Australian troops bring ETimor calm
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East Timor&#039;s capital was returning to normal after Australian troops took to the streets to restore order and stop bloody clashes between the Timorese military and rebel soldiers.
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Fighting between rival army factions has ended days of relative calm in eastern Congo where the United Nations say at least 100,000 displaced people have still not returned home.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd vowed Friday his nation's troops would stay in East Timor as long as needed, following assassination bids on the president and prime minister this week.
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AUSTRALIAN troops in Iraq have stepped up security after the devastating pre-Christmas attack that killed 22 US soldiers and several civilian workers.
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Australia will send about 100 soldiers to Solomon Islands, following the murder of an Australian officer in Honiara. The rapid response infantry company will start deploying to Solomon Islands from Townsville on Thursday.
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Australian troops were due to arrive in the troubled Solomon Islands on Thursday in a show of force after the killing of an Australian peacekeeper, the first casuality under Canberra&#39;s tougher South Pacific security policy.
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Violence is down in the first weeks of a troop buildup, but the military's response has been guarded  -  with good reason
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Elite Australian troops arrived in the troubled Solomon Islands on Thursday as the body of an Australian peacekeeper, the first casualty of Canberra&#39;s tough South Pacific security policy, arrived home.
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afrol News, 7 October - Relative calm has returned to Guinea-Bissau after yesterday&#39;s mutiny, in which Army Chief VerÃ­ssimo Correia Seabra allegedly was killed.
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Australia wants to keep around 650 Australian troops in troubled East Timor even though the United Nations envisages a much smaller international force, the foreign minister said.
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Elite Australian troops backed by tanks, planes and helicopters stormed an East Timor rebel leader's stronghold but the renegade evaded capture and is still on the loose, officials said Sunday.
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Fighting between disgruntled former soldiers and the military left at least two people dead in East Timor on Tuesday, as Australia and New Zealand offered to provide troops to the tiny nation to help restore calm.
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Prime Minister John Howard has stood firm against withdrawing troops from Iraq after unconfirmed reports that two Australians have been taken hostage and would be killed within 24 hours unless Canberra pulls out.
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Australia rushed troops into East Timor to help enforce a security clampdown a day after assassination attempts on the president and prime minister.
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Australia's top military commander  said on Wednesday the job of the country's combat troops in  southern Iraq was done, bolstering a government decision to  bring soldiers home mid-year.
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The East Timorese government will hand over responsibility for security in the capital Dili to Australian troops, Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta told AFP in an interview.
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Three planeloads of Australian troops will today leave for Solomon Islands, in a show of force directed at rebels around Honiara. The Federal Government has ordered an infantry company from Townsville to leave