Firepower boss Tim Johnston has been served with an injunction that will force him to stay in Australia to face questions over the $100 million collapse of the fuel technology company.

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Related Topix: Australia, World News

Tvnz.co.nz

Sir Keith Park statue unveiled in Trafalgar Square, London

A statue commemorating the New Zealander who led the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain was unveiled in London overnight in front of several hundred people.

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Related Topix: New Zealand, World News

AdelaideNow...

Bainimarama mentor now Fiji President

FIJI'S acting president Ratu Epeli Nailatikau has been sworn in as head of state of the military-ruled Pacific nation.

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Related Topix: World News, Fiji, Fiji Travel

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Community Broadcasting Online

Digital pathway for Community TV - Senator Stephen Conroy

The Rudd Government has determined a pathway for Community Television to make the transition to digital broadcasting.

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Related Topix: TV, Electronics, Australia, World News

Tvnz.co.nz

Acting High Commissioner in Fiji due home, as diplomatic crisis deepens

New Zealand's Acting High Commissioner Todd Cleaver is expected back home from Fiji sometime on Thursday, as the diplomatic crisis deepens.

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Related Topix: New Zealand, World News, Travel, Fiji Travel

CCTV

Chinese vice premier meets Papua New Guinean PM on ties

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday discussed bilateral relations and other issues of common concern with Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Michael Thomas Somare.

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Related Topix: Papua New Guinea, China, Asia, World News, Li Keqiang

The New Zealand Herald

Runaway millionaires still at large after six months

Six months after Rotorua couple Leo Gao and Kara Hurring skipped the country with millions of dollars of Westpac's money, police say they are still waiting on Chinese authorities to track them down.

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Related Topix: New Zealand, World News

KVAL - News - National & World News

Study: Fiddler crabs exchange sex for survival

In the world of fiddler crabs, the best form of protection is, apparently, prostitution, according to an Australian study published Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Human Sexuality, Australia, World News, National University

Tue Nov 03, 2009

NEWS.com.au

Britney Spears arrives in Australia

BRITNEY Spears has arrived in Sydney ahead of her first Australian concert tour, which starts in Perth on Friday.

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Related Topix: Australia, World News

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