Aust maritime zone &#39;touches NZ coast&#39;
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New Zealand plans to seek urgent clarification from Australia about a new maritime security zone which it says stretches into its own territorial waters and even onto its coastline.
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Communities on Australia's north west  coast prepared for a severe tropical cyclone expected to hit  the region early on Friday, with mines and oil production shut  down and emergency services placed on alert.
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&quot;Super typhoon&quot; Yagi, which had threatened to drench Tokyo this weekend, now looks set to skirt Japan and head further out into the Pacific Ocean, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
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Australia will send planes and a ship to conduct surveillance of Japanese whaling ships off Antarctica, the government announced Wednesday.
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Australia&#39;s plans to create a maritime surveillance zone reaching into Indonesian waters is an example of its insensitivity to Asia and will bolster the view of Australia
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&quot;Seven more are still missing in the area,&quot; Penang Civil Defence Director Mohamad Johari Mohamad Taufik told Reuters. 3-metre high (9-ft) waves hit the coast from around 1:30 pm on Sunday.
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The Coast Guard will begin testing in February a new way to prevent terrorism on the seas: radio receivers on weather buoys ringing the U.S. coast that can track ships long before they reach ports.
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PETER CAVE: Back now to our lead story, the Solomon Islands, and Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty is in Honiara, and he&#39;s joined me on the line.
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Australia&#39;s southern state of Tasmania was rocked by the world&#39;s largest earthquake in three-and-a-half years when it struck under the sea half way between Australia and Antarctica on Friday, seismologists said.
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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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&quot;In addition, INSAT-based multiple satellite service terminals and Inmarsat-based satellite phones are being sent to Port Blair for deployment in far-flung areas of the islands devastated by the tsunami,&quot; he said.
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WELLINGTON, N.Z.  - Australia has angered its neighbour New Zealand, with a plan to impose an 1,850-kilometre security zone around the Australian coastline.
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VIENTIANE: New Zealand&#39;s historic invitation to attend the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) summit will deliver more than trade negotiations, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today.
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The strongest cyclone ever recorded by scientists in the northwestern Arabian Sea churned up the coast of Oman today and was on track to hit land in southern Iran, sending high winds and waves through a region that is used for oil exports and civilian and military shipping traffic.
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The proposed Australian 1,000 nautical mile maritime identification zone appears not to infringeon the sovereign rights of countries that come within it, or relevant international
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SYDNEY: Huge seas beached a 40,000-tonnage coal ship in Australia on Friday, sparking a major rescue operation that saw all 22 crew members airlifted off the stricken vessel in gale force winds.
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In a controversial and possibly illegal step, Australia plans to intercept and board ships on the high seas if it believes them to be a terrorist threat.