Militia blamed for Solomons peacekeeper killing, Australia flies ...
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SYDNEY: Disgruntled Solomon Island militia facing murder charges may be behind the sniper killing of an Australian policeman, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said as military reinforcements flew to the troubled nation.
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SYDNEY : Australia&#39;s government reacted furiously to an opposition politician&#39;s claim that ruling party lawmakers were collectively to blame for the 2002 Bali bombings and a bloody attack on its Jakarta embassy.
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Australia should consider taking over the customs and border controls of neighboring Papua New Guinea to crack down on cross-border gun running and drug trafficking, an Australian thinktank said Tuesday.
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An Australian policeman has been shot dead in the Solomon Islands, the first casualty in Australia&#39;s peacekeeping operation in the South Pacific.
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The Australian government announced on Wednesday it will send more troops to the Solomon Islands after an Australian officer of a regional intervention force was killed by
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Australian and U.N. forces are searching for the remnants of the rebels who attempted to assassinate the country's prime minister and president
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PRIME Minister John Howard has been labelled a political Rambo after he defended yesterday the Government&#39;s right to launch a pre-emptive attack on terrorist groups in the Asia-Pacific region.
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THE man charged with the murder of Australian Federal policeman Adam Dunning in the Solomon Islands was out on bail for another killing.
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JAKARTA: Australia defended a controversial maritime anti-terror plan on Friday after harsh words from neighbouring Indonesia that it breached international law and Jakartaâs sovereignty over its own waters.
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Australia's foreign minister has expressed concern over the breakout from an East Timor prison of a rebel militia leader and more than 50 others and announced he would travel to Dili at the weekend.
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Australia will deploy an extra 100 troops to the troubled Solomon Islands after one of its peacekeepers was shot dead, the first casualty of its new, tougher security policy in the South Pacific.
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CANBERRA, Australia  - Australia will become the first country in the Southeast Asia Pacific region to be armed with long-range stealth cruise missiles in a move that could irritate its neighbours, a newspaper said Thursday.
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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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Australia threatened to withdraw special access visas for Solomon Islands' politicians in response to the tiny nation's &quot;eccentric and outrageous&quot; decision to expel Canberra's envoy.
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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
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JAKARTA, Indonesia Indonesia has ordered a nationwide security crackdown after warnings from Australia, Britain and New Zealand that terrorists plan to attack ahead of Christmas.
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An Australian policeman becomes the first casualty in a peacekeeping operation in the Solomon Islands.