Outspoken Australian politician dies
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An Australian politician famed for his pledge to &quot;keep the bastards honest&quot; will be given a state funeral after dying at the age of 81, Prime Minister John Howard said.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard sought Thursday to calm a diplomatic row over the treatment in Sydney of a visiting Indonesian politician.
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An outspoken ethnic Tamil opposition MP was shot dead during a New Year service at a Hindu temple in the Sri Lankan capital Tuesday, the third assassination of a minority legislator in two years.
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Former Rep. Jennifer Dunn, who became the most powerful Republican woman in Washington state history during six terms representing Seattle's east-side suburbs, died Wednesday after developing a blood clot in her Virginia apartment, her family said. She was 66.
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World-renowned &quot;crocodile hunter&quot; and television environmentalist Steve Irwin has been killed after being stung in the chest by a stingray off northeastern Australia, police said.
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Baron Renton of Huntingdon, Britain&#39;s longest-serving lawmaker, died Thursday aged 98, a member of his household confirmed.
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CANBERRA, Australia  - The leader of Australia's opposition Labour party announced Tuesday he will quit politics because of ill health.
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Keith Miller, arguably Australia's greatest  all-rounder in Test cricket, has died in Melbourne aged 84.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard, center, his wife Janette, right, and opposition lawmaker Bob McMullan in Canberra, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004, laying wreaths in memory of victims of the Bali bombings..Commemorations
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Remembering the brilliant comic who blazed a trail for free speech and was killed by "an overdose of police"
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Former Rep. Jennifer Dunn, R-Wash. who represented Seattle's conservative east-side suburbs for six terms in Congress, died Wednesday, her family said. She was 66.
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Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos, a key voice on foreign affairs, has died aged 80, his spokeswoman says.
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With polls favoring conservative Prime Minister John Howard as Australia&#39;s election campaign entered its final day Friday, the incumbent said his rival
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BRISBANE, Australia  - An Australian politician, whose father was held in a German labour camp during the Second World War, said he plans to withdraw his allegiance to the Queen after seeing a photo of Prince Harry wearing a Nazi armband.
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An anti-Syrian MP has been killed in a car bombing in a mainly Christian suburb of Beirut, officials say.
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Fernando Poe Jr., the Philippine actor who challenged President Gloria Arroyo in elections earlier this year, died after suffering a stroke on Dec. 11, Susan Tagle, a spokeswoman, said in a statement read out on GMA network radio.
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One of the most controversial issues of the last Australian elections has returned to haunt the prime minister, John Howard, as support for his coalition slumps in the run-up to federal polls.