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15 Apr 09 | THE global recession will likely lead to a surge of economic refugees, the Foreign Affairs Minister, Stephen Smith, warned yesterday in a keynote address to a regional people-smuggling conference.
15 Apr 09 | AS US taxpayers rush to meet the April 15 deadline to lodge their tax returns, and President Barack Obama talks up the economy, thousands of citizens will hold tea parties throughout the nation to protest the Administration's big-spending economic policies.
15 Apr 09 | FIJI'S military ruler, Frank Bainimarama, has called on Australia and New Zealand to stay out of the country's affairs and defended a crackdown on the media as necessary to prevent "irritating and dark" reports that could spoil Fiji's reputation.
15 Apr 09 | AUSTRALIAN so-called "smart sanctions" against the Fijian regime have been misguided and pushed the interim government closer to China, an analyst says.
15 Apr 09 | The Gandhi heir gets experience pressing the flesh, writes Matt Wade in Bhatinda, Punjab.
15 Apr 09 | Burma's military regime has indicated it's willing to sit down with other countries in the region to discuss the plight of Rohingya asylum seekers.
Australia's Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said con...
15 Apr 09 | Fiji's military regime has stepped up its crackdown on the media, forcing the shutdown of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's relay transmitters in the troubled South Pacific country.
The ABC y...
15 Apr 09 | Thai troops will remain on the streets of the capital despite the arrest of three protest leaders.
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15 Apr 09 | Sri Lankan troops resumed their offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels in the northeast at the end of a 48-hour ceasefire, the two sides said early on Wednesday.
15 Apr 09 | Thailand has issued an arrest warrant for fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra for inciting street battles between anti-government protesters and troops that left two dead and 123 hurt.
15 Apr 09 | A nine-year-old boy is recovering in northern Brazil after surgeons successfully removed a 20-centimetre fishing spear from his face, a hospital spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
15 Apr 09 | An English health worker is standing by her "heartbreaking" decision to send her own son to prison after he became involved with drugs.
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15 Apr 09 | A Taliban firing squad killed a young couple in southwestern Afghanistan for trying to elope, shooting them with AK-47s in front of a crowd in a lawless, militant-controlled region, officials say.
15 Apr 09 | Somali pirates captured four more ships and took more than 60 crew members hostage in a brazen hijacking spree, while the American captain who escaped their grip planned to reunite with his crew and fly home on Wednesday to the Unites States.
15 Apr 09 | Thailand raises the toll of injuries from street protests, saying that two people had died and 123 were wounded, two of them seriously.
14 Apr 09 | GENERAL MOTORS shares fell 16 per cent to $US1.71 on Monday amid reports that the Obama Administration was contemplating a short, sharp bankruptcy for the company.
14 Apr 09 | CUBAN-AMERICAN families will be free to travel to Cuba and send money to relatives under the first major relaxation of US policy towards the island nation.
14 Apr 09 | NORTH KOREA announced yesterday it would quit six-nation disarmament talks and resume its nuclear weapons program in protest against the United Nations' condemnation of this month's rocket launch.
14 Apr 09 | PAKISTAN's Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, has strongly rejected comments by the Australian counter-terrorism specialist David Kilcullen that Pakistan is in danger of collapse within months.
14 Apr 09 | THOUSANDS of anti-government demonstrators have ended violent protests in Bangkok in a victory for the embattled Thai Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva.