Australian troops fly to troubled Solomon Islands
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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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Australia plans to strengthen its  coastal security with a controversial surveillance footprint  that stretches south of New Zealand to north of Indonesia.
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Josip Skoko scored two goals Saturday to lead Australia to a 5-1 win over the Solomon Islands in the first leg of the Oceania Football Confederation Nations Cup home-and-away series.
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Heavily-armed Australian troops arrived in the Solomon Islands yesterday as the body of the first peacekeeper killed during a mission to restore law and order in the Pacific nation was flown home.
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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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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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HARRY KEWELL will be given the freedom of the park in a move that confirms Australia plan to show no mercy to the Solomon Islands in their return-leg Oceania Confederations Cup qualifier at Aussie Stadium tonight.
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The Australian government's national security committee has met to consider beefing up the army, which is stretched by deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Pacific.
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David Hicks, whose restlessness took him from skinning kangaroos in Australia&#39;s outback to fighting for Islamic armies throughout Europe and Asia, appeared
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Australia and New Zealand joined forces to airlift emergency aid to victims of the monster earthquake and tidal waves which devastated coastal areas of south and southeast Asia over the weekend.
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Australia warned on Sunday of possible imminent terrorist attacks in Indonesia, including on the resort island of Bali, and told its citizens to think twice before traveling there.
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The time has come for Australian combat troops to leave Iraq, the head of the country's armed forces says.
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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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Crack Australian troops landed in East Timor as new fighting between the military and rebel soldiers forced thousands to flee the worst violence in the independent nation&#039;s history.
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BRISBANE, Australia : A top Australian politician and Aboriginal leaders flew to an offshore island hit by unrest with a plan to prevent violence breaking out again.
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An early withdrawal of coalition forces from Iraq would have disastrous consequences and give victory to &quot;terrorists&quot;, Australian Prime Minister John Howard has warned.
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Australia&#39;s swift reaction to the sniper killing of one of its soldiers serving with an international peacekeeping force in the troubled Solomon Islands on Wednesday will likely quell any further turmoil.