Australian Jews reject claims Muslim immigration is dangerous
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Australia's Jewish community has moved quickly to distance itself from comments made by a visiting Israeli academic that larger Muslim populations led to increased violence.
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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 vowed Saturday not to send home a group of 85, mostly Sri Lankan boat people if it meant they would face persecution.
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Australian Aborigines have rejected calls for military peacekeepers to protect indigenous women and children from violence, as a new report Saturday revealed high levels of sexual abuse of young indigenous males.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Monday denied having a political motive when he said terrorists in Iraq would be praying for Democratic hopeful Barack Obama to become U.S. president.
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CANBERRA: Australian Prime Minister John Howard refused today to apologise for joining the US-led invasion of Iraq despite a new US report that said Baghdad had no weapons of mass destruction at the time of the attack.
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A Sydney council Wednesday defended its decision to forge a sister-city relationship with Bethlehem, saying the tie would not see Australian dollars funnelled to the Islamist group Hamas.
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Israeli opposition to the prime minister's Gaza withdrawal plan raises safety concerns.
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Prime Minister John Howard has rejected suggestions Australia was adopting the role of regional &quot;sheriff&quot; in the Pacific by building up its military and police forces.
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A high failure rate among migrants sitting a citizenship exam introduced by Australia's former conservative government has prompted a re-think of the controversial test, criticized by some as racist.
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A Palestinian official on Saturday slammed an Israeli refusal to let 85 Palestinian security personnel enter Egypt for training. &quot;The Israeli move is a new proof that Israel
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JERUSALEM -- Israel will not limit the number of Muslim worshipers at a hotly disputed Jerusalem site during the holy month of Ramadan, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided yesterday, backing away from a threat to restrict access.
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John Howard denies a claim Australia offered a bounty for the murder of the Solomon Islands' prime minister.
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Australia defended a controversial maritime anti-terror plan on Friday after harsh words from neighboring Indonesia that it breached international law and Jakarta&#39;s sovereignty over its own waters.
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A growing dissident movement opposes Israel's planned withdrawal on religious and nationalist grounds.
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Senior Arab officials attending a U.S.-sponsored conference to promote democracy in the Middle East emphatically rejected on Saturday the Bush administration's assertion that greater democracy in the region would help end terrorism. They argued that the administration's strong support of Israel made it difficult to undertake political reform or to stop extremists driven by hatred of U.S. policies.
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A Malaysian Government spokesman says Australia should not bulldoze through its controversial new maritime security zone plan. Malaysia&#39;s Deputy Defence Minister Zainal Abidin Zin has told AFP that Canberra