Australian PM begins Japan visit
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Australia's John Howard arrives in Japan on a visit that will include signing a bilateral security pact.
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Conservative Australian Prime Minister  John Howard began the formal process for calling a cliff-hanger  election tipped for Oct. 9 when he arrived at Government House  on Sunday.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Sunday defended a proposed security pact with Japan that has raised the hackles of China and South Korea.
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The Japanese and Australian defence and foreign ministers will meet for their first four-way talks Wednesday as the two close US allies aim to boost their security relations.
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New Australian PM reportedly plans to use armed vessel to track Japanese whalers
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Indian PM Manmohan Singh is due in Japan, where he is expected to seek support for the US nuclear deal.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Wednesday wrapped up a visit to Japan in which he signed a landmark security pact.
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After a lightning visit to Iraq where he hinted at possible U.S. troop cuts, President George W. Bush arrived in Australia on Tuesday for an Asia-Pacific leaders' meeting amid heavy security and anti-war protests.
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Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Berlin on Tuesday ahead of his first G8 summit, saying the Asian power would use its clout to act as a go-between in the fraught debate on climate change.
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Australia's newly-elected prime minister Kevin Rudd arrived in the East Timorese capital Dili on Friday for a lightning visit to meet leaders and his nation's troops, an AFP correspondent saw.
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Australia is in Afghanistan for the "long haul," Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on a surprise visit Saturday to the country, which is battling an intensifying insurgency led by Taliban extremists.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell is beginning his four-day trip to East Asia Saturday with a visit to Japan. In the coming days, Mr.
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Newly elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday pledged to start debate on revising Japan's pacifist constitution, study a collective defense system with the United States and reverse the country's fiscal troubles.
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Australia will continue to photograph Japan's whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Sunday, despite Japan's warning of a diplomatic protest over Australia's tough anti-whaling stance.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard toured stricken Aceh province on Wednesday as Indonesia said it had buried more than 110,000 victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Prime Minister John Howard will travel to Indonesia later this month to attend the inauguration of new Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
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Australia is to send a patrol ship and aircraft to monitor the actions of Japan's whaling fleet off Antarctica.